Getting Started on Linux (v3) Wine-Staging 6.0, vulkan & dxvk

This is a work in progress. Please send any comments, corrections or concerns to @tragedie37 in the forums.

This installation procedure is a marriage between the original Linux installation instructions and @meriadoc's wonderful, but complicated, non-PlayOnLinux version.

The reason this page exists is because the original version would not recognize my hardware and Meriadoc's version would due to its using vulkan and dkvx, but does not use PlayOnLinux (POL). POL is much easier for me to control how many clients I am running, rather than using command line arguments or a script. I like installing a base wine-staging wine system as well as POL; this usually ensures that 32-bit binaries are included in your installation.

PlayOnLinux

See Optional Section below for steps to instlal POL and/or Wine. It may not be necessary to install wine, dxvk (separate from POL) and vulkan; however, if you have problems, it might be necessary. This guide assumes that you have installed POL already.

1. Download the latest Windows client
2. Download the 32-bit version of dinput8.dll, version number 6.0.6001.18000
3. Open POL
   1. Choose the Tools | Manage Wine Versions menu
      1. Under the "x86" section (32 bit), install the 6.0-staging version

         

      2. You can choose to install wine-staging 2.2 as a fall back; however, I suggest also installing wine-staging 2.22, as well [See note below]
   2. Goto your POL folder at /home/<username>/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/6.0-staging and make sure that there are no files containing libz.so; my installation did not have any

      

   3. Click on the Configure button; this will open a popup

      

   4. Click on NEW

      

   5. This will open another pop entitled, 'Virtual drive creator', click NEXT

      

   6. Choose the 32 bit drive and click NEXT

      

   7. Highlight 6.0-staging and click NEXT

      

   8. Choose a name for the virtual drive, I named mine 'EverQuest' and move on to the next step
   9. Highlight 'EverQuest' and go to the 'Install Components' tab and install the following:
      1. dinput8
      2. vcrun2010
      3. dxvk (Note: choose the one without any numbers after it)
      4. (Optional) Microsoft corefonts

      

Optional Steps

Install wine and POL from the command line

• Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros
  1. sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. Now, for wine, you have two choices, you can go with the default repository or with the latest from WineHQ
     1. WineHQ version
        1. Add the GPG key wget -qO- https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - (NOTE: You may have to install wget and or curl sudo apt-get install wget curl
        2. Followed by: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
        3. Add the repository: sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -cs) main"
        4. Install the wine-staging branch: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging
        5. Verify your installation on the command line: wine --version
     2. Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distro standard repository (NOTE: You may get an outdated version, but, it may be more stable or not, your mileage may vary)
        1. sudo apt-get update
        2. sudo apt-get install wine
  4. For POL, it's a bit easier
     1. sudo apt-cache search playonlinux
     2. If you see a result, then type: sudo apt-get install playonlinux
     3. If you do not see a result, then something went wrong; visit POL's website or your distribution's website to figure out why
• Arch/Arch-based distros
  1. Enable multilib support, or ensure it is enabled vim /etc/pacman.conf
     1. Search for the line #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and remove the crunch ('#') from in front of the word 'Include'
     2. It should now look like

        [multilib]

        Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

  2. Complete a system upgrade sudo pacman -Syu
  3. Install wine pacman -S wine
  4. Install wine-gecko and wine-mono pacman -S wine-gecko wine-mono
  5. Note, after the above install, you may see a list of uninstalled dependencies; I recommend installing them, especially the 32-bit packages
  6. Check that you have successfully installed it wine --version
  7. Install POL: sudo pacman -S playonlinux
• Void Linux
  1. If you're using Void Linux, I'm assuming you will know what to do; but, to be thorough
  2. Install necessary repositories
     1. sudo xbps-install -Sy void-repo-nonfree void-repo-multilib void-repo-multilib-nonfree
     2. Update the repository list and check for upgrades: sudo xbps-install -Suv
  3. Install wine sudo xbps-install -Sy wine wine-32bit winetricks wine-mono wine-gecko
  4. Check your wine installation: wine --version
  5. Install POL: xbps-install -Sy playonlinux
• OpenSUSE: TBD
• Solus: TBD