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liahm Udan
Pandemic Hysteria
#1 - 2013-05-24 08:18:34 UTC
hello everyone, I have had eve running many a time under linux, but I just decided to start playing again, and it seems that ccp has implemented a new launcher. I can get the launcher up, but there is no way to hit "play" anyone know how to get around this? I have poked around here, but was unable to find anything to fix this.

thanks
Liahm Udan
ubuntu 13.04
amd phenom II x4
msi twin frozr gtx 660
Az'Kagoth
War Crime Syndicate
#2 - 2013-05-24 14:44:35 UTC
Please use the search function, there are at least 1000 threads on this everywhere on the forums. It is not even a Linux-specific problem.

Run ExeFile.exe from the bin folder in your EVE folder instead.
Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#3 - 2013-05-24 15:26:22 UTC
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Run ExeFile.exe from the bin folder in your EVE folder instead.



Tried that and it doesn't work.

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Please use the search function, there are at least 1000 threads on this everywhere on the forums. It is not even a Linux-specific problem.


It DOES look like it is a Linux specific problem and telling someone who's just come back to EVE to "RTFM" is not helpful.

As a returnee myself ( just had two weeks play before this latest SNAFU) I'm saddened to see that we Linux folks seem to be as nasty as the rest of Eve's players.

I'll keep trying everything I can think of and if I find some way out of this problem I'll post it here.
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-05-24 15:56:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
It is indeed a Linux- or rather a Wine-specific problem. The launcher is crap on every OS as well tho and on release day CCP coincidentally gently caressed up their web services as well, hence the rage and tons of angry threads.

For wine, you have the following options at the moment:

1 - bypass the launcher:

For now, you don't NEED to login via the launcher, but you may need it to patch your game (the normal way). To get the current patch you can try to either launch the game via bin/ExeFile.exe and see if it grabs the patch for you or run repair.exe first.

Repair.exe should "repair" your game and grab the current patch at the same time, so you should be able to log in via ExeFile.exe

2 - use a different launcher (use with caution)

Some dude made a custom launcher (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=239147&find=unread) that works with Linux and Wine. I do not actually know what it is capable of or if it's safe to use, so be cautious.
Doublewhopper
Temporary Assignment
#5 - 2013-05-24 15:56:48 UTC
Jaxon Grylls wrote:
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Run ExeFile.exe from the bin folder in your EVE folder instead.



Tried that and it doesn't work.

Quote:
Please use the search function, there are at least 1000 threads on this everywhere on the forums. It is not even a Linux-specific problem.


It DOES look like it is a Linux specific problem and telling someone who's just come back to EVE to "RTFM" is not helpful.

As a returnee myself ( just had two weeks play before this latest SNAFU) I'm saddened to see that we Linux folks seem to be as nasty as the rest of Eve's players.

I'll keep trying everything I can think of and if I find some way out of this problem I'll post it here.


Don't be so complicated man...

If you had just looked through the first three to five posts in the linux section before you started your own thread you would have found the answer already.

Which is:
Execute the repair.exe two or more times until you client is patched properly and then run the ExeFile.exe in the bin directory.

This works for everyone with Linux. If it does not for you then you have other issues like outdated wine and whatnot.
Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#6 - 2013-05-24 20:04:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaxon Grylls
I have got EVE to run, but it needed a fairly upto date version of wine, 1.5.26 in my case.

As soon as I had upgraded Wine I tried running exefile.exe and after a bit of a wait up popped the logon screen.

The game ran but I had no sound and so far I haven't been able to figure out why, but at least I can now go and run my extraction plants and do research again so two out of three ain't bad.

Big smile
Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-05-24 23:13:35 UTC
most likely a pulseaudio problem. many modern linus operating systems come with pulse audio, which is a sound server that some people find unnecessary. wine does not offer pulse audio support, but support for alsa, which is integrated into the linux kernel. pulseaudio is alsa compatible on both ends, but it's often somewhat flaky and even if it works, you often end up with something like wine talking to pulseaudios alsa emulation and pulse talking to alsa.

check if your system is running pulse audio and then run winecfg to see which audio driver you are using. if you are indeed running wine's alsa driver on your pulseaudio server, your "easy" options are to either deactivate pulse for the duration of the gaming session (check out pasuspender) or use the wine pulseaudio patch.
Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#8 - 2013-05-25 10:48:23 UTC
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most likely a pulseaudio problem


I think that you have hit the nail on the head. It's a problem that I have come across in the past but it has never happened spontaneously before.

Maybe I should leave apt-get upgrade alone for a while but I do love apt-get after struggling with RPM for so many years! Sad