Installing EVE on Ubuntu 18.04 using Lutris

[Whitehound]

@Gisele_Serebriakova

Update: I’ve had a chance to actually play the game.

I can now run 3 clients at 60+ fps with Anti-Aliasing instead of 2 clients at around 20-30 fps with no Anti-Aliasing. I’m not 100% sure how many clients my system could support now but there’s been a huge gain in performance.

There are some graphical glitches. They’re entirely in the windowed menus and the HUD. I think it’s related to window blur and shadow effects.

For some reason every time you start the game you have to re-enable Anti-Aliasing.

The launcher crashes constantly, but I think that might be a problem on CCP’s end.

From what I’m reading this is the best possible way to run EVE on a linux OS.

If you’re using Nvidia then try getting the latest driver, i.e. 396.54.02 (Vulkan beta driver). It solved the last graphical glitches for me.

The launcher crashes most likely because DXVK will produce a lot of log messages and this messes up the launcher somehow. You need to set the environment variable DXVK_LOG_LEVEL=none and this should stop it. I’m using the standard Windows launcher and it may be different for the Linux launcher.

Anti-aliasing is off by default and will always be off on start, unlike Windows. I’m guessing this was done intentionally by CCP. I don’t know why it would do this otherwise as it’s working just fine with AA.

The low CPU usage is indeed the best part of it all. I can leave my clients running all day and only minimize them. They barely use any CPU unless I bring their windows up. It’s like always having something to play with while sitting at the computer, only it’s not Windows + Solitaire, but Linux + EVE.