EverQuest II

What works

Patching

All Game play

Legends Of Norrath

Voice Chat (It says it can not find microphone but it still works flawlessly!)

Shader 3.0 with complex shader distance (minor texture glitches but this seams to also occur on native Windows for some users)

ProfitUI (latest autoupdate version from Java updater) + EQ2MAPS (From PyEQ2MAP-Updater)

What does not

Shadows dose not work for me.

If I use GPU shadows I get alot of black. and CPU Shadows simply dont do anything.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Fullscreen was not tested. (but others have reported problems, personaly I dont care)

Installing was not tested.
What I did was copy my EverQuest II folder to a newly created WINEPREFIX with no additional tweeks.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I tested on a newly created WINEPREFIX with no tweeks, no winetricks, no regestry edits. As WineHQ has such very restricted descriptions of there ratings this will fall under a Silver rating. Though I personaly think it should be a Gold rating atleast. As with the strict formulation of ratings for Wine MANY games run natvily in MS Windows would not even reach gold rating. The few glicthes that remain for EQ2 are now all cosmetic and has a very small to no inpact on my Gameplay experience. Worth mentioning is also that EQ2 now seams noticably more stable in Wine than for many Windows users. My personal Rating would be 9/10

EQ2 is rated "garbage" with Wine versions above 1.1.18 and below 1.2-rc7. Please install Wine 1.2-rc7 or higher, as 1.1.18 will necessitate some irritating registry changes, documented below.

When EQ2 starts for the first time, it will try to run in full-screen mode  This is not supported in Wine, but you can easily switch to windowed mode by alt-tabbing to another window. If you have a dual monitor setup, your fonts will then be twice as wide as they should be; restarting the game fixes this.This isn't true for all users, but it may affect you.

Please ensure your system (and especially your graphics card) meets the minumum requirements set by Sony Online Entertainment for running this game.

To run launchpad 3, you need to install ie8 with winetricks.

Suggested registry settings for Wine 1.1.18 (you do not need these for 1.2-rc7 and up):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -
  Software -
    Wine -
      Direct3D - (you'll have to create this folder)
        DirectDrawRenderer -> opengl
        OffScreenRenderingMode -> fbo (with newer video cards)
        PixelShaderMode -> enabled
        RenderTargetLockMode -> texdraw


Also, for 1.01, you will need to edit eq2.ini to disable some font rendering. Put the following line in eq2.ini:

r_font_ft 0 (Not needed unless you are using wine 1.01 or lower)

For wine 1.1.18 and lower: wine_gecko crashes the patcher screen (no BITS support in wine yet. See bug 6253) so if you want to run patcher, rename the HKCU/wine/MSHTML. That should disable Gecko. Or, you can simply not install wine_gecko in the first place. With 1.27-rc7 some functionailty of gecko with the launcher may or may not work, but it wont crash the game.

The station launcher is no longer supported by SOE. Launchpad 4 is now the default launcher. Using any other will cause it to upgrade itself to Launchpad 4. It can be downloaded directly from:

http://launch.soe.com/eq2//

I'd like to remind everyone, that tho shader 3.0 is in fact awesome and better than 1.0, though please before we start complaining about bugs and whatnot especially with shader 3.0 please remember that its buggy in windows too, and try to get bugs that are only in wine only please.

 If we can get this working and looking exactly the same in windows and linux and there's still stupid bugs that SOE wont fix that makes the game platinum here even tho there are major graphical glitches.

Please everyone remember that this is a buggy buggy game.  Please try to only post here about bugs that are not present in windows.  Sometimes its really hard to tell the difference between bugs in wine and bugs in Everquest yourself.

 

Please Please, before you submit bug reports or testing feedback. If at all possible try to compare anything you do here in Linux  with the same thing in windows.

PLEASE DO NOT POST "Destiny of Velious" test results under the "Sentinel's Fate"!
You may select the Destiny of Velious version of EQ2 by scrolling to the top of your screen, clicking on EverQuest 2 in the game hierarchy, and then, at the next page, clicking Sentinel's Fate.

The game requires you to run the newest version of the game, so nobody uses an older version. Because of this, the only "versions" we maintain are the full install client and the streaming install client. Please place all test results in the proper one.

 EverQuest II Extended has been merged with the Live game. The Steam version is a wrapper around the Full Install Client and still uses Launchpad.