Runes of Magic on Ubuntu Linux via Wine

Runes of Magic

Runes of Magic is a free massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) developed by the Taiwanese developer Runewaker Entertainment and adapted for the English and German speaking market by German company Frogster Interactive. After going through an open beta phase, the game was launched on 19 March, 2009. The game client is a free download, and there is no monthly subscription fee, because the service is funded by real money transactions (RMT) in the Runes of Magic Item Shop.

Installing RoM on Linux

In this walk-through we will be installing Runes of Magic on Ubuntu Linux via Wine (version 1.1.28 as of this article).

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This walk-through assumes that you have successfully installed and updated Ubuntu Linux, as well as installed the restricted drivers for your video card. The video card drivers are required by wine and openGL.

Install Wine

1) Launch Terminal and add Wine's GPG key

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

2) Add the Wine Repo

For Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04):
# sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10):
# sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

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

3) Update

# sudo apt-get update

4) Install Wine

# sudo apt-get install wine

5) Configure Wine

# winecfg

Select "OSS Driver" under the Audio Tab and click "Test" to check if it works properly.

Install Winetricks

1) Download the Winetricks script

# wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

2) Make the Winetricks script executable

# chmod +x winetricks

3) Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (Required by RoM Client)

# sh winetricks vcrun2005

4) Install IE6 (Required by Curse Client)
Note: You don't need this if you dont plan on running addons with RoM. I had an issue running the Curse Client on 64bit linux, as it's a 32bit client.

# sh winetricks ie6

Install Runes of Magic

1) Download

http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/downloads,client,us.html

2) Install

# wine Runes_of_Magic*.exe

3) Edit Shortcut on desktop

Right click on the "Runes of Magic" shortcut on your desktop and select "Properties" In the "Command" field, add -game -opengl to the end of it.

Mine looks like this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/tashley/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Runes of Magic\Runes of Magic.exe" -game -opengl

Problems: It's hard to click and accept the EULA when you first launch the game. THIS IS AN ISSUE ON WINDOWS AS WELL, NOT LINUX RELATED. When you join a server, the RoM debug window pops up and asks you if you would like to submit a error report. I hit cancel when this comes up so i dont confuse the developers with a debug log from Wine on Linux. (This could also be caused by the fact that im running 64bit instead of 32bit, comment and let me know if you have this as well!)

Install Curse Client

The Curse Client is great for easily installing addon's for Runes of Magic. These addon's greatly improve game play and i highly suggest installing some!

1) Download Curse Client

http://www.curse.com/client/ (Select Windows Client)

2) Install Curse Client

# wine CurseSetup*.exe

3) Install some Addon's

http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/default.aspx

Some of my recommended Addon's:

Advanced Auction House - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/details/advancedauctionhouse.aspx

Loot Filter++ - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/details/lootfilterpp.aspx

pbInfo - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/details/pbinfo.aspx

QuestWiz - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/details/questwiz.aspx

UberFlex AutoCombat System - http://rom.curse.com/downloads/rom-addons/details/ufautocs.aspx

Problems: 64bit Linux users will not be able to run the Curse Client. It's a 32bit based windows app and crashes when launched. You can manually install addon's by extracting them to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Runes\ of\ Magic/Interface/AddOns/

Enjoy the Magic!