Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited

[Synoc]

sorry it took long to get back... College has started up again. I already have the d3dx9 and the vcrun200x installed, if they are offending problems how do I remove them?

[Synoc]

been four days, so sorry, to bump, but...

bump.

[ergo-proxy]

You can try with starting the game from a new wineprefix.

[Jeek Elemental]

Easy way to start "fresh" is to rename your .wine (to .winebak or something), run winecfg, then copy/move ddo from .winebak to .wine

When you have it set up its a good idea to rename it again and use WINEPREFIX to run it, to keep it separate from any other things you run with wine.

As of wine 1.3.37 I don't think any native .dlls or settings are required.

[Synoc]

so IF I did this right, I did a "mv .wine/ winebak" then mv winebak/c_drive/Program\ Files/DDO/ ./wine/c_drive/Program| Files/" and reinstall the pylotro.exe, retrain it, then I should be good to go?

cause I tried it, it didn't work, same problem

[Jeek Elemental]

check:
working opengl setup (numerous guides on web)

wine --version is 1.3.37 or newer (there is a ppa available at www.winehq.org)

ddo client updated (do update from menu in pylotro, ddo will stop at loading screen if wrong client version)

Also might be worth deleting /home/you/Dungeons and Dragons Online/userpreferences.ini

[Synoc]

check:
working opengl setup (numerous guides on web)

wine --version is 1.3.37 or newer (there is a ppa available at www.winehq.org)

ddo client updated (do update from menu in pylotro, ddo will stop at loading screen if wrong client version)

Also might be worth deleting /home/you/Dungeons and Dragons Online/userpreferences.ini

ok I went to
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started#Linux
and took a look, it in turn sent me to
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
if I am understanding this correctly it is either asking met o install new video drivers or new extensions for my current drivers. In either case what are the chances it will make my graphics system unstable? Or am I misreading what I am looking at?

and I am using the latest wine (1.3.37) and the current pylotro. If it matters, I installed the windows exe one as opposed to the linux one in an attempt to keep my Linux and my Windows apps completely separate. I was under the impression from the how-to guide on the pylotro site it doesn't matter, but that information could be old.

[Jeek Elemental]

wine pylotro should be fine.

Regarding drivers, the situation is that there are 2 options currently:
open source but lacking features: nouveau
closed but full featured: nvidia

Odds are you need the nvidia driver for ddo.

You can get both through ubuntus package system, theres also a special (don't ask me why) program for "activating" closed drivers (called additional hardware or close in your menu).
Theres a massive amount of information on this with some googling.

[Synoc]

I am using the nvidia drivers. why is it not recognizing my my direct3d, it shows up in the wine registry, These are my settings, is THIS the problem?

REGEDIT4 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="OpenGL"
"Multisampling"="disabled"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"RenderTargetLockMode"="readdraw"
"UseGLSL"="disabled"
"VideoMemorySize"="256"

[Jeek Elemental]

I am using the nvidia drivers. why is it not recognizing my my direct3d, it shows up in the wine registry, These are my settings, is THIS the problem?

None of those settings should stop it from running, however they should not be needed either. The Direct3D key is empty in a clean .wine and that should be your start point.
From a clean .wine created by winecfg, no installs or settings should be needed except the game itself, ie don't install directx or anything.