Wine is great on my 13" Macbook whilst running fullscreen. However when I switch to windowed mode (which I have to do to look at my browser or multi box) the default Mac resolution kicks in meaning my window is too big for the screen. I can reduce the resolution however this messes up all my windows and looks horrible.

On Cider I could have native mac res with a high res eve window, however I could not stretch or resize this window on the fly.

I can't seem to increase my Macbook resolution to the same as I run Eve at. Google has not helped and now I only got a month to find a solution before Cider support is ended.

Can anyone help?

Wine is great on my 13" Macbook whilst running fullscreen. However when I switch to windowed mode (which I have to do to look at my browser or multi box) the default Mac resolution kicks in meaning my window is too big for the screen. I can reduce the resolution however this messes up all my windows and looks horrible.

On Cider I could have native mac res with a high res eve window, however I could not stretch or resize this window on the fly.

I can't seem to increase my Macbook resolution to the same as I run Eve at. Google has not helped and now I only got a month to find a solution before Cider support is ended.

Can anyone help?

Mid-2011 iMac here, 3.4GHz i7. Graphics is AMD Radeon HD 6970M.

Game is super smooth on Cider - 45+ FPS with all graphics on and maxed except antialiasing. Switched to Wine, left defaults. Looked on in station, maybe a tad slower, but after undocking graphics run full speed about a second, pause, then run normal a second, then pause, etc. FPS counter actually shows "peaks" occurring at that time. The slight frame rate drop is disappointing but the glitching/pausing breaks the game. If you need additional logs/data please let me know.

Cider has been glitchy for me, with the game locking up randomly from time to time. (I've lost two sets of Sisters probes as a result, though the devs have been nice and given them back to me.

However I am having a MUCH WORSE experience with WINE on my mid-2011 Thunderbolt iMac. Twice now I have tried to use it, and both times the same exact same issue occurs:

* I login and arrive at my station, and after I open my Beta Map to plan a route, there is a sound alert, and my mouse cursor changes to a question mark.
* Then less than 10 seconds later, I get the beach ball of death. The screen is locked on the station and I cannot interact with it, though the music is still playing.
* I can use Alt-Tab to select other apps that might be open, but the screen never changes. I can use Alt-Tab to quit other applications, including the game client. However I am unable to quit the WINE Launcher.
* I am unable to get back to anything else, including the Finder, and I am forced to do a hard restart of the machine.

I have just submitted a bug report, and I will try again later to see if I can do it a third time and get a screenshot or two.

HELP?

Model Name:iMac
Model Identifier:iMac12,2
Processor Name:Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:3.4 GHz
Number of Processors:1
Total Number of Cores:4
L2 Cache (per Core):256 KB
L3 Cache:8 MB
Memory:16 GB
Boot ROM Version:IM121.0047.B23
SMC Version (system):1.72f1

Please file a bug report from within the game - that'll include logs and system specs.

Could you try some different settings, in particular turning off post-processing? Let me know what effect, if any, that has. Also try a smaller window size.

Most players see improved performance from what I've seen so far, so I'm interested in finding out what makes your experience different.

Do you have a Retina display?

Yes, I have a Retina display

Could you try running at a lower resolution, and lower graphics settings, in particular the post-processing and anti-aliasing? It sounds like it might be running out of memory, this would help confirm it. Please add this information to the bug report.

Hello,
Few days ago I switched to Wine client press Yes button when clauncher ask me, but today when I start Eve Launcher and start the game client, it start in old mode. Before https://yadi.sk/i/UX2eN47ztZgqX today https://yadi.sk/i/wmwCLDD_tZgsP Would you explain me how always lunch with wine? Thanks

switched to wine this morning.
firstly, thanking CCP for taking the time to preserve all window and overview settings during the conversion. saved a lot of time - much appreciated.

secondly, am running 2 clients. entered "windowed" mode and quickly noticed the top portion of each window has been cut off - about 1/2 inch worth. this is a huge disadvantage. is there any way to fix this?

Actually, it's worse then that. Selecting "wine latest" as my version of wine, "Window mode" not only has a ~1/2 inch thickness worth of screen missing at the top but then your mouse pointer needs to be about another ~1/2 inch below what you want to click on in order to select anything. So for buttons, you have to click below the button in order to actually press it. Similarly, all UI interactions have to factor in this offset. This effectively makes the game unplayable in this mode.

In "fixed window" mode, you can use the mouse pointer correctly but on my 2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display, I'm struggling to find a resolution that works as well as what I had under Cider. The laptop has a 2560 x 1600 resolution but I have to use 1280 x 768 in "fixed window" mode to make it work which is too low resolution to be enjoyable.

Any hints on how to play Eve in Wine on my MacPro in window mode with at least as good an experience as I have using Cider?

Thanks!

who1 eva

Back in March, we announced adding support for Wine as an alternative to Cider, the wrapper used to run the EVE client on OS X. The feedback we have received has been very positive, with most players reporting improved stability and performance.
We are now planning to stop supporting Cider in September, so we encourage everybody that hasn't done so already to switch to Wine. The latest launcher prompts you to make the switch to Wine, making this process quite straight-forward.

What is Wine?
As stated on www.winehq.org Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows application on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Wine options
You shouldn't have to change any Wine options, and these may change at any time as we get feedback.
For now, the main option is what version of Wine should be used - we provide daily builds from the Wine git repository (git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git). If you select 'Use dev versions' you can choose any of a number of recent daily builds, or to always use the latest one. If you leave the dev versions checkbox unchecked, you can select from stable builds that have had some testing.
The WINEDEBUG field allows you to set a value for the WINEDEBUG environment variable that controls debugging output from Wine. This can be useful for tracking down issues, but should in general be left empty.

What if it doesn't work?
Go to Preferences and select Cider for the wrapper, then everything should work as it did before. Please do tell us about it, either by posting in the feedback thread or by filing a bug report. Our goal is to improve the Mac experience and we need your feedback on this to do that.

EDIT: The last launcher update failed to persist the Wine preference - there is a second update where you may be prompted again - apologies for the inconvenience.