arillat/EVE Online.desktop

Short link to this gist: https://t1p.de/evewine

To install Wine and its dependencies, include the [multilib] repo, then just create a meta package and install.

If vulkan is not installed, meta package will ask you to choose a vulkan provider, pick what you like. Since I have an AMD Radeon graphics, I picked vulkan-radeon.

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf 
# and uncomment the following lines in /etc/pacman.conf 
# [multilib]
# Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# create a meta package
mkdir eve-meta
cd eve-meta/
nano PKGBUILD # create the PKGBUILD file here with the content shared at the end
makepkg -si # select your vulkan when this command runs

export WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/eve-online
winecfg # Staging > Enable VAAPI as backend for DXVA2 GPU Decoding

# Optional: Set temp directory on tmpfs
# rm -r $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/$USER/Temp $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/temp
# ln -s /tmp/ $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/$USER/Temp
# ln -s /tmp/ $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/temp

winetricks msdelta vkd3d vcrun2022 dxvk2030

Also increasing the vm.max_map_count (link) might be helpful.

Get the new installer from the official website:
https://launcher.ccpgames.com/eve-online/release/win32/x64/eve-online-latest+Setup.exe

Run it as a normal user:

 WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/eve-online/ wine ~/Downloads/eve-online-latest+Setup.exe 

EVE Online launcher should be running at this point, let the minimum game files be downloaded until the client is ready.

Wine should also add a .desktop file for EVE Online for easy launching from applications list. The created .desktop file might not launch the game. If so, add start as a command parameter for wine.

I tried running the game for a while, and it runs but stops responding every once in a while runs well after downloading the full game client, for now. I also find it useful to run in windowed mode so that client can be forcefully terminated.

I have personally added some environment variables to the launch command, and the entire .desktop file is shared below. For ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 to take effect, install vkbasalt from AUR (link).

To associate the URI schemes eveonline: and evelauncher:, update your .desktop file as shown in the reference EVE Online.desktop given below. Then run

 update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/
 update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/

I followed these sites while installing EVE Online on my Arch and thank the authors for sharing the knowledge:

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User:Mcnster/EVE_Online
2. https://gist.github.com/Caffe1neAdd1ct/a33ef61c0ac8222e64f80f3ef335321c