Everquest

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I'm trying to get regular EQ to work, but it keeps crashing. It'll patch fine. The graphics get all weird at the character select screen. Like my guy will be invisible, but his weapon is there. Try to load after that and it seems to get all the way then crashes before the world shows.

I'm on a Lenovo S10-2 netbook with the Ubuntu netbook remix 10.04. I know for sure that the system can handle the game.

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I'm trying to get regular EQ to work, but it keeps crashing. It'll patch fine. The graphics get all weird at the character select screen. Like my guy will be invisible, but his weapon is there. Try to load after that and it seems to get all the way then crashes before the world shows.

I'm on a Lenovo S10-2 netbook with the Ubuntu netbook remix 10.04. I know for sure that the system can handle the game.

What Wine version, graphics card/drivers?

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Wine 1.1.42
The game thinks I have a card in the Nvidia geforce 5 series. I'm not sure if that's right. It's whatever came with the netbook. Drivers are only there in so far as a full update gave me. I tried to install actual nvidia drivers from their Linux section, but got errors about not having a GUI supported.

Also, I'm a total Linux noob.

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Wine 1.1.42
The game thinks I have a card in the Nvidia geforce 5 series. I'm not sure if that's right. It's whatever came with the netbook. Drivers are only there in so far as a full update gave me. I tried to install actual nvidia drivers from their Linux section, but got errors about not having a GUI supported.

Also, I'm a total Linux noob.

That Wine version is rather old; upgrade to 1.2.

You need to figure out for sure what card you have and install the correct proprietary nvidia driver for it. If your GPU is really geforce 5 series, it's the legacy 173.xx.xx driver. If you don't know how to do any of this, ask on the Ubuntu forum.

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Upgraded and the same things happen.

I tried to install that driver earlier and gave up after three hours of messing with it, trying everything I could pull up on Google. It kept coming up saying I didn't have a gpu supported by that.