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Finally sorted out separate Wine prefixes for the games I’m running. Now I won’t break everything when an update comes in, or when I need to add dll’s and such. EverQuest is pretty touchy since it uses directX 9, and typing winetricks commands or adding dll’s to the system32 folder usually messes things up. Morrowind needs some dll’s added, and Lord of the Rings needs a few winetricks.

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This is by no means trying to be a how-to, It’s just the way I got it to work.
Copy Install from Windows, Download PyLotro
Into a terminal one at a time: (Line 3 – change to your wine path)

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks­
export WINEPREFIX=/home/somebody/.wine
./winetricks vcrun2003
­­­./winetricks d3dx9­

Same error. I Ran Pylotro and let it crash, then killed the processes. Then I tried a newer C++ runtime.
Into a terminal:

./winetricks vcrun2005

Run Pylotro again and let it crash a bunch, kill the processes each time till it works. Then set the resolution and key mappings.

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Finally got my Hard Drive cleared and installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

After installation, I

• Downloaded the package updates
• Enabled the restricted NVidia drivers
• Installed Wine 1.1.9
  
• Installed K9copy and K3B through Synaptic.
• Installed the Flash plugin by

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

• Changed the font sizes to 9 (System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts)
• Also changed Rendering to Subpixel Smoothing (Same panel)
• Visited Radiotime’s KISM 92.9 webpage and it (wizard style) automatically installs the three Gstreamer codecs (nice!)

and that’s it so far.

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