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

Click Next


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

Click Next


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.

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