Everquest 2 and Ubuntu!

[Vellisse]

<p>Afternoon, I recently made the switch from Windows to Linux. After 8 hours of messing around and slowly getting closer to the game finally becoming playable, I've decided to ask all of you to hopefully help me!</p><p>As it stands, the game currently does launch unfortunately it sits at a black screen (with the normal EQ2 cursor) without audio. I'm running it through wine and have dxd9c.</p><p>Any ideas?</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>As it is unsupported there isn't much I can do personally but if the community has advice for you I'm all for it.</p>

[kaeric23]

<p>I haven't tried any of this, because I just heard of Ubuntu yesterday, but an important consideration for me (sadly) is whether or not EQ2 runs under it, so I've been googling around and found this link</p><p><a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=20511">http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManag...rsion&iId=20511</a></p>

[Azol]

<p>I wish SOE would consider porting EQ2 client to Linux one day. I cannot imagine any other idea that could possibly up new subscriptions rate better than this one... New expansions won't help. New zones, quests, PVP BGs won't either. But the wider platform support will. Even if it won't support 70% of DirectX beauties (most players turn them off anyway for FPS' sake), you can save a lot of time just porting the basic functionality. EQ2 servers run on Linux AFAIK! The day you guys announce EQ2 (or EQ3) goes Linux, I'll uninstall my Windows OS!</p>

[Peogia]

<p><cite>Azol@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wish SOE would consider porting EQ2 client to Linux one day. I cannot imagine any other idea that could possibly up new subscriptions rate better than this one... New expansions won't help. New zones, quests, PVP BGs won't either. But the wider platform support will. Even if it won't support 70% of DirectX beauties (most players turn them off anyway for FPS' sake), you can save a lot of time just porting the basic functionality. EQ2 servers run on Linux AFAIK! The day you guys announce EQ2 (or EQ3) goes Linux, I'll uninstall my Windows OS!</p></blockquote><p>I am not paying more $$$ a month to add support for a homebrew OS when we need a working graphics engine more then ever</p><p>And chances are most of the population running a homebrew OS either cant afford Windows / subscriptions or fail to meet the system requirements of everything ect</p>

[Azol]

I can see the reason behind this, but, really... No one calls Ubuntu "OS for the poor" just because it's free. There are many reasons people give it a try - NOT because they cannot afford Windows Vista or whatever. /shrug, just /shrug. MacOS is Linux-based as well... guess what... <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[buckle]

<p>Not to start a holy war or anything, but Linux is anything but a homebrew OS. Alot of corporations run thier file servers on Linux. It's a solid operating system and being both a windows and Ubuntu user, it's faster and less buggy than windows. I wouldn't be surprised if this web forum was running on a Linux server with an Apache Web Server.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>buckleyc wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Not to start a holy war or anything, but Linux is anything but a homebrew OS. Alot of corporations run thier file servers on Linux. It's a solid operating system and being both a windows and Ubuntu user, it's faster and less buggy than windows. I wouldn't be surprised if this web forum was running on a Linux server with an Apache Web Server.</p></blockquote><p>but they don;t run the free distro's nor the one's that do not have 7x24x365 support avialable</p><p>do a search fo the forum, there used to be a stickied post on how to run the game under linux that had some pretty decent information</p>