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Trouble getting eve working Ubuntu 13.04
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Red Zayda
23 Pew
#1 - 2013-06-27 21:05:01 UTC
hey everyone, to start I have to say I did have eve working for about a day (very poorly) but I ended up having to reinstall Ubuntu after I seriously botched a video card driver update. I'm new to Linux so I had a link bookmarked that was very helpful it walked me through the terminal commands to set up working wine1.5 (for eve) and set up a run script for eve but I can't remember how to do it now and obviously my bookmark is gone. Also any help setting up my video card drivers would be appreciated.

I have an Radeon HD 3450.

I'm gonna keep searching for the site if I can find it I'll post my solutions here for anyone else who's new to Linux or Ubuntu.
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
#2 - 2013-06-28 05:59:20 UTC
I assume you could use ubuntu wine ppa and install wine1.5 or even wine1.6 from there. Probably wintout any further need to mess with wine to make eve work.

As for run script, there are 2 options - simple bash script. like
Quote:

#!/bin/bash

cd [Eve Online Directory]
wine eve.exe


Or a desktop file with a pretty icon and an ability to put it into your applications menu. You can google desktop file specifications and look for examples in /usr/share/applications.

Note that in any case you NEED to specify the working directory (Path) for the client. And in case of a desktop file it can't handle spaces. So if you have a space in your eve online directory path, you might want to use a wrapper for launching eve (like making a desktop file that launches a shell script that launches eve. At least that's how I do it).
Prda Prda
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#3 - 2013-06-29 10:29:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Prda Prda
for amd 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx you need to install legacy drivers

follow this link:
https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx
Red Zayda
23 Pew
#4 - 2013-06-29 22:27:45 UTC
thanks guys much appreciated
Red Zayda
23 Pew
#5 - 2013-06-29 22:55:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Red Zayda
in the end I remembered a bit of what the person had said before, so I installed ALSA OSS, i installed the most recent wine + winetricks, I looked at the instructions on the wine site for eve and installed those files too. I wrote a script that said:
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=eve1,1360x768 "c:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe" #
It starts up eve in a windows box rather than trying to run it in native linux through wine, seems to work more consistantly. Still having a serious lag problem but I’m attributing that to my video card till I know better, gonna start working on that now.