Client connection - Dawn-of-Light/DOLSharp GitHub Wiki
You will need two components to install the client :
- The DAOC official game (freely downloadable)
- The DAOC portal program
Connect from Windows10
Download the Dark Age of Camelot game client on the official website page.
Then, install the game on a dedicated folder on your machine (note: you don't need to create an account).
The DAOC Portal installation requires some manual actions as explained below.
Download the DAOC Portal client zip version (there's an MSI installer file available however the zip is the better solution).
That's it ! We are now ready for the setup.
Warning
Optional step: As of today, the official game client is using the version 1.128 of the game.dll. If you have some issues with this version, you can downgrade this file : download the corresponding zip archive which is containing some older versions of the game.dll (1.109, 1.124, 1.125) and extract it in a specific folder.
Go to your Dark Age of Camelot install directory and rename the existing "game.dll" to "game-1128.dll". Then copy the new dll from the download to the "game.dll" of your Dark Age of Camelot folder.
We recommend to create a shortcut of the "portal.exe" program on your desktop :
Then launch the DAOC Portal program :
A list of existing Freeshards should be displayed.
Go to the "File" menu and select "Settings" :
Indicate the DAOC installation directory and validate :
Go to the "Custom Shards" tab and right click with "Add Server" :
Fill the Server name, description, IP and port (defaulted to 10300) :
Verify your server is recognized with right click "Ping" :
If everything is fine, a green dot should be displayed before the server name !
Now click on the server name and indicate your new account name and the corresponding password :
By default, the account will be automatically created the first time you logged in.
Click on "Play!".
If everything is OK, you should see the corresponding client version displayed at the top of the screen without any error message :
And the realm screen should appear :
Well done, you can now select your realm and create your first character !
Please note you can create until 10 characters per realm with your account.
You can use the "connect.exe" command available in the DAOC Portal folder to connect to your server.
Copy the content of the DAOC portal folder to your Dark Age of Camelot folder.
Then open a DOS console and type the below command :
connect.exe game.dll 192.168.1.25 myaccount mypass
The below information must be indicated :
- game.dll : the name of the game.dll to use
- 192.168.1.25 : the local IP address of your server
- myaccount : the account to use to log in
- mypass : the account's password
Connect from LinuxWine or PlayOnLinux can be used for that purpose
Connect from MacOSWine32on64 will be needed on MacOS equal or above to Mojave : https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine
Once wine is installed, copy the connect.exe command into the system main directory ($HOME/.wine/drive_c/) and the DAOC client can be launched with :
wine connect.exe "<dll directory location>" 127.0.0.1 user password
You can also use PlayOnMac but it requires some tricks :)