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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#1 - 2013-05-14 13:56:56 UTC
I was thinking we could have a thread with hardware and distributions that works for EVE. Mainly for those people running windows who wonders if their computers can do Linux, but sure, also a bit of hardware bragging Smile

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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#2 - 2013-05-14 14:17:29 UTC
Mine is a couple of years old but runs fine.

Intel 2 core duo E8400 3Ghz @4Ghz
Asus P5Q-E
6Gb
Asus GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1Gb
Benq G2420HDB
Belkin Nostromo n52 (with pystromo)

Debian 7 (wheezy) 64-bit
Nvidia driver 313.26
Alsa sound
wine 1.5.27

Running EVE in 1600x1020 at highest setting with about-ish 50FPS.

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Spoofeydoo
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2013-05-14 15:01:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Spoofeydoo
My hardware is a few years old, but I followed the instructions at Winehq and here and have no major problems to report.

AMD Phenom II x4 955
Asus M4A79T motherboard
4G
Evga GeForce GTX460 1024MB

Slackware64 14.0
Nvidia driver 319.17
Wine 1.5.30

I have a fruit cup and I'm not afraid to use it.
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-05-14 20:39:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
I am pretty sure that the distribution is not a factor, really. ;)

Anyways:


Gentoo, Wine 1.5.30
AMD FX 6200
Asrock 970 Extreme 4
8GiB RAM
Powercolor Radeon 7950 V2

works like a charm


Gentoo, Wine 1.5.30
AMD Athlon X2 5600+
Asus M2N-E Sli
8GiB RAM
Asus ENGTX 260

runs quite ok, with a few performance issues in certain cases.

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-05-14 20:41:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
doublepost >_>
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#6 - 2013-05-15 02:21:34 UTC
Neuntausend wrote:
I am pretty sure that the distribution is not a factor, really. ;)

Just wanted to be super extra clear for those who never have touched Linux before. To point out that there's more possibilities than just one or two.

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Makton Kelevin
MAK Industries
#7 - 2013-05-16 23:08:23 UTC
Well, looks like I'm a member of the Mac and the Linux EVE community. Just got EVE working on an old Compaq CQ60-420us..

Specs:
Duel-Core Intel Centerino
3 gig of RAM
Intel G45 graphics card.. (talk about a laugh, but the thing bloody works, lowest graphics)

OS: Gentoo Linux x64 with LXDE as the WM and Wine 1.5.30 with the Intel Mesa drivers.
pretty much followed the EvE Wiki on Linux. Once loaded, I had no textures. After a bunch of research, I found that I needed to emerge libtxc_dxtn. Once that was done. game works.. the best it can on this crappy "onboard" video.

between 15 to 20 FPS.. not pretty but enough to hop gates really quick. no fleeting with this thing.
Az'Kagoth
War Crime Syndicate
#8 - 2013-05-17 19:14:05 UTC
Got it running on:

Manjaro XFCE 0.8.5
Asus P8-P67 Pro
Intel Core i7-2600
Gigabyte Geforce 580GTX GV-N580UD-15I
NVIDIA Driver 319.17

But not really a success story. The graphics card required me to reflash it with a new BIOS, otherwise EVE would crash. Unfortunately this is a very common problem with the Gigabyte 570 and 580 series graphics card, so avoid those.
Katrina Bekers
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2013-05-18 00:35:25 UTC
Kubuntu 12.04 LTS
Asus M3A
Phenom X4 9650 (yup - THAT ancient)
4GB DDR2
Gainward GeForce GTX560Ti
NVIDIA driver 310.14
Wine 1.5.30

Besides CQ, everything works well.

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Valencia Mariana
Eagle and Lion Corporate Agents
#10 - 2013-05-18 22:11:34 UTC
OpenSUSE 12.3
MSI P7N Diamond
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
8GB DDR2
ASUS GeForce GTX560Ti
NVIDIA driver 319.17
Wine 1.5.26

Works perfect (except captains quarters).

Valencia Mariana The Red Circle Inc.
Woo Mi
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-05-18 23:10:15 UTC
Debian wheezy
Amd 4850e dual core, 2.5GHz
8GB
Nvidia 8800GT
2 24" monitors
wine 1.4

This runs ok'ish for 2 clients at low gfx quality. No crashes for some time now.
I do use some scripts with library overrides to get things running smoothly.
And yup, things are starting to get a bit old...
Fam Trinly
Russian SOBR
#12 - 2013-05-19 04:09:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Fam Trinly
Ubuntu (LXDE and XFCE) 10.10 - 13.10, now using XUbuntu 12.04 LTS
Pentium D930 + i945 chipset, -> AMD FX4100 and later FX 8350 on 990FX chipset
ATi Radeon HD 6750 -> 5870 -> and now 7750
2 monitors (19" and 24") with xinerama,
small and cheap 64GB SSD for games (EVE and WoW, fast re-draw after jump/bridge, less delays)

works fine for 2+ years, 2-3 EVE clients simultaneously, no crashes for long time (for example: usual crash on windows - jump through gate and disconnect - I saw that many times in fleets last year)
have some issues (solved) with ati-amd catalyst drivers versions on old card (5870) and cpu perfomance, but now on xubuntu 12.04 HD 7750 + FX-8350 everything perfect with latest drivers from ubuntu repositories.

Using native Mumble and TS3 clients. Succesfully tuned Teamspeak3 overlay with xosd-bin lua plugin, using Pyfa for ship fitting simulation, GTKEveMon to check skill queue (and Aura on android). Tested several screen-cast programs like Kazam, RecordMyDesktop, Screencastor

I have no dual-boot partition with windows - everything I need I can do in Linux
Miao Sajuuk
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-05-20 07:18:49 UTC
Archlinux
Kernel 3.9.2-2-ck x86_64
Intel Core i7 CPU Q 720
8G DDR3 1333
NVIDIA GT 335M (with driver 319.17)
wine 1.5.30
Awesome and GNOME 3
EVE has a separate RAID0 partition.

Works well, except CQ and IGB.
Covert0ne
V0LTA
WE FORM V0LTA
#14 - 2013-05-21 08:40:27 UTC
Although initially running into graphic related issues on my desktop (driver issue) I now have two working set-ups.

Manjaro Linux (Arch)
Kernel: 3.8.13-1-MANJARO

(1)

ACER Aspire 6920 Laptop
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750
4096MB RAM
nVidia 9500M 512MB

(2)

ASUS P8P67 Pro
Intel i7 2600k (5.0Ghz)
8096MB RAM (1866Mhz)
nVidia GTX670 (319.17)


Wine 1.5.30
XFCE Desktop



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Spoofeydoo
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2013-05-22 15:53:30 UTC
Spoofeydoo wrote:
My hardware is a few years old, but I followed the instructions at Winehq and here and have no major problems to report.

AMD Phenom II x4 955
Asus M4A79T motherboard
4G
Evga GeForce GTX460 1024MB

Slackware64 14.0
Nvidia driver 319.17
Wine 1.5.30


Not so successful with the new launcher. Sad

I have a fruit cup and I'm not afraid to use it.
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#16 - 2013-05-22 19:59:42 UTC
Please do this to run without launcher:
# tl;dr: Finally, new batch files to launch the exefile directly:
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\bin\exefile.exe"
#And to do a second instance:
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\bin\exefile.exe"

BTW, I'm on ubuntu 12.0.4, wine 1.5.29, works pretty darn well.