Yesterday I was waiting... and waiting... and waiting for the patching to complete. I am pretty sure that it just completely downloaded the entire game again. What is the point of having 8GB of install files sitting around if the whole game is just going to completely re-download itself?
The good news is that the patching completed successfully. I'm now backing up the ~/.darkfall directory before I mess with anything further. I do NOT want to go through that patching horror again! :). My next step after backup is complete will be to install gecko and try logging back in to see if I get an improved character creation screen or not. Then maybe I'll try IE6 if that doesn't work. I'll also try installing the latest DirectX9 to see if that has any improvements over the default DirectX support in WINE.
