Linux

So I suppose the game itself works then? You can skip the launcher by running exefile.exe directly, if the launcher acts up. It resides inside the bin/ folder in the eve directory. That way you will only have to run the launcher every once in a while to update the game.

As for the launcher issues themselves - issues like that have been very common with older wine versions (<1.6) and the launcher is still a piece of crap and acts up every now and then, even on current wine versions. I can't really guess why it's not working for you. If you followed Kismeteers guide, it shouldn't act up all that often. The only thing I can suggest is that you make sure you don't have anything weird installed in your wine prefix and that there are no dll overrides in winecfg. From my experience it's a good idea to have Eve in a clean wine prefix for itself with no other windows software installed in it. You could also try deleting your launcher cache which I believe resides in Eve/launcher/cache, but that's just another shot in the dark. Besides that, no idea right now, sorry.

Oh and by the way, by setting WINEDEBUG=-all, you actually remove most debugging information instead of adding it (note that you don't actually "run" WINEDEBUG, as it's not a script or program. You merely set a variable by that name to "-all" - read: "minus all"). I like to do that, because wine more often than not just spams hundreds of "fixme:" messages that may be useful for wine developers, but usually don't contain anything useful for us mere mortals and make the output bigger and harder to read. Sadly your output doesn't show anything obvious like I sorta hoped it would (it usually does). You are however getting "'CreateActCtx' failed" and I can't check if I am getting it as well, as I am not in reach of my linux machine right now, but I don't think it's related.

wine --version please

Googling this error implies it is a driver error. Reinstall the proprietary driver.

Generally, I would like to see the results of:
lsmod | grep nvidia
glxinfo | grep -i vga # you already did this
nvidia-settings

The last 2 days i was trying everything i can think of:

installed the properiarty driver for nvidia - no change
tried all of the drivers i can find on the nvidia website - even the beta ones - still no success
i wiped wine and installed the 1.6 version and eve again and tried all the dirvers - still no luck

What fixed it that i changed the port on which through the client connnects to the eve servers. Funny thing is that this was the first thing i did when i got the blank screen ingame and at that time it did not work.
Im guessing that my problem is/was ISP related

My system now : Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1)
wine-1.7.24
Nvidia driver: 331.38 Proprietary

There was an issue on 2014/09/02 concerning the launcher failing to work properly, which was fixed. So thanks to CCP for paying attention to the oddball operating systems. Those of us skipping the launcher didn't even notice, though.

A reminder that it would be good to have multiple testers for upcoming releases. These releases are coming much quicker in succession, so getting a lot less time in front the player base. This makes Linux testing more important. This is especially true with major graphic changes like the new decloaking effect.

I will be testing the latest one with my system specs a couple days before they go live. If anyone else does some testing, I would be interesting in hear your feedback as well.

Using the repair.exe file (double click on it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) when you have WINE installed already from the file browser will effectively patch the client without using the launcher, is much quicker, and more reliable because as you say the launcher has a tendency to error out in Ubuntu.

It can be found in: ~/CCP/Eve/repair.exe

Install the X.org X drivers to fix this issue. Then reinstall wine.

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Did you wait for the launcher to patch eve? You should be able to just launch eve from the launcher if that is workign fine. If the patching doesn't complete, that can leave you in an uncertain state.

What happens when you try to run exefile.exe? Do you get an error message of any kind?

Also, please provide the following:
lspci -v | grep -i vga
video card
wine --version
uname -v

Running surprisingly well with Ubuntu 14.04.1 (awesome WM, wine-1.6.2), Radeon HD 5770, 8GB ram, quad-core @ 2.80GHz.

I get 50fps while orbiting station with fglrx drivers. I think the performance from the OS drivers might have actually been better. No glitches or bugs so far. We'll see how it copes in large fleets.

Thanks for the guide.

Thank you.