wow, everquest is still a thing? that's sort of amazing.
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Weird, I was just checking Lemmy randomly and crossed this. I don't have an answer, but I stream EverQuest and know many players use Linux. If any community can help you, it would be the P99 forums or the Project Quarm discord tech support. Between the two communities, you have a couple thousand players with decades of experience. Might even be worth checking out The Al Kabor Project's discord as well.
I doubt you'll find these two niches intersect anywhere else.
Edit: I did successfully get it running on my Steam Deck, which uses Proton, so I know that might be a path worth pursuing. Find one of those guides and see what you can get to work.
Here's the issue. I don't play P99 and don't want to. I play on live servers.
This guy got it running on his Steam Deck in 2022, I imagine many of the steps are similar in Linux.
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/everquest-on-a-steam-deck.84190/
This is helpful, but that's Debian based and I'm on Fedora. There will be... complications.
Minor correction, Steam Deck is arch based.
The only thing specific to Steam Deck in the guide is the Discover Store. This "app store" is actually a part of KDE, which is the desktop Steam Deck uses, when one switches to desktop mode.
The Discover Store is a way to install flatpaks, which are a universal application format that runs on all linux distributions.
On Febora flatpaks should be enabled by default. You might have to enable the flathub repository, which is the main hub for finding and installing applications.
Read more here : https://www.flatpak.org/setup/Fedora
The application "protontricks" which the guide uses to set up the game, can be found here : https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.github.Matoking.protontricks
The guide might be a bit long, but only because it is rather verbose.
Take a read through, it might solve your problem. Go ahead when you have read it through, I am sure you can do it :)
What complications will there be? I just read through the guide and don’t see anything that should cause a problem.
You are right. I am just frustrated and need to take a break and read it tomorrow.
Ah, I see. Then best of luck getting it running!
Weirdly, I installed Project 99 recently from Lutris. Ran like a dream, no issues. I'm on Fedora 39 on a Ryzen/RTX machine.
Yeah, I get that. I consider P99 to be a completely separate game, though. I need to run current live server raids.
P99 runs perfectly with "out of the box wine" for a decade on my debian, however, I suspect OP may be trying to run EQLive which has a whole lot of more content and different binaries - maybe that is not comparable.
@OP: Did you check out winehq.org and try to set up your EQ installation aligned with one of the "Gold" or "Platinum" rated test entries there?
No, I haven't done that. I've only done the typical install tries. I'll check that out now, thanks!
Any luck? I assume this one here, with winetricks, is what you'll want: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2939
Yep. I got it. The guide got me most of the way. Some things that I'm guessing are related to DX11 are still broken (mostly textures), but at least the game runs reliably now. Thanks for all the help!