Linux

• Running AO on Linux has been working for ages and is quite easy to do
• The new engine is working as well but the Old engine has the more chance to be performant

Install Wine and Dependencies

• Installation (For Debian based distributions)

apt install wine winetricks zenity cabextract winbind

• Download MS packages using Winetricks

export WINEARCH=win32
winetricks dotnet20 corefonts fontfix vcrun2005 vcrun6

Install AO old engine

• Download and install the Old Engine

cd /tmp
wget http://update.anarchy-online.com/download/AO/AnarchyOnline_EP1.exe
wine AnarchyOnline_EP1.exe

• Run the game from the command line (or you if you ticked Add Desktop shortcut, you shoud have a shortcut in your OS)

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Funcom/Anarchy\ Online
wine Anarchy.exe

Troubleshooting

Wine version 4

• It appears Wine 4 doesn't properly render the UI, please use 3.XX (e.g. 3.21)
• If you can't downgrade wine you should use PlayOnLinux to install AO and the needed components above

HTML rendering

• If the launcher is having problem rendering HTML, install wine gecko manually

Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.

sudo mkdir /usr/share/wine/gecko/
sudo wget -P /usr/share/wine/gecko/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86.msi
sudo wget -P /usr/share/wine/gecko/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-gecko/2.47/wine_gecko-2.47-x86_64.msi

Mouse problem

• Most of the time, upgrade Wine version is enough to make the mouse work like a charm
• Activate mouse lag fix in F10 -> Controls -> Mouse -> Mouse lag fix

References

• https://www.reddit.com/r/anarchyonline/comments/aihy6a/howto_anarchy_online_on_linux_2019/
• Based on How to play AO on Linux or Mac
• Wine HQ database: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=355