Royal Quest is a massive multi-player Online Role Playing Game that is free to play. Using a similar business model as other RPG's you can create your own character from 4 classes and explore Aura completing quests, teaming up with other players. Level up skills, obtain loot from enemies and join guilds.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Royal Quest in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Royal Quest. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

int 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.4
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam


Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam. Since ###Game### isn't made for Linux, we will download the Windows Steam instead.
click "Windows" under the green button


Navigate to your desktop
Click Save


Setup PlayOnLinux

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "install a non-listed program"


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name you virtual drive: royalquest
No spaces
Click Next


Select all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok


Install Libraries

Check the following libraries:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_Physx
• POL_Install_registeredfonts
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_vcrun2010
• POL_Install_msxml3

Click Next


Installing Steam

Click Browse


Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open


Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam


More updating, extracting and installing


When Steam is done installing the login screen will pop up. You probably won't see any text because there is a font bug.
Click the "X" to close Steam login


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Royal Quest Steam
Click Next


Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Royal Quest Steam"
Click Configure


General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem


Note: -no-dwrite only works if you launch Steam from PlayOnLinux. Steam is automatically set to launch when Windows starts, which means if you do a "Windows Reboot" from the Wine tab -no-dwrite won't execute. Just close Steam and try again.

Display Tab
Direct Draw Renderer: opengl
Video Memory Size: size of memory on your video card
Offscreen rendering mode: fbo


Close Configure

Launching Steam

Select "Royal Quest Steam"
Click Run


Click "Login to existing account"


Login


Steam Overlay

Steam overlay has been known to cause problems launching games.
Click Steam menu
Click Settings


Select "In-game"
Uncheck "Enable Steam Commuinty In-Game"
Click OK


Installing Royal Quest

Click on Store
Search for Royal Quest


Click "Play Game"


Click Next


Click "I Agree"


Uncheck both Menu Shortcut and desktop shortcut
Click Next


Click Finish


Wait until it finishes downloading
Click Play


Wait for further updates
Click Options in the top left


Select screen resolution to match Linux Desktop resolution
Click OK


Click Play


Click I Agree


Click Login


Select your class
Name your character
Choose different customizations
Click Create


Optimizations

Press Esc for options

Click Graphics Options


Adjust Screen Resolution, Shadows, Reflectsion, Anti-Aliasing, Textures, and Grass
Click OK to apply


Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Royal Quest runs beautifully with my GeForce 550 Ti. I maxed almost everything in the graphics menu. The textures and animations are very smooth and crisp. I have not experienced any problems or gliches. The game starts out pretty slow and you have to do many meaningless chores for NCP's, but later there should be some great dungeons and bosses.
[edit]
After leveling up two characters to level 11, I have experienced a random crash here and there. Just kill rqmain.exe in the system monitor and launch again. This crash does not affect your characters skills, specs, quests, or location.

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