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Has anyone tried eve with crossover games? (wine)
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Matthew Barsrallah
Nerbles
#1 - 2011-11-21 11:40:25 UTC
title says it all, been disappointed with cider/trans gaming performance. Boot camp makes the game run great. direct X ftw! But like other snobby mocha-latte drinking mac users in my arrogance i refuse to use bootcamp!

so has anyone had any luck with cross over? silver medal on their site which means its "officially" supported" by them (not ccp) Wine apparently has been changed alot since transgaming did their own compile. So was wondering if anyone else has gave it a go.
SexTrader
LOst BrotherhoOd
#2 - 2011-11-22 20:11:13 UTC
Transgaming or Crossover? Six of one, half dozen of the other. They are both Wine and you won't get the performance of the Windows client with either one. Thats just my humble opinion backed by 4 yrs of trying to get Eve to play nice on the Mac client and finally giving up.Roll
Matthew Barsrallah
Nerbles
#3 - 2011-12-27 04:43:01 UTC
i have found similar results with virtualization. I recently received 16gb of ram for xmas, so my next attempts will be creating a script to pre-load eve to ram disk and create relavent symbolic links. To reduce the bottleneck of my platter drive. Don't have the the time, but will be neat to compare it to the in game "create resource cache" . My nerdism is having more fun tweaking eve than actually playing it atm What?
ariana ailith
Dukalin
#4 - 2012-01-01 15:52:57 UTC
Virtualization is horrible because the 3d stuff in there is just crap on virtual hardware.

Wine/Crossover isn't quite the same thing anymore even though Crossover is a fork of Wine at some point way back in time.
Performance is ace, settings can be set to high, but it's too dodgy and buggy to make it better than the Mac client (which uses Cider (yet another Wine implement)).
Ian Grimshaw
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-01-03 21:02:34 UTC
Matthew Barsrallah wrote:
i have found similar results with virtualization. I recently received 16gb of ram for xmas, so my next attempts will be creating a script to pre-load eve to ram disk and create relavent symbolic links. To reduce the bottleneck of my platter drive. Don't have the the time, but will be neat to compare it to the in game "create resource cache" . My nerdism is having more fun tweaking eve than actually playing it atm What?

I was sucessfull with running Eve client on Windows 7 installed on Parallels desktop. You'll need a lot of RAM though, at least 2 gigs for sole VM allocated. No freezes to date, ship spinning don't work though (as it doesn't work on native Mac client). Full body portraits are also ugly (as they are on native Mac client). But, I say it again: no freezes and no performance degradation if you have enough RAM