Glengrant
Minmatar
TOHA Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2007.03.01 09:10:00 -
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This sounds like CCP is helping on having wine/cedega run Eve:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1870
Eve was the very last app that made me boot windows (kept a small partition for that) and it already looks like that might almost be over.
Eve support on wine gets better with almost every week.
A few weeks ago I could hardly start it, now it runs fine - on just wine - not even using cedega yet.
I applied *no* patches. No recompile. This is just wine as provided by ubuntu repository (find in synaptic - click apply - be done :-) ).
My fps (measured with ctrl-f in eve client) are between 20 and 60. 50-60 in stations. 20-40 outside - 30 is typical, With more stuff around like roids etc... it's 20-30. It handles/feels fluid - no problem. Haven't tested it in missions/combat yet - likely much slower with more stuff in space. But in normal situations I could find no problems warping, jumping, docking, reading eve mails, etc. Used it for an hour yesterday without issues while running fullscreen.
There used to be a bug until very recently where the char icons got messed up - that is fixed now.
Windowed mode has problems (no title/borders).
System shortcuts beat in-game ones. Alt-F1 opens Ubuntu/Gnome System menu instead of activating first med slot module for example.
My hardware:
* Core 2 Duo 2 GHz (Eve uses 50% of 1 CPU)
* 2 GB RAM (Eve used 1.3 GB when I checked after a while - I suspect there might be memory leaks still)
* NVidia card + proprietary driver
* It's a Dell Inspiron 9400 Laptop, screen: 1920x1200
OS: Ubuntu Edgy Eft + Beryl
Glengrant
p.s. Other games running fine: Neverwinter Nights 1 (NWN 2 don't but is full of design mistakes anyway), Doom3, Quake4. Will test Oblivion soon.legit windows licence
p.p.s. My Ubuntu setup uses resources better than Vista, looks great (transparent effects and much other cool stuff thanks to Beryl compositing 3D window manager), performs well and has a wealth of great apps availble for free with a few clicks.
All that for a much better price ($0 vs several hundred) and without DRM, WGA an other restrictive crap (I have legit windows - but avoided WGA anyway - due to probs with false positives I keep reading about). I want to use my own stuff without having to call M$ when I change a bit of hardware, migrate my machine or it's the wrong day of an odd month. My sister has to re-install windows on a new machine - after the old hardware died. The call-center guy flat out told her she has to buy a new windows license (plain lie under german law) and wouldn't give her a new code.
I used Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice on windows already anyway - so no changes for some of the most oft used apps anyway. Watching movies, burning discs, desktop search, Google Earth, Picasa - all easily available and installed and running flawless.
WXP was my last windows.
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