We have been communicating with the developers regarding the issues that have affected MacOS users, and we are happy to let you know that these issues should now be resolved with the latest version of wine and this is considered to be a permanent fix to these issues rather than any previously provided workarounds.
This latest update should ensure compatibility with the 64 bit version of the client, resolve any issues with the client not starting properly or repeatedly crashing as well as that the game should continue to work after updating to Catalina.
For this change you will need to change your wine to the latest version. To do this please do the following:
- Start the launcher.
- Click on EVE launcher in the apple menu at the top left corner of the screen.
- Select preferences.
- Enable ‘Run clients with 64 bit’.
- Make sure that ‘Use Dev version’ is not enabled.
- Make sure wine version is set to latest. If it is already on latest switch to wine-4.17-Staging-winehq-binary-208, close the preference window and open again and switch back to latest. This is to fix those launchers that may be stuck on old wine versions that are no longer available.
- Click Ok.
- Close the launcher and the client if either is running.
- In finder, click Go to Folder and copy paste the following:
“~/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/p_drive/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/SharedCache”
You should see a folder named wine – move that folder to trash. Restart your launcher and wait for a few minutes for the launcher to update before starting the game again.