that bugreport includes a patch file to fix the issue. How do I apply it?
All of the workarounds here involve Steam. I am not launching EVE with steam. Iām using the latest native evelauncher on Arch linux.
My files are in
/home/dave/.eve/wineenv/drive_c/tq/launchdarkly_client.pyd
/home/dave/.eve/wineenv/drive_c/tq/bin64/launchdarkly_client.pyd
Iām not sure where to copy them to in this situation. I have no SharedCache dir. Is there another directory this file needs to be in?
No, your files look good to me, just donāt forget to CHMOD 444 them.
I also do not use Steam and thatās working nicely for me.
Word on the street is that the native launcher has the same problem loading several other libraries due to a combination of the Wine bug and storing them in different locations than the Windows launcher. If at all possible I recommend switching away from the native launcher and just using wine-staging + windows launcher as itās going to be easier to support in the long run. As a quick hack to see if it works, you can copy all the .pyd files out of the bin64 directory up into tq.
Thank you for investigating it.
Iāve patch proton-ge with your finding to help ppl on steam.
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OMG, thank you for doing what you do! I absolutely HATE going to my Windows boot. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Windows boot? Turncoat.
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Hey, I am a fairly new Linux user. I hadnāt been on the doze side for a few months until the Eve crash. I hated not playing. Anyway, all is back to Linux bliss.
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The patches are still sitting in queue upstream and didnāt make the 6.20 release. I asked the maintainers if something was wrong with them and they said they donāt have enough maintainers that understand that area of the code and theyāre afraid they wouldnāt be able to review properly.
Not sure what the end result is going to be but if push comes to shove we can try submitting to wine-staging instead. Will update the thread if I hear anything else.
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The patch had been integrated to proton-6.20-GE-1
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Migrated my WINE to 6.20 (staging) with the result, that the issue with ālaunchdarkly_client.pydā file is still there 
However, it still was worth to do the migration as the EVE launcher is now working much better. In the previous version font rendering was partially broken, this is now fixed with the new version 
patch is in wine GE 6.20 for use in Lutris (same git as proton GE)
The first draft of the patchset was rejected upstream due to some cosmetic stuff in the conformance tests. The tests patch was cleaned up and resubmitted, hopefully its getting close
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Hey Renard 
The new update did another stupid idiocy on the EVE installā¦ did you notice? it deleted everything except the launchdarkly.pyd and some folders, and on the bin64 folder also deleted over 160 items and only left alive 3 folders.
This is moronicā¦ are they deleting files also on windows?
Iām not seeing that but maybe I havenāt gotten the update yet? Iāve still got drive_c/EVE/SharedCache/tq/bin64 and most of the files are still in there. Itās possible they might move files around from time to time but if the game still runs you probably dont have much to worry about
The game doesnt work on the eveprefix folder which I did recently, it works on my linux native launcher.
I could copy the files from one side to the other, and testā¦
hahahaha, who could believe this???
I tried running the eveprefix launcher again, and lo and beholdā¦ it launched, and client now works fine. Not only that, but now the darn folder has the files again. This is crazy.
@Renard_DuGaulle Thanks for investigating, fixing and submitting the patch!
Just tested on two machines, workaround by copying up one level and chmod 444 is working perfectly for now.
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Got launcher version 1952584 on the beta channel today and see no issues with patched wine-staging
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I came back after a break, saw the forum post about launcher not working in linux and the recommendation to use steam client. For record the steam launcher is garbage, it crashes if I as much look at itā¦ So I was about to give up, but I thought what the heck maybe Iāll just try https://binaries.eveonline.com/evelauncher-1747682.tar.gz
extracted the file as normal and ran ./evelauncher.sh and allowed it to download and install wine and patch as normal. I expected to fail but it just werks? Iām using gentoo and all seems to be fine, I did set it to use the beta in the launcher settings but I didnāt see it update or need to restart the launcher or anything. Hmmm its all strange to me because I saw how many people had issues, perhaps it all happened while I was gone for a couple of month. But this method is how Iāve played the past year with no issues, glad its working.
As for the reason for breakage being CCP wanting to use some windows libs for more security, hahaha what a giggle, why donāt they just allow us to disable that if we use our phones as secondary form of auth?
Anyway ā¦
launchers are just BAD!
Launcher Version 1967440 is working fine with my Wine staging.
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