SoD and Wine

[cubber]

It works! Tested with wine 1.1.33 and 1.1.41. SoF won't work past 1.1.33, so this is a bonus!

Special Notes:

1. You still need the same d3dx9_30.dll file in your EQ directory that was needed with SoF. The link on the wine page is bad so I uploaded a copy of the file to here
http://rapidshare.com/files/371254163/d3dx9_30.dll.html

2. Just as in SoF you need to start the game in WindowedMode or else your mouse cursor will be stuck in the center. Once your in the game you can change to full screen and the mouse works fine.


How To Install:

Install via steam, which also works under wine.

To install Steam under wine check out this link http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=1554

Then install SoD through steam.

After you have SoD installed do the following in a terminal window.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/steamapps/common

cp -a everquest ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EverQuest-SoD

What you just did is copied the SoD files that were downloaded with steam to a new folder called EverQuest-SoD in your .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ directory.

Once this is done you can uninstall the SoD client from steam by right clicking it in the list and selecting to delete the files to free up hard drive space.

Now to get the client working with the eqemu servers.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/EverQuest-SoD

echo "WindowedMode=TRUE" >> eqclient.ini

setup your eqhost.txt file to use eqemulator.net:5999 or your personal login server:5999.

Make sure you have the d3dx9_30.dll file in your EverQuest-SoD directory.

next make a file called start to start the game

echo "wine eqgame.exe patchme" > start

chmod +x start

You should now be able to start the game by typing ./start in the EverQuest-SoD directory now.