EVE General Discussion

I can see adding variety to the different areas of the game, but the 'gas / dust clouds' seem to demand a lot more of my hardware than other graphical parts of the game do. Could these be made a little less demanding? Could I fit a mid-slot vacuum cleaner or a specially adapted gas harvester to clear out the dust?

I find the problem largely goes away if I zoom way out.

And by way out, I mean turning on the tactical overlay and zooming out till I can see the 100km ring.

But I fly around that zoomed out a majority of the time anyway.

CCP does seem to know about it, but have not yet found a final solution. I guess we have to wait a little more, but it is good to make another thread. Overheated hardware is bad for everyone's business.

Lowering the quality settings (am at work right now, cannot specify the exact setting) reduces the cloud graphic from what loots like a particulate (Particule systems have almost always been graphically intesive) fluffy cloud to a flat texture that looks like scribbled writting.

I had to do this on my 2009 iMac that I happily run 3 windowed mining clients on (used to do l4 missions on it in fullscreen).

But I agree, CCP could look into partiular fix or setting to adress this.

Not only do these cause undesired performance hikes, they're ugly.

Yeah this problem is pretty old. Clouds and certain effects are horribly unoptimized, and there's no way to turn them off. It also doesn't help that your targeting UI becomes unreadable because well... one can't read WHITE text on a WHITE background now, can one? As others have said: only solution is to zoom out as far as possible so the least amount of assets get rendered.

these dust clouds?

hell no they look far too pretty.

Use your cards manufacturer overclocking software and manually set fans (55% in my case).
3 accounts inside clouds, max settings on everything GPU temp circa 57 celcius.

No, these gas clouds.
Some of them were fixed in Retribution 1.0 (for example bright violet cloud in Warzone of WC mission) but now they look like they made out of oversized low-res lightning sprite. The others now bring even more increased impact on performance, like cloud on low-level Cargo Delivery (dropping fps from 60 to 20, overheating gpu from 50 to 80C).

CCP have disabled some clouds in past (like Recon 3/3 toxic cloud). It's time to make us a little present and disable other clouds until option/fix will arrive in distant future.


Yeah, right. Manually locking my fan rpm's while GPU temp rises to 80C even with close to max rpm is a good idea. What could possibly go wrong..
And btw, card is EVGA Nvidia GTX 560. The one that was recommended on last year Fanfest (its marketing blablabla ofc, but still) for DX11 EVE.
I can expect that my GPU temp will skyrocket in Crysis 2 (it wont) or some other graphic intensive game. But there is no reason to extreme test my hardware in EVE environment.

I find the problem largely goes away if I play EVE Online on hardware made this decade. Maybe its time to upgrade that NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200.