[Mega-Thread]: "The Eve Linux Tutorial Thread" (To Be Updated!)

To shout out a thread of old; Wine and Eve Online work together; but you got to know what you’re looking for, for prerequisites you will need two tutorials (Located at bottom; but give me a chance)

Since Snorlax’s tar.gz went down and Snorlaxs’ left..
New Linux Thread; Unofficial Launcher ! Use Ethically Please.

The best advice I have is to remember the Jammyfish or Mcnster tutorial..

  • How to install lutris on “ubuntu desktop 22.04 jammy jellyfish”
    (" Above is Slightly Edited for Current Times " - Burns 2PvP)
  1. sudo apt update

  2. sudo apt upgrade

  3. sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

  4. sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings

  5. sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key

  6. sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources

  7. sudo apt update

  8. sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
    // press y when it asks

  9. winecfg
    // press “install” when it asks

  10. reboot

// second install lutris
11) sudo apt update

  1. sudo apt upgrade

  2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris

// press “Enter” when it asks

  1. sudo apt update

  2. sudo apt install lutris

//- dpkg --add-architecture i386 press “y” when it asks

// Working on Opening Game
16) “lutris” – Without Quotations (The Game Emulator Engine)
//let it update itself and then login

17* [If still not working] ): Terminal [Without Quotations]:
“winetricks corefonts vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010”

  1. wine EveLauncher-nnnnnnnnn.exe (Or wine Eve-Online-Setup.exe and run with the desktop application – allowing launch through the right click menu)

  2. *Remember to check your winecfg to Windows 10; and try to start the game.

  3. ** Let Eve Online Patch/Download Updates OR ELSE RISK CRASHING. (5m timeout with character selection screen open) **

Some settings are in-game in the launcher; for instance DirectX12 to DirectX11.

And if I haven’t scared you off yet*; you should have a working eve client in behind your Linux Distro of choice [I choose Ubuntu or Manjaro XFCE in this time period of this post working from a desktop launcher.

With this tutorial I was able to make it work via wine EveOnline; Very recently.

*Winetricks corefonts and other relation also recommended

References and credit goes to

Any honest criticism is appreciated; I took my time making this tutorial up.
Any criticisms, comments or concerns can be directed here. I may not be overnight in forums, but I’m there in-game.
Message me through the forums, or in Eve Online for questions;

.. Now that my birthday’s over with and the hangover’s all gone;
Enjoy everyone; as I have been researching this one for a while.
I figured I’d scientifically post my notes for the next guy over.

I am hoping I have support for doing this; as it was my own project to see if I could see it scientifically run via linux and work well.

Upvote this if it helps you; I’ll edit if there are any new concerns created over time.

Edit Reasoning
Edit 1 : Punctuality and Spelling Mistakes.

I don’t see vulkan and proton being handled in your tutorial? I suppose you then don’t realize the full potential for your machine and have very low perfomance?

I use nvidia drivers and wine-staging.

For wine-install i last used - could be again updated:
winetricks corefonts msdelta vkd3d vcrun2022 dxvk2030

I run EVE with an option for DirectX12 crash after the GPU update as:
env WINEPREFIX=“/home/user/.wine” WINEESYNC=0 WINEFSYNC=0 VKD3D_CONFIG=force_raw_va_cbv wine C:\users\user\AppData\Local\eve-online\eve-online.exe

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This listed 20 steps; almost all of them not required, and starting with ancient Ubuntu is certainly starting in the wrong place altogether.
Install Wine or Steam.
Install corefonts, vulkan, vcrun, and mesa that isn’t ancient if you’re on Radeon.
Play.

Install corefonts, vulkan, vcrun, and mesa that isn’t ancient if you’re on Radeon.

Could you be more specific? I’m using Steam on Debian 12 with nvidia RTX 3090. How do I install corefonts, vulkan, vcrun? Does Steam not take care of this? Is this something that needs to be done outside of Steam?

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Been a few years since I did testing on straight debian for gaming; but corefonts and vulkan are generally clean system packages. I think steam will bring in corefonts on its own but I haven’t tested recently, and that naturally won’t help you with standard wine installs.
vcrun can be loaded into normal wine with winetricks easily; if using steam/proton then use protontricks.
I’m coming due for some testing. I think it has been 3 years since I ran through a dozen distros and fired up eve. It isn’t 2010 anymore; it generally works well…except the launcher which is poo.