Posted - 2007.03.01 21:15:00 - [3]

 

Edited by: Sevarus James on 01/03/2007 21:18:28
Edited by: Sevarus James on 01/03/2007 21:14:02
Edited by: Sevarus James on 01/03/2007 21:12:48
Aside from that list, another 'quickfix'. If you are experiencing black screen on portraits (characters screen and or iconic portraits in game), ensure that the graphics settings tab for EVE in cedega has FBO unchecked. This WILL speed up fps somewhat, but causes problems with portrait rendering.

The fullscreen > windowed mode > fullscreen normally works fairly well ONLY while docked. If you are in space, do NOT do it as its a guaranteed way to end the session.

Ubuntu has the latest (per maintainer stefann herman) .9.31 wine version in repositories, so if compiling wine scares ya, there is the click/install/be done with it alternative. Unless Elfiger (our resident wine expert/god) has any other info on it, iirc the .9.30 and .9.31 versions have all of the necessary fixes he tirelessly worked on rolled into 'main'.


Also, greetings NOZH, and thank you for the sticky to this. It is MOST appreciated!

Posted - 2007.03.05 10:54:00 - [5]

 

if your chat channels arn't loading under wine/cedega/crossover have a look at this http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=469583

Posted - 2007.03.07 23:35:00 - [7]

 

Well, I can get EVE running in Cedega under Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro, with all the latest ATI proprietary drivers and all.

However, the game seems to freeze almost everytime I click on a stargate. In addition, I get I see wireframe cubes in the universe, planets, and even on my character (during character creation). Finally, the picture preview in the chat looks corrupted a lot.

However, I do not seem to have any of these issues with Wine 9.31. However, I do get a better FPS and overall 'look' in Cedega than I do in Wine, so I am hoping to get it running better with Cedega somehow.

Does anyone else have these issues with ATI cards? (I hear most of these issues aren't with NVidia).. however, I don't think it's graphics related since I don't see these issues with Wine.

Thanks.

Posted - 2007.03.08 21:51:00 - [9]

 

Originally by: News

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Originally by: Gamersinfo Article

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In addition they are looking at introducing several new clients in the upcoming months including a Linux Client (in around 3 weeks) and a Mac client sometime this summer.

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Linkage

Any comments on this? Truth? Exaggeration?

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I will kill for this.

Posted - 2007.03.09 15:41:00 - [11]

 

Edited by: Krolain on 09/03/2007 17:30:02

Originally by: News

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Originally by: Gamersinfo Article

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In addition they are looking at introducing several new clients in the upcoming months including a Linux Client (in around 3 weeks) and a Mac client sometime this summer.

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Linkage

Any comments on this? Truth? Exaggeration?

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I do hope it's true. Though I hope that if they do use Transgaming Cider for the Mac client, that the ATI support is better than Cedega (also from Transgaming). As it stands right now, I'm having issues using Cedega with my ATI card (as stated in a previous posts), but that's for Linux and not Mac.

As for the Linux client, it makes me wonder if they are doing an OpenGl port of it, or if they are using a third party porting software like Cider?

Posted - 2007.03.13 09:30:00 - [13]

 

Originally by: Krolain

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Edited by: Krolain on 09/03/2007 17:30:02

Originally by: News

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Originally by: Gamersinfo Article

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In addition they are looking at introducing several new clients in the upcoming months including a Linux Client (in around 3 weeks) and a Mac client sometime this summer.

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Linkage

Any comments on this? Truth? Exaggeration?

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I do hope it's true. Though I hope that if they do use Transgaming Cider for the Mac client, that the ATI support is better than Cedega (also from Transgaming). As it stands right now, I'm having issues using Cedega with my ATI card (as stated in a previous posts), but that's for Linux and not Mac.

As for the Linux client, it makes me wonder if they are doing an OpenGl port of it, or if they are using a third party porting software like Cider?

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A lot of the issues relating to ATI cards can be traced back to their drivers, though the driver made a lot of progress over the past year. It is still lacking in a lot of parts, support with Cedega increases with every release though along with performance.

Posted - 2007.03.18 17:49:00 - [15]

 

A supported Linux client would ROCK!

I only have Windows on my home machines to play EVE.

Posted - 2007.03.20 21:32:00 - [17]

 

Has anyone tried using Eve Voice under Cedega?

Posted - 2007.03.21 11:29:00 - [19]

 

This thread could do with some cleaning of off-topic posts. The questions around the "native" client are answered in other threads.

Posted - 2007.04.13 11:21:00 - [21]

 

I just wondering with the lag issues running under XP, will Cedega running under Linux will add a bit more lag to it. It would be nice just to have Eve clients available on Linux and Mac. I think Vista has created a turning point in OS selection, if Linux community (the world) gets the OS installation more user friendly to the less linux gifted, it would be nice to drop Vista and move to MAC or Linux OS. having eve clients running native in Linux will be magic if Eve can perhaps ask the Linux community to help in creating a eve client.

Posted - 2007.04.16 15:39:00 - [23]

 

Edited by: Sevarus James on 16/04/2007 15:47:39
Edited by: Sevarus James on 16/04/2007 15:45:35
Edited by: Sevarus James on 16/04/2007 15:43:12
Edited by: Sevarus James on 16/04/2007 15:37:29
So, after some more fiddling about and playing with the nvidia control panel/cedega 6.0 settings, here are the results, and they even surprised me!

First, my specs:

x2 3800 dual core AMD
nforce4 nvidia moboard using the ck804 onboard sound.
2 gig 128bit dual channel corsair ram
nvidia 7950 Evga 512meg video card (non sli mode)
nvidia 9755 video drivers
ubuntu 6.10 edgy (current)
cedega 6.0

Running EVE fullscreen at 1900x1200 resolution on a 26" widescreen Acer LCD.
Running cedega in a window with EVE running "fullscreen" produces nearly identical marks even at lower resolution.


Now onto the settings:

Cedega settings:

general tab settings:
scheduler=no
checked:
decrease wineserver priority
accelerated interprocess.
-------Note that I use a utility called taskset to pin EVE to one cpu. This allows me to turn off the scheduler and its associated settings. Under a single core processor, these settings can most likely run default.
SOUND -yep, it does work!
using alsa for sound
ctl device= default
pcm device= default
---normally these two will default to "hw". This will cause problems on some systems (mine.) replacing this with "default" fixes my sound issues completely, and I see no framerate hit with or WITHOUT sound.

mmap NOT checked -not needed for audio. (This, iirc, is for outbound, such as voice comms.)


Graphics Tab

Manually set the video to the card's specs:
video ram=512
agp vertex=128

This doesn't seem to make much difference, whichever is chosen:
pixel shaders=1.4

EVE doesn't use 2.0
vertex shaders=1.1

checked:
nv_var
arb_vbo

UNCHECK framebuffer/float
Uncheck GL shading language
Uncheck Occlusion Queries.
---------what surprised me here is that FBO, although problematic in 5.2.10 and lower tended to INCREASE frame rate. In 6.0, it seems to DECREASE it. By unchecking these new settings, my framerate jumped about 20% over having them checked.

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Nvidia control panel:

X Server XVideo Settings:

sync to " " uncheck both entries.

OpenGL Settings:

3/4 to the right on the performance slider
uncheck "sync to vblank"
CHECK "allow flipping"


Antialiasing settings: uncheck all.(if checked).

In EVE: 1900x1200 Fullscreen
prefs.ini
buffersize=512
---I have audio=1

- I am seeing NO difference in framerate under cedega using alsa or having sound off.


Results and screenshots:
Character screen: 185fps
In station= 73fps

In Space:

At station=46fps
In warp = 61fps
At gate= 48fps
By planet= 45fps
Deadspace Complex entry with clouds: 38fps

--these are averages. lows were in the mid to high 30's, and I, for the first time ever saw 71fps during warp at one point.


Please realize your mileage will vary with hardware, but this is the best fps I've ever...EVER had with EVE under Linux.

Hope this helps some of you who have been futzing about with settings.

Attached screenshots:

At Gate 48fps

Out of warp 67fps

In station 73fps

At station 46fps

In warp 61fps

Posted - 2007.04.23 17:38:00 - [25]

 

I've got eve running fairly well on ubuntu with wine (v. 0.9.35), though using the fglrx ATI drivers was a no go, I've had to install AIGLX drivers, but now it works fine. A few graphical glitches here and there, but otherwise I'm very happy with the outcome.

Posted - 2007.05.13 23:22:00 - [27]

 

well...maybe i missed a post about this :P....i think i can fix the fps problem and still run in window mode. this also works for windows but makes a huge difference with linux.
be sure your res for the game client is LESS than the res for the desktop/monitor.
for me this means the difference between playable and not.

Posted - 2007.05.18 09:38:00 - [29]

 

Ok but, is it really playable? As in, in real situations etc? Does it cause more graphics lag in big battles or not? Does it crash more often in awkward situations, etc...?

And also - is Cedega worth getting if it works with wine as well?
Please advise, because i am getting very sick of Windows and i generally keep it just because of EVE(other game i actually play atm is Quake, which i can get in Linux aswell), so i'd be oh so happy to finally ditch it.