Issues, Workarounds & Localization

God Damned BULL **** MOTHER ******* CCP CRAPPY ******* FORUM!

Ok, my last reply was eatten by the forum. So.........................

The short of it. Reinstall Eve FIRST. If you want to back up your Eve settings copy (can't use slashes so each comma is a slash) Users,local settings or something,application data, CCP. Uninstall Eve, reinstall Eve. Copy that stuff back to where you found it. Good luck.

It's not the OS because I've been running multiple accounts (up to 6 at a time) on my Windows 7 machine for over a year now. So it must be something in your configuration, etc. My suggestion - uninstall the EVE software and re-download/re-install it. Sucks if you're on dialup but...

You have to reboot three times after re-install.

I am running EVE on 64 bit Windows 7 Professional and have UAC turned on. Maybe one of your video drivers is not Windows 7 ready

Tried that... Any other ideas...

ExEfile sits in processes after I see the crucible splash screen but now eve window appears...

This is a typical sign for DirectX9c not properly installed

Try running C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\bin\DirectX\DXSETUP.exe

Maybe you have to run this setup as Administrator.

I'll say it again. Uninstall/Reinstall Eve, if you have not done so. In place upgrades of the Windows OS come with many horror stories of lite reading while you wait for it to complete. I've never done an in place upgrade. Always a fresh install when updating to a new version of Windows since it is known to be problematic for all but the most cozy of software partners of which I'm sure CCP is not one. Other than driver & software component updates, which you've done, that is generally, with rare exception, the extent of issues I've ever faced with fresh installs.

The DB permission error quoted above....could it have something to do with permissions? *blink*

Try running Eve with the administrator account. >THE< administrator account, not a user with admin privileges. There is a difference. What that is, I've never been arsed enough to find out. If it works/does not work, reinstall Eve. At some point MS moved "documents and settings" to "users". It could be vista. IDK, never tried vista. But, I'm assuming you upgraded from vista to windows 7 since all other older versions of windows require a fresh install of windows 7. But, assuming that change came with Windows 7, it could be that Eve client is looking for files in the wrong place which could very well be your problem since regular users don't have access to the now legacy "documents and settings" which is only there for compatibility. And of course this all comes back around to reinstalling the Eve client. ;)

Another thing to try.

Right click on the icon for launching Eve.
Go to Properties
Click on the Compatibility tab
Check the box that says 'run the program in compatibility mode'
Choose Windows XP (service pack 3) as the compatibility mode
privilege level is near the bottom
Check Run this program as an administrator
Hit OK
Try running the icon again.

It i works great, if not, you have something 'wrong' with your computer and should probably back up a few steps.

If this was an updated OS your profile could be an issue. Creat a new user on the computer and try running Eve from that user.

Windows 7 SHOULD work fine with Eve, but Updating Windows OSs is never really a good idea if it can be avoided, it is usually better to start fresh.

To explain UAC:

It's a security feature. what it does is, if you're an admin, it has you run as a regular unprivileged account. This stops(kinda) malicious programs that you run (by accident, of course ), from being able to mess with all your settings, and screwing your machine up completely. Running as administrator is, generally, a bad idea. It's just asking for trouble.

The downside is, programs have to be configured to request admin where they need it. Most new ones do.

You also have more limited privileges to things like the root of your drive. Again, to protect you from malicious software. Even people that know what they're doing can get hit by a drive by download, exploiting a 0-day hole in their browser.

If you're a regular user, you pretty much only have access to your own directory in [drive]:/users/


I should note, I'm running with UAC turned on, on windows 7 64bit and it's all working just fine. I'd echo the advice of 'never upgrade, clean install every time.' I've seen (in a professional capacity) the problems it can cause.



One quick question. Where did you install eve? The default location, or elsewhere? If elsewhere, try the default.

Reinstall eve. If that fails it will be less hassle to just reinstall windows from scratch as a fresh install, especially since more then eve is having trouble.