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Downloading..... :guitar:

Brilliant, about time they included this. Haven't fully read up on this, but I hope they don't force you to get a Cadega subscription on top of your EVE subscription to actually be able to play it in Linux...

Nope, no extra charge for playing EVE-Online even though the engine is based on Cedega.

Exquisite :)

You mentioned downloading, but that's some sort of preview version? Or is there already an version released to the public?

No public release yet, only for Cedega members at the moment. There's a specific server where all non-windows player can test the linux/OS X client, and it will be followed when ready to Tranquality.

awesome!

DMac

Any more info on when this will be released for tranq?

Nope, I'll keep you all updated if any changes going to happen.

AI do you play this game now? Is it any good? I might give it a try...

It's great (though require a little patience) - Strategically thinking is important in this space simualtion game. Even long time player can be beaten up by a newbie if not careful.

Where do I get this to try? Would love to toss my Windows partition entirely.

The beta is not available for public. Only Cedega subscribers have the option.

Any idea when this will be made available to those of us without a Cedega subscription?

I play EVE-Online happily with Wine, and it's more stable than when I play it with XP :D

Not tried it in Gutsy yet though - just off to install it now.

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is it still possible to sign up I cannot find the links anywhere on the transgaming/cedega sites

It's too late to sign up for that.

I play it an enjoy it. I like it because unlike wow, it has a pvp end game, and death is meaningful. You don't just respawn when you die, you have to build or buy a new ship. Also the economy is entirely player driven, as is the pvp. The game doesn't tell you what to do or who to fight, you get to choose. It is vast and very open ended.

I upgraded my computer yesterday but I installed the 64 bit gutsy and apparently the client is 32 bits, but doesn't bother telling you that until after the installer downloads everything and installs it. It just doesn't run, and I finally figured out it's because it's 32 bit. I might be able to get all the proper 32 bit libs installed to get it working, but I think tonight I'll just reinstall the 32 bit gutsy and see if that works out.

If I can manage to get the eve and teamspeak linux clients working decently I can finally say goodby to windows totally.

psusi said: I play it an enjoy it. I like it because unlike wow, it has a pvp end game, and death is meaningful. You don't just respawn when you die, you have to build or buy a new ship. Also the economy is entirely player driven, as is the pvp. The game doesn't tell you what to do or who to fight, you get to choose. It is vast and very open ended.

I upgraded my computer yesterday but I installed the 64 bit gutsy and apparently the client is 32 bits, but doesn't bother telling you that until after the installer downloads everything and installs it. It just doesn't run, and I finally figured out it's because it's 32 bit. I might be able to get all the proper 32 bit libs installed to get it working, but I think tonight I'll just reinstall the 32 bit gutsy and see if that works out.

If I can manage to get the eve and teamspeak linux clients working decently I can finally say goodby to windows totally.

downloaded trial client and worked right away on gutsy amd64 ... odd

Really? Have you already done something to install 32bit libs? I am sure you can do that somehow, I just didn't know how so I installed the 32 bit version and am downloading eve now. I also got teamspeak installed but it picks up my voice very low. In windows I always have to turn on that stupid mic boost option so people can hear me, but I can't seem to find a way to do that in Ubuntu.

psusi said: Really? Have you already done something to install 32bit libs? I am sure you can do that somehow, I just didn't know how so I installed the 32 bit version and am downloading eve now. I also got teamspeak installed but it picks up my voice very low. In windows I always have to turn on that stupid mic boost option so people can hear me, but I can't seem to find a way to do that in Ubuntu.

ok couple of things:

a) get libs32 by installing all of the ia32* packages.

b) sound: do you have a mic boost button in volume control? if not check in preferences if there is an option, I got mine activated that way

I have recently started playing this game because it ported to Linux (sort of). If you run the .deb version of it, it loads an old Cedega Engine, which works fine, but graphics are not quite up to speed with the current version of the game. On a whim, I installed the .exe version under plain jane wine, and it runs spectacularly! Graphics are MUCH better, and I can run it in windowed mode, unlike the Cedega version. I have noticed that it hiccups and crashes out rarely, but not often enough to really warrant much concern. Ive been running it in wine now for the last couple days and I must say, I am really, really impressed. VERY addictive game LOL!

Another thing is that the system specs for the Linux version are grossly over the top IMO. I was able to get the .deb running just great on a much older PC with Gutsy on it. Could not get it to run under wine on that machine. So that must be why the .deb packages with a Cedega engine, but if you have a gaming rig (like ALL us real gamers do), then wine is the way to go.

interesting point on graphics....

fyi you can run the cedega in a window (I do ;) )

I will post a screen shot and then you can tell me if the graphics really are better on the wine version (might download wineo client anyhow)

Cuppa-Chino said: interesting point on graphics....

fyi you can run the cedega in a window (I do ;) )

I will post a screen shot and then you can tell me if the graphics really are better on the wine version (might download wineo client anyhow)

Im sure you probably can on the 6.0.3 engine. I was referring to the .deb file that CCP provides which runs on the older Cedega wrapper. I think wine is the way to go for the free solution if you have the hardware to support it.

i'm currently using 7.10 and for some reason i cannot run EVE without it screwing up with rendering the game.... so i''m stuck at the EULA acceptance page and none of the text will show and it wontt let you scroll down. HELP!

Same problem here. No clue what's going on!

I'm also having the same problem.

I did as suggested on other forums and from whats on the wineHQ page. I installed and copied the fonts to the windows/fonts directory and changed the permissions but I'm still stuck on the EULA screen. Any ideas?

You only need one font: arial.ttf - and it needs to go .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

worked for me (thats the wine + eve solution)

Using Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit version.

Installed Eve, using the ubuntu 7.04 and above version from the eve website.

Then when going to applications/games/eve online The installer could not find eve packages so I selected download from the internet, and it installed something.

Then eve splash came up, then a sort of menu screen and audio started to play. I'm guessing it was a menu screen, however there were no graphics on the screen. It was just a sort of popup window with nothing in it, and audio playing. Then is went away and nothing else happened.

My video card is is Geforce Nvidia 64MB card.Not much power there, perhaps my video card is not good enough.

Anyone know how I might get eve working.