Eve Online on PS3?
Posted by hailin on November 5, 2007
The latest Eve Online news is that Eve Online is going to be pushing out a Linux / Mac client.
This got me thinking. Since PS3 can run certain Linux enviroments (Yellow Dog being the most popular) isn’t it possible to run Eve Online on the PS3?
I can think of only one thing that could possibly hold this back and that is PS3’s video processor. I do not believe there are any proper drivers out for the RSX. But at the same time EVE has never been a computer hog in CPU and GPU power.
Ok there is one other problem. The new Trinity upgrade for EVE how is this going to affect user performance across the board? How would this affect the PS3’s 512mb of ram?
A lot of these questions I really can’t answer as I don’t have Linux on my PS3 yet, what I can say is I hope someone attempts this as I would love to see EVE on my plasma instead of my computer monitor.
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Mike said
Heya
Unfortunately Eve wont run on a PS3 running linux there are 2 problems:
The graphics processor in the PS3 is off limits when running a third party OS, its not really a driver issue but more the fact that they dont want people to use their GPU, there are people working to unlock it.
The other problem is that the Eve Online debs/rpms are not compiled for ppc chips. This isnt likely to happen any time soon
The most we can hope for is an actual PS3 release