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Finally am breaking down and going with Wine 1.7 as default.

Methods for install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

Everything should be fine, but if anyone else wants to test this on their 14.04 system that hasn't yet, let me know.

Just installed on new hardware with Xubuntu 14.04.2 and Wine 1.7 installed from the PPA.

Did not need to download the full alternate install package, just downloaded the ordinary Windows installer and launched it using "Run as Wine Windows installer". The new incremental loading of all the Eve files Just Worked, albeit slowly.

Mobo is ASRock AM1B-M, which has one VGA socket, driven by the integrated graphics of the AMD Athlon 5350 quad-core CPU chip, and which also has a PCIe socket that provides x4 performance in an x16 slot. I have 16 gigabytes RAM.

In the PCIe slot I have an EAH5450 graphics card with 512 megs VRAM, providing a second VGA socket and a DVI-I socket that I use an adapter to convert to a third VGA socket, for a total of three heads on the box.

I'm using the proprietary AMD Catalyst drivers for Ubuntu 14.04. I used AMDCCCLE to configure the three heads without Xinerama.

I did have an annoying Dance of the Drivers: there's a conflict between Wine and the Catalyst driver, and the workaround involves rebuilding the fglrx-core package of the Catalyst driver. I also had to add nogpumanager to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT string in /etc/default/grub, to stop the execrable gpumanager rejecting, on every reboot, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf constructed by amdcccle.

Since I don't use Xinerama, I have the same icons on the desktop of all three screens. To multibox, I launch the exefile.exe on each screen and it runs on that screen. I configure EVE graphics for "fixed window" rather than "fullscreen" to keep the EVE screen from minimizing itself when I switch focus away from it. I only have two accounts, so I only run two instances of EVE and use the third monitor for an out-of-Game browser or whatever.

I don't do PvP, so I can't say anything about whether this setup is viable for combat, but it was cheap: $27 for the mobo, $52 for the CPU, $145 for the 16GB RAM. I recycled the case, power supply and EAH5450 from an older machine and already had keyboard, trackball, monitors and KVM switches.

Debian 8 x64 here. Installed Wine. Downloaded Eve installer.
"wine start Eve...msi" leads to error "installation directory must be on a local hard drive". Googled around. No success.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Used both available installers.

Tried to set path in installer to various directories, to empty string, to "c:\" and "z:\" (i have them in my Wine configuration).
Checked access rights to directories in $HOME/.wine64 - everything looks good.

People report that this problem happens sometime with MSI packages in Windows. But i found no info about Linux specifics.

>wine64
>wine64
>wine64?!

Eve can't has wine64.

You need x86 wine with 32bit prefix.

Actually you can use just use wine as it will start/run eve wine32 automatically, I start wow with just wine and it will run wow64.exe.

cheers

Try just "msiexec /i EVE_Online_Installer_879797.msi". Don't put wine in front.

cheers

Try adding your paths in there.

I actually tend to launch these from the folder browser.

Thanks for the guide. I installed it on 15.04 with wine 1.7. I get 60 fps in station, haven't tested outside yet but it seems pretty good.

The offline installer didn't work for me, it gives me an unexpected error and quit so I used the normal installer and it worked fine.

Question, how can I make it fullscreen? Right now, I had to hide the launch bar of ubuntu because it was bumping the window to the right and was hiding a piece of the game. Also, the top bar of ubuntu is still visible and there's a small gap at the bottom of the screen about the height of the top bar.

My ubuntu resolution is set to 1920x1080 like my game. The game is set to fullscreen.

Bonus question, is it safe to delete the data in the public/application data/ folder? It takes 8Go. I don't mind that much but I like to keep it clean.

Thanks again!

I am also using fixed window in game. I will update OP.

I have also used full screen, which spawns on another screen. And then switched to windowed mode. but Windowed mode does weird things inside the wine environment, leaving a title bar.