Running RIFT and Glyph under Wine

Saw in another thread some questions about Glyph and Wine so I decided to see if I could get it working and detail what I did.

The version of Linux I am using is Ubuntu 14.04 x64 and it is running inside an Oracle VM Virtualbox.

I installed the version of Wine that came from the standard repositories, downloaded the GlyphInstall.exe from the Trion website and gave it ago.

Code:

wine  glyphinstall.exe

Crash. Crash and even more crash. Glyph wouldn't even start.

Did a bit of digging and the version that Ubuntu installed was 1.6.5. The latest development version is 1.9.11 !!. Thats a huge difference!

So I followed the instructions here: http://ift.tt/1TpRntx
Uninstalled Wine, re-installed the winehq-staging version and tried again.

Success! Glyph Installed fine!

Code:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Glyph
wine GlyphClient.exe

Success! Opened a login window, typed in my code, and success again, Glyph loaded successfully.

To save myself bandwidth I copied my Windows install of RIFT into the VM and pointed Glyph at it and pressed Play.
- Note, I DO NOT recommend that you mount your existing RIFT install and use it directly, as there is a good chance Glyph will delete it because it thinks it is corrupt. Copy it to your linux partition to be safe.

Another crash. A bit of googling and log checking and the cause is that the D3D9 emulation layer in Wine is pretty poor so you need a copy of the 32bit version of d3dx9_43.dll from a working Windows Install (or use winetricks http://ift.tt/1sSjEjY)

Copied that to the same place rift.exe was and pressed play.

Success! RIFT loaded!.
The starting movie didn't play, but that's not a big issue, click on the blank screen and it goes away.

It proceeded to load and was able to log in without issue.

Because I was using a virtual machine I set all the graphics settings to the lowest and used the legacy render to get a usable FPS for a quick run around test.

End result
Playing RIFT under Linux is viable with the latest Wine version.

I can't really comment on either graphics or audio performance as I was running in a pretty slow VM without accelerated graphics drivers.

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Running RIFT and Glyph under Wine