Linux Mint, Steam and EVE

[Eloken_Toralen]

@ilsa_erom

I’ve decided to switch over to linux for my gaming, i used Mint years ago and always loved the simplicity of it. I have also read multiple posts claiming that using steam is the simpler way to get games to install/run on linux.

How did I miss this? Another convert to the glorious world of Linux.

@John_Rochard

You can move your Steam Eve account to Eve by using the Steam icon to log into the main webpage. Access your account and change password. CCP’s webpage will notice you are running it through Steam and offer to set you up with a new User ID and password to access your steam account without running Steam.

This step is not mandatory, but it makes it easier as the work around is painful as I documented Pop_OS! & EVE Online ← here.

@Tsuiroha

However, it might be possible to use the method above, then use “Add Account” to log into your Steam ID.

Its problematic, as the ‘eve launcher’ will redirect the login URL to a browser, the browser doesn’t know how to direct the response back into the launcher that is wrapped by wine.

@ilsa_erom

A bit of tinkering in options, had to manualy turn on support for unsupported games.

Yeah, that may not be an EVE specific issue, many games on linux need this as a de facto step.

@ilsa_erom

I had horrible frame rates, had to manualy reset to DX11, it ran fine with high frame rates.
I have been play testing it for a few weeks now.

DX11 and Medium shader is the key.

@ilsa_erom

There are a few outstanding bugs, it can become very glitchy at times when multiboxing 2 accounts and discord, but mostly its good. RAM consuption is very high, I have 16Gig,

Oh its extremely high, eve on linux uses over twice the resources it does on windows for some reason.

@ilsa_erom

On the whole, pretty good, but as much as i hate to say it, not as smooth as windows.
(this may be my fault)

Its not, its consistent with other people with same specs, especially those who try and run more than one account.

@ilsa_erom

I’ll keep going with it, and learn as I go.

If you get stuck, post here and I will see what I can do to assist, I don’t mind doing a new linux install now and then to try and troubleshoot issues.