Macintosh

I have install wine (using homebrew) and it mostly works. I had black screen twice (that I could force quit out) and twice I had a flickering screen (and had to reboot). But those are exceptions.

In addition to the problems mentioned in the thread, I got the following issues:

- I can't switch windows mode.
- I can't change the shador quality setting.

In both cases, it crashes if I try.

Dual boxing was too laggy with shader quality set to high, I had to edit ".wine/drive_c/users/dinoboff/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/CCP/EVE/c_program_files_ccp_eve_tranquility/settings/core_public__.yaml" to get it to low.

All in all, it feels more stable and most of the time, the character selection screen works.

I followed Norden Kor instruction:



To install EVE with wine, you download the window install and then run it with wine, something like `wine ~/Downloads/EVE_Online_Installer_714680.exe`

I have the same Black screen of death problem, I really want to get around it somehow and got redirected to this thread.

I read your suggestions to installing wine, but as I have never done anyhting like that before i would appreciate an even more detailed installation guide like the ones before, if it's possible...

Thanks in advance!

After trying this out, same bug, same problem..... same ****..... black screen, nice music.....

I'm glad to see plenty of folks have taken up the cause for vanilla WINE; it just seems so much superior to the cider implementation. I was worried that my hectic RL would leave this as a "well, it could be cool"...but everyone taking up the cause, cheers from me.

There is no user-friendly or quick approach to installing vanilla Wine or its dependencies on OS X. There are many places things can go wrong and a moderate amount of technical aptitude to troubleshoot and resolve problems without assistance is required.

If you are up to the challenge and want to try it anyway, here's how I have arrived at my current working installation:

1. Install Xcode from the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
2. Open Xcode. If you are prompted to install additional required components, click Install.
3. Install XQuartz: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/
4. Install Homebrew: http://brew.sh/
5. After Homebrew is installed, run the command `brew doctor`. Look over all of the potential problems and resolve them. (Note: It is highly unlikely that anyone in this forum will be able to help you with issues shown by this command, but you will need to fix them)
6. Run the following command to install wine and its dependencies: `brew install --devel --universal wine winetricks`
7. Run the following command to install dependencies required by EVE: `winetricks comctl32 corefonts dotnet40 eufonts gdiplus gdiplus_winxp ie8 msls31 physx pngfilt tahoma vcrun2010 wininet wsh56vb xmllite` (Note: Some of the error messages you will receive while installing the various requirements can be safely ignored.)
8. Download the Windows EVE client network installer: http://community.eveonline.com/support/download/
9. Run `wine /path/to/the/installer.exe` to launch the installer and begin download and installation of the game client.
10. Run `wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/CCP/EVE/eve.exe` to start the EVE launcher.

Depending on your Mac and your Internet connection, all of this will require somewhere around 1-4 hours of your time for download, compilation, and installation. If you have any questions or problems, you can try sending me an EVE Mail but be warned that most of the issues you will face will be things I can't help you with.

On the plus side, trying the above and not getting a working EVE client will do no damage to your system at all. Having Xcode and Homebrew installed are things that can be helpful down the road regardless.

What interval level did you set it to?

Yeah I just tried it and BOOM stable.

Oh man it plays HEAPS better than the Mac client. Even Fullscreen 1440x900 although I have always dropped the settings down for more RAM.

I am such a happy chappy now. All I need to do now is create a script to run it. :-)

Right, once you've got it installed accordingly you can enter this line into AppleScript editor:

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/wine '/users/(your username)/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/CCP/EVE/eve.exe'"

Change (your username) to your actual username which can be seen at the Terminal prompt.

Save it as an Application and when you run it it will just load. The best thing is that it won't display a Terminal window but you will end up with three Dock icons.

Nice to see that Wine works for you guys, really nice to see.

The optimal solution here would be that CCP would start to sponsor wine project or / crossover and also fix bugs that occur there since fixing it on wine is fixing it on both MAC and Linux users.

As of wine versions for performance use 1.7.12 and later since these seem to have the latest updates to Command Stream patches making it use more cores than one thus giving a nice boost.

For information follow the winehq: http://www.winehq.org/
Donate to the project or crossover games where most devs works at.
Remember to bug-report issues to wine's bugtracker, no else but the players playing the game can really report on issues.

Edit:

Issue where the client crashes when resizing and / or changeing options should be fixed in latest wine.
Issue where the client crashes on CQ is an issue that probably cannot be fixed by wine devs.

State of DX10/11
Wine has taken the first few steps into this world but it will take some time before it will be ready, but at least there is getting some progress on that.