The seventh expansion
Application Details:
Version: | 07 - Destiny of Velious |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.everquest2.com/ |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.34 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installing
Patching
All Gameplay
Shader 1.0 (20-30 fps)
ProfitUI
EQ2Maps
What does not
Shader 3.0 (30 fps, but doesn't render many textures)
Voice Chat (doesn't work in windows)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Legends of Norrath
Default UI
Dungeons
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Requires winetricks ie8 to patch. winetricks corefonts are not required, but fix some font alignment issues. Runs around 60 fps with the same settings on windows.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" | Dec 10 2011 | 1.3.34 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Linux Mint 11 "Katya" x86_64 | Dec 07 2011 | 1.3.34 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Joni Larsen-Haikarainen | ||
Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 11 2011 | 1.3.32 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Benj | ||
Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 24 2011 | 1.3.31 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Benj | ||
Current | Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 12 2011 | 1.3.30 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Benj |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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.
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 minimum 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.