Yo y’all
So, having jumped through some hoops to get the launcher up again, I was thinking.. ”wouldn’t it be great if I could chat with fellow Linuxers to see if they “suddenly” can’t get into Eve”
OMW! you’re already here!
Step 1
Clicked on chloroken’s link “Join the Eve on Linux Discord Server!”, jumped a few hoops to get on Discord ‘cos I’m on a different pc, but, alas, I don’t see you in Discord!
Please be gentle with me, I am borderline incompetent
Krud
It heavily depends on which way you choose to play EVE on Linux. If you use the methods covered here, with Steam, Lutris and Bottles it involves - at least in my view - complicated steps and scripts and you need to stay in contact with the people that have created those if you run into any trouble as only they can supposedly fix their scripts.
Then on the other hand - for whatever reason - they don’t cover the most basic (in my view) and straightforward way to play EVE with wine. No scripts needed besides a oneliner with winetricks to install the dependencies.
If you run into a problem, you then first need to find someone with your exact way to run EVE to even be able to discuss about it. Most of the times they - me included - will just ignore you and your problems before you have not adapted to the “right” way to play it. Just because they can’t say anything about how to fix the problem with your particular way of running it.
I really don’t like that fragmentation.
You don’t need weird scripts to play EVE on Linux. It’s literally as simple as installing Steam from your distro’s package manager, then running EVE from that. Proton handles everything for you.
I would tend to agree, as that was my method of access to the game, except on 18/12/25 14:00 UTC I went to play Eve via this method as usual, but computer said “NO!”. No launcher, nothing. I think there was an update to Steam (Ubu 24.04 + Steam (snap) ). Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG!
I installed Lutris (Deb pkg), et voila! I can play again (more details available on request)
Weird, I haven’t had anything like that in several years. Back then the solution was to switch to a different proton version, try to launch, and then switch back.
Do post about things that go wrong, and what you did to fix them. If someone else googles the issue you had two years from now, they’ll find actionable steps rather than just a dead end.
The main problem I have with EVE on Linux is how much resources the client and launcher take up. I have a quad core i3 that clocks in at 4.5 GHz and somehow the EVE Client will end up spawning over half a dozen forks. I notice this because the fans will start to spin up due to the machine getting hotter, then if I check top/htop the system load will be somewhere between 5 and 12.
If I quit the EVE client and run it again, its okay for another dozen jumps or so. DX12 performance is comical, do not get past character selection, DX11 is the only viable option. I can dual boot into windows, for the most part the performance is like a coke/pepsi debate, but its very frustrating being in a fleet and knowing in about 3 more jumps everything will start to lag out because the EVE client has a resource/memory bug issue.
If you are using Steam, have you got “ PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 “ in the launch options?
Normally I do have this on, I did a reinstall about a month ago due to GRUB corrupting and missed this setting. I’ll turn it back on and see how far I get now.
What i found is that since the last expansion or the one before it - don’t remember exactly - they changed their GPU code and/or data a lot. The shared memory option went away and also the textures got much larger it seems. I had always run at high texture quality settings, but nowadays this will lead to GPU RAM exploding to about 2 GB and more per client depending on the jumps you do. Texture stuff seems to not get unloaded after it was loaded.
Once your GPU memory is filled (check on nvidia with “nvidia-smi”), the running clients will lag and also new clients will not start up.
I used to be able to run 4 clients on a 2GB 750 Ti in the old days. Today you need at least a 4GB card or higher…scaling with your client count as well as turning down the texture quality settings to be safer but not totally safe.
I have that very card and was also able to run 4 clients comfortably. Made every penny on that 750ti worth it.
Installing EVE via Steam on Nobara43 right now…
Everything went good.
Playing at 2K, high quality, through the Tutorial right now…
I built this small Steam-machine one year ago, before the DRAM prices went nuts…
it’s got only an rx6400, with FSR3 enabled, I have some anti-aliasing fuzziness
to bring down… no gpu particles an some other small tweaks…
otherwise graphics is really good, and everything
seems to work fine. I didn’t have to edit nothing.
Idk why it auto-started a new Career only, instead of asking if I had an Account already… anyway…
It consume half the M2 Mac wattage. Graphics on the M2 are better
but afte Tahoe upgrade Wi-fi is unstable. Linux Wi-fi is rock solid.
I got a 4gb rx6400 at 8 lanes… not working at full bandwidth…
and I had to bring down settings a little bit…
I saw some of that ugly fuzzyness that is omni-present in the hair
of other titles with everything set to high… I disabled Antialiasing
and GPU particles, the jump from high to medium texture is huge.
But I’m struggling to get a constant frame rate with everything set to high at
2k res. CPU is an 8th gen i5 (hexacore) and DDR3 3200x 32gb.
I find that using Discord is helping the devil specially now with other options like https://stoat.chat and matrix, but hey use whatever you like and feel comfortable with.
Our linux gaming community that focus on MMORPG’s sandboxes style just migrated there from discord 4 weeks a go, and no is not all like discord but it does that we need, voice coms and chat with roles/groups and bots.
we loose:
We win:
I know most of you will not care, fine is ok I did use discord to so if you do not care then good.
but for those who do care and want to be part of a Linux community NON-Discord
you can join us here: Stoat
just please please say hi when you join so we can tag you and know you are not a data miner bot 
Happy Hacking
ReK2