EverQuest

What works

Everything but sound (linked to distro I guess ...).

What does not

sound itself (but linked to the distro in my opinion).

Poor HTML rendering, most of HTML content is not working as games recognize you are not using Windows. 

Changing servers if game is not windowed (otherwise mouse won't move and only "TAB" is available).

Workarounds

What was not tested

This game is too huge to pretend testing the whole thing :)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Just followed the steps, DLL + EQclient.ini, no more has been done. If games starts to be corrupted, follow wine removal workaround and all is fine (had a runtime C+ error cleaned using workaround). Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

Running EQ after the DX11 upgrade is easy.

Required setup:

WINEARCH=win64

winetricks corefonts

Performance:

There are still some textures in the game that are not rendered correctly.

It is also possible to run the game with DXVK. Performance might be maginally better than stock Wine, however there is currently a bug somewhere that causes crashes when running with DXVK. The cause seems to be player/mount/pet texture so it only happens on occasion when that texture is in the same zone.

https://github.com/doitsujin/d...

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If you are returning to EQ after a break it is recommended to start with a fresh WINEPREFIX.

Solutions to common issues

Permissions 

EQ is a constantly updating game. The user running the application needs read, write and execute to the entire directory where it is installed. Be careful when copying installations over from Windows. You might need to

chown -R username path_to_EQ_directory
and
chmod 0755 -R path_to_EQ_directory.

Patcher 

The new patcher system is sensitive to file locations. If you have problems getting the patcher to run:

- move your EQ directory to a backup location
- download the free trial and install it into the default location (C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest)
- run the patcher and make sure it works, but don't go through the agonizingly long download
- move your EQ files to C:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest (probably /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Sony/EverQuest)
- whenever you run EQ, you must "cd path_to_EQ" and then "wine EverQuest.exe"

You can skip the patcher by running "wine eqgame.exe patchme" but this will crash if there has been an update to critical EQ files.

Another way around the patch issue is to mount your Linux drive under a Windows machine and run the patcher from there. I did this over a network with samba.

In Game Options

You must change some options in eqclient.ini in order to run the game properly. If a setting is missing, like TextureCache, just enter it into the appropriate section. If you use the default file, VertexShaders are already TRUE, but so is TextureCache which needs to be FALSE.

- You can log into any zone you have previously zoned into and also any small zone like the guild lobby. If you log into one that you have never been in before, you get fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateVertexBuffer Out of memory! (TextureCache)

- If your first toon on char select is a Drakkin, the animation is broken except for the primary and secondary weapons/shield move. If you select any other character at char select, the game crashes. (TextureCache)

- Game crashes at char select. (VertexShaders)

[Defaults]

VertexShaders=TRUE
TextureCache=FALSE

by Joni Larsen-Haikarainen

Problem with the character models not animating correctly. They will animate choppy a few frames and then just freeze up totally.
It has to do with the multicore nature of the AMD64. I remembered having this problem with an old native Linux game (UT) because of this as well and the solution there was to force the game to just run on the first core, so i tested it with EQ as well and it works perfectly!

To run EQ directly without the patcher on just the first core, open a terminal and cd to the install directory of EQ and type the following:

taskset -c 0 wine eqgame.exe patchme

If your running the game through the patcher is:

taskset -c 0 wine EverQuest.exe

Its the "taskset -c 0" prefix that binds the process to the first CPU/Core.

Wine Version Updates

If you update your wine version, it may be necessary to delete ~/.wine and then run winecfg to regenerate the directory. Make sure you move "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Sony" to a backup location and then move it back so you don't have to download everything again.

This happens only at server select. You may need to switch to windowed mode to choose a server for the first time or to change servers from the last one you picked. If you're using the same server, you can just use the tab and enter keys on the keyboard to get around. When you get to character select, this problem goes away.

Account Pages and User Agreement not shown

HTML rendering does not work correctly. Occasionally, I will see the user agreement show up and the news, but it is rare. You will have to set up a new account with a Windows box most likely and then sign into it with wine. It does not have much effect in game.

by Joni Larsen-Haikarainen

This is for 2 or more instances of EQ on the same machine with different ini files. If you just use the same ini file, it is not necessary to do this.
If you use diffrent WINEPREFIX for the diffrent installs it should work fine.
cp -R ~/.wine ~/.wine.eq-box2
cp -R ~/.wine ~/.wine.eq-box3
cp -R ~/.wine ~/.wine.eq-box4
and so on.
and then use: WINEPREFIX="~/.wine.eq-box#" wine eqgame.exe patchme
for example
note though you will need to patch each one separatly.

An even easier method would be to buy CrossOver Games 7 (and thus supporting WINE economically) that has a graphical front-end to do this easy called bottles.

Extremely Poor Frame Rate or Driver Warning

I always get the following message on the way to the Character selection window:
You have a Direct3D HAL video card (version 175.65...)...
...you should download driver 8185...
There's a link that sends me to NVidia website (I have a NVidia FX5200 video card) but the so said driver is impossible to find...
When I try to play, ignoring the driver update, I get the problem of half of the textures are not showing at the selection window and in the game.I only see some kind of grey frame or building.

You must use proprietary drivers for wine 3D games to work. For Nvidia users, try www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html in one of your Linux browsers (like Firefox, not running through wine) and follow the install instructions on the driver download page. If you need help, see  www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

AUTHOR: Julio Fernandez

After speaking with wine devs, it seems it's not feasible/could make some other applications to stop to work, if we 'hack' wine to return 4 instead 0.

For those not willing/able to build wine from source (quite uncomfortable too, considering wine release cycle), theres another way to apply the workaround, without having to touch wine at all: File d3dx9_30.dll is part of DirectX dll's, typically you have already put a copy of it in your Linux EQ game directory, if not make a copy from your windows install partition (usually found at /system32 folder with all other DX files) on your Linux game directory and modify the copy.

To patch the file you can use any binary editor (ghex as example -be careful, the program itself is called ghex2 instead-)

patch the file d3dx9_30.dll at offsets:

4c6f9, where there is a '83' replace it for '6a'
4c6fa, where there is a 'fe' replace it for '04'
4c6fb, where there is a '02' replace it for '5e'

save it and it's done.

As a reference the offset list from 4c6f0 before the change should read:
00 00 00 f6 45 f8 50 74 0f 83 fe 02 73 56 b8 57

And the offset list from 4c6f0 after the change should read:
00 00 00 f6 45 f8 50 74 0f 6a 04 5e 73 56 b8 57

Changing d3dx9_30.dll linux EQ local copy won't affect any other application and keeps you from 'patching' wine sorce after each release you want to upgrade to.

** NOTE** Make sure you put d3dx9_30.dll wherever you have Everquest.exe located. Usually in $WINPREFIX/drive_c/windows/Program Files/Sony/EverQuest

Add this line:
pCaps->MaxVertexBlendMatrices=0x4;
In file:
(your wine source directory)/dlls/d3d9/directx.c
At function:
IDirect3DDevice9Impl_GetDeviceCaps(LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 iface, D3DCAPS9* pCaps)
Before returning (return hrc;), line 176 (as of 0.9.55)
Build wine as usual and happy Everquestin