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Apologies for making a new topic because I know the answers are probably here, but there were so many changes that I'm having trouble sorting through all of the responses and fixes. I just re-activated my account. My EVE version is 7.11.306979 and wine version 1.2.3 (Ubuntu 10.04)

I can't update. Trying to sort through fixes it looks like I've got two separate issues: I can't update because I can't run the launcher, and I can't run the launcher because stuff has changed. I've tried getting msvcr80,90,100 and setting them to (builtin, native) but all that does is make the game crash after splash screen.

Is my install just borked and I need to re-download the whole new install? Am I even going down the right path? I can't tell if all the instructions are for this issue, or for an issue further down the patch line. (It seems like what most people would have gone through would be manual patching until a later version, then dealing with the .dll updates to make it run after that)

Basically, there's so much information to sort through and I don't know what's relevant, please point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Doing more reading, it looks like I need wine 1.4 as a minimum to even try and get this working. Can someone confirm this is necessary? I think I might have a lot of painful upgrading to do.

EDIT 2: Downloaded a whole new offline install. Upgraded to wine 1.4 Set mscvr80,90,100 all to builtin, native.

Crashes before startup screen with err:module:attach_process_dlls "msvcr90.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

Help?

The answers are already out there. You can start here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Install_EVE_on_linux_with_wine

You should install WINE 1.4 as the first thing and update your Linux and graphics driver to a reasonable state before you start.

There is some good news, too. You do not need to install anything but EVE itself these days. There is no need to use winetricks to install fonts or libraries, but it all comes shipped with EVE now. You can just create a directory, point $WINEPREFIX to it and install the client and you are done.

What you need to look out for are two things at the moment. One is that the Captains' Quarters (CQ) are broken under Linux and you have another good reason to turn them off. So expect to see EVE crash when you forget to disable the option Load Station Environment in your settings. Once you have docked at a station can you turn it on again. At first you will see that you are docked inside a station like in the good old times, but that you cannot spin your ship. Turning the option on will allow you to spin your ship again! Just avoid entering the station itself (it is a button on the right panel).

The other issue is with the launcher and how you need to start the game and the launcher itself. The problem here is that these need different libraries at the moment in order to run. You can use $WINEDLLOVERRIDES to change this and do it all in one command or with a desktop icon. Here is an example:

# Start the launcher for patching:
env WINEPREFIX="..." WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msvcr80,msvcr90,msvcr100=n,b" wine explorer "/desktop=EVE1,1680x1050" ".../drive_c/Program Files/CCP/EVE/eve.exe"

# Start the EVE client:
env WINEPREFIX="..." WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msvcr80,msvcr90,msvcr100=b,n" wine explorer "/desktop=EVE1,1680x1050" ".../drive_c/Program Files/CCP/EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe"

b and n stand for "builtin" and "native" and means that for the launcher you have to use the shipped libraries for msvcr80, 90 and 100, but in order to run the client can you use just the builtins of WINE. Setting the variable $WINEDLLOVERRIDES makes this fairly easy.

I have seen others using a mix of libraries and using winetricks. I do not know why they need it. How I described it here works fine for me.

Before I forget it, there is a third issue. The performance can be weak. It may be that your game runs on multiple cores, but that each core only gets about 20%-30% of work load. If you are using a CPU governor like "ondemand" will your CPU cores likely only run at half the speed. The "ondemand" governor, which is often the default for most distributions, only speeds up the cores when they reach 95% CPU load. You can change this in three different ways:

1. You can use the command "taskset -c 0" to force EVE to run on a single core, thereby pushing the load of one core to 100% and avoid any negative effects of scheduling and multi-threading.
2. You can use the "performance" CPU governor to disable the "ondemand" governor.
3. You can tweak the parameters of the "ondemand" governor to speed up the cores at lower settings.

I went with 3. and changed it to 50%. You can check with the cpufreq-info command how often each core runs at full speed.

Can you run a normal OpenGL application, i.e. glxgears?

Edit:
I see you are trying to run the patcher with "b,n". It needs to be "n,b" for the patching however.

If you have not patched it yet then you need to run the launcher first, with "n,b", let it download and patch the client. Once it is ready do you end the launcher and start the client with "b,n". Make sure you get this right.

Do you have something already installed in your .wine directory?

If so then create an empty directory like "~/ .eve" and use it exclusively for running EVE and do not install anything else in it. Use your ~/.wine for experiments or little stuff.

If you cannot install EVE from scratch into an empty directory then you have some problem with your Linux distribution.

Try this:

> rm -rf ~/.eve/
> mkdir ~/.eve
> export WINEPREFIX=/home/you/.eve
> winecfg
> wine EVE_Online_Installer_352940.exe

In short, delete ~/.eve, make a new directory, set the $WINEPREFIX variable to it, configure WINE and install EVE. Make sure the bold text matches what you have got.

If this does not work then your WINE installation is broken or incomplete and you first need to install WINE properly.

Sorry, I have compiled it myself... I checked on your Ubuntu version, because I remember seeing 12.xx as the latest. Your version 10.04 is about 2 years old! Try installing the latest, stable Ubuntu, which is version 11.10 (version 12 is said to be released in April this year). WINE needs a lot of libraries to run, i.e. the "ia32-libs", and when they are outdated will you get a lot of problems. So you better get your Linux distribution into shape before you try anything else.

Tried that language change, no luck.

Kinda out of ideas.

Lex Sathanas, I just had the same problem and the solution lies in Whitehound his post, but there is a way to do it without command lines and Wine Prefixes....

run winecfg
set msvcr80,msvcr90,msvcr100 to native then built in
run repair.exe in your Eve installation folder, the patching will work flawlessly
run winecfg (again)
set msvcr80,msvcr90,msvcr100 to builtin then native
run Eve as usual.

Thanks Lex Sathanas, you saved my butt :P

I am pretty certain that you need to get a newer Linux distro than your two year old Ubuntu. All the libraries WINE depends on will be outdated. Installing WINE with brute force and ignoring the dependencies will not work.

This is a good idea.