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EVE Online Coming to Linux, Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes "Linuxlookup.com is reporting that CCP today announced a partnership with TransGaming to bring EVE Online to Linux and Mac platforms starting later this year. From the article: '"EVE Online has always ranked highly with our Linux users and there is significant demand for it among other platforms, including the rapidly growing Mac base," said Vikas Gupta, CEO of TransGaming Technologies. "As EVE takes place within a single-server persistent universe, it's vital that the game is identical in every way across different platforms. This challenge is what makes the partnership with CCP both important and rewarding."'
I'm actually signed up for testing this client. For those of you who don't realize this yet, the client they're releasing for linux and mac is actually just the windows client wrapped up with Cedega and Cider, respectively. There won't be much difference between the the performance for those that run it under Wine/Cedega and those that run it with this upcoming client. The biggest advantage, though, is official support (which Cedega has basically had for a while, now... no big change here). The news are not as big as this article makes it seem... Also, it'll be a little while before the official client is released. They've been taking forever to keep us up to date, sending one e-mail every two weeks or so with no real updates on the matter besides some examples of what we might be testing. They haven't even decided what the final list of testers is, even. Ah well, I guess something's something... and I think at least OSX users will be really thankful for this development.
> The shitty ATI 1900 in my Macpro desktop overheats
> and crashes the system pretty consistently though.
File a bug report! Apple is convinced I'm the only one having this problem! The OS simply isn't listening to the temperature in the PCI bay and correct for it properly. Making matters worse, the OS doesn't look at the temperature from the card itself at all.
And to actually "fix" it, go get a copy of smcFanControl. Make a setting called "Gaming" and crank the PCI bay fan to about 900-1200. Presto, the problem is gone. Unfortunately this sets the _lower_ speed of the fans only, so the noise level goes up even in idle.
But to put this in perspective, I can run WoW and Halo all day long completely maxed out at 2560 x 1600 without any problems. And when I'm not playing, I simply reset the fans to Default.
Maury