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Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#1 - 2013-11-05 13:41:23 UTC
Guys,

This is really embarrassing, I would like to get onto Sisi whilst running Linux and I've forgotten how to go about setting it up.

Many years ago, I did manage to get it running but things have changed and I am at a loss as to get it running again.

If anyone could point me in the direction of a "howto" I would be most grateful. There are somethings that I would like to experiment with and which I hesitate to do on TQ, being somewhat short of ISK and wary of exposing myself to any ganking whilst trying out new things.

I run EVE on PCLOS 64bit with an Nvidia card and 4Gb of memory so with luck I can wrangle this box into communicating with Sisi.

Thanks, and please, keep the sniggering down,Lol
Elmore Jones
New Eden Mining Organisation
The Craftsmen
#2 - 2013-11-06 11:57:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmore Jones
It's pretty easy to do :) Make a copy of your EVE directory inside the wine prefix, \eve_sisi for example, and a copy of your starter script/icon. With the new starter make the exe path similar to : "C:\Program Files (x86)\CCP\SISI\eve.exe" /server:Singularity

Once started the launcher will update you to current sisi and you can run game again skipping the launcher or not as needed :)

Oh, and at launcher use the cog top right and turn the test default dx version to 9 not 11 :) Jobs a good un.

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Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#3 - 2013-11-06 12:13:01 UTC
Elmore

Thanks for the info.

I'll give it a go on a spare box.

No use letting my main machine getting borked. With my current state of incompetence that is all to likely.
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2013-11-06 17:31:36 UTC
My recommendation are in the Ubuntu thread:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=172086

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, x-swat wine, don't use the launcher except to patch.
Nebu Retski
Lead Farmers
#5 - 2013-11-07 12:56:02 UTC
Jaxon Grylls wrote:
Elmore

Thanks for the info.

I'll give it a go on a spare box.

No use letting my main machine getting borked. With my current state of incompetence that is all to likely.

Don't be afraid, live a little. You're not going to bork your main machine. You might screw up your eve client, but removing the /server:Singularity flag from your launch command should in principle update your client back to the TQ client. It's just better to make a separate sisi installation and for that you just need to copy your wine folder with your eve installation to a new wine folder.

As an example I have my eve wine folder is $HOME/.eve so to copy that wine folder into a sisi folder I did this
cp -r $HOME/.eve $HOME/.sisi

My command to start my normal eve client is:
WINEARCH=wine32 WINEPREFIX=~/.eve WINEDEBUG=-all wine explorer /desktop=EVE1,1920x1200 "$HOME/.eve/drive_c/games/CCP/EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe"

To adjust it for Sisi you just need to point your launcher to the correct folder and add the /server:Singularity flag, so my command becomes:
WINEARCH=wine32 WINEPREFIX=~/.sisi WINEDEBUG=-all wine explorer /desktop=EVE1,1920x1200 "$HOME/.sisi/drive_c/games/CCP/EVE/bin/ExeFile.exe" /server:Singularity
Jaxon Grylls
Institute of Archaeology
#6 - 2013-11-07 20:15:21 UTC
Thanks everyone, I've got Sisi up and running.

Now I'm able to potter to my heart's content without having to keep looking over my shoulder.