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Exact configuration for Eve under Fedora 20?
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Naira Isimazu
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-02-12 10:47:42 UTC
At this point, I am about to give up on linux eve Cry

I need a few fool-proof no-config steps from a clean fedora install.
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2014-02-12 19:24:38 UTC
Step 1: Give up on Fedora.
Step 2: Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Step 3: Follow the thread in this forum.

Sorry, had to say it. Ubuntu is a LOT more user friendly with a MUCH larger customer base, along with MAJOR stability improvements over Fedora. Fedora tends to be bleeding edge, while Ubuntu LTS is more conservative.

Here are the real steps.

1. Make sure your video card is working. Find your card with 'lspci | grep VGA'. Then find the driver by putting that name into google with fedora.
2. Make sure your Wine is up to date. 1.6 and above is recommended, though 1.5.x used to work fine. Apparently, later versions of fedora have 1.7.x I guess! Do 'wine --version' You might have to post more details on what is failing.
3. Throw out the launcher. You need the launcher to work once for patching, and then you can use shell scripts. Mine are in the Ubuntu thread.
4. Get an audio driver working, you don't need to use it, but you need one functioning to launch eve.

Fedora is a BAD idea for those who are quick to give up. It seriously is BLEEDING edge, like you need blood to make it work sometimes. If you won't consider Ubuntu or a Debian based distro, at least look at CentOS. Other decent Debian based distros are arch and mint and playon
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2014-02-12 19:26:24 UTC
Wow, when I said bleeding edge, I wasn't kidding. 1.7.8-1.fc20 is the default. goddamn.

Seriously man, Fedora 20 is not a starter Linux. Please consider alternatives.
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
#4 - 2014-02-13 05:10:27 UTC
Arch isn't Debian-basedRoll

If anything, it bleeds more than fedora. Updating without carefully reading patchnotes can sometimes kill it. Updating after a long period of, well, not updating WILL kill it.

Things you should check first and foremost:

wine --version

glxinfo | grep vendor
optionally glxinfo | grep version

x86-compatibility libs for x64 machines.
P00K
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-02-15 07:19:26 UTC
We need to start with hardware information before we really go anywhere with this.

Also give Play on Linux a good hard look if you're just starting out.
Wilhelm Ormand
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-02-22 02:49:27 UTC
Well, I think if you already like and know Fedora there is probably no need to give that up. But if you're completely new to linux, Ubuntu is not a bad choice I guess.

When it comes to gaming however, bleeding edge is kinda what you want. Gaming is at the forefront of technical developement and drivers and applications (like wine) move pretty fast. So getting the newest versions will give you more performance but sometimes at the price of some instability and the need to do some manual finetuning if it doesn't work out of the box.

Either how, what kind of distro you're using, I would start with Play on Linux as P00K suggested. It's available in rpm packages and almost every other distro and is most likely available in the standard repos.

When it comes to installing eve in PoL: don't use the script, but install from scratch. So choose Install > Install a non-listed application and follow the instructions. The beauty of PoL is that you can download wine in any version you want. As of now you want 1.7.13 as it runs the best (11 and 12 had some problems, 10 is also fine).

So give it a try and get back here if you have problems.
Marsan
#7 - 2014-02-22 18:24:06 UTC
Really there is no reason Fedora 20 shouldn't work other than the fact that it's running an older version of wine 1.7. That said honestly running Eve under linux is not a fool proof thing to do. In fedora I'd try:

1) Make sure you've applied all updates. "yum upgrade"

2) Install wine "yum install wine"

3) Run winetricks
winetricks corefonts d3dx9_36 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010

If this does not work try:
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks corefonts d3dx9_36 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010


4) Install game `wine Eve_Oline_Installer*.exe`

5) Run game wine "c:\program files\ccp\eve\eve.exe"

6) At the character selection screen hit escape disable Captain's Quarters under the graphics selection.

If things crash reduce your graphics settings to the lowest, and try again.


Note that I'm assuming you have a supported graphics card able to run the game.


PS- Ubuntu is generally better for Eve than Fedora as you can install the latest wine from the PPA.

Former forum cheerleader CCP, now just a grumpy small portion of the community.
Wilhelm Ormand
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-03-06 10:32:21 UTC
Marsan wrote:
PS- Ubuntu is generally better for Eve than Fedora as you can install the latest wine from the PPA.

With Playonlinux you'll have the latest wine version available hours after it's released. So if you don't want PPA's or other sources and your distro isn't up to date, PoL is a solid solution.