LOTRO & DDO on Kubuntu 10.04
I wanted to share how I have gotten both Lord of the Rings Online & Dungeons & Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited working on my Kubuntu 10.04 install
My Methods will require you to either have a copy of windows running in virtualbox or a dualboot with a working LOTRO install.
First I downloaded pylotro Though the program is called pylotro it is a launcher for both LOTRO & DDO. I also download and installed wine. My current working version is 1.2-rc1
- I used the regular download manager from turbine in Virtualbox and downloaded both LOTRO & DDO . You should make sure to do full download of all game files, be forewarned it could take a while.
- I created a folder called Turbine in
/home/angel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ - Using grsync I copied everything from
C:\Program Files\Turbine\
to
/home/angel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Turbine - Using winetricksI installed
- win2k
- gecko
- vcrun2003
- vcrun2005
- vcrun2005sp1
- I then installed pylotro in wine
- Once I ran pylotro I had to go into the settings and point it to my LOTRO and DDO installs. While I wasn’t able to patch DDO I can play it just fine. With LOTRO I was able to patch and everything runs just fine.
- Note You’ll have 2 folders(1 if you only play LOTRO or only play DDO) in your /home directory called
Dungeons and Dragons Online
and
The Lord of the Rings Online
These would generally be the folders that would appear in your Documents
folder in windows.This folder will normally hold your
UserPreferences.ini file along with your lotro.keymap file. For reference HERE is a copy my UserPreferences.ini file
I haven’t had any sound issues and my game seems to run fine. Of course I
don’t use pulseaudio being on kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. One thing I
did notice is that settings aren’t saved to the ini file so if you say
adjust your sound one session then log and come back later your need to
readjust them. I worked around this but just editing the volume settings
in the actual UserPreferences.ini file instead of using the in game
options.
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Seems like way too much effort just to give Microsoft the finger.
I'd rather spend my time playing than trying to get it to work in an environment it was not designed for.
It's not about giving Microsoft the finger, it's about using the Operating system I choose, and really it's not that much work, just seems that way when your write it all out 😉
Indeed. I don't think you should be tied to one particular operating system just because they have a general monopoly over things. For a vast majority of the work I do, Linux has been far more useful than Windows ever was. As for gaming, obviously the winner at this point is Windows, for ease, but with a little know how, you can get most of the stuff running in Linux. Fair trade for me.
Hopefully the Gaming thing will changed in the future. I know we've all been wishing for this for a while, but hey you can't fault me for trying to hold on to a dream…..lol