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I ran into some trouble with EVE running under plain Wine, meaning that i experienced some freak lockups of the game, of course usually in the heat of battle and not safely in a station. Can someone please shoot Murphy while we are at it ? Thank you !.

Anyway, since I recently (few hours ago actually) obtained a license to use Crossover Professional and Crossover Games, I thought i’d give it a swirl and see how the installing process of EVE goes in that. Looking at the whole installation process under plain Wine and the effort it took to get it running and working out all the quirks, I’m guessing that it can be a much more trivial task, but hey, let’s have a look at it shall we ? Read more

Yes ! It’s very well possible to run Windows games on Linux these days.

There is one downside to this good news : Not all games run as well as some do and some don’t even run at all. That said, there are 2 games I like to play at the moment, being World of Warcraft and EVE. Both quite different and both quite Windows.

Now EVE actually has Linux support, being that the game is able to be ran with something called CEDEGA. Well, I looked up on CEDEGA, and it’s a WINE spinoff that became closed source and you have to pay a subscription fee for it. That’s not so bad if the support of the software is great and it runs anything you want. Truth is, that is not the case and there is many disgruntled less-technical users out there that would be happy to get rid of CEDEGA and switch to the free, opensource solution for it, WINE. There are even (multiple) stories of CEDEGA not responding at all to support requests and only getting into action when said subscriber cancelled his subscription. That was it for me, no way am I going to pay for a shitty service using a software package that has it’s roots ‘loaned’ from an opensource project.

So, obviously, with users experience with CEDEGA in mind, and seeming WINE is also the harder path of choice, I naturally chose to run my 2 favorites with WINE and see how far i can go with it.

By the end of this blogline i hope I will have provided you with enough knowledge to run your games under Linux and enjoy getting it there as much as I did. Read more