Running Neocron in Linux

Neocron 2.2 in Linux with Wine

This has been tested on the following systems..

• AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ Dual Core
• 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
• GeForce 7900GS
• Ubuntu Linux X86 8.04.1 LTS

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
• 4GB PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready DDR2
• GeForce 9800 GX2 1024MB GDDR3
• Ubuntu GNU/Linux 32bit 8.04.1 LTS

Instructions for getting Neocron working with Wine

Some general notes:-

• Currently there is no known issues with installing Neocron from scratch, however patching may become an issue. It is better to just copy it from an NTFS drive.
• The use of automatrix is outdated, and WineDoors is an unsupported hack. WineHQ recommend the use of Winetricks.

Installing Wine

First, we need to install Wine. I suggest adding wines repo to your list. This is a quote from their website.

Adding the WineHQ APT Repository

First, open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). On Debian, you will need to open a root terminal. Then add the repository's key to your system's list of trusted APT keys by copy and pasting the following:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Next, add the repository to your system's list of APT sources:

For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04):

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Debian Etch (4.0):

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

Then update APT's package information by running sudo apt-get update.

Getting Neocron to work with Wine

• Install Wine and ubuntu-restricted-extras from your terminal with the following: sudo apt-get install wine ubuntu-restricted-extras
• Run the command winecfg in terminal, this will setup your user account for Wine.
• Download Winetricks - wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
• Install the following packages via Winetricks with the following command:- sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 mfc42
  • Visual C++ Runtime Libraries 6
  • MS Core Fonts
  • Microsoft Foundation Classes 4
• Navigate to your Neocron directory in your terminal and run wine Client.exe -precache first. Then close the Client.
• Now just run the launcher! Either by double clicking the exe, or in terminal cd to the Neocron directory and type wine NeocronLauncher.exe
• Done! Neocron should now run smoothly.

If all else fails

If the above didn't work, you may need to follow these additional instructions

• Copy your Neocron2.2 directory over to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/
• run winecfg and Add Application Client.exe with the following options
  • Windows Version: Windows 98
  • [Libraries]
  • Override msvcrt, set to Native (Windows) [Thanks to vitamin in #winehq for this]
  • Override quartz, set to Native (Windows) [Again thanks to vitamin in #winehq for this]
• Copy msvcrt.dll and quartz.dll from your C:\Windows\System32 folder on your WIndows machine to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
• From the terminal, go to your Neocron 2 folder cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Neocron2/ and type wine Client.exe -sysconfig
• Setup your options and click OK.
• From the terminal again type wine Client.exe -precache PlayTutorial
• After making sure that it works, you need to make sure that in your /etc/hosts file your hostname is set to resolve to your external IP, NOT LOCALHOST!
• Now just fire up Client.exe and connect!

Notes

A few notes on getting things working, sometimes you have to fiddle with the msvcrt.dll or quartz.dll file versions to get the one that works properly. I offer the versions I use on my website at http://areamc5.info/linux to get things rolling

Contacts and credits

Credit and questions go to MrTrip for this wiki entry (Josh@DigitallyEvolved.net - MrTrip on NC forums.

Feel free to message BaDDaSS on NC forums with any questions about this updated wiki guide.

Huge thanks to vitamin and all the guys at #winehq on irc.freenode.net for all the help they gave me (MrTrip) in this. Could not have done it without you guys!