This hasn’t stopped the game from working but I am getting this message when I start to play.
vkd3d I believe is Vulkan. I will look into this with my other Linux OS, just wanted to know, if this has popped up since the update with anyone else?
I attempted some winetricks to make this go away, but it is still there. Maybe the next Wine update will remove it.
Not had a launcher update, just the usual client update through the launcher. Based on about twelve hours ago:
No errors seen in Ubuntu/Wine.
Running on Directx11 through DXVK.
The real question is what will happen on the 7th… when it foces the beta launcher upon everyone…
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Not to go off topic here; As I recall, the Photon UI wasn’t a welcomed addition and users were forced to use it and nothing else. The UI still looks like Hotblack Desiato’s control panel for his stunt ship. I still have issues with this “new and improved” UI. So I really have my doubts about the “new and improved” launcher as well.
I still don’t understand the real need for any launcher, let alone for a company only hosting the one game. Back when I was playing Star Trek (ages ago) they added the ARC launcher to entice us to play Neverwinter or Champions. I simply created a short cut that bypassed the launcher and went directly into Star Trek.
Well with Vanguard they have at least two games 
I am with you on starting games just by starting the game, but I fear for EVE that ship has sailed, sunk,been put in a museum and all we can do is look at it.
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I got forced to the new launcher today, since then I am not even able to start the new launcher.
Neither wine-ge-8.26 or other versions are working. Sometimes it hangs when displaying “EVE”, other times the launcher just crashes the exe without displaying anything. Not a happy!
edit: managed to get it working again with Lutris, did a full reinstall and switched the runner to wine-ge-8.26
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Greetings
Since yesterday’s new launcher update I have been unable to get EVE to launch. I was using the Lutris installation and has served me well for quite some time however now nothing I try is able to get the installation to work (EVE Online - Lutris).
So far I am unable to get past the initial installation using the Dec 2023 Wine version:
- %APPDATA% empty issues with arch=32 & arch=64 (64bit being required for EVE)
- vcrun17 vs vcrun15 conflicts
- return code: 65280 error
- some others I did not record
I have purged wine, winetricks & Lutris installations and deleted “.wine”, the Lutris directories and winetricks directories. I reinstalled them all to no avail.
Versions:
- wine: wine-7.20 (Ubuntu 7.20~repack-1)
- winetricks: 20240105-next
- Lutris 0.5.12
- Ubuntu 2304
If any one has an idiots-guide-to-eve-on-linux it would be truly appreciated
Regards
m
I wrote a way to make the new launcher work with Bottles in one of the other threads here. People have also been able to make it work with Lutris. Using bleeding edge wine and the latest launcher download might be the trick
Try this:
0. Clear all Eve Prefixes (will delete your settings/overviews, so backup those first if needed)
1. Install the new Lutris version as Ubuntu uses an older one in the repos
https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases
2, Install the game using the Dec 2023 launcher here:
https://lutris.net/games/eve-online/
3. After install of the launcher, close it and set the runner to wine-ge-8.26, if you do not have this one, just install it using Lutris.
This is what I have done to get it to work.
I did install the Dec 2023 launcher version.
One problem is, Lutris expects the executable to be in app-1.2.4 but it installed it in app-1.2.6. (eve-online/drive_c/users/YourUsername/AppData/Local/eve-online/app-1.2.6/eve-online.exe)
Easy fix on Lutris, go to configure the game and 2nd page (Game options), top of the page, change it to the correct one and click Save.
2nd problem I had was that Manjaro doesn’t have 0.5.16 Lutris in their repos so I had to download the source code. Which is, turns out, basically the whole program and you run the binary, no need to compile anything. Just run ./bin/lutris where you unpacked the package. So I made a script that I put on my desktop (and of course forgot to make it executable) with the contents:
#!/usr/bin/bash
~/Downloads/lutris-0.5.16/bin/lutris
On KDE, I can just right-click desktop and select “Create New → Empty file”. Named it whatever. Opened it with “kate” and pasted the above stuff. Say you named it lutris0516, you could run in console/terminal “chmod u+x lutris0516” to make it executable. On KDE I can just right-click the file, Properties, Permissions and click the ‘Is Executable’ box
Note: Generally the shebang is #!/bin/bash but I think Manjaro defaults to zsh. I don’t remember, been using zsh for ages as my shell so I don’t care what it ships with. If you don’t know, run “which bash” in terminal, it will spit out where your bash is located.
Downloading client atm. Thanks for the steps
BTW, wine-ge-8.25 works too, at least undocking and docking so I expect everything else too.
I did not clear any prefixes, just installed it elsewhere, So I could copy settings etc later. Technically, it seems, you can’t even install to the same prefix. it errored out for me. Since I never deleted anything. I can always delete prefix and files later.
Greetings
I have tried everything I can think of to try get EVE reinstalled after the new launcher release. My lutris installation worked flawlessly for ages till the new launcher.
I have “sudo apt remove --purge” wine, winetricks, lutris, wine-development (32 &64 bit) and reinstalled with the latest version from the respective sites (except wine which from the Ubuntu repo).
I have removed the .wine, lutris cache, lutris configs and any other configs I can think of.
I tried the “Bottles” install but it refuses to install saying the installation executable is 32bit and it can’t install. Even tried using a 32bit bottle.
Lutris gives either a 256 or 65280 error no matter what I try.
Started initial process 430966 from /home/mgriffin/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-7.2-2-x86_64/bin/wine /home/mgriffin/.cache/lutris/installer/eve-online/setup/eve-online-latest+Setup.exe
Start monitoring process.
fsync: up and running.
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Couldn't acquire lock, is another instance running) ---> System.Exception: Couldn't acquire lock, is another instance running
at Squirrel.SingleGlobalInstance..ctor (System.String key, System.TimeSpan timeOut) [0x000be] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.<acquireUpdateLock>b__33_0 () [0x0003f] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[TResult].InnerInvoke () [0x0000f] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute () [0x00000] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
Steam just simply refuses to install EVE saying it is unsupported (invalid platform error) even after enabling beta.
I have lost track of the number of guides, posts & documents I have read trying to find a solution.
Maybe I am being an idiot, I-D-1-0-T or plain daft but I am desperate; if anyone have a fool proof detailed guide on getting EVE installed again on my Ubuntu 23.04 system, I would truly appreciated.
Regards
m
I don’t know about the other stuff, but you need wine staging 9.1 (at least wine staging 8.21?) from winehq if you intend to use wine. Also you need to create a clean new wine prefix (remove .wine folder in home dir completely)
Then all you need is:
winetricks corefonts msdelta vkd3d vcrun2022 dxvk2030
and the new launcher will come up. Then reinstall the client.
That’s strange, Bottles should be completely unaffected by the system wine environment as well as the wine environment in other bottles. Which runner did you use in the x64 bottle?
Just for the record, did you download the latest installer called “eve-online-latest+Setup.exe”?
Greetings
After much ado, I managed to get the steam installation working; at least it started up once and I could log in - that is as far as I tested for now. I followed the instructions from
- Is there HOWTO for EVE via Steam on Ubuntu? - #2 by ISD_Traindriver
- Is there HOWTO for EVE via Steam on Ubuntu? - #3 by Kropotkin
- Beta invite code: TheInvitation
“Bottles” instance fires up the install, then tries to install DotNet45 and fails at the “Restart Now” phase. I followed the instructions from Beta Launcher v0.4.x - #51 by Stein_Bytting to the letter. I am running Bottles 51.10 on Ubuntu 23.04 installed via Flatpak.
The Lutris installation fails with error code 65280 and reading through the log it appears to fail with “Couldn’t acquire lock, is another instance running”
Started initial process 776216 from /home/myusername/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-7.2-2-x86_64/bin/wine /home/myusername/.cache/lutris/installer/eve-online/setup/eve-online-latest+Setup.exe
Start monitoring process.
fsync: up and running.
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Couldn't acquire lock, is another instance running) ---> System.Exception: Couldn't acquire lock, is another instance running
at Squirrel.SingleGlobalInstance..ctor (System.String key, System.TimeSpan timeOut) [0x000be] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.<acquireUpdateLock>b__33_0 () [0x0003f] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[TResult].InnerInvoke () [0x0000f] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute () [0x00000] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.CheckForUpdate (System.Boolean ignoreDeltaUpdates, System.Action`1[T] progress, Squirrel.UpdaterIntention intention) [0x0007d] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.FullInstall (System.Boolean silentInstall, System.Action`1[T] progress) [0x0007b] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.Update.Program.Install (System.Boolean silentInstall, Squirrel.Update.ProgressSource progressSource, System.String sourceDirectory) [0x00378] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional (System.Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) [0x00011] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait (System.Int32 millisecondsTimeout, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) [0x00043] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait () [0x00000] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at Squirrel.Update.Program.executeCommandLine (System.String[] args) [0x0011d] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.Update.Program.main (System.String[] args) [0x00113] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.Update.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00006] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
---> (Inner Exception #0) System.Exception: Couldn't acquire lock, is another instance running
at Squirrel.SingleGlobalInstance..ctor (System.String key, System.TimeSpan timeOut) [0x000be] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.<acquireUpdateLock>b__33_0 () [0x0003f] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[TResult].InnerInvoke () [0x0000f] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute () [0x00000] in <4e6a3508a21d4f62a1c373d10cb58ef2>:0
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.CheckForUpdate (System.Boolean ignoreDeltaUpdates, System.Action`1[T] progress, Squirrel.UpdaterIntention intention) [0x0007d] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.UpdateManager.FullInstall (System.Boolean silentInstall, System.Action`1[T] progress) [0x0007b] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0
at Squirrel.Update.Program.Install (System.Boolean silentInstall, Squirrel.Update.ProgressSource progressSource, System.String sourceDirectory) [0x00378] in <e2f8a11135e046c298dfa2e9bfa19034>:0 <---
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 65280)
Exit with return code 65280
I have followed the instructions from Power Armor above after upgrading wine, winetricks and Lutris to the latest releases (Ubuntu standard repo versions are old)
- wine-9.0
- winetricks 20240105-next
- Lutris 0.5.16
I ran : - winetricks corefonts msdelta vkd3d vcrun2017 dxvk dotnet45 arial calibri consolas corefonts win10
- winecfg -v win10
- Then run the Dec 2023 EVE installation script inside Lutris and via the Lutris website, both ending with the same error. I have tried various winetricks installation options with the same results.
My preferred installation would be via Lutris as Steam appears a little heavy on resources (unless it is just the new Launcher). If anyone has detailed instructions on getting Lutrix installation working or Bottles if it lighter on resources, I would truly appreciate it.
Regards
m
Ah, that’s the problem. Regarding bottles, you have to go into “Dependencies” and install those before running the launcher. If you don’t, wine will try to install them, and fail, as you mentioned. The same happened to me
For Lutris I did what Kathy Duran wrote above except I skipped step 0. I do not delete anything until I know the new one works plus I needed to copy settings and overview from old Eve install to new Eve.
Plus what I wrote after that, change app-124 to app-126. It could be something newer in the future, check the directory structure for yourself.
I did NOT use winetricks or anything of that sort.
For installing the runner in Lutris, like Wine-GE etc, click the Burger menu. Go to Preferences, Runners, Scroll down to Wine (or type wine in the searchbox) and click rightmost icon. Click Install on some runners, always better to have a couple options. Latest should be at the top. Close that window down and click Eve Online. Next to Play button, click the up-arrow, Configure. Go to Runner Options and select a runner you installed. Wine-ge-8-25 works fine for me. Then click Play. Launcher should launch and start downloading the game. It wont download the full game, for that you need to go into preferences again, top right, the cog. Under Game client-> Download the full…tick that box.
Now you should be all set, as long as you set up some accounts.
One thing to consider is: Do not mess with filesystems that are not native to Linux. Do not install games on them. Install to either homefolder or another partition formatted with Ext4, Xfs, Btrfs, something like that. Never NTFS. Easiest is to install to homefolder. Why? Because you got permissions there, by default. If you run into problems outside of home-folder, it is most likely because of permissions.
It seems CCP changed something in the new launcher. lutris-GE-Proton8.15 is working again as a runner, which gives me a better performance/stability. Using other runners I got some CPU sucking after a short time…
Greetings
I am unable to get the Lutris install working. I remove Lutris and clean up all related directories between attempts.
I did the same except renaming the old eve-online installation directory instead of deleting.
Have not gotten that far yet but will certainly keep it in mind.
I have tried the install with no runners pre-installed, only “Lutris-7.2.-2”, only “wine-ge-8-26” or both of them. I have set Lutris to use the default settings, its own executables & libraries or only system executables & libraries
Everything is running locally on an ext4 file system using defaults paths. I use an NVME drive and my laptop is fairly beefy with no issues previously able to 3-4 EVE sessions using Lutris without too much issue previously. On Steam, I can barely run 2 sessions
Thank you for taking the time to assist in finding a solution
I tried to replicate a clean install in a VM and cannot get Eve to install. With runner lutris 7.2-2 or GE Proton 8.15/8.26 I get a page fault error. This is only shown when I run it from console, so this could be the problem you run into. The EVE logo appears on screen, then shortly after it closes and that is about it.
Tried several distributions and kernel releases (including the ones on my workstation) to be sure it is not a kernel/distribution issue…
Sadly I don’t have any old installers to test if something fishy is going on with recent downloads 
I am afraid I cannot help at the moment.