Hi,
with the Windows 10 count down and the restrictive installation possibilities of Windows 11 I am trying to find out if Eve can be installed and run on Linux. I have seen posts from 2022 in the forum where people have success and a number of years back there was even an unofficial “HowTo” if I remember correct. I am not looking for official Linux support from CCP obviously, just trying to figure out if anybody had success in that direction recently. I would imagine with the Win10/11 issue on the horizon more ppl will want to use a system they already have buy may not be upgradable to Win11. MacOS is not an option for me, I have jumped off that train years back and I am not going back there.
Kind Regards
The Starhoppers
Generally the answer is yes, bu it depends on how you want to do it and on which system. I run a debian with nvidia drivers and wine. Others run steam/proton, lutris or similar. You might want to read through the linux subsection on the forums.
As for wine it is as easy as setting the environment up with winetricks like:
./winetricks corefonts msdelta vkd3d vcrun2022 dxvk2030
And after that run EVE as given by the icon (right click menu/launch targeet) after installation, but with a little optimization:
env WINEPREFIX=“/home/xxx/.wine” WINEESYNC=0 WINEFSYNC=0 wine C:\users\xxx\AppData\Local\eve-online\eve-online.exe
I used the latest wine staging as it keeps up faster when EVE things break, which you have to expect from time to time when CCP is implementing really big changes.