[SOLVED] EVE Online won't start after Crucible 1.5 update

Question

Before i start, i'm aware that this would be better off at WineHQ, but i'm technically not asking for help. I'm just wondering if any of you have gotten it running since the update. I already googled the issue and same thing for me as for every other Linux user, The Launcher works fine, but after the splashscreen it just crashes. So if any of you find a fix (or i find a fix, in which case i'll mark this thread as solved) please share it. Oh and i tried one fix that supposedly worked for a few, but i had no luck. (changing the msvcr100 from (native, builtin) to (builtin, native) )
Any help appreciated
Edit:
Okay i tried pretty much "everything" and i decided to completely remove and re-install wine (and all directories within) and start from a new install. These are the commands i made.
sudo pacman -Rs wine (first i removed winetricks, wine_gecko, and others requiring wine though)
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm
Then i reinstalled wine and winetricks.
And I installed these packages using winetricks.
allfonts
msxml4
vcrun2005sp1
vcrun2008
vcrun2010
Then simply downloaded and installed the game, and at first i got the same crash error. So i went into winecfg and changed the msvcr100 to (builtin, native) and voila! it works perfectly. I must have had a missing file, or conflicting files or something within wine earlier.
So it's confirmed, this solution DOES work. And if you're in my position, and all else fails, then you know what to do. Hope this helps anyone who happens to be in the position i was.
Edit II:
Okay so after several patches after the big update, it seems to crash after every one of them, but it's simple to work around. When there's a new patch available follow these simple steps.
- Change msvcr80/90/100 to (native, builtin) and you will be able to successfully update with the launcher
- when the update is done, close the launcher, open winecfg and change back msvcr80/90/100 to (builtin, native) and you will be able to launch the game.
This seems to have worked for every patch/update that's released.
Oh and lastly, i also ended up installing d3dx9_43 with winetricks, don't know if that's necessary or not, but nevertheless.
Last edited by waspy (2012-03-17 07:41:53)

Answer 1

Thanks, I had to change mscvr80 and mscvr90 to (builtin, native) also, but your msvcr100 tip lead me there.  Works well for me now, thank you for sharing your experience.