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You already talking about faster? First get it stable then we going to talk about faster.

Well, it was the hardware I was running it under. I used a laptop I already had Linux on for a test, but it doesn't run EVE too well to begin with, much less so under Ubuntu, what with Ubuntu's extra gadgets and fluff. Also the fact that the wireless cut out for no apparent reason with some regularity tended to complicate things... But I imagine if I ran it on my main PC, it would be pretty stable, provided I could fix the wireless issue.



Interesting to note. What I'm wondering, however, is that if there's any way to squeeze that extra bit of performance out of it, to narrow the gap between Windows performance and WINE performance.

Alright, so I'll try switching to Kwin. Also, I have a Realtek wireless. I tried updating the driver, but I'm not sure the system is using it. Is there a way to make sure?

Okay, I've downloaded and switched to KDE (still using Ubuntu), and I've turned off effects. Is that how you turn off composition, or am I missing something? I've yet to fix the new drivers, still trying to get it running better graphic-wise. I'll let you know how that turns out when I do it.

EDIT: It seems that the network has stabilized since I moved to Ubuntu 13.04. I've got it up and running, but I think it runs slower under KDE than Unity, which for some reason doesn't come as a suprise to me... Perhaps I should try Enlightenment? That's an extremely lightweight window manager.

I'll give them both a try and let ya know which one gives me the best results... Thanks mate!

Okay, so I got it to run well under Linux. It runs almost as well as it does under Windows, except for one issue which is outside the scope of this thread. Basically, I had to install the Nvidia drivers and blacklist Nouveau. But it all works now, mostly.

In my case EVE shows basically the same performance on linux as it does on windows. Though I don't use those heavy user environments, so that might be the case. Don't know, never bothered to check.

I've found performance to be fairly good using the open source Radeon drivers and Wine 1.6. The Nvidia drivers should still be superior, but I've only seen a few performance issues. (EULA at the very beginning and CQ). The biggest performance hits I've noticed seems to occur with resource loading. Zooming in with high LoD will cause things to stutter for a bit. I had some issues with shadows and some shaders for a while, but that seems to have cleared up lately.

As for a few performance tricks:

1) 'tmpfs' the game directory or just parts of it. I haven't tried the entire directory(that will eat some serious ram, ~12gb of .stuff files) but I did do the cache folder. It definitely makes market and wallet information snappy. The game is normally on a SSD but being sure things are in memory can help a bit. Cache directory makes windows quicker, but not framerate. Loading all the content files would likely speed up a lot of the loading hits.

2) Multiple Wine Prefixes. This is more useful if you have alts. EVE stores the account settings in the application data portion of your user account, which resides in the wine prefix folder. Exporting stuff goes into your mydocs folder. This allows you to have multiple shortcuts that launch the same(or different) account with radically different settings. (Fullscreen and Windowed Mode) You don't have to duplicate the game directory either.