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 install POL and/or Wine; this guide assumes that the user has correctly installed POL, vulkan drivers (both 64 and 32-bit drivers) and wine.
- Download the latest Windows client
- Download the 32-bit version of dinput8.dll, version number 6.0.6001.18000
- Open POL
- Choose the
Tools | Manage Wine Versions
menu - Goto your POL folder at
/home/<username>/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86/6.0-staging
and make sure that there are no files containinglibz.so
; my installation did not have any - Click on the
Configure
button; this will open a popup - Click on NEW
- This will open another pop entitled, 'Virtual drive creator', click NEXT
- Choose the 32 bit drive and click NEXT
- Highlight 6.0-staging and click NEXT
- Choose a name for the virtual drive, I named mine 'EverQuest' and move on to the next step
- Highlight 'EverQuest' and go to the 'Install Components' tab and install the following:
- dinput8
- vcrun2010
- dxvk (Note: choose the one without any numbers after it)
- (Optional) Microsoft corefonts
- Next, choose the 'Wine' tab and click on 'Configure'
- If POL prompts to install wine-mono and/or wine-gecko, allow it to install
- Once the 'Wine Configuration' pops up, go to the 'Staging' tab and click on 'Enable CSMT for better graphic performance'; even though it states that it's deprecated, it does not hurt to click on it and may cause problems if not; once done, click 'Ok' to close the window
- Go to the 'Display' and disable GLSL
- Unzip the Windows client you downloaded from above; I recommend the 2.1c version, it includes freethemouse.dll and other recommendations; cut or copy the folder and paste it in
/home/(username)/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/EverQuest/drive_c/Program Files/
- Download and unzip the file with dinput8.dll version 6.0.6001.18000; copy it to
/home/(username)/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/EverQuest/drive_c/windows/system32/
- Download dgVoodo; I grabbed the Latest Stable Version, 2.79.3
- Extract the downloaded zip file to a subfolder that you created (it extracts everything to the folder in which you put the zip file)
- Copy D3D8.dll and D3D9.dll to
/home/(username)/PlayOnLinux's virtual drives/EverQuest/
; make sure to delete the existing d3d8.dll - Rename the 2 files in the EverQuest directory and rename them to
d3d8.dll
andd3d9.dll
(Note: Linux is case sensitive)
- Return to the 'Configuration' window and click on the 'Wine' tab; within the tab, click on the 'Registry Editor' button
- Choose the
Optional Steps
Install wine and POL from the command line
- Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
- Now, for wine, you have two choices, you can go with the default repository or with the latest from WineHQ
- WineHQ version
- 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 curlsudo apt-get install wget curl
- Followed by:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
- Add the repository:
sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -cs) main"
- Install the wine-staging branch:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging
- Verify your installation on the command line:
wine --version
- Add the GPG key
- 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)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
- WineHQ version
- For POL, it's a bit easier
sudo apt-cache search playonlinux
- If you see a result, then type:
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
- 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
- Enable multilib support, or ensure it is enabled
vim /etc/pacman.conf
- Search for the line
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
and remove the crunch ('#') from in front of the word 'Include' - It should now look like
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- Search for the line
- Complete a system upgrade
sudo pacman -Syu
- Install wine
pacman -S wine
- Install wine-gecko and wine-mono
pacman -S wine-gecko wine-mono
- Note, after the above install, you may see a list of uninstalled dependencies; I recommend installing them, especially the 32-bit packages
- Check that you have successfully installed it
wine --version
- Install POL:
sudo pacman -S playonlinux
- Enable multilib support, or ensure it is enabled
- Void Linux
- If you're using Void Linux, I'm assuming you will know what to do; but, to be thorough
- Install necessary repositories
sudo xbps-install -Sy void-repo-nonfree void-repo-multilib void-repo-multilib-nonfree
- Update the repository list and check for upgrades:
sudo xbps-install -Suv
- Install wine
sudo xbps-install -Sy wine wine-32bit winetricks wine-mono wine-gecko
- Check your wine installation:
wine --version
- Install POL:
xbps-install -Sy playonlinux
- OpenSUSE: TBD
- Solus: TBD