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Anyone able to play after Odyssey?
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Arch Widowmaker
Cry Wolf.
#1 - 2013-06-04 15:31:12 UTC
Using the launcher (the few times it actually displays the login fields) gets to a grayed out "Play" button.

Running the exefile workaround yields a messagebox saying that verification of Awsomeium.dll, cppBrowser.exe and ccpBrowserThunk.dll failed.

Wine 1.5.26
Mint 14 - 64bit
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-06-04 16:03:46 UTC
ExeFile method works fine on vanilla 1.5.31, launcher works with the PoL guildwars 2 build. Both without any dll overrides. I recommend trying a fresh wine prefix.
Arch Widowmaker
Cry Wolf.
#3 - 2013-06-04 16:23:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Arch Widowmaker
I'll try a fresh prefix or changing wineversion. Btw, I remember you from previous years, nice seeing you again, 9k!
Gustav II Adolf
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-06-04 16:54:23 UTC
Upon launching the EXEFile the launcher was patched and in turn patched the game.

Now the Launcher still doesnt't work, but launching the game through the ExeFile works perfectly fine for me.
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-06-04 17:16:35 UTC
Oh right, hi Arch. Didn't even notice, I tend to overlook the names.

As for the bloody launcher - It works with the Awesomium Patch. This Post describes a nice and tidy method of building a patched Wine on 64bit Ubuntu, but it should work on Mint and other distros as well.
Sentinel Eeex
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-06-04 17:28:16 UTC
I started the exefile directly, then it downloaded some 6MB update, then it tried applying the update and failed at some point, then automatically started downloading launcher update, then launched the launcher, then launcher downloaded + applied 840+ MB update, then it finished.

Game still works fine by launching exefile directly, launcher is still piece of crap. Still can't believe they deployed that junk for real.

As for -7 issue that people experienced recently, I get rid of it by cleaning the cache in launcher itself (click on that settings icon, then one of the tabs offers cache cleanup). It worked few times when I tried it, but I still run the game directly. Launcher tends to hang from time to time though (and uses lots and lots of CPU time), so I avoid it whenever possible.

Running on Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit), Wine 1.5.31 from Team Wine PPA.
Greg Arosa
Sebiestor Tribe
#7 - 2013-06-04 20:19:29 UTC
Everything works fine for me so far. Gentoo, the latest wine, x86_64.
Arch Widowmaker
Cry Wolf.
#8 - 2013-06-04 20:26:11 UTC
Btw everything works fine now using pol wine 26 gw2, but I had to make a new wineprefix first.
Jon Alois
Hyperflight Industries
#9 - 2013-06-05 03:00:57 UTC
The launcher appeared to install the update, but it didn't "take" (running exefile.exe as normal continued to indicate "client incompatible"). Tried that 3 times, with no better results. Then ran repair.exe, which applied the patches, but failed at the very end ("dbRunRecoveryError"). However, now running exefile.exe works as before. This is wine 1.5.5-01 on Debian Wheezy 64-bit. Will try running repair.exe again later to see if it fails again, but so far the client appears to be running correctly. Haven't tried actually using the launcher.
Kasutra
No Vacancies
No Vacancies.
#10 - 2013-06-05 09:19:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Kasutra
Fired up the launcher once to update, worked. Using Exefile.exe method to launch the client works.

Wine 1.5.28, 64 bit Kubuntu 13.04.
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
#11 - 2013-06-05 11:59:07 UTC
Earlier I tried to patch using the new launcher under Win8. It hanged at 94,5% of applying the patch and refused to move forward even after closing and opening the launcher. So I reverted to repairer, and it worked. Launcher was working after repairing too.

I decided not to take chances with the launcher on linux, and used the repairer from the get go. It failed in the very end with some kind of memory access violation error, but not before successfully patching the client. Now launcher works fine,

lubuntu 13.04 amd64, wine 1.5.31 from git with awesomium patch, fresh wine prefix, override for d3d11.
Zor'katar
Matari Recreation
#12 - 2013-06-05 12:22:07 UTC
Wine 1.5.31 (from WineHQ PPA source package, with awesomium patch applied), no overrides, Xubuntu 13.04.

Launcher stopped downloading at around 550 of the 800+ MB update. I closed it and started it again, and it picked up where it left off and ran the patch just fine. Game runs pretty smoothly. I did get one crash after an hour or so of play... I was jumping between systems while in the Solar System map and pushing several buttons... may have freaked out the poor thing. Not going to read too much into it unless it starts happening regularly, but I'm definitely going to log some more good solid hours before daring to run Logi for Incursions again.
Spoofeydoo
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-06-06 00:21:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Spoofeydoo
Wine 1.5.31, no overrides, Slackware64 14.0.

Launcher works after I clear the cache, sometimes I have to clear the cache more than once though.

The grayed out play button turns yellow and is pushable after the client is finished being scanned by the launcher.

Wine 1.6-rc1 now. Launcher seems to work more than not. I don't have to clear the cache any more, just relaunch the launcher when it doesn't work.

I have a fruit cup and I'm not afraid to use it.
Lecha Dodi
Doomheim
#14 - 2013-06-12 03:44:26 UTC
* Just run ExeFile.exe directly from ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/CCP/EVE/bin/

This should bring up the regular EVE client login and bypass the launcher.

* You do still need the .DLL overrides for the latest Wine 1.5.31, the only difference is you don't have to switch them around between "native" and "built in" when updating. In addition to disabling d3d11 you *need* to install the DirectX libs and Microsoft Core Fonts via Winetricks with the following terminal command:

winetricks corefonts d3dx9_36 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010


* Some people also add the following to the end of their ~/.wine/user.reg

[Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"

^-- If you have your proprietary GPU drivers installed and are still getting shader (sm3) errors this might be your fix.


***Detailed instructions on this page:***

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Install_EVE_on_Linux_with_Wine
Zor'katar
Matari Recreation
#15 - 2013-06-12 12:19:34 UTC
Lecha Dodi wrote:
* You do still need the .DLL overrides for the latest Wine 1.5.31, the only difference is you don't have to switch them around between "native" and "built in" when updating. In addition to disabling d3d11 you *need* to install the DirectX libs and Microsoft Core Fonts via Winetricks with the following terminal command:

winetricks corefonts d3dx9_36 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010

This must be situational, because I'm running fine on 1.5.31 without any overrides at all (although I do think I installed corefonts).
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
#16 - 2013-06-12 17:39:34 UTC
I run 1.5.31 with completely clean wineprefix (apart from the gecko and mono wine suggests to install automatically). Not even corefonts. And the only override is disable dx11.
Nebu Retski
Lead Farmers
#17 - 2013-06-13 19:40:08 UTC
Torgeir Hekard wrote:
the only override is disable dx11.

Why? I run it without any overrides, not even the dx11. Eve doesn't use DX11, so why would it even try to access the dx11 dll?
COMM4NDER
Legendary Umbrellas
#18 - 2013-06-13 23:49:54 UTC
Nebu Retski wrote:
Torgeir Hekard wrote:
the only override is disable dx11.

Why? I run it without any overrides, not even the dx11. Eve doesn't use DX11, so why would it even try to access the dx11 dll?


Depends on wine version.

also check my buggreports about latest launcher in winehq and here on the forums. Wee need to have more feedback and fix this ASAP

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ITGod
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2013-06-14 01:23:55 UTC
Working perfectly fine.
Manjaro Linux XFCE
Wine 1.6-rc1
Launcher works with GDI+ set to native (some non-vital graphics don't display)
Launching ExeFile.exe still gives best user experience
no other overrides/winetricks