@ThutmosseII sorry, been away for a bit, enjoying summer weather here. Currently I am running this game between Manjaro and Xubuntu on the same box. This is to see, if there is a difference in the OS handling the game better. Performance on Manjaro is much better than the Ubuntu, at least on this machine. I will soon report my data on another thread, since this thread was created to discuss launcher issues.
Yes, I don’t do NTFS partitions unless I am testing Windows OS. Since I only own 1 legit copy of Windows 10, I only do test in Windows 10. I stick with EXT4 as well. I also have this game on a separate SSD that drive gets mounted by the fstab file.
I now dual boot either into the Manjaro or Xubuntu and run this game with;
Executable: env WINEPREFIX=“/home/john/.EVE” wine Z:\\\\media\\\\john\\\\Chamber\\\\EVE\\\\eve-online.exe --product=eve-online
Working Directory: /media/john/Chamber/EVE/app-1.4.3
Note: I have to keep on top of the working directory every so often to change (the app-1.4.3 part) version and revision folders. My default prefix is set to .EVE for this to avoid wiping out my .wine folder.
Wine version I am currently using is; 9.9 (stable) on Manjaro, this is downloaded by Marjaro’s settings and probably why it performs better. Xubuntu’s is 9.0 (stable) from the WineHQ download. Both are running Nvidia proprietary drivers.
After starting the launcher, I select my profile and shutdown the launcher after it says “Client is running” on the button. This saves a few CPU cycles and some RAM. Otherwise if you need the launcher running in the background, I would recommend more than 8 GB of RAM or having a sizable swap file available. The main reason for this need is the Launcher program is nothing more than a custom web browser itself swallowing up more memory and threads.
Hope that helps.