[Wine] Re: Everquest

[dimesio]

Zerocyber wrote:
> Wine 1.1.42
> The game thinks I have a card in the Nvidia geforce 5 series.  I'm not sure if that's right.  It's whatever came with the netbook.  Drivers are only there in so far as a full update gave me.  I tried to install actual nvidia drivers from their Linux section, but got errors about not having a GUI supported.
> 
> Also, I'm a total Linux noob.

That Wine version is rather old; upgrade to 1.2.

You need to figure out for sure what card you have and install the correct proprietary nvidia driver for it. If your GPU is really geforce 5 series, it's the legacy 173.xx.xx driver. If you don't know how to do any of this, ask on the Ubuntu forum.