Linux

Ok so sometime about a year ago i tried taking a crack at linux; was all well except amd driver for my card at the time just didnt cut it. Now Im back again and something things have changed and things, aswell as getting a brand spanking new computer after 5 years of old one im givving linux a second try for various things one of which of too test out how the proprietary drivers work out.

Anyway what i could use is a simple walk-through of how to get eve to run in linux; to start Ubuntu is probably prefernced but atm on my prototyping hdd im testing out ubuntu 12.04 and linux mint 12; (possibly more well to come but this is all on test hdd).
Good response to the above will go will likely save me lots of time in being able to use this thread as a one stop shop xzy .. well you get what mean.

this op is in two parts/ below for my eve question (piont of this thread) and

second part is just some questions to a communtity why installing linux didnt go smoothly

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Now heres what i have done so far to try get eve running on linux =
1. On blank HDD I installed ubuntu 11.10; from here i immeidately upgraded to 12.04 (if wonder why i went this way there is more info below but prob not relevant to the issue of getting eve to work)
2. I opened up the software center and installed wine from there (and i took the download as is = i did not add or remove anything to be installed); this also installed mscorefonts
3. I downloaded the windows eve.exe file
4. I Ran the eve installer with wine
5. I let it do its thing
6. Eve is now installed; the launcher comes up fine
7. Seeing as everything seems to be working great... I click Play
8. Nothing Happens

9. NAO WHAT!?!!??!?

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BELOW = IGNORE UNLESS BORED

Irrelvant info to the above issue but this is a linux community so here this goes if somebody is bored and can tell me about this..

HDD History
I am testing out linux on a brand new 500 GB Seagate drive. First pass I tried installing ubuntu 12.04 from flash drive, the install was working until i got some fatal error telling me that the grub file wouldn't install or was corrupted ( i forget now). I proceeded to opt for now continiuing the installation and then just wiping the drive from my main HDD (which for somereason in windows led to it showing a smaller drive afterwards).then i also make a couple partions with easus manager to make room to test different linux os. I try to install 12.04 from the flash drive to find that the flash drive dosnt work anymore and im just left with a blank screen and a white ticker in upper left hand corner. I then try to install Linux Mint 12 KDE 64 bit frrom dvd and this went without a hitch... until i tried rebooting after the install to find that it wouldnt boot (whit ticker again) Then I Take a Ubuntu 11.10 cd which i KNOW will install and use that.. It installs and now the drive will boot- and it also shows the mint os which will now boot. After this I upgraded from the 11.04 to 12.04.

That is the 100% history of this drive barring anything that may have happened over at manufacturer.

basically from that i want to know why ubuntu didnt install the first time and why my ubuntu usb stick dosnt work anymore, whats the grub file all about, and how come linux miont wasnt able to boot on its own before succesful unbuntu installation.

Could someone do this:

Youtube Video - installation of EVE on ubuntu 12.04 LTR

I have just put Ubuntu on my backtop - T60 Lenovo, but it will not run EVE I think, doesn't want to start anyway... but will load up to the launcher. I think it just can't handle shadder v.2.

Anyway, it would be nice if someone could do a installation on this video and then post it up for all to see - maybe we can get a sticky as a intallation tip in this section.

Didnt work; still nothing happens when i click "play"

It looks like you associated the "exe" extension with an archive manager like zip or Ark.

don't run the eve.exe to play the game.
Simple run path_to_installation/bin/ExeFile.exe
That bypasses the launcher and runs the game directly.

I think I got the same issue - I just reinstalled the whole Ubuntu 12.04 LTR 32-bit on the T60.

I get basically same thing when I tried to launch the launcher.

Do you launch EVE then from the terminal?
"Simple run path_to_installation/bin/ExeFile.exe"

I should reinstall the it and try it again, my curiosity now on the "back-top" is now aroused.

Your videocard needs to support shader model 3.0 (source) and I'm not sure if the GMA950 support is sufficient for running eve on linux GMA950 only supports shader model 3.0 through software "emulation" (source). I don't think the current drivers in Linux support it, so unless you plan to buy a new computer, your best bet will be to try it in windows.



Can you start the client in a terminal because without error messages, no one can help you.
Run it like this:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="*msvcrt,*msvcr100,*msvcr80=b,n" wine PATH_TO_EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe

Then if the client doesn't start, copy paste the error you get over here.

So I copy pasted those two commands into the terminal; WINEDLLOVERRIDES="... just give me a new new line idk if im supposed to see something.

When i tried to input the path, wine Home/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/CCP/EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe or wine PATH_TO_EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe

I get

wine: cannot find 'Home/.wine/drive_c/Program'
wine: cannot find 'PATH_TO_EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe'

Well that worked! sort of... it now loads the login screen and has a familiar blank EULA iirc i need to copy paste some fonts?

Also loading is rather slow and and the login screen came up it seemed to lock up my computer as it wouldn't respond to my mouse or any keyboard commands
(at least on hdd using linux mint - im testing this out simultaneously on laptop with a vm running ubuntu and on there i was able to ctrl+alt+T sudo xkill; would this be something between ubuntu vs mint or host vs vm?)

If you have a blank EULA, launch this from the shell:

Then, you're talking about "vm". I think you should not rely on a virtual machine to run such an hardware intensive application like a 3D game.

Try and run it on bare metal.