Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd never use this, but see no reason why you shouldn't be able to.

If you weren't already aware of these settings, in the mean time you can turn off all effects, turn off drone models, and turn your graphics all the way down, and I'd hope your PC can run that lag free. If not, I would seriously recommend upgrading, or just quitting EVE and playing smartphone games because you'd be a disgrace to the glorious PC master race.

If you turn graphics all the way down and turn off all graphics options, eve isn't much above what OP wants. I found, when I was involved in blob warfare, that turning off brackets had more of an impact on system performance than lowering the graphics below medium. Additionally, if you're going out in a blob, shut down your other clients to free up those resources.

If you're experiencing client crashes in these cases, it would be helpful if you would use the F12 menu to file a bug report. If your machine meets the minimum system requirements, GPU load should never cause a client crash. If you're experiencing a graphics driver crash, you can hold down ctrl-alt-shift-M and select and save the log after it recovers, and submit that as well.

I'm somewhat dubious that your GPU load at minimum settings is what's causing the problems you're seeing.

Something like that would be nice for those of us who also run the game on a laptop and would like to avoid the laptop succumbing to heat death. When travel takes us away from the main computer, the laptop becomes necessary.

If you think the OS + EVE counts as malware?
I have two machines, the other runs my comms, web browser and such.

Made sure it was the 128 bit bus speed and not the 64 bit when I bought it.
Seven generations after the 8600 GTS I am sure it is a better card because this browser machine has an 8000 generation card in it.
Also <3 GPU-Z

Dual 3ghz what? Pentium D? Wolfdale? Athlon x64? Athlon II? ? If it's a Pentium D, then that things is probably the problem. Not that an Athlon x64 is much better... Wolfedale is old, but can still hold its own with the higher end 8000/200 series Nvidia cards.

The 630 GT isn't much better than an 8600 either. It ranks a few spots higher on a GPU comparison chart.

You also didn't mention what OS you have. Vista/7 with Aero "can" affect older builds and disabling desktop composition in the exe settings may help, but most likely will not show improvement.

You also mentioned issues when TiDi kicks in or when other environmentals load, which sounds like the GPU struggling to keep up. Does the GPU overheat or does the EVE client just crash/close/freeze on you? Lots of details left out that could help us figure out a solution here.

EVE is a finely optimized game. Bordering on the minimum requirements to play and hoping CCP is going to cater towards a silly OCD tendency is a waste of time and resources. For less than $400 you could easily buy/build a machine that could run EVE without a hitch. Hell, just to add salt to the wound I decided to run EVE on my server PC. It has a quad core(3.4ghz), 4GB ram and a 7800GT. The card is a series older than 8000 and is actually under minimum requirements to play EVE. Game ran fine on lowest settings with a 1280x1024 resolution.

Even my dual core 1.6ghz laptop with a Radeon 3200HD can run EVE without freezing up. Do I even need to tell you how old the 3k series cards are? lol... Sure, I may have to load up the universe map for things to not bog down terribly as I am traveling, but the game runs.

Something IS wrong with your setup and I don't know what it is because it is not my computer. The only things at this moment I can consider may be your issues are monitor resolution and drivers not installed(motherboard, etc). For a 630GT I wouldn't go any higher than 1280x1024 for optimized gameplay.

ps - It certainly doesn't help either that you can play Skyrim with mods just fine and not EVE. Something is wrong on your end. Or you're trying too hard to engage in 500 player battles expecting your PC to manage the load efficiently.

Of course I didn't test it in huge fleet battles, I know exaclty what the outcome is going to be. Lag, lag and more lag. It's a result of old and crappy PC hardware and CCP's server clusters doing the best they can to manage it all at the same time.

If you want to engage in the iconic battles EVE offers, put a little effort into doing it efficiently. Your hardware is your enemy, not EVE's lack of optimization.

Nvidia's naming/numbering scheme is an easy indicator here. The second digit in the number determines how powerful the GPU is for gaming. Higher is better.

GT 630? Good for office computers and browser games. Even when it first came out, it sucked for gaming -- it simply was not designed for it. Worthless for modern gaming at any kind of decent graphics quality.

Pair that with a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz CPU, and you've got a machine that was definitely not made for gaming in 2015.

Hell, I'd be too embarrassed to undock a ship with that computer.

OP needs to save his or her pennies to get better gaming hardware, rather than trying to get EVE devs to cater to hardware not designed for gaming even when it was brand new.