First of all, nothing is better than a native port. I don't care if it runs "fine" under wine. Maybe the shaders don't work, maybe there are graphical glitches. I want games companies to care enough to compile the damn thing for linux. All they have to do is just lose the dependency for silly windows libs, use OpenGL, its 10x better than directx in my opinion.
You recommend WoW to people, you are an evil person. You know once during my foray into WoW, I typed/played and it was some massive number and I just realized all the time that had been spent...and just stopped playing. Now I still play games but I have never played a silly mmo like WoW since then. I do play EvE but the nature of eve doesn't require any grinding or mindless activites to progress...no matter what your doing for say an hour in eve will help you in the long run.
Stop recommending silly games like WoW to people, its quite an evil thing:/
Your wrong. I can play WoW under wine just fine, getting better FPS than in windows. WoW has an OpenGL option, next time don't start yelling before actually reading things.
But nothing beats a native client. And how hard is it, I bet most of that code compiles on windows...take out a few windows.h includes and write your own timers. WoW already has OpenGL support in it.
For those that can't log in to see the patch notes:
Patch Notes for Revelations 2.3
As announced in Hellmar's Fanfest Keynote presentation, CCP has teamed with Transgaming to provide additional operating system support for the EVE client. EVE will now run on Macintosh OS X and Linux. For further information, please see this news item. Also, a new section concerning the new operating system support will be added to the Frequently Asked Questions on Monday.
* Several 'Need for Speed' code optimizations have been added to the client.
* The newly supported Linux and Macintosh operating systems can now be specified when submitting technical petitions.
* Various fixes and enhancements have been added to our billing and petition systems, as well as to GM tools.
* If an office's rent expires while a BP is in production and is not re-rented before the job is completed, the BP's will return to the impound.
* The wallet mouseover display will update correctly on balance change.
* A rare error that prevented a recently podded player from opening their wallet has been resolved.
* An exception occuring upon client resize has been resolved.
* A number of drop down menu now have larger boxes.
* A number of minor Unicode errors in right click menus have been resolved.
* Several unused or outdated DLLs/binaries have been removed from the client.
Important Note: If you receive an error message when starting the EVE client claiming the existance of illegal files in your bin folder, it will be necessary to manually remove them.
The following are the valid DLLs/binaries that should remain in the EVE client's bin folder:
o Folder: Microsoft.VC80.CRT
+ Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
+ msvcm80.dll
+ msvcp80.dll
+ msvcr80.dll
o _ctypes.pyd
o _PyFreeTypeP.dll
o _trinity.dll
o alut.dll
o audio.dll
o blue.dll
o boost_python.dll
o chartdir.dll
o db.dll
o dbghelp.dll
o destiny.dll
o ExeFile.exe
o NetClient.dll
o NetUtil.dll
o ortp.dll
o pyexpat.pyd
o python25.dll
o RedistD3DXOnly.exe
o vivoxsdk.dll
o wrap_oal.dll
* The following Alliance logos have been added or updated:
o Daisho Syndicate
o Dune Heretics
o YouWhat
o BORTHER'S WORD
o Space Weaponry and Trade
o The Immortality Project
o Blue Sky Consortium
o FreeFall Securities
o The Order of the Red Locust
o Dark Taboo
o National Capital Region
o Angelus Errere - Where angels lose their way
o Order of Khaos
o Friend or Enemy
o Brethren of The Sky
o The Covenant Alliance
o Shinra Alliance
o Sev3rance
o KIA Alliance
o Cold Fusion Syndicate
o Ethereal Dawn
o Abyss Alliance
o Division of Eden
o Minuit.
o Acid Alliance
o Deus Ex.
o INTERDICTION
o Daem Exalter Oni Noegene
o The Gurlstas Associates
o C0VEN
o N O V A
Its not a native client. It uses a stripped-down version of the commercial fork of the now-obsolete xwine (what with normal wine having most dx things now), Cedega. People have been running the eve online client under wine and cedega for years now, I can run it under wine and get better fps than windows in some cases:P.
Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for.
I just thought I'd mention that because they don't until it actually starts installing.
This is alot of broadcasting for something that is slightly useful to the average person. What about those with phones in their pockets, now spamming your crotch with useless radiation.
It got GPLed. I threw ALSA out and have been using OSS commercial for a couple months now...sound has never sounded so good I do have to say, and hardware mixing! That means no more ALSA "one app has sound lol" problems.
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...will be happy to find out this is the guy that clogged his inbox all those years.
First of all, nothing is better than a native port. I don't care if it runs "fine" under wine. Maybe the shaders don't work, maybe there are graphical glitches. I want games companies to care enough to compile the damn thing for linux. All they have to do is just lose the dependency for silly windows libs, use OpenGL, its 10x better than directx in my opinion.
You recommend WoW to people, you are an evil person. You know once during my foray into WoW, I typed /played and it was some massive number and I just realized all the time that had been spent...and just stopped playing. Now I still play games but I have never played a silly mmo like WoW since then. I do play EvE but the nature of eve doesn't require any grinding or mindless activites to progress...no matter what your doing for say an hour in eve will help you in the long run.
:/
Stop recommending silly games like WoW to people, its quite an evil thing
Yeah, WoW under wine for me was like 120fps, in windows it was more like 100-110. Small but yes it is faster, and thats under wine...
Your wrong. I can play WoW under wine just fine, getting better FPS than in windows. WoW has an OpenGL option, next time don't start yelling before actually reading things.
But nothing beats a native client. And how hard is it, I bet most of that code compiles on windows...take out a few windows.h includes and write your own timers. WoW already has OpenGL support in it.
Its not a linux port. They simply packaged Cedega with EVE. I wish people would stop praising them for that...its not a native client.
Its not a native client. It uses a stripped-down version of the commercial fork of the now-obsolete xwine (what with normal wine having most dx things now), Cedega. People have been running the eve online client under wine and cedega for years now, I can run it under wine and get better fps than windows in some cases :P.
Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for.
I just thought I'd mention that because they don't until it actually starts installing.
If it was an inside job, I don't think they would have busted through a wall. They could have just copied said data.
Sure, you just need the Tin Foil Blanket Gun (TM).
This is alot of broadcasting for something that is slightly useful to the average person. What about those with phones in their pockets, now spamming your crotch with useless radiation.
Yeah, I could have used that a while ago. I had to fab molds for some aluminum robot legs in plaster of paris, I ended up using a cnc machine.
So, to prevent these from attacking...why not just cover them with a big tin foil blanket?
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Chuck Norris' cries pure Capsaicin, too bad hes never cried.
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Documents, who needs em?
It got GPLed. I threw ALSA out and have been using OSS commercial for a couple months now...sound has never sounded so good I do have to say, and hardware mixing! That means no more ALSA "one app has sound lol" problems.
I've never had a single crash with the nVidia driver in my system, maybe you should check your card, it could be overheating. Dust out them fans.
The business suits don't know what the world "cool" means in terms of their bottom line.
I think if your account is a US account its fine.
I'm running photoshop 7 under wine. Its worked forever.
Yea, apparently they are using Excel to calculate how much "unlimited" is.
Its not a truck!! You can't just put stuff on it!