• Check 3d: in a terminal window type:

  glxinfo | grep rendering

  It should show:

  direct rendering: Yes

  If it says No, type:

  lspci -v | grep VGA

  and ask help.
  If you have nvidia, and have SLI, use version 180 to avoid pauses in game. Enable backports repository, install the packages: nvidia-glx-180 nvidia-180-modaliases and reboot. Your xorg.conf should have these lines in Section "Device"

   Option "Coolbits" "2"
   Option "SLI" "Auto"

  The Coolbits option is needed only if the cards have different memory size (you'll get the smallest of the two).



• Install the current wine: in a terminal window type:

  wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
  sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install wine




• Configure wine: in a terminal or alt-f2 type: padsp winecfg
  Audio settings in winecfg are set to: OSS Driver; Hardware Acceleration: Full; Default Sample Rate 48000; Default Bits Per Sample: 16; Driver Emulation: enabled.



• Modify user.reg: Append the following to ~/.wine/user.reg (hit alt-f2 and type gedit ~/.wine/user.reg)
  

  [Software\\Wine\\Direct3D]
  "DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl"
  "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
  "PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
  "VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
  "VideoMemorySize"="256"

  Change the VideoMemorySize value to the size of your video ram.



• Winetricks: In a terminal window, type:
  

  wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
  sh winetricks winxp vcrun2005sp1 corefonts gecko




• Install Eve online: Download the Premium Graphics content client and install it by double clicking the .exe



• Make a custom launcher: Add to the panel or desktop a custom launcher using right click:

  Type: Application
  Name: Eve Online
  Command: padsp wine explorer /desktop=EVE1,1024x768 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"

  Change the resolution to the same in your desktop for fullscreen, anything lower makes a window. If you need to launch more than one client, make another custom launcher and change the desktop name (change EVE1 to EVE2 or such).



• Configure Eve online: Launch the client and go to settings: In the Audio & Chat tab, turn off Audio Hardware Acceleration to prevent "random" lockups. In the Display & Graphics tab, enable Premium Graphics Content and set shadow quality to off. When you login, if you see things in pure black (lights, textures) go back to settings, and turn HDR on, then again turn HDR off. This is done once and remains fixed.



• TS2: If you use Teamspeak 2 (package: teamspeak-client), you only need to make a custom launcher (or edit the menu launcher) so in the command to launch, padsp is prepended like:

  padsp teamspeak

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