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Kuroi Aurgnet
Cry Of Death
Almost Underdogs
#1 - 2012-08-27 05:59:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Kuroi Aurgnet
SO, im FINALLY getting a video card, an nVidia gtx660 no less =D, and so i was thinking of finally making that jump over to linux for good, since i will no longer have integrated graphics holding me back. However, I am currently playing around in arch linux, as i have been for months. im a huge arch linux fan because of its customizablility and such. However, whenever i try to launch eve in any way under arch linux, i get a million and one errors. Now, i cant even get the blasted game to install, because it says its missing the python27 dll. (to be specific, when i try to install it, it says "C:\users\me\Temp\nsn8af.tmp\PYTHON27.DLL"). I have tried in the latest wine build as of today, as well as wine 1.4.1 which i compiled myself using the LTO method described here https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=84662&find=unread (thinking maybe the library was just misplaced or not present in the NEW version). In any case, even when i could get it to install, it would never play in arch linux. however, if i tried in mint, or in ubuntu, I could get the game to run.

SO, I was wondering what people thought was the best distribution to run EVE would be. I dont want to start some die-hard fan war over the different distros, but, I'm just wondering what people think is the easiest platform to be working on. That, or if you could just give me some solution to my problem, that'd be pretty cool too. as a refrence, I'm using a 64-bit Arch linux. I prefer using 64bit if i can, especially since i have 8GB of RAM and NOT using 64bit would just be really dumb.


also, sorry for that just being like, garbled word vomit. I hope it makes at least some coherent sense. Its 2am though, soo..... yeah

EDIT: as it turns out, im just stupid. apparentally I didnt have installer payloads that matched the installer, so it was trying to execute the downloader, WHICH doesnt work. yay me. that means i got rid of my beatiful arch linux installation for nothing.

Just that hint of cynicism the world needs now and then.
Faith Audene
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-08-27 08:18:17 UTC
They all cook with the same wine, so it doesnt matter much IMHO.
Kuroi Aurgnet
Cry Of Death
Almost Underdogs
#3 - 2012-08-27 15:34:04 UTC
lol i see what you did there. But, I kinda ask this only because I have so much trouble with it in arch, wheres in mint/ubuntu, i just install wine, install the stuff eve needs in wine, then install eve, and bam, it works fine from the beginning.

Just that hint of cynicism the world needs now and then.
Nebu Retski
Lead Farmers
#4 - 2012-08-28 08:01:49 UTC
I run arch linux 64bit and didn't have any issues getting eve to run. Both the launcher and the game itself run fine after making separate dll override profiles. I do run eve in a 32bit wine environtment to make sure I don't have any 32bit application issues in a 64bit wine.

When you install wine on arch linux and you have the multilib repository enabled then you will get the 64 bit wine, but if you set the WINEARCH=win32 variable you will get a 32 bit wine environment.

As an example of how I install eve:
WINEARCH=32bit WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.eve winecfg
Go to the graphics tab and check the "emulate virtual desktop" and set the resolution you would like.

WINEARCH=32bit WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.eve winetricks corefonts vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010
WINEARCH=32bit WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.eve wine "PATH_TO_INSTALLATION_FILE"

This will start installing the game. I suggest you make a folder called games in your wine prefix (it's a new folder .eve in your home that was made). When the installation is done open "$HOME/.eve/user.reg" in your favorite text editor and add the following to the end of the file.
[Software\Wine\Direct3D]
"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"

When you did that try to run the launcher ass follows:
WINEARCH=32bit WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.eve WINEDLLOVERRIDES="*msvcrt,*msvcrt80,*msvcrt90,*msvcrt100=n,b" wine "$HOME/.eve/drive_c/PATH_TO_CCP_EVE/eve.exe"

Let the launcher update your installation in case it is needed. If all is well, don't click play yet. Just do
WINEARCH=32bit WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.eve winecfg
In the application tab you click add application, then browse to eve.exe and select it. Then go to the libraries tab and set the correct dll overrides for the launcher. Then you go back to the application tab and click add application and browse for bin/Exefile.exe and select it. Then set the proper dll overrides for the game itself. Now enjoy not having to switch around dll overrides all the time for patching and playing.

ps: the installation procedure I use work on any linux that has 64bit wine with 32 wine support enabled.