Linux

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04, core 2 duo, nvidia 9500, and I'm unable to play. Anyone else having this problem?

I'm able to login, pick my char, get to station (environment disabled), I get up to 'Service wallet: ' and then eve freezes.



Standard launch command:
/usr/bin/env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" DISPLAY=":0.0" /usr/bin/aoss wine explorer /desktop=e1,1024x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"

I have problems with sound - It dies after 15 sek (even if I stay on the login screen).

Have some performance problems with 2 clients. I suspect memory problems as the client has grown again, and is now close to 4G.

My setup:
amd athlon 2840e dual core 2.5GHz
4G memory
nvidia 8800gt 512mb
wine 1.3.23

The user interface is choppy with everything at the lowest settings.
With just 1 clients things seem to be ok.

Went to wine 1.3.33 as I read there were some performance improvements, but EVE crashed on me during startup. Then went back to 1.3.23, and now sound has died. It did work before with 1.3.23, so I suspect a setting somewhere has been clobbered.

Time to upgrade?

P.S 2 screens of 1920x1200, which may not help either

Starting and stopping the echo test in the audio tab brings the audio back.

But it will go again once you unfocus the window.

Ok, no sounds was due to the jukebox being back, probably because I copied another EVE install directory.

I did some experiments with EVE in a small window and that also takes between 1.8G and 2.0G, so it isn't the graphics settings, the Crucible expansion is just a memory hog somehow.

I'd really like to know what uses up all this memory and how to disable it

I have sound disabled, optimized for performance, only 1024x768 full screen, disabled resource cache, and i'm getting like 725MB per client right now.

I also had the 'no spinning in stations' problem at one point as well, but that seems to have cleared up now. Blowing away cache seems to have helped as well.

I can't save ship fittings.

Hmm, I already have to complete different wine directories, so no duplicate file access and stuff as mentioned in the other thread.
Each client seems to want 1.8G to 2.0G of virtual memory, but only used about 800M of physical memory.
I don't see any swapping happening, but with just 2 cores and 4G of memory I suspect that with Crucible I got either of 3 problems:
- each client now needs a full core, so some extra cores for OS etc might be nice
- linux or wine gets confused by the large amount of virtual memory EVE wants
- too much load on my single 8800GT (even at low settings)

With just 1 client I have no problems, so I suspect EVE has become too resource hungry.
As this even happens at low graphics settings more cores and/or more memory are probably required.
A second graphics card to limit resource conflicts would probably help as well.

Sigh

A year ago I could easily run a single full screen client and 2 in smaller windows, a few updates ago this was down to 2 full screen clients, and now I am down to a single client.

Ok, I think I am back in business with 2 1920x1200 screens:
- Crucible 1.02 produced no discernable differences.
- updating RAM from 4G to 8G seemed to improve things from 'pretty hopeless' to "somewhat sluggish".
- changing screen update from 'immediate' to 'default' made the UI responsive again.

I still have to experiment with:
- 3 clients
- higher than minimal graphics settings

Physical memory usage is between 700M and 900M, while virtual memory usage is between 1.8G and 2.0G.
I suspect that virtual memory usage is the crucial factor somewhere, maybe in combination with Wine and Linux.
Note that each of my EVE clients has its own complete Wine directory, so there should be no file conflicts.

At least I don't have to buy a new computer right away.
To be continued