RUNNING SRO UNDER UBUNTU

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:25 am

Well, not only does SRO work just fine with wine 0.9.38 and PCLinuxOS, it appears to work better! My game settings are saved now from the previous game.

I have to work on the fonts though, the game looks like total crap.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:12 pm

That's awsome it works in pclinuxos. I haven't updated my Ubuntu installation yet, so I should still be running the .37 version of wine, so I assume it still works for me. I'll have to give it a shot next time I'm in Linux.

I still need to find out if there's a way to block a specific package from being upgraded past a certain number when the OS is updated for Ubuntu.

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:46 pm

I'm not sure how to block a certain app like wine from updating. Look through the list and uncheck wine or any other app for that matter, before updating the rest of the files.

Edit!

I just found this from googling. Havent tried it yet, but here it is:

Create a file /etc/apt/preferences (if there isn't already one there), and add this to it :

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Package: gaim
Pin: version 2.0.0*
Pin-Priority: 999

save and it will no longer ask to update gaim.
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I guess it will work for Wine also. Just insert the appropriate wine version inplace of gaim._______________

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:18 pm

verbious wrote:I'm not sure how to block a certain app like wine from updating. Look through the list and uncheck wine or any other app for that matter, before updating the rest of the files.

Edit!

I just found this from googling. Havent tried it yet, but here it is:

Create a file /etc/apt/preferences (if there isn't already one there), and add this to it :
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Package: gaim
Pin: version 2.0.0*
Pin-Priority: 999
save and it will no longer ask to update gaim.
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I guess it will work for Wine also. Just insert the appropriate wine version inplace of gaim._______________

Thanks. I knew there had to be a way aside from just unchecking "wine" from the list of updates in the GUI.

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:21 pm

well? did it work?

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:09 pm

I think the issues may not be with wine version 0.9.38, but with lag. I am able to play the game on the Olympus server without issue, but not on the Greece server.

When I log in on the Greece server, my HP and MP both read 0/0.

We need more testers. Anyone with Ubuntu willing to try using wine version 0.9.38 and logging into a less crowded server?

SolidusRegime · Post by **SolidusRegime** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:32 pm

I used Ubuntu 7.04 for a while, and I played Guild Wars, WoW and SRO all through the repos wine version. So it definantly works, and SRO was the easiest to get working.

http://www.winehq.com
http://www.ubuntuforums.org

^^ best place to ask these questions

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:57 am

Thanks for the links, but some of us already have it working. The issue is that it has stopped with the latest wine version.

As I stated, I do have it working on PCLinuxOS with wine ver 0.9.38, but only when I log into a POPULATED server. I have logged on to Olympus and Rome and have played the game with no problems. In fact, my setting are saved from game to game. I always change the pickup key from the "G" button to the "SpaceBar". This is a good fix for the game.

I cannot log into Greece and play the game. After about 10 seconds my char locks up and all movement stops.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:40 pm

verbious wrote:well? did it work?

I haven't had a chance to boot into ubuntu to try it with the new version, or to try blocking the new version through that apt configuration file. I'm at work right now and my home system is currently booted into XP. I can remote into it and reboot it but I don't think I have Ubuntu set up to allow remote access so it would be pointless to reboot from here.

Lately I haven't had much of any time to use my home computer after work. I'm usually too busy with other things around the house.

edit: Well it turns out I was right. I rebooted my computer remotely, and now Ubuntu is up, but I can't ssh into it. I'm assuming sshd isn't even running. Oh well, I guess there goes my plans to try out SRO in Ubuntu today.

skoruppa · Post by **skoruppa** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:09 pm

ok, on binary version of wine (from winehq repo) silkroad cant connect but i compile wine 0.9.38 (from git) on my pc and silkroad start working

and it working just great xD
I want to play on fullscreen but game start working in window :/

I dont know why... to change to fullscreen i must go to in-game options and change resolution form 800x600 to 1024x728 (in launcher i have 1024x768). Someone know how to fix this??

(sorry for bad english

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PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:59 am

skoruppa wrote:ok, on binary version of wine (from winehq repo) silkroad cant connect but i compile wine 0.9.38 (from git) on my pc and silkroad start working

and it working just great xD
I want to play on fullscreen but game start working in window :/

I dont know why... to change to fullscreen i must go to in-game options and change resolution form 800x600 to 1024x728 (in launcher i have 1024x768). Someone know how to fix this??

(sorry for bad english )

My SRO only takes up part of the screen as well in Ubuntu. In order to do full screen, you need to set your SRO resolution to the same resolution as your X Server is set to. This is not the case in Windows because SRO knows how to change Windows' resolution to match what you have SRO at. The software doesn't know how to change the resolution of X Server.

Well I made the mistake of letting wine update and like others said, it doesn't work at all. I PMed my wife ingame and she got the PM but I didn't see it on the screen.

So it looks like the SRO client is communicating with the server, just not updating my screen with the results. I wonder if other actions in the game really do work. I might have my wife trace me and see if I'm actually moving or anything.

skoruppa · Post by **skoruppa** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:53 am

PR0METHEUS: but i have the same resolution in launcher and in x server :/ and game starting in 800x600

verbious · Post by **verbious** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:04 pm

Skoruppa, You have to change the IN GAME resolution to match you full screen resolution.

SRO starts on my computer in 1024x768, and in the upper left hand corner just like yours. After you are IN GAME, hit ESC, then the VIDEO tab, and change the resolution there. It will become full screen.

Hey Prometheus! I think you might be on to something there. One of the times the game was working for me on Ubuntu and then just "froze". I couldn't see any movements, and I was out in Black robber country. I was tinkering around with buttons and commands for about 10 minutes. When I restarted the game, i was in Donwhang, and had apparently died.

The game is working well in PCLinuxOS, but only when I play on non-crowded servers. The bugs with saving information are fixed in 0.9.38.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:07 pm

Just a thought. I wonder if something happened to the network stack in the new wine version. I'm thinking maybe data is able to go down the stack to the network link, but something happens to it as it travels back up the stack to the application.

That would explain why I was able to log in, PM my wife, run around hotan, and everything, but my client wasn't showing me do it. It's like I was talking to the server, but the server couldn't talk to me.

I'm not in Ubuntu at the moment, but perhaps someone could try installing some other Windows Internet software (AOL Instant Messenger or something) and see if that works fine.

skoruppa · Post by **skoruppa** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:57 pm

Ok, like i talking before, silkroad working on ubuntu on wine 0.9.38 but only if you compile it (not download from winehq repo).
To get better performance I write this little bash script to run game

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#!/bin/sh
cd ~/'c/Program Files/Silkroad'
WINEDEBUG="-all" nice -n 19 wine silkroad.exe

i save this to silkroad, move to /usr/local/bin and do chmod +x. Now game start when i write in console silkroad command :>
With beryl game works to:

MasterKojito · Post by **MasterKojito** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:16 pm

MastaChiefX wrote:Linux cant run Sro.

And why would you even try to run a client game on a server?

Think again!!

ddcc · Post by **ddcc** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:17 pm

Font still don't work?

skoruppa · Post by **skoruppa** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:19 pm

ddcc: font now working great... only hat you dont see its guild image and some skills efects.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:21 pm

I was going to reinstall wine through source, instead of the packages, but my ssh server keeps dropping my connection *cries*

Elyanna · Post by **Elyanna** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:58 am

Well... I think we have to wait the next release of Wine...
:banghead:

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:08 pm

Elyanna wrote:Well... I think we have to wait the next release of Wine...

Or just compile it from source. Apparently that's supposed to work. I haven't had the chance to try it myself.

Flyingsheep · Post by **Flyingsheep** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:37 pm

Well I'm installing Silkroad through WINE as we speak. I'll let you know how it goes in beryl.

EDIT:

It launches in beryl, but gameguard takes a little while to connect, and then when Silkroad runs it goes to a black screen and instantly disappears. Same thing happens without beryl, except that gameguard connects way faster. Any ideas?

EDIT 2:

oops, I had the MS fonts installed, that's why. It runs now, but ALL of the servers are crowded... :cry:

EDIT 3... hopefully the last.

Okay, I can get in Xian now, and it works. But as you can see below I have the text bug. Also, buffs don't show up, the sound doesn't work, and I get graphical errors in a few areas. It doesn't run bad though, I can put it on high and it'll only lag in town.

It works in beryl too, but the performance is slaughtered. The reason is obvious though.

ddcc · Post by **ddcc** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:39 am

Having become fed up with WIndows, I've installed Ubuntu and am updating it (and typing in it) from within.

Edit: Gods...this is turning nasty. The screen remains stuck at 800x600 @ 50hz. Nvidia-glx drivers installed, nvidia-settings won't let me change the resolution, stuck at Auto. I've tried sudo dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xorg, as well as directly modifying the xorg.conf file to add the 1280 x 1024 lines, but it still doesn't work. I've made a thread at ubuntuforums.org, hopefully they can help me out.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:06 pm

The other day I recompiled wine (the 'broken' .98 version) using 'apt-get source wine'. I was able to log in and run around hotan for about 20 seconds. Once I hit my grasswalk buff, all motion in the game stopped. I could rotate the view, but couldn't move with the mouse or keyboard. I may have been moving server-side, but the client wasn't showing me moving.

I haven't tried logging in again since. I don't know if the freeze was due to the buff, or if that was a coincidence. I'll have to give it a try again sometime.

Flyingsheep · Post by **Flyingsheep** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:31 pm

You should try again, because those screenshots I showed you is Silkroad running on .98.

ddcc · Post by **ddcc** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:24 am

OK. I've reinstalled Ubuntu because I messed up during the NVIDIA driver installation process, it's working beautifully now. I've turned on antistrophic and antialiasing as well as texture sharpening and it's working better than it has in Windows. The server remain full however, so I'll try again when I get a chance.

ddcc · Post by **ddcc** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:35 am

I don't know what's wrong with SRO on your computers. I have wine-0.9.38 binary from the wine website (not compiled) with package msttcorefonts running at 1280x1024 with all buffs and text and etc. Just like windows.

Flyingsheep · Post by **Flyingsheep** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:43 am

It's just different for every machine. It's emulation, you can't expect much out of it.

ddcc · Post by **ddcc** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:38 am

Wine 0.9.39 has been released. You might want to see if that fixes it.

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:53 am

I'd upgrade if I could actually log IN to sro :banghead: