Linux Support (Ubuntu 14.04)

bluestuffzzz

So, most of the guides on the forums are severely out of date. The result in each guide was after the expansion two expansions ago + Wine's stable build not being updated frequently + Ubuntu being updated; there was no way to produce a fully working PWI client through Wine on Ubuntu. Of course we could debate the semantics of dual-booting. I run Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04.1. I don't really know where to begin on getting the client to work properly under Wine. If anyone knows what method you can get PWI to operate properly under Linux (Ubuntu), please share.

This has been a topic brought up once or twice every year, and no one has posted up any guide that works for the latest build of PWI/Wine/Ubuntu.

Thanks!

Jarkhen - Archosaur

bluestuffzzz wrote: »

So, most of the guides on the forums are severely out of date. The result in each guide was after the expansion two expansions ago + Wine's stable build not being updated frequently + Ubuntu being updated; there was no way to produce a fully working PWI client through Wine on Ubuntu. Of course we could debate the semantics of dual-booting. I run Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04.1. I don't really know where to begin on getting the client to work properly under Wine. If anyone knows what method you can get PWI to operate properly under Linux (Ubuntu), please share.

This has been a topic brought up once or twice every year, and no one has posted up any guide that works for the latest build of PWI/Wine/Ubuntu.

Thanks!

If only, if only.

My desktop is Windows due to development constraints, and my laptop (which runs Linux) is too outdated for me to even bother playing PWI (or anything else) on, so I can't really help you out here these days.

bluestuffzzz

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

If only, if only.

My desktop is Windows due to development constraints, and my laptop (which runs Linux) is too outdated for me to even bother playing PWI (or anything else) on, so I can't really help you out here these days.

Yeah, the big reason I would like to get PWI to work under Ubuntu, is I wouldn't have a reason to swap back into Windows much. Ubuntu has for the most part, much of what I need. Unfortunately, Windows does too + it has PWI. If I could just get PWI to operate well in Ubuntu, I wouldn't need to swap OS's much.

DEMHEALSMAN - Dreamweaver

PWI isn't meant for linux and if you can't get wine to run it properly you're pretty much screwed.
There is also playonlinux and CrossOver.

Besides the fact that it will also have to deal with Arc now.

Your best options are:
1. Use a dual boot.
2. Get another computer/laptop with windows
3. Stop wanting to use windows applications on non-windows operating systems, it will never be supported and programs such as wine can't be expected to always deal with updates on programs that it can run.

belnor

Can't comment on if there are any things you need specifically to do for Ubuntu as I use Mageia 4. What version of wine is 14.04 using? I'm using 1.6.1.

I used winetricks. Checking what all I have installed:
d3dx9_43
d3dx9
ie8
mfc42
msls31
msvcirt
pngfilt
vcrun2005
vcrun2008
vcrun6sp6
vcrun6
wininet
wsh56vb
xmllite

Some of these I believe were selected because they were dependencies for others.

If you have an installation of PWI already you can either copy it over to your linux machine or mount it on the system.

Here is a basic script I run to start the patcher:
#!/bin/bash
cd <you_installation_path>/patcher/
#This turns off all of wine's spam in the terminal except for fatal errors.
export WINEDEBUG=-all
#Local font definition.
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
#Calling the element client.
wine patcher.exe arc:1

Just replace <you_installation_path> with the actual path to your game folder. The arc:1 at the end make it so that it doesn't start up arc.

bluestuffzzz

belnor wrote: »

Can't comment on if there are any things you need specifically to do for Ubuntu as I use Mageia 4. What version of wine is 14.04 using? I'm using 1.6.1.

I used winetricks. Checking what all I have installed:
d3dx9_43
d3dx9
ie8
mfc42
msls31
msvcirt
pngfilt
vcrun2005
vcrun2008
vcrun6sp6
vcrun6
wininet
wsh56vb
xmllite

Some of these I believe were selected because they were dependencies for others.

If you have an installation of PWI already you can either copy it over to your linux machine or mount it on the system.

Here is a basic script I run to start the patcher:
#!/bin/bash
cd <you_installation_path>/patcher/
#This turns off all of wine's spam in the terminal except for fatal errors.
export WINEDEBUG=-all
#Local font definition.
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
#Calling the element client.
wine patcher.exe arc:1

Just replace <you_installation_path> with the actual path to your game folder. The arc:1 at the end make it so that it doesn't start up arc.

Thanks, I'll take a look at getting it to work with Wine and Winetricks later tonight. I'll report back with my findings!