On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:55 AM, OldBitByter <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I built this box and was looking forward to running eve on it. 2 weeks later CCP dropped support for Linux and I haven't been able to get a decent install yet. I found some instructions last night that let me run eve in safe mode, but if I tried adding Vent, it would crash. Also, I can't get Vent to run either. > > Can somebody post a straight forward install so I can run this game as intended, with Vent support. > > UBUNTU Hardy 8.04 > Kernel Linux 2.6.24-27-generic > GNOME 2.22.3 > > Memory 3.2 GiB > > Processor 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz > Processor 1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz > Processor 2: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz > Processor 3: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz > > Avail Disk Space 517GiB > > Wine 1.1.42 > > I'm not really a linux person, unless hating windows makes you one. > No, it doesn't. What graphics card do you have and what drivers are you using with it? Installing EVE should simply be a case of running the installer, grabbing the arial font, and then running the game. This assumes you have a good enough graphics card to run the game and the latest drivers available for that card.
