Macintosh

I followed these instructions and all seemed to go good until I run the launcher. It seems to login, I get the char screen, then it tries to login and nada. Get a loading screen with music and then goes back to launcher.

Any ideas?

Seems to be working, now I have to fix all my preferences etc..


My command/apple key isn't working so I'm missing right click stuff. I don't use a mouse because this is a laptop with a trackpad. Any ideas how to enable the command key?

I didn't do anything special, I just loaded Crossover, told it I wanted to install Eve Online in the list, and pointed it at the Windows .exe. It did the rest. It supports the Steam version too, but I'm just using the CCP download.

What doesn't work for you?



It runs perfectly for me on this laptop as well, which I would have thought meant it would run well everywhere if it runs on AMD and Intel graphics.

When you're on the character select screen you should be able to press escape and turn off the load station option. Apparently Wine doesn't run the Captain's Quarters for some reason.

It's possible, though it does work for me. It even allows me to have it own another desktop and use native swipes to change between Eve and Safari.

Still, use what works for you, eh?

I just wanted to say it's working superbly. I've retrained myself to use 2 fingers to click to get the right click action. I can open multiple characters without closing the client, I can tab in and out of various characters. Overall 3 thumbs up!

The only issue I have now and it's a first world issue is I can't station spin! I find myself inadvertently trying to spin my ship at random times. If anyone had same issue and figured it out I'd appreciate.

I might have missed it but can anyone tell me how to run the test server using Wine?

The only problem i'm having is with smoothmouse. It's a must-have for me, since i can't stand the osx mouse acceleration. When smoothmouse is on, i get a "jittery" effect when clicking and dragging in space to rotate my view. The effect goes away when i turn smooth mouse off. I'm talking about this one ... http://smoothmouse.com/

I setup wine and eve using the homebrew method and so far am very pleased it actually works.

I still have to play for a while, to make sure it doesn't freeze or anything. I definitely had issues with the captains quarters thing, so i turned it off just long enough so i can see my hanger. Spinning in a hanger is fine though, no crashes.

Checking in, and I am having the same experience as Ralph Izzi. CCP have done a spectacular job making the official Mac client work great. I've had one or two random freezes, but I'd say no more than what a Windows user might experience on his/her own native client. I've also been able to crank up the graphics quality significantly and still get great performance even in fleet work. I've switched over to using the standard client 100% of the time since Kronos was released.

Great job, CCP. It makes me happy to know that we Mac folk are not being left out in the cold. At least, not until someone awoxes me in game.

I'm a new player, came into the fold with the recent Steam midweek madness. Found a great starter corp within the first couple of days and have thoroughly enjoyed my experience between crashes. I'm hoping against hope that this will allow me to continue playing.

I have very little Terminal experience, but standard OSX client has made the game virtually unplayable. I've played around enough with command lines to know how to be dangerous and follow directions.

So we're going to give this a go. Wish me luck!

EDIT for Question 1: Since I got the game through Steam, this raises an interesting concern: can I run EVE on Wine through the Launcher accessed by Steam if Steam itself is still opened via normal Mac operation? Will I need to run Steam from now on through Wine? Or is it a matter of simply changing how I access the launcher and from there signing in with the Steam account info? Or is this all a non-concern and I should carry on as normal?

--If the easiest/only solution is to start an account from EVE proper, that shouldn't be too big of an issue for me. Fortunately, this account is less than a week old. Yeah, it would suck having to go back to start, but all things considered, in the grand scope of things, it wouldn't be a too terrible a loss to bear. Now, if this was a year old account...that would be a different story.

EDIT for update:

So, here's how it's going so far:

As I feared, there's no (known) way as of yet to run EVE on wine and access a Steam account. But, like I said, I'm fine with starting over again, save for the rage of flying an Ibis while I wait for some really basic skills to cook all over again. At least this time I went the smart way and only rolled a trial account to make sure that I could get everything stabilized.

However, I'm still getting a crash about once every half hour. It hasn't happened enough to let me pin it down as repeatable (yes, I'm aware of the captain's quarters bug); so far it just seems to happen "in space." Happened once in the middle of combat and once immediately leaving warp. May have something to do with locking on, but I cannot verify this yet; even if I could, though, I'm of a technical stupidity that, while I can copy and paste and follow directions great, I don't know where to go to troubleshoot the issue.

Here's some stats to gnaw on. Maybe they'll help?

MacBook Pro 13-inch Mid-2010

Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Software OS X 10.9.4