wine users - Jun 2011 - DDO issues

I've run into two odd things running the latest version of Ubuntu (checking
the version just tells me this is the "Natty" variant). The first came
up when I tried to use the built in voice chat. Everyone else got a lot of
static, and I couldn't hear a thing. Struck me as wierd, but i could still
just use the text chat. The second oddity came today. I tried to login as usual,
through PyLOTRO. It started ok, then halfway through the game loading screen it
spat out a "You don't have the latest version of the client
installed" and closed. So, I tried patching it. It flickered for a bit,
then said **Finished**. So I tried running the game again, and got the same
error. So, I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of everything. PyLOTRO, DDO,
all the connected files. Tried again. Same error. I'm stumped, so I'm
posting this here and on the official game forums. I can only hope someone finds
a way around this, because I ran out of ideas. I've tried everything I could
find here, on the game forums, and via Google.

DDO is one of the few games that will give an error for no GSM support being
compiled in, though it isn't strictly required. But I found that voice chat
does work better with it compiled in.

What version of wine are you using? The distributions usually don't have the
latest versions installed.

Have you followed the appdb or the thread here:
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=212618 ?



Good luck.