Macintosh

In an effort to offer more officially supported ways to play EVE on Mac we are now providing support for Wine in addition to Cider. Don’t worry, we’re not simply posting a long page of instructions for you to set up Wine – the launcher takes care of it all. To begin with we offer this as an alternative to the current solution – you simply select it in the EVE Launcher Preferences. We will continue providing Cider, the current solution, until we are satisfied with Wine providing a similar experience.

What is Wine?
As stated on www.winehq.org Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows application on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

How do I try it?
Make sure your launcher is up to date (version 1016420 or later). Select Preferences... from the EVE Launcher menu and select Wine for the wrapper.

Wine options
You shouldn't have to change any Wine options, and these may change at any time as we get feedback.
For now, the main option is what version of Wine should be used - we provide daily builds from the Wine git repository (git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git). If you select 'Use dev versions' you can choose any of a number of recent daily builds, or to always use the latest one. If you leave the dev versions checkbox unchecked, you can select from stable builds that will have had some testing.
The WINEDEBUG field allows you to set a value for the WINEDEBUG environment variable that controls debugging output from Wine. This can be useful for tracking down issues, but should in general be left empty.

What if it doesn't work?
Go back to Preferences and select Cider for the wrapper, then everything should work as it did before. Please do tell us about it, either by posting in the feedback thread or by filing a bug report. Our goal is to offer additional officially supported ways to play EVE on the Mac and we need your feedback on this to do that.

It did not work.
I set it to Wine; version: Latest.
It downloaded a bunch of stuff, copied stuff, and eventually settled down, and looked just like the launcher normally does. I tried to start a session. The little white triangle by the name of one of my accounts turned into a square when I clicked on it, just like normal.
Nothing further happened for abut a minute. Then the square turned back to a triangle. No session of Eve started.
I switched it back to Cider, and the session did start when I wanted it to.
I tried Wine again, and it still failed.

In the above, whenever it failed, I would close and re-open the launcher, and try a second time. The fails were always fails.

BTW, I hope this works out, and thanks for working on it. Those using Wine seem to like it, so I am looking forward to being able to dump Cider forever and ever.

I run eve on mac os x in wine religiously, and was wondering if there is a place to report the wine-mac bugs?
For currently if your probe window is windowed and not fullscreen there is significant flickering of the probe window.
I also compile/build my own wine from scratch and try to report bugs to the wine crew.

Holly mother of unpronounceable Icelandic gods, this is what the game is supposed to look like!


Launcher updated fine and the switchover to Wine worked fine for me. Will bug report tonight from in-game any problems I get.

THANK YOU cold northern people.

As it did not work for me, I'm wondering if I am missing something.
Does telling the launcher to use Wine result in it downloading EVERYTHING needed to run Eve under Wine, including Wine, like it does for Cider? Or do I need to go to the Wine website and download other stuff as well?

Anything that helps Mac and Linux at all, is very welcome by the Mac OSX community

As an EVE player since Trinity offered semi-native support of Linux thru Cedega, then discontinued it and unofficially helping all us WINE orphans get our EVE fix thru the many, many years of Linux gaming, I wish to thank Snorlax, CCP, and everyone involved for a GREAT news for the Mac cousins, and EVE at large.

There's hope even for us linuxers!

My tip is hatted.

And Snorlax has still a box of beer with his name paid, for when I'll meet it at Fanfest.

oh man can't wait to try this out when I get home

It is working very well for me - among the highlights:

+ single application window - no more 2 windows per account if I open the IGB
+ performance - at least for me on my 2014 Retina MacBook Pro the performance bump is visible
+ No need to install anything - seamless change to wine - restart launcher and it worked

on the down side:
- settings did not migrate - but totally worth it....

Edit:
- one additional minus - can't use mac keyboard shortcuts -command + c and command +v or command + q. I can live without them, but if at all possible - those would be nice. Still totally worth it.
+ addtional plus - IGB does not get stuck on the black screen. At least it has not for me.

Control key ought to work. I'll see what I can do about enabling Command key as well.