Trouble with DDO on Travelmate 2413

[sami]

I posted first on DDO forums (and got no answers):

Default Lubuntu Wine and Pylotro, getting game error [128] Fatal error with DirectX

Hi,
I have been light user of FedoraCore in my previous job, and now installed my first own linux,
Lubuntu 13.10.
My machine is Acer TravelMate 2413LCi, and the reson for the change was XP support ending.
http://www.laptopdirect.co.za/downlo...410-series.php

I wanted to continue playing DDO, of course.
I tried to follow instructions here:
https://sites.google.com/site/leesli...ng-ddo-in-wine

On my first try I installed Wine 1.4 from Lubuntu repository,
ran the command line commands, loaded fresh DDO install package from DDO home page,
loaded PyLotRO into the DDO folder inside the Wine c-drive and failed.

After that I understood that PyLotRo is Linux utillity, installed it into my home folder, and failed to get it to recognize my DDO folder.
Then I replaced Wine 1.4 with Wine 1.6. Now Pylotro found the DDO folder, but files did not match.

I deleted the DDO, and installed it again. Result was error saying data files were missing or could not be written to. That was true. Each time I ran the installer one more data file was successfully added.
Now I am stuck at the next stage:
Game error [128]: The game encountered a fatal DirectX issue while attempting to start.
Try a different screen resolution or bit depth. If that doesn't work, try new video drivers.
I have correct driver for the card, I have ran DDO on XP on this same machine, and DirectX 9 functionality should be provided by Wine 1.6, I have even tried to install d3dx9 dll:s with winetricks.
Please help!

Now I have some new questions:
It seems that wine starts DDO straight just as good as PyLotRO (same errors), should I just ignore PyLotRO?
Are there any unusual problems with these integrated Intel Graphics cards and DirectX 9 using wine?
Should I update wine 1.6 again to 1.7?
Should I try to install DirectX 9 into the Wine drive c:, or is it just waste of time with DDO?
Could anyone get me an UserPreferences.ini file for DDO with a minimal working graphic settings, with 800x640 resolution?

[dimesio]

I tried to follow instructions here:
https://sites.google.com/site/leesli...ng-ddo-in-wine

Outside howtos are not supported here, and the link you posted gives a 404 Not Found error.

The AppDB has a detailed howto. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=28606

[sami]

It seems that the webpage (Lee's Linux Blog, page Installing DDO in Wine) is there, but the link is broken.

After installing Wine 1.4 an before replacing it with 1.6 I did following things:
installed Winetricks:
$ wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
installed some corefonts:
$ bash ./winetricks vcrun200{3,5,8} d3dx9 corefonts

I tried to run ddostandard.exe, but it tried to reach Pando, and that is both dead and security threat,
so I ran the new installer from https://www.ddo.com/en/game/download
I ran that without any commandline options.
That I had to run several times, because Akamai only loaded about one datafile each try.

I installed PyLotRO, that appears to be redundant:
Via sudo (Ubuntu,debian,Mint)
$ sudo python setup.py install
Via su:
$ su -c “python setup.py install”
and configured it successfully with Wine 1.6

I also created a key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/
called ‘VideoMemorySize’ and set it to 128.

Do You think that something I described above could be the problem?

What do you suggest I do now?

What is the function of the commandline option in $ GC_DONT_GC=1 wine ddostandard.exe I missed?

Sincerely stuck and frustrated,
sami

[dimesio]

You might try asking in the AppDB entry. The maintainer appears to be very active, and he would know more about the specifics of getting this game to run.