# EVE Online on OpenBSD **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [October 19, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480 "2026-10-19T15:06:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Neth\_Iafin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/neth_iafin/32/380775_2.png) [@Neth\_Iafin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Neth_Iafin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480/1 "2026-10-19T15:06:22Z")
Hi everyone, Not Linux related, but close. With recent port of Wine to OpenBSD, it is now possible to play EVE Online there. There is a drive from OpenBSD gaming community to collect list of games that are supported. EVE Online is supported ([Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1wsfiuf/eve_online_on_an_old_laptop/)) **however** while I was writing the Wine patch I got banned (OpenBSD has different approach to signal handling, I fixed it later but can’t confirm that it is enough). That account is now unbanned, and another account I used (actually this one - Neth Iafin) was never banned but for that one I used the fully completed Wine patch that correctly kept all the signals going. So this is more of a question to EVE devs if there is a way for us (well for now actually just me) in Wine-OpenBSD team to test it now without risk of getting banned. Also if you want to try your luck and you used OpenBSD somewhere and always wanted to play EVE - then please go ahead (I am not responsible if you will get banned though =) ) CVS ports mail (port is still semi-wip) - ['CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports' - MARC](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=179237592700162&w=2) ---
**Author:** ![Power\_Armor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/power_armor/32/413178_2.png) [@Power\_Armor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Power_Armor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480/2 "2026-10-19T16:44:05Z")
My problem in that regard is twofold: I am an occasional NetBSD user and secondly i have only Nvidia cards in possession. OpenGL acceleration for Nvidia seems to neither work on NetBSD nor OpenBSD. So i only have NetBSD running on my Sun Workstations and on some testing machines and VMs. My main system for EVE is Linux. But nevertheless: Thank you for your effort! I hope one day the accelerated Nvidia driver will be a thing also on the non-FreeBSD-BSDs…i don’t plan to get AMD cards just for that. ---
**Author:** ![Lucy\_Alfrir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lucy_alfrir/32/382506_2.png) [@Lucy\_Alfrir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lucy_Alfrir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480/3 "2026-10-19T21:19:55Z")
Is this finally the year for OpenBSD on the desktop? ---
**Author:** ![Neth\_Iafin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/neth_iafin/32/380775_2.png) [@Neth\_Iafin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Neth_Iafin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480/4 "2026-10-19T21:33:22Z")
Integrated graphics is usually enough for one box of EVE, even on an old machine ---
**Author:** ![Power\_Armor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/power_armor/32/413178_2.png) [@Power\_Armor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Power_Armor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-on-openbsd/520480/5 "2026-10-20T00:01:41Z")
What integrated graphics? As i wrote, i have nvidia chipsets only. No 3D acceleration possible at all on current NetBSD and from what i read OpenBSD as well. No 3D acceleration means you get a framebuffer only and while you can use about 70% of all software, have a desktop and be productive, everything that requires 3D acceleration/OpenGL will either not run at all or at 1 fps. NetBSD has ported nouveau to their system, but i never managed to get it to run with 3d acceleration. I think it is in an unusable state currently. And OpenBSD doesn’t have nouveau or anything similar it seems. I hope they get this sorted at some point in the future.