Problem - Linux Users Unite! (1 Viewer)

[thedank]

So the latest UI upgrade to Live has broke EQ on Linux under Wine. When loading you can get to server select then it crashes during the loading of the character menu. Some things that have already been attempted by the few of us who have been trying to debug this issue in PM:

1. Installed the VS C++ package from MS as per this post on eq forums: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/eqgame-exe-system-error-after-patch.290650/ - (NO WORKY)

2. Attempted to revert back to old UI as per this post: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/how-to-revert-back-the-ui.290675/ - (NO WORKY as crash happens before character menu)

3. Re-installed d3dx9_43 via winetricks as per another post that I cannot locate now where someone was having crashing issues on Win7. (NO WORKY)

4. Waited for Hot-Fix with new DLLs - (NO WORKY)

5. Switch to using software rendering vs hardware rendering due to new UI engine bugs under wine. (HARD LOCKED SYSTEM) - still who wants to play with software rendering only if it did work...

I am starting this thread to start brainstorming and tinkering with other Linux users to attempt to get this working again. EQ support will not help us as they "do not support running EQ under Wine".

 

[LamahHerder]

Have you tried to NOT use default UI to avoid this for now?
I assume that the new stuff only loads with default UI so may be possible to get a copy of default UI from before patch and have your per-toon ini's using the custom-defaultUI

 

[thedank]

Yes that was number 2. You can set the UI to use in the characters UI_charname_servername.ini file. However this issue is happening before character select loads. So that does not help at all. There does not seem to be a way to change the GLOBAL UI settings for the entire game.

 

[LamahHerder]

Coherent UI: Coherent UI with Wine

 

[thedank]

Yup that was already found and explored in #5 in my post above. However if you are using Nvidia hardware and the Nvidia proprietary driver reverting to software rendering causes an entire system lockup. Plus boxing, raiding, or playing in general using software rendering will not be a very fun experience. Current version of wine that is being tested right now on my system is 8.8 development.

The line to test to use software rendering is:

env __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 wine eqgame.exe patchme

You may have a different experience on an intel graphics based system that uses the mesa open source drivers, or if you are using the open source AMD or Nvidia drivers. However I am not switching off of proprietary Nvidia drivers due to the fact that I need them for other applications optimized for the Nvidia hardware that I have on the system.

 

[thedank]

We may be able to learn from this post about Guild Wars 2 that uses the same Coherent UI engine: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/top...x-performance-optimizations-and-more/page/64/

Maybe trying to run the game using Proton via Steam instead of Wine could provide different results. I will have to try when I have a bit of time. The post also suggests that Coherent UI is a 32 bit application. Which just made EQ a hybrid 32/64 bit application, ironic since they just ported everything over to 64 bit!!

 

[thedank]

Crashed in the same location testing on an Ubuntu 22.04 system that uses a straight up Intel 12th gen integrated card and mesa drivers using software rendering. This time no hard lock of the entire system like on the Nvidia based system. Just the crash when trying to load character select and error dump pop-up.

 

[thedank]

Oh Steam did not work either, tried a few different versions of Proton and they all crashed as well.

 

[Knightly]

The post also suggests that Coherent UI is a 32 bit application. Which just made EQ a hybrid 32/64 bit application, ironic since they just ported everything over to 64 bit!!

I suspect they're talking about when you run the host (which EQ doesn't) -- it's not embedding a 32 bit application into a 64 bit application.

 

[brainiac]

not sure that coherent UI and gameface are the same thing, so can't say that it even applies in this case.

 

[thedank]

not sure that coherent UI and gameface are the same thing, so can't say that it even applies in this case.

GitHub - CoherentLabs/GameUIComponents

Contribute to CoherentLabs/GameUIComponents development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Gameface is made by Coherent Labs, it looks like Coherent UI is "a suite of custom elements designed specifically for Gameface". Clicking the gameface link takes you to the coherent website. I agree though this is a mystery at this point in time. One of the other users had sent us down this coherent UI path, so it was worth investigating more.

 

[JudeauChop]

So I haven't been able to play with much yet - been a busy week at work and home. However, I am able to launch EQ in CrossOver on Linux (Mint 21.1) without any issues so far (logged in, opened inventory, poked around a bit, and logged off). Will get MQ updated, and loaded, and see how things go. I just have the default UI loaded, I've moved things around on it, but never modified anything else there.

 

[thedank]

So I haven't been able to play with much yet - been a busy week at work and home. However, I am able to launch EQ in CrossOver on Linux (Mint 21.1) without any issues so far (logged in, opened inventory, poked around a bit, and logged off). Will get MQ updated, and loaded, and see how things go. I just have the default UI loaded, I've moved things around on it, but never modified anything else there.

I wonder what CrossOver is doing differently than vanilla wine or steam proton to allow this to work. Also what graphics card/drivers are you using?

 

[JudeauChop]

The main reason I use CrossOver is that Proton (and however i had wine64 configured myself) hates the old Nvidia driver my video card uses. It's a GeForce GTX 560, and nvidia-driver-390 is the newest nvidia driver it will run. I got everything running with the generic driver, but it was SLOW/LAGGY, however, everything runs super smooth in CrossOver (thanks for your other posts, I had a fun few weeks playing with all of the wine tools, etc, it was almost more fun than the actual boxing).

I've gotten my entire 6 box crew up and running with the newest VeryVanilla MQ now on Crossover. I haven't gotten much past that yet (since the patch/UI 'upgrade').

 

[brainiac]

GitHub - CoherentLabs/GameUIComponents

Contribute to CoherentLabs/GameUIComponents development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Gameface is made by Coherent Labs, it looks like Coherent UI is "a suite of custom elements designed specifically for Gameface". Clicking the gameface link takes you to the coherent website. I agree though this is a mystery at this point in time. One of the other users had sent us down this coherent UI path, so it was worth investigating more.

what you linked isn't the same thing as coherent ui -- you linked CoherentUIComponents which is a javascript library.

 

[thedank]

what you linked isn't the same thing as coherent ui -- you linked CoherentUIComponents which is a javascript library.

Thanks for pointing that out! The change that is causing the crashing is still a mystery. A few folks stumbled upon the Coherent stuff and we have been just trying to put all of this together in PM land. Good to know we were going down a wrong path there so we can divert our efforts elsewhere.

 

[thedank]

The main reason I use CrossOver is that Proton (and however i had wine64 configured myself) hates the old Nvidia driver my video card uses. It's a GeForce GTX 560, and nvidia-driver-390 is the newest nvidia driver it will run. I got everything running with the generic driver, but it was SLOW/LAGGY, however, everything runs super smooth in CrossOver (thanks for your other posts, I had a fun few weeks playing with all of the wine tools, etc, it was almost more fun than the actual boxing).

I've gotten my entire 6 box crew up and running with the newest VeryVanilla MQ now on Crossover. I haven't gotten much past that yet (since the patch/UI 'upgrade').

Good to know. I may have to give the free trial of crossover a go just to experiment with it to see what they are doing differently. Hate to have to pay for software on Linux when they are just using wine and making a few tweaks and providing a nice frontend to make game installation and launching easy.

At any rate I re-rolled my old EMU server and popped out a 6 box crew of level 1s last night to fart around there until things get resolved with Live. The old ROF2 client still works well under the new wine 8.8. Just gotta roll out a 32bit prefix for it, I even got it running with Vulkan and dxvk now!

 

[thedank]

Test run to reproduce, note this is a single clean instance of EQ Live with no injection:

Step 1: run EQ launcher
Step 2: click Play
Step 3: select Server
Step 4: Wait for character select to load ... waiting ...
Step 5: crash just before switching over "progress bar is full"

warn:  ConvertFormat: Unknown format encountered: D3D9Format::AL16
warn:  ConvertFormat: Unknown format encountered: D3D9Format::R16
0264:fixme:bcrypt:BCryptCreateHash ignoring object buffer
0264:fixme:msvcp:_Locinfo__Locinfo_ctor_cat_cstr (000000000041DD30 1 C) semi-stub
0264:fixme:msvcp:_Locinfo__Locinfo_ctor_cat_cstr (000000000041DA80 1 C) semi-stub
[B][I][U]wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 264 at address 0000000140069579 (thread 0264), starting debugger...[/U][/I][/B]
0338:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext himc 00000000000100EE, flag 0x1 stub!
0338:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
0338:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
0338:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
*** LOTS OF THESE REPEATED, TRUNCATED ***

0x00000140069579 eqgame+0x69579: int3
Modules:
Module  Address                                 Debug info      Name (174 modules)
PE      0000000000950000-0000000000993000       Deferred        mss64midi
PE      00000000009a0000-0000000000c03000       Deferred        d3dx9_43
PE      0000000000c10000-00000000010e3000       Export          cohtml.windowsdesktop
PE      00000000010f0000-00000000027c7000       Deferred        v8
PE      00000000027d0000-000000000281e000       Deferred        v8_libbase
PE      0000000002820000-0000000002853000       Deferred        v8_libplatform
PE      0000000002860000-0000000002889000       Deferred        v8_zlib
PE      0000000002890000-0000000002a42000       Deferred        renoircore.windowsdesktop
PE      0000000005c20000-0000000005eed000       Deferred        eqgraphicsdx9
PE      0000000005ef0000-000000000757a000       Deferred        wined3d
PE      00000000075b0000-000000000781f000       Deferred        d3dcompiler_43
PE      0000000008bb0000-0000000008bd9000       Deferred        mss64mp3.asi
PE      000000003fb00000-000000003fbef000       Deferred        mediadecoders.windowsdesktop
PE      000000007a800000-000000007ad6a000       Deferred        opengl32
ELF     000000007d000000-000000007d005000       Deferred        <wine-loader>
PE      000000013b400000-000000013b444000       Deferred        steam_api64
PE      0000000140000000-00000001413b1000       Export          eqgame
PE      0000000170000000-0000000170386000       Dwarf-4         ntdll
PE      0000000174000000-0000000174625000       Deferred        kernelbase
PE      0000000178000000-00000001781a3000       Dwarf-4         kernel32
PE      0000000180000000-0000000180090000       Deferred        mss64
PE      00000001ceeb0000-00000001ceedf000       Deferred        d3d10_1
PE      00000001d0e20000-00000001d1346000       Deferred        oleaut32
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PE      0000000267930000-0000000267942000       Deferred        psapi
PE      000000026c190000-000000026c1b0000       Deferred        nsi
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PE      00000002945e0000-000000029479b000       Deferred        winmm
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PE      00000002edf00000-00000002ee163000       Deferred        dxgi
PE      00000002ee630000-00000002ee687000       Deferred        bcrypt
PE      00000002fb3c0000-00000002fb92e000       Deferred        comctl32
PE      00000002fba30000-00000002fbacf000       Deferred        concrt140
PE      00000002fda10000-00000002fdab2000       Deferred        winealsa
PE      000000031bef0000-000000031c2c2000       Deferred        msvcp140
PE      000000031c5d0000-000000031c76c000       Deferred        combase
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[B][I][U]wine client error:2c4: write: Bad file descriptor[/U][/I][/B]

Please verify if you have similar output when your system crashes. There will be a TON of non-related spam in the console, you need to hunt down when the game crashed and the debugger starts in the spam. You can run the launchpad from the command line with the following command in your EQ directory:

export WINEDLLOVERRIDES=libglesv2=d wine LaunchPad.exe &

 

[JudeauChop]

Good to know. I may have to give the free trial of crossover a go just to experiment with it to see what they are doing differently. Hate to have to pay for software on Linux when they are just using wine and making a few tweaks and providing a nice frontend to make game installation and launching easy.

At any rate I re-rolled my old EMU server and popped out a 6 box crew of level 1s last night to fart around there until things get resolved with Live. The old ROF2 client still works well under the new wine 8.8. Just gotta roll out a 32bit prefix for it, I even got it running with Vulkan and dxvk now!

I'm only a few weeks into learning Wine (so am pretty fresh), but if there are any logs, config files, etc I can provide you to better understand what they're doing, just let me know. From what I've seen, the CrossOver folks contribute a bunch to the wine project in general, so didn't mind tossing them some $$ (plus they made things pretty dang easy). I just subbed earlier today, my trial was going to end this weekend.

 

[thedank]

I'm only a few weeks into learning Wine (so am pretty fresh), but if there are any logs, config files, etc I can provide you to better understand what they're doing, just let me know. From what I've seen, the CrossOver folks contribute a bunch to the wine project in general, so didn't mind tossing them some $$ (plus they made things pretty dang easy). I just subbed earlier today, my trial was going to end this weekend.

They do make a good product, and make it easy for people to just get up and go with windows programs on Linux/Mac. I just prefer to tinker until I get it working on the open source side of the world.

PlayOnLinux used to be a good open source easy to use frontend. Now I am starting to hear good things about Lutris as well. I have yet to try it though.

 

[Knightly]

I tested on the Steam Deck this evening and EQ is working under Proton 7.

 

[thedank]

I tested on the Steam Deck this evening and EQ is working under Proton 7.

Interesting, I tried proton 7 on my desktop steam installation and had crashing. Will have to try my deck I set it up back in March to run EQ.

 

[thedank]

Confirming that I can get the game to load on my steam deck based on the user guide @Knightly put together. However, no matter what configuration I try on my desktop wine, proton, lutris, steam, etc. they all produce the same crash at the same spot prior to loading the character selection screen. I have tried this on different systems with different hardware to count out an issue with nvidia as I have also tried on intel video based systems. I have also tried installing EQ exactly how @Knightly describes in his guide to run under steam using the F2P client in steam which still crashes. Something on the steam deck is magical here! (edit: steam deck uses AMD graphics card, I have no desktop with AMD to test with. May be the magic here!).

Anyway I am saving a crap load of money each month by not playing 6 gold accounts on Live anymore, and really enjoying my private EMU server and my MQ army on there with no worries about getting a beat down. RoF2 client and MQ for EMU works perfectly on Linux still, and will continue to since the client does not change!

Bonus info, launching accounts using MQ2AutoLogin Profiles from the MQ tray icon under Linux works perfectly for RoF2 client! No more need for launch scripts.

 

[thedank]

In on Live on my desktop!

Here is the final combo that worked.

First I purged EQ from the system. (multiple tries before in steam, lutris, and just in a manual prefix)

Updated wine to: wine-8.13 (Staging) on my Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

purged the default wineprefix

rm -rf ~/.wine

restaged the default wineprefix

winecfg

accepted defaults by hitting OK

installed dxvk and corefonts with winetricks

winetricks dxvk corefonts

Installed EQ clean using the installer. Patched. Logged in to server select then closed.

Edited eqcient.ini to set VertexShaders=FALSE, and set a windowed resolution that was not overly cumbersome to test with.

ran the game from the install directory with

wine eqgame.exe patchme

and I got through the crash point and logged in a toon to PoK!!

I think now the smart thing is for me to just /testcopy all of my characters and play over there going forward as I am NOT paying for gold anymore since playing on Linux seems to break at least once a year for a few months after a big update.

I hope this helps others looking to still play Live on Linux though!

 

[vindr3d]

In on Live on my desktop!

Here is the final combo that worked.

First I purged EQ from the system. (multiple tries before in steam, lutris, and just in a manual prefix)

Updated wine to: wine-8.13 (Staging) on my Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

purged the default wineprefix

rm -rf ~/.wine

restaged the default wineprefix

winecfg

accepted defaults by hitting OK

installed dxvk and corefonts with winetricks

winetricks dxvk corefonts

Installed EQ clean using the installer. Patched. Logged in to server select then closed.

Edited eqcient.ini to set VertexShaders=FALSE, and set a windowed resolution that was not overly cumbersome to test with.

ran the game from the install directory with

wine eqgame.exe patchme

and I got through the crash point and logged in a toon to PoK!!

I think now the smart thing is for me to just /testcopy all of my characters and play over there going forward as I am NOT paying for gold anymore since playing on Linux seems to break at least once a year for a few months after a big update.

I hope this helps others looking to still play Live on Linux though!

How has it been playing since your last update? I'm about to rip the bandaid off and switch to linux 100%. Really only worried about EQ/RG when I switch. Everything else I play is mainly throught Steam/ProtonDB.

 

[thedank]

I have actually quit live. The DX11 changes have made the game rather unplayable, and there are too many random crashes when zoning into highly populated areas. Other than that it was playing perfectly up to the DX11 change. I saw it coming as I was running on test as well, and they never fixed the issues there before pushing to live. I stopped playing and paying a few months ago so I am not sure what the latest patches have done. I am currently just enjoying some old school EQ with no automation on my personal TAKP server.

 

[vindr3d]

Fair enough.

I just got back into live about 2 months ago. I guess I'll keep windows just for EQ and do linux for everything else. Unfortunate, but oh well. I'll probably end up messing with it to see if it works better and repost on here with my findings.

Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[thedank]

Yah right now you can probably get away with casual gaming if you don't mind the random crashing and lag. MQ works fine. ROF2 Client / MQ2 on emu servers works perfectly. And the TAKP/QUARM/P99 clients also run perfectly on Linux. No shortage of EQ options outside of live to get your fix when running 100% Linux for your OS! These older clients never change, so they always work as expected!

 

[thedank]

Oh one other thing I noticed before I decided to stop playing on Live. The client runs a lot smoother, and with less crashes on an intel based system versus an nvidia based system under Linux right now. A lot less lag on the integrated Intel video cards. This may be differences in open source mesa vulkan libraries (intel) versus the nvidia proprietary ones, and how the DX11 calls EQ is making uses the vulkun transtion layer under each environment. Notably less lag, artifacts, and faster framerates overall under Intel video.

 

[vindr3d]

Oh, real nice. I'm sure everyone still hates how laggy EQ still is (I understand why) even with modern hardware while multi-boxing. It will be nice to have it run a little smoother for a change. =)

I'm going to mess with it this weekend (hopefully).

 

[LamahHerder]

May fix some of the dx11 issues if you also disable the new ui in your eqclient.ini [Defaults] section set UseNewUIEngine=0

[Defaults]
UseNewUIEngine=0

 

[vindr3d]

May fix some of the dx11 issues if you also disable the new ui in your eqclient.ini [Defaults] section set UseNewUIEngine=0

[Defaults]
UseNewUIEngine=0

I have not gotten around to trying to get this working yet but I will try that out if I run into problems.

Thank you!

 

[wiggmpk]

Howdy

I'm rather new here but I've been around the block with EQ & Linux for a number of years. Coming from a Gentoo POV so YMMV:

# build/install wine-proton from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton however your distro does this :P

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-eq
export WINEARCH=win64
winecfg # just to generate the directories, then exit
winetricks corefonts dxvk # Launcher & eqgame.exe work out-of-the-box
winetricks settings # you're looking for videomemorysize=2048

# at this point you can choose to "wine regedit" and navigate to the Direct3D key and adjust the video memory size but I doubt it has any real impact, this is just my OCD

cd ~/.wine-eq/drive_c/EverQuest # your install dir may vary
wine LaunchPad.exe # load, login, set window size, etc then exit

# I've noticed that adjusting the game settings from the Launcher doesn't stick. Meaning my eqclient.ini can be manually changed and if I open the Launcher Game Settings it will overwrite. So we'll manually update
nano eqclient.ini

MipMapping=FALSE # unnecessary with modern gear
LoadSocialAnimations=FALSE # personal pref, I'm cooking a laptop so I take cuts where I can get them
UseD3DTextureCompression=FALSE # DX11 changes depreciated this client feature
TextureCache=FALSE # DX11 changes depreciated this client feature

## hot topic is VertexShaders TRUE|FALSE, I'm not exactly sure. I have it as TRUE so I'm open to debate on this with the DX11/64bit client
## if I don't have Allow Pixel Shaders 2.0 enable in game, it's a slideshow in PoK or Kunark tree graphics
## some models (Coldain/Lizardman to name two) are just blank/white and overly bright asf

12th Gen Intel i7-1280P (20) @ 4.700GHz
AMD ATI Radeon RX 6950 XT
64Gb RAM DDR4 @ 3200

Also "CPUAffinity=#" is depreciated, replaced with "ClientCore0=-1" where the "-1" enables the client to run on all available CPU cores. Incrementing for each "boxed" account in the same wine bottle so the 2nd entry would be "ClientCore1=-1" and so on and so forth.