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Tyrus Ex	Posted - 2006.03.03 14:05:00 - [1] Originally by: Doug Jamison I for one would like to voice my opinion about this, as I am most affected by the possible outcome of such a thing. I am currently running EVE under Cedega and am quite familiar with the problems experienced in doing so. I do not vote for a platform split of the EVE client. Such a thing would be an atrocity! Latent roll-outs, limited support, questionable installation mechanisms, distribution wars, and the list carries on I'm sure. Mock me if you feel that I'm being a "bit" harsh, but this is the general reality of "Linux ports" as they stand today. What I would like to see is in-house testing of the game on Cedega. The Wine platform is a potential solution that would provide a unified client that would perform in a predictable manner with actual support being offered. My only bias to Cedega is that Transgaming has done a lot of work to progression of game-related Wine developments in a very short span of time. And if you read around enough, Cedega is currently the best way to get EVE to run from Linux. The best the Linux community could hope for is built-in work-arounds to the very minimal number of crashes that inhibit EVE when used in Linux. The worst we could expect in such a situation is perhaps a bit of collaboration between the EVE folks and the Cedega folks to help smooth out the problems. This approach has my vote. I boot into XP to play EVE - that's it. All my other games I either play natively in Linux or via Cedega. EVE is 90-95% playable in Cedega. There's just a handful of persistent and importantly, reproducible, but inhibiting, bugs. All of which, at least from a naive point of view, appear trivial to solve (some testing is all that's needed). If CCP could commit itself, even non-chalantly, to some minimal testing and/or communication with Transgaming, these problems would be no more. And importantly, by knowing EVE's particularities about the way it hooks into the DirectX libraries, Transgaming can take it from there on their own, since there's sufficient user-demand from their own subscribers to support the game (and since v5.1, EVE is officially supported). I'm not suggesting that this is something CCP should necessarily do. But it definitely "would be nice". Ty

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