EU on Linux (WINE)

[mrproper]

Slight bump for slow Tuesday. Will attempt to refine the steps to make EU work on Linux and provide a clear how-to. Until then, anyone working on this should post here with results or questions.

[Vagrant]

do i understand it right that i need to extract the dll files from the ?msi? package to the \home\username\.wine\windows\system? or what ever the directory would be. Previously i have only moved the dx9_**.dll there and it "semi worked"

[mrproper]

Originally Posted by Vagrant

do i understand it right that i need to extract the dll files from the ?msi? package to the \home\username\.wine\windows\system? or what ever the directory would be. Previously i have only moved the dx9_**.dll there and it "semi worked"

Show us your screenshots! (press Print Screen, save it, and upload it here).

And you don't need to move anything, just copy
d3d8.dll
d3d8thk.dll
d3d9.dll
d3dim.dll
d3dim700.dll
d3dpmesh.dll
d3dramp.dll
d3drm.dll
d3dx9_24.dll
d3dx9_25.dll
d3dx9_26.dll
d3dx9_27.dll
d3dx9_28.dll
d3dx9_29.dll
d3dx9_30.dll
d3dx9_31.dll
d3dx9_32.dll
d3dxof.dll
ddraw.dll
ddrawex.dll
dx7vb.dll
dx8vb.dll
dxdiagn.dll
dxmasf.dll
dxtmsft.dll
dxtrans.dll

to \home\username\.wine\windows\system32

[Dreamdancer]

YAY mrporper.

Copied over yer filelist.

This is what i got with Cedega 6.0:


This is windowed mode. It works, mostly. I have some glitches when looking up (all objects disappear, u can only see the sky) and with dialogs like the teleporter (works only sometimes), which might have to do with my screensize default (I play at 1680x1050 normally). Teleporter also does not refresh the map when changing continents. There is no antialiasing, and therefore the font looks crappy. Inventory wont work, you cant change the Item category. Logout worked once for me, not anymore. The Rightclick menu wont work.

As you said, performance is EXACTLY as on native Windows, which is good.

Thanx all of you for getting this to work.

What I used: Cedega 6.0, Dapper Drake (without a reinstall, the crappy multiply updated version that is on my comp), and mrpropers filelist.

Regards,
DD

[mrproper]

Well, somebody got the fonts working

[Dreamdancer]

Well, the Cedega folks did. Praps we can find out what is responsible for that, if thats legal, as this actually might be one of the reasons why Cedega costs money. Mabee its to do with the improved Freetype and Xrender they use.

I tried to check every box in the Point2Play Gfx settings, but that slows down the client to a crawl.

Now for the clicks that don't go through in dialogs: I tried to check every box in the Point2Play Gfx settings, but that slows down the client to a crawl. Makes the buttons work, though. Now I'll have to find out which of the settings it is.

[Doer]

Originally Posted by Dreamdancer

Well, the Cedega folks did. Praps we can find out what is responsible for that, if thats legal, as this actually might be one of the reasons why Cedega costs money. Mabee its to do with the improved Freetype and Xrender they use.

I tried to check every box in the Point2Play Gfx settings, but that slows down the client to a crawl.

Now for the clicks that don't go through in dialogs: I tried to check every box in the Point2Play Gfx settings, but that slows down the client to a crawl. Makes the buttons work, though. Now I'll have to find out which of the settings it is.

Yeah that could be a challenge. Still, it's good to see that there is more or less a working approach. I'd probably die before using Cedega, but i might install Ubuntu Feisty and hack around with WINE sometime this summer. I don't regret blowing away my Gentoo installation, but i do miss having linux in some flavor installed.

[Dreamdancer]

Hm. It looks like I just completely lost my funk.

Can't get the game back to the performance I experienced before I changed the Point2Play settings. I guess some of the underlying Wine config was changed permanently by that. So with this all fubared, I guess I'll give it another try with a fresh Cedega instance.

Doer, that link to winehq is an interesting read. We should really delve deeper into the font issue, to get them working in wine. I am in germany, and IP law here still gives you quite a lot of freedom in doing stuff with stuff you paid good money for. So I will do some comparisons of a Wine and Cedega instance if I have the time.

[Dreamdancer]

OK folks, I have it working now near-to perfectly in Cedega 6.0:



This is a step-by step howto to make a linux box run EU.

1. Get yourself a box that can handle EU on Windows comfortably.
2. Install a flavor of Linux to your taste. I used Ubuntu Dapper Drake, but everything should work.
3. Purchase a Cedega subscription. I think their cheapest plan is 3 months, what would amount to about 15 bucks.
4. Install Cedega. I used the plain old "kill my package manager" .tgz that gets untarred in the filesystem root. Back in the day, tar WAS our package manager. Use the prepackaged release you like best, weenie!
5. Start the Point2Play GUI.
6. Run Cedega updates where applicable.
7. Create a game folder to hold the link to the ClientLoader.exe
8. Copy your Windows C:\Program Files\MindArk folder over to the newly created game folder's Program Files subdir (it usually resides in /home/$USER/.cedega/$FOLDERNAME/c_drive/Program Files, but your mileage may vary)
9. Copy the following files over from your C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder to /home/$USER/.cedega/$FOLDERNAME/c_drive/windows/system32 :

Originally Posted by mrproper

d3d8.dll
d3d8thk.dll
d3d9.dll
d3dim.dll
d3dim700.dll
d3dpmesh.dll
d3dramp.dll
d3drm.dll
d3dx9_24.dll
d3dx9_25.dll
d3dx9_26.dll
d3dx9_27.dll
d3dx9_28.dll
d3dx9_29.dll
d3dx9_30.dll
d3dx9_31.dll
d3dx9_32.dll
d3dxof.dll
ddraw.dll
ddrawex.dll
dx7vb.dll
dx8vb.dll
dxdiagn.dll
dxmasf.dll
dxtmsft.dll
dxtrans.dll

10. In Point2Play, create a new link to /home/$USER/.cedega/$FOLDERNAME/c_drive/Program Files/MindArk/EntropiaUniverse/ClientLoader.exe in the created game folder. Tune the link's preferences, ie turn everything on, use shaders 2.0, it does not make a difference.
11. Double click the link to start ClientLoader.
12. Sound (OSS or ALSA, it don't matter, but it might be my Linux install and my crappy onboard sound) was to blame for slowing down the client to a screeching halt, as i posted before. So configure the ClientLoader like this:

(AA can be turned on, again it makes no difference)
13. Log in.
14. Enjoy EU in Linux.

Please report back here if this works for you or not.

Regards,
DD

[Dreamdancer]

Ah. I shoulda said sumptin about the hardware I used:

This is on a 1733 Athlon XP (2100+ its called methinks). The box is old, and I think EU runs better than on native Windows.

$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
0000:00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
0000:00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440SE AGP 8x] (rev a2)

$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1556316 1124296 432020 0 107392 650748
-/+ buffers/cache: 366156 1190160
Swap: 1951856 0 1951856

So you ATI folks, I am waiting for your experiences...