EverQuest - worked once, but no more

jen.r.magas · Post by **jen.r.magas** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:57 am

I had a previous install on another computer with the following, and EQ worked perfectly there, with the following configuration:

Laptop: HP dv6355
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 (1.8 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB
OS: Ubuntu 8.04
Wine: 1.1.4

Unfortunately, the computer was formatted and given to someone else, so I can no longer compare the configurations or run any tests on that one.

I now have a replacement computer (desktop), with the following:

Motherboard: Asus M3N78-EM
Graphics: GeForce 8300 (onboard)
Processor: AMD Phenom 64 x4 (2.6GHz)
Memory: 4 Gb OCZ
OS: Ubuntu 8.10
Wine: 1.1.10

Installation of Everquest has completed perfectly, with no errors during install. I can, in fact, run EverQuest.exe without trouble. Problem is, I'm trying to get on a free server (Shards of Dalaya), so I need to run "eqgame.exe patchme" instead of "EverQuest.exe".

Upon running "wine eqgame.exe patchme", I get the following:

fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
Segmentation fault

So I've started debugging Wine, and I think I'm getting somewhere.

WINEDEBUG=+relay wine eqgame.exe patchme

The output is too long for the buffer, but here's what I got back:

<deleted>

I assume (and I could be wrong) that the call directly before the segmentation fault is the culprit:

0009:Call KERNEL32.LoadLibraryA(7e1ba239 "opengl32.dll") ret=7e11df2a
Segmentation fault
jen@silverpawn:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Sony/EverQuest$ 0010:Call PE DLL (proc=0x7ecad4b0,module=0x7ec70000 L"rpcrt4.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=0x1)

Also, I find it interesting that for some reason, the command prompt shows up again at that point, though I'm not familiar enough with debugging to know if that's normal or not.

So, knowing that it's an issue with the opengl32.dll, can anyone help me move forward with this? I know just enough about graphics to be dangerous.

Thanks!!!

Jen

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:29 pm

DO NOT post such a huge logs here. Use pastebins and link here.

jen.r.magas · Post by **jen.r.magas** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:41 pm

Sorry for the huge length of logging. I was not aware of pastebins, and since I saw no mention in the forum rules about limiting log length, I didn't think it was an issue. Again, apologies.

It turns out that this is not just EverQuest, but all games that I load onto this computer. This afternoon we loaded Majesty Gold Edition, which also gives "Segmentation Fault" and then terminates. Unfortunately, I don't have many games to try this with, but I'll dig around and see if others give me the same results.

Charity Abbott · Post by **Charity Abbott** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:36 pm

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM, jen.r.magas <[email protected]> wrote:

Also, I find it interesting that for some reason, the command prompt shows up again at that point, though I'm not familiar enough with debugging to know if that's normal or not.

Everquest always does that even when it works. You just may not notice
it. When I run it, wine gives me an error and a dump. At this point, I
get a new command prompt and it continues to call the next part of the
program and load the login screen and everything works fine. I forget
exactly the output and I'm not at my computer at home right now.

jen.r.magas · Post by **jen.r.magas** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:10 pm

Charity Abbott wrote:On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM, jen.r.magas <[email protected]> wrote:
Everquest always does that even when it works. You just may not notice
it. When I run it, wine gives me an error and a dump. At this point, I
get a new command prompt and it continues to call the next part of the
program and load the login screen and everything works fine. I forget
exactly the output and I'm not at my computer at home right now.

What OS are you running? When you get a chance, could you give me an example of what the output looks like when you successfully run EQ?

Thanks!

Charity Abbott · Post by **Charity Abbott** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:24 am

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM, jen.r.magas <[email protected]> wrote:

Charity Abbott wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM, jen.r.magas <[email protected]> wrote:
Everquest always does that even when it works. You just may not notice
it. When I run it, wine gives me an error and a dump. At this point, I
get a new command prompt and it continues to call the next part of the
program and load the login screen and everything works fine. I forget
exactly the output and I'm not at my computer at home right now.
What OS are you running? When you get a chance, could you give me an example of what the output looks like when you successfully run EQ?

Thanks!

I am running Gentoo.
This is running wine Everquest.exe http://wine.pastebin.com/m77ef5c76
and running just wine eqgame.exe patchme http://wine.pastebin.com/m7a833495
The command line repeating itself is highlighted in the first example.
It doesn't happen when you don't patch.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:49 am

Charity Abbott wrote:I am running Gentoo.
This is running wine Everquest.exe http://wine.pastebin.com/m77ef5c76
and running just wine eqgame.exe patchme http://wine.pastebin.com/m7a833495
The command line repeating itself is highlighted in the first example.
It doesn't happen when you don't patch.

What win version did you select in winecfg?

Charity Abbott · Post by **Charity Abbott** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:17 am

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:49 AM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Charity Abbott wrote:
I am running Gentoo.
This is running wine Everquest.exe http://wine.pastebin.com/m77ef5c76
and running just wine eqgame.exe patchme http://wine.pastebin.com/m7a833495
The command line repeating itself is highlighted in the first example.
It doesn't happen when you don't patch.
What win version did you select in winecfg?

I never changed anything in winecfg. I think it uses XP as default right now.

jen.r.magas · Post by **jen.r.magas** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:59 pm

Great news!

Turns out I had a bad install of Ubuntu 8.10 - I've completely reinstalled everything, and I've got it working perfectly without any particular tweaking.

Wine is running version 1.0.1 now, and everything is beautiful.

Thanks, everyone, for the help in getting this going again.

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:36 pm

jen.r.magas wrote:Great news!

Turns out I had a bad install of Ubuntu 8.10 - I've completely reinstalled everything, and I've got it working perfectly without any particular tweaking.

Wine is running version 1.0.1 now, and everything is beautiful.

Thanks, everyone, for the help in getting this going again.

and what if you test with wine 1.1.10 or 1.1.11? These are newer than 1.0.1.

If they don't work then you should run a regression test http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

jen.r.magas · Post by **jen.r.magas** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:20 pm

jeffz wrote:and what if you test with wine 1.1.10 or 1.1.11? These are newer than 1.0.1.

If they don't work then you should run a regression test http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

1.1.10 works just as well as 1.0.1. I haven't seen a package download for 1.1.11... do you have a link?

I should mention, I do have an issue with the entire OS locking up if I exit out of the window in any way - I've tried moving to another workspace and using alt+enter to move into Windowed mode, and both of these seems to lock all video response within a few seconds. I'm not sure of a good way to troubleshoot this since I lose all responsiveness from everything. I suspect even running from a command line and writing the output to a file would fail if the entire system locks up, but I haven't tried it yet.

I'm hoping to start a new entry for the EverQuest entry on the AppDB but I haven't started on that. I'm somewhat hesitant since I'm not logging into EQLive, but a free server. Should this be a different entry, maybe EverQuest (SoD) ?

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:14 am

jen.r.magas wrote:
jeffz wrote:and what if you test with wine 1.1.10 or 1.1.11? These are newer than 1.0.1.

If they don't work then you should run a regression test http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting
1.1.10 works just as well as 1.0.1. I haven't seen a package download for 1.1.11... do you have a link?

I should mention, I do have an issue with the entire OS locking up if I exit out of the window in any way - I've tried moving to another workspace and using alt+enter to move into Windowed mode, and both of these seems to lock all video response within a few seconds. I'm not sure of a good way to troubleshoot this since I lose all responsiveness from everything. I suspect even running from a command line and writing the output to a file would fail if the entire system locks up, but I haven't tried it yet.

I'm hoping to start a new entry for the EverQuest entry on the AppDB but I haven't started on that. I'm somewhat hesitant since I'm not logging into EQLive, but a free server. Should this be a different entry, maybe EverQuest (SoD) ?

1.1.11 should work too then...

Well, the entire OS lockup is most likely a bug in your video drivers, you can try upgrading them.

Re the AppDB, you could just add a new "version" labeled as "private/free server" or similar.