EQ in Linux using Wine and/or Cedega

[IslandOfToys]

I've tried the latest version of Cedega (as of yesterday) in addition to the latest version of wine (0.9.58 I think?) and neither works. :(

Both "sort of" work, but they're not playable.

I'm running Ubuntu Linux 64 bit 7.10 with an AMD 2Ghz Dual Core X2, 4GB Ram, 256MB Nvidia 8600GT

Before I go on, I'll mention I use Cedega and Wine to run EQ on the Shards of Dalaya server and they work fine. Also have used Wine to run newer things like Team Fortress 2, Portal, etc. etc.

Both Cedega and Wine will start the exe and I can get to the login screen.

I actually logged into the game with both as well, but there's problems with the models being invisible. I read another post about that and it mentioned changing the pixel shader to 1.3. I've been trying with a LOT of different combinations of pixel shaders and vertex shaders both in the eqclient.ini as well as setting them in Cedega and Wine.

The best I got was seeing all the models in game, but they had no animations. Everyone was "ice skating" around.

One other thing I noticed was that the game would freeze up in Cedega if I changed options from the menu, but I could change options from the menu using Wine.

When the game starts with Wine the mouse is frozen to the center of the screen if playing full screen, but works okay if in a window.

The mouse works fine in Cedega.

If someone successfully uses Cedega or Wine currently, would you be willing to share your eqclient.ini text file settings? Knowing the proper setup in that file would mean I could just tinker with settings in Cedega and Wine and not wonder about the client.

Thanks in advance!