Dungeons and Dragons Online is now a classic MMORPG based on the table-top gaming D&D. After many singleplayer D&D games, Turbine finaly created the epic Kingdom of Cormyr within the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Explore the world as one of the classic D&D classes and spend hundreds of hours completing quests, developing your characters skills and of course... slaying D&D minions.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dungeons and Dragons Online in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the ddo.com version of Dungeons and Dragons Online. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.0-staging
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.0-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.0-staging is installed and you can close this window
Download DDO Client
Go to: http://www.ddo.com
Click "Already have an account? Download The Game"
Click PC Download
Save ddolive.exe to your Desktop
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a progam in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: dungeonsdragons
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine: 2.0-staging
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Graphics Tab
Check "Autmomatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the Following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2005
- POL_Install_vcrun2008
Installing DDO Client
Click Browse
Select "ddolive.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click OK
Click Next
Check Custom
Click Next
Check "I accept the agreement"
Click "I Agree"
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Uncheck "Create a Quick Launch icon"
Click Next
Click Install
Uncheck "Launch DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE"
Click Finish
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "TurbineLauncher.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: D&D Online
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "D&D Online"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 2.0-staging
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Launching D&D Online Client
Select "D&D Online"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
High Resolution Textures
Click "Yes" to download HD Textures
Scroll down to the bottom
Click "I Agree"
Akamai NetSession Interface
Check "I Agree"
Click Next
Click Close
Wait while the game downloads from the Client
Register and Login
Click Play
Click "I Agree" again...
and again...
Optimization
Dungeons & Dragons Online is optimized for pretty much any kind of PC. Laptops, netbooks and any Desktop.
Click Options
Graphics Tab
Adjust:
- Optimmal Settings (Preset)
- Graphics Quality
- Display Screen Mode
- Resolution
- Windowed Resolution
- Aspect Ratio
- Antialiasing
- Color
- Contrast
Adv Graphics
Adjust:
- Object Draw Distance
- Model Detail
- Material Detail
- Landscape Draw Distance
- Frill Distance
- Distant Imposters
- Admospheric Detail
- Texturing
- Texture Detail
- Texture Filtering
- Anisotropic Filter Quality
- Multi-pass Lighting
- Specular Lighting
- Surface Reflection
- Landscape Lighting Quality
- Landscape Shadows
- Blob Shadows
- Stencil Shadows
- Enviroment Stencil Shadows
- Video Post Effects
- Overbright Bloom Filter
- Blur filter Quality
- Bloom Intensity
- Player Mesh Combinging
- Texture Cache Size
- Player Crowd Quality
- Refresh Rate
- Sync with Refresh Rate
- Triple Buffering
Click close
Conclusion:
I was able to play Dungeons & Dragons Online without any isssues on my GeForce 650 Ti. There was one time when I launched the client I received a crashed pop-up, but I just launched again and it was fine. Performance was great and I was able to run just about everything on high. Notice some of the DirectX 10/11 features? Hopefully Wine will be compatible in time.
Gameplay Video:
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