Linux

One other thing I fixed on Linux:

If you are using XFCE, which is a low impact Ubuntu windows manager that I recommend, your 'alt' key is commandeered to 'move' windows. This is called 'Easy Click' by them. This interferes with dragging probes in the probing window, so you have to disable easy click.

Go to the 'start' button in the upper left, go to Settings (left of the lock icon), Settings Editor (All the way at the bottom), xfwm4 (on the left, all the way at the bottom), and then find the 'easy_click' property, and uncheck the box. Done. Now, XFCE will no longer steal your alt key from your application.

I took a screen shot as well: http://i.imgur.com/vFh10si.png

New year means new computer!

Intel i7-4790 8 effective cores @3.6 GHz, 57k BogoMIPS, GTX 750 Ti 2GB, SSD hard drive, and can run 7 instances of eve now with my 8 gig of memory. (Which should be going to 16 soon.) With my previous system, only about 3 were possible. Here is how to pull these types of stats for yourself:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep GHz # count instances, i7's have double the effective cores due to hyperthreading
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

$ dmesg | grep -i bogo
[ 0.000002] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 7183.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=14367192)
[ 0.157935] smpboot: Total of 8 processors activated (57468.76 BogoMIPS)

$ dmesg | grep ata | grep max
[ 1.033597] ata1.00: ATA-9: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB, EXM01B6Q, max UDMA/133

$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
MemTotal: 8080428 kB

$ lspci -v | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

$ nvidia-debugdump -l
Found 1 NVIDIA devices
Device ID: 0
Device name: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (*PrimaryCard)
GPU internal ID: GPU-f1aa230a-4258-d1b2-7f89-cd5c1525a4ed

$ nvidia-settings # can use this to pull GPU 0's throughput

$ wine --version
wine-1.6.2

$ cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION=
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"


And I wrote a script version if you are lazy:

OSINFO=`cat /etc/os-release  | grep VERSION= | awk -F\" '{print $2}'`
CPUINFO=`cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep GHz |head -1 | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
BOGOINFO=`dmesg | grep -i bogo | tail -1 | awk -F\( '{print $2}' `
MEMINFO=`cat /proc/meminfo  | grep MemTotal | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
DISKINFO=`dmesg | grep ata1 | grep max | tail -1 | awk -F: '{print $3}' | awk -F, '{print $1}'`
NVIDIAINFO=`nvidia-debugdump  -l | grep name | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk -F\( '{print $1}'`
WINEINFO=`wine --version`
echo "Core stats: ${OSINFO},  ${NVIDIAINFO}, ${WINEINFO}"
echo "Bragging stats: ${CPUINFO}, ${BOGOINFO},  ${MEMINFO}, ${DISKINFO}"

Output of this:
Core stats: 14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr, GeForce GTX 750 Ti , wine-1.6.2
Bragging stats: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 57468.76 BogoMIPS), 8080428 kB, Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB

Make sure you can write to your .wine directory and the drive isn't full, specifically your .wine/drive_c/users/username/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/CCP/EVE/ directory, which is where those are stored.

I recommend you do: sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} ~/.wine

This does a recursive change of ownership to yourself on all your .wine directories.

Alternately, use your username, like munkape:munkape instead of the variable ${USER}

Go right ahead.

I have read your thread would your steps work for LinuxMint 17.1? I am building up my computer and I am thinking about going with LinuxMint since I have read better things about the Cinnamon desktop then the Unity interface in Ubuntu.

Just ignore all that stuff.
Launcher works fine for like a year already. Just start it and launch multiple clients from there. Also no need for virtual desktops.

You are missing a key variable in your launch scripts using the launcher:

/desktop=eve2

This defines a separate desktop per client. MUCH easier to play with.

Try editing the file ~/bin/v1 and ~/bin/v2 to match the patch where you installed eve.

wine msiexec /i installer.msi

Using ubuntu 14.04 LTS and wine 1.7.38. Trying to open the current eve offline installer (EVE_Online_Installer_Full_872788.msi) and it just freezes after 5 to 10 seconds.

edit: ran on winxp. Took a while, but it worked

That videocard might actually be a little too old, it has to be almost as old as Eve itself, if I'm not mistaken. But as far as I know, many repositories contain fglrx-legacy, maybe that works?