A Ragnarok Online Linux Guide [tested on euRO & kRO]

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cenobite · Post by **cenobite** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:32 pm

It IS possible to play RO near perfect!

xorg runs on my box with 24bit and 1280x1024 (nvidia fx 5900)
It also works with WineX, i have tried it also with an ti4200 and xfree.

And now, here we go:

The Patcher dont work with cedega/winex

Install RO on Windows or VMware, start the Game and update it. When you are ready to enter the World all is done there.

Now install RO in Point2Play. From the updated Windows installation copy and overwrite all Files into your Linux installation.

Start the Ragnarok Setup from P2P and Disable Fog (i also use Direct3d T&L)

now take a look at my .point2play/Ragnarok\ Online/Ragnarok Online.config

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WINE REGISTRY Version 2
[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\transgaming]
"cmdline" = ""
"bigexe" = "N"
"doscwd" = ""
"force_pthreads" = "Auto"
"winexversion" = "default"
"renice_wineserver" = "N"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\x11drv]
"Managed" = "Y"
"Desktop" = "No"
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
"UseXRandR" = "N"
"DXGrab" = "Y"
"ShowFPS" = "N"
"ShowMem" = "N"
"VideoRam" = "32"
"AGPVertexRam" = "16"
"NV_VAR" = "Y"
"ARB_VBO" = "Y"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\wineoss]
"dsp0" = "/dev/dsp"
"mixer0" = "/dev/mixer"
"UseMMap" = "Y"
"FullDuplex" = "N"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\winealsa]
"pcm0" = "hw"
"ctl0" = "hw"
"UseMMap" = "Y"
"FullDuplex" = "N"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\version]
"windows" = "win98"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\d3dgl]
"AnisotropicTextureFiltering" = "N"
"VertexShaders" = "Y"
"PixelShaders" = "N"
"PixelShadersLevel" = "1.3"
"ClipSpaceFix" = "Y"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\font]
"FreeType" = "Y"

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\wine]
"Browser" = ""

[AppDefaults\\Ragnarok.exe\\Wineserver]
"SHMWineserver" = "Y"

Thats it! Graphics run very smooth (fast as in Windows), Sound without problems, only the Backspace Key is not working. Iam sure this all can be done also without p2p, but i go the p2p way.

Good Luck! ....and have phun!

My System:
- linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r1
- xorg 6.8.0
- Point2Play 1.3.1
- Cedega 4.0.1

miscz · Post by **miscz** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:45 pm

Hmmm. Last time I tried to play RO with wine/winex/cedega it had problems with connecting to servers. This problem occured only in kRO sakexe 127a and those sakexes released after 127a. Client tried to connect to 50.0.0.0 instead of actual server IP. Are you using some of the newer sakexes? If that's the case I wonder if Transgaming finally added some RO support...

BTW, does it work like pre-127a sakexes? There was some serious graphic corruption, it didn't make playing impossible but quite annoying. Black blocks floating over the whole screen made me restart client every 15 minutes :/

/me installs RO :]

[edit]
OMG, W00T, IT VERKS! THANKS

tested on kRO > 127a (MobRO)

cenobite · Post by **cenobite** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:22 pm

I play only on euRO http://www.euro-ro.net/

thanx @ miscz for testing on kRO

Duty · Post by **Duty** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:03 pm

miscz wrote: OMG, W00T, IT VERKS! THANKS

tested on kRO > 127a (MobRO)

Did you mean kRO < 127a?

If not, what's the trick? I had the same server IP problem as you used to have with GetCVSWineX, and I thought Point2Play was just a frontend...

miscz · Post by **miscz** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:10 pm

No, I meant new kRO sakexe. I don't know which one does MobRO use but I guess it's newer than 127a because I got that disconnect bug with pure WineX3 and Cedega. I tought that installing and running RO via P2P would be stupid because it's just a front-end... heh, I was wrong but even now I don't know where

Anyway, it automagically works, yay

Duty · Post by **Duty** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:29 pm

Okay, can you keep me (and anyone else who might be following this topic) updated if any nasty game-stopping glitches come up? I was about to buy a KVM and a crappy Windows computer to run RO and some other stuff, but a Transgaming subscription would be a lot cheaper and I can live without the other stuff.

Trejkaz · Post by **Trejkaz** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:23 pm

This might be my last real motivation to buy an NVIDIA graphics card (since ATI cards aren't supported by Cedega yet.)

If I do, I guess you'll be hearing if oRO works just as well.

Saint1911 · Post by **Saint1911** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:16 pm

/rant/
I simply cannot understand why people would want to play this game?!
it has graphics only suitable for a kiddie game, the sound effects sounds like something you would hear in a bad cartoon saturday morning. The charecters and monsters ingame are sprites and not fully rendered, which they should be in a 3d engine game with 380 degree zoom, there are also so many better games which also work in linux and got better graphics than this. (UO, EQ, WOW, Lineage II, COH" not to mention all those good free games in portage.
/rant over/
thats my opinion anyway

miscz · Post by **miscz** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:23 pm

Yeah, RO is a pretty bad game but it's addicting. I would gladly start playing some other game if I could resist RO for more than 2 months... Fortunately, since I discovered Stepmania I'm not wasting my time in some poor MMO game that much :]

Trejkaz · Post by **Trejkaz** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:43 pm

Saint1911 wrote: The charecters and monsters ingame are sprites and not fully rendered, which they should be in a 3d engine game with 380 degree zoom

3D models are all well and good until you reach the sort of densities you can reach in games like RO. I've seen far more people in one place at the same time in this as I have ever seen in any other game. Now imagine what 200-500 people with 20,000 polygons each, and a swarm of 200 sieging monsters, would do to the kind of graphics card the game supports (i.e. TNT2 and above.) No thanks.

And Everquest? What the hell? It sucks in all the same ways as RO does. Not to mention that it doesn't work on Linux any better than RO does (i.e., both require Cedega, whereas both should have been ported.)

Saint1911 · Post by **Saint1911** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:28 pm

Trejkaz wrote: And Everquest? What the hell? It sucks in all the same ways as RO does. Not to mention that it doesn't work on Linux any better than RO does (i.e., both require Cedega, whereas both should have been ported.)

there has been alot of grphical improvements on eq and though they certainly can not keep up with games like Lineage II or EQ2, they can keep up with World Of Warcraft though, and atleast we have EQEMU native in linux also supporting the latest live EQ client. I did not say any of those games ran better and or equal to RO, nor did i say
they ran as good as native games

i assumed people knew all the games i wrote require either wine or cedega....with regards to the siege, since i have not played RO for more than 15 min because that was how long i could stand it :p i have not experienced such a siege, but your properly right.

Trejkaz · Post by **Trejkaz** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:53 pm

It's pretty amusing that you can stand Everquest. I got bored of that one before my free trial expired.

But as far as the graphics, it's a basic issue like Doom 2 vs. Doom 3. In Doom 2, you had frequent occurrences where you walked into a room and 50-100 shotgunners popped out and kicked your arse. In Doom 3, you see probably a maximum of 4-6 undead marines in one scene... all because they're using so many polygons now.

In the case of Doom 3 it's partially forgivable because it would be bad if it were sprites. But in the case of RO where the goals are only to emulate the console style of RPG in a PC setting, I think they work pretty well.

And certainly, anyone who thinks the graphics are "kiddie" is probably the same sort of person who thinks the GameBoy and GameCube are only for kids.

The main problems with RO are...

Economy. A special arrow costs three times the price of a normal arrow, but never does anywhere like three times the damage.
Management. Idiots still killsteal, and you report them, and the GMs don't do shit. Well, sometimes they do, but often they don't.
Lag. The game uses TCP for its networking, so it gets lag spikes, which could have been fairly easily avoided.
Grammar. If you played it for 15 minutes, that was probably long enough to discover this one.
Quests. There just aren't enough, although it has improved a lot since the last time I was there.

Because of the lag, I don't think I would be playing if they hadn't set up a local server here. When they moved the servers from S.Korea to the US there was much more lag from here (Australia)... but now there is a server in Sydney so it's not quite so bad. Lag spikes still own players occasionally, though, since it's still TCP.

The main motivation for starting again was for free stuff... but actually, the game is damn good if you have friends who you can rely on to be online at the same time, especially when they're housemates. It's much more social than shitty EQ... I consider RO to be more of a competitor for IRC than a competitor to EQ, though.

brazilian_joe · Post by **brazilian_joe** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:11 pm

(using wine) I am getting a segfault whenever I try to run and patch teh app. I think it is because of the IE activex control required to display teh patch screen. Is there a workaround?

cuchumino · Post by **cuchumino** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:30 pm

im using the cvs version of cedega, any tips on getting it to run correctly?

it crashes my cedega before i can get to play.

this is a message off of the terminal i get when it loads up.

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Warning: loading builtin dinput.dll, but native version already present. Expect trouble

can anyone help me with this?

nocomm · Post by **nocomm** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:27 pm

Hi! I have installed the RO with Cedega 5.0. I made the patching (you know i can't speak english well. please forgive me) with windows. When I start Ro it gives me an error:

Module Name: C:\Program Files\Gravity\RO\Lizard RagnarokOnline.exe
Time Stamp: 0x4353634b - Mon Oct 17 09:39:39 2005

Exception Type: 0x80000100

0x77035052
0x77035a64
0x5e407c81
0x0010c2c9

eax: 0x5e407c81 ebx: 0x77081534
ecx: 0x40107f64 edx: 0x00000000
esi: 0x408c059c edi: 0x00000000
ebp: 0x408c05f4 esp: 0x408c059c

stack 408c059c - 408c099c
408C059C : 00 01 00 80 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 81 7C 40 5E
408C05AC : 02 00 00 00 A0 A4 04 77 FB A5 06 77 C4 05 8C 40
408C05BC : 8E F4 3F 5E 00 1E 84 5E 48 42 10 40 60 35 42 5E
408C05CC : 64 7F 10 40 E1 11 06 40 48 42 10 40 F4 05 8C 40
408C05DC : 00 B9 08 40 64 7F 10 40 48 5A 03 77 48 42 10 40
408C05EC : 34 15 08 77 48 5A 03 77 04 06 8C 40 64 5A 03 77
408C05FC : FB A5 06 77 08 00 00 00 F8 4E 07 77 81 7C 40 5E
408C060C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
408C061C : 9C 00 00 00 40 1E 8C 40 01 00 00 00 D0 54 3B 5E
408C062C : 00 40 03 77 04 81 40 5E 54 06 8C 40 08 00 00 00
408C063C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 06 8C 40 3C 1E 8C 40
408C064C : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
408C065C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
408C066C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
408C067C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
408C068C : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Launch Info
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Job : Novice

What's this? Can you guys help me?

bigfantasy · Post by **bigfantasy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:38 pm

cenobite can you more be detailed in the guide? thanks

l_bratch · Post by **l_bratch** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:07 am

Any of you having problems, use Wine to run it.

It's not a game I have, but it seems to work fine in Wine, rather than Cedega:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=928

bigfantasy · Post by **bigfantasy** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:01 pm

Guyyyyyyyyyyssssss!Someone help me to install RO???

xathin · Post by **xathin** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:05 am

Hello

I've tried installing and running Ragnarok on my laptop and desktop without success. The install works just fine, and so does the updating. But when I try to run the game, it comes up with a bunch of errors, and the game crashes in the wine window.

Here's the output from wine:

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$ wine Ragexe.exe 1rag1
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x168b88) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x168488)->(0x10024,00000c13)
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x168488) Unhandled flag DDSCL_MULTITHREADED, Uh Oh...
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetRenderState WINED3DRS_POINTSIZE_MIN not supported on this opengl
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetRenderState WINED3DRS_POINTSIZE_MAX not supported on this opengl
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x168488)->((nil),00000008)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DStateBlockImpl_Release Releasing primary stateblock

And here's the error that gets displayed when the game tries to run:

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Module Name: C:\Program Files\Gravity\RagnarokOnline\Ragexe.exe
Time Stamp: 0x4517699d - Sun Sep 24 23:31:09 2006


Exception Type: 0xc0000005

0x0042a32b	ragexe
0x0043b05c	ragexe
0x0044a824	ragexe
0x00470c9e	ragexe
0x004b4b50	ragexe
0x004c068b	ragexe
0x0058370f	ragexe
0x00582e35	ragexe
0x004e0044	ragexe
0x006317aa	ragexe
0x006515be	ragexe
0x7ee91f1c	kernel32
0xb7de9477	

eax: 0x00000000	ebx: 0x00000000
ecx: 0x00000000	edx: 0x00000012
esi: 0x00000012	edi: 0x000000b4
ebp: 0x0033f88c	esp: 0x0033f888

stack 0033f888 - 0033fc88
0033F888 : D0 56 09 02 9C F8 33 00 5C B0 43 00 12 00 00 00 
0033F898 : 02 00 00 00 E0 F8 33 00 24 A8 44 00 12 00 00 00 
0033F8A8 : 02 00 00 00 CC F8 33 00 C8 F8 33 00 C4 F8 33 00 
0033F8B8 : 80 57 09 02 18 01 00 00 D0 56 09 02 B4 00 00 00 
0033F8C8 : 80 57 09 02 18 C6 64 00 9C 00 00 00 F0 F8 33 00 
0033F8D8 : 78 19 66 00 00 00 00 00 FC F8 33 00 9E 0C 47 00 
0033F8E8 : 80 57 09 02 D0 56 09 02 48 F9 33 00 1B 35 66 00 
0033F8F8 : 00 00 00 00 18 F9 33 00 50 4B 4B 00 18 01 00 00 
0033F908 : B4 00 00 00 80 57 09 02 20 D4 6F 00 28 55 D1 01 
0033F918 : 54 F9 33 00 8B 06 4C 00 18 01 00 00 B4 00 00 00 
0033F928 : 4C 30 09 02 FF 7E 69 00 28 55 D1 01 58 F9 33 00 
0033F938 : 30 00 00 00 B8 0F 72 00 F0 18 DB 00 1B 00 00 00 
0033F948 : 30 FA 33 00 ED 73 66 00 FF FF FF FF FC F9 33 00 
0033F958 : 0F 37 58 00 80 57 09 02 FF FF FF FF 01 00 00 00 
0033F968 : 00 42 D1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
0033F978 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

Launch Info 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 

Job : Novice

My laptop is a Presario 2108CL, which has ALi audio and ATI Mobility U1 graphics. My desktop is P4 3.0GHz with ATI Radeon 9600 Pro graphics.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Holysword · Post by **Holysword** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:39 am

"Failed to connect to Server" here.
Cedega 5.2.5, trying to connect to EuphRO...
And where the hell that config file could be??? The only config files that I've found are rewrited when I try to run Ragnarok( and the changes are undone... )

MM23 · Post by **MM23** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:11 am

it's korean. all of those damn korean mmos are crap. the sprites are quite pretty, though, but still.