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Machine Info and Settings

• OS version: 7 64
• CPU: i7 960 (HT)
• GPU: GTX570
• RAM: 6Go
• Were you running more than one EVE client? How many? no, some lags appeared during during the waiting stage with 3 clients and titans arrriving, so only one client
• Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): High (AA off)

User Experience

• Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets disabled - Zoomed out: erf, bracket enabled ...
Gate fight 12
pos 24
npc : 18-20

• Average fPS - Zoomed in:
Gate fight 7-9
Pos 17-19
npc 12-14

• On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 8 : much better, but too much lag during gate fight
• Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? no
• Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:
-- AUDIO :
- eve chat OK
- UI sound OK
- turret sound : KO : too much lag, hashing, stuttering, call it what you like, it was annoying as hell
-- Graphics
- during pos fight I had more than 20FPS difference with the guns active and the guns off (the whole fleet I mean) when the pos exploded, I went from 19ish to 40+
- when exiting the option menu (esc-->close windows) my GPU take a heat spike high enough to wake up the fan during a few sec. couldn't get the exact value, I 'll need to check another time.
-- other
- no visible lag when ordering drones or activating turrets
- I did not get kill mails even though I was hitting at least 3 ships that exploded (including a hulk.... lol)
- the combat log seemed a bit laggy, but that may be just my imagination

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.70ghz
GPU: onboard video, NVidia GeForce 8100/ nForce 720a (think it has around 512mg video ram)
RAM: 2gb
Were you running more than one EVE client? How many?
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high):

User Experience

Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets disabled - Zoomed out: < 10
Average FPS - Zoomed in: < 10
On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) Both way worse and omg awesome. Jumping through gates was way awesome - even with a mass jump, had virtually no hang-ups/lag/freezing. During both pos bash and gate fight started out smooth and latency free, then over time client started to stall and fall behind actuality, to the point where when I warped off, the screen still showed a frozen image of the battle scene for about 50 seconds after I landed at the gate.
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? no
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

My first mass-test, actually enjoyed it greatly. Logis ftw!

The test started smoothly, in fact, everything seemed to be running MUCH smoother than I'm used to on TQ. About midway through the pos bash, pos's armor was down around 30%, I began to experience video and sound lag. Video became jumpy, was acting like it was losing/dropping/skipping frames. Sound effects started to drop/miss. Response time on my modules was several seconds (sometimes up to 10) behind activation, visually at least.

This dragging of video and sound seemed to accumulate over time, and did not improve until my next session timer - when I jumped in for the fleet fight (was in fleetx). The fleet fight began quite smoothly, but again, over time, my video and sound began to lag/drop/skip, and it continued to get worse over time - although it never got as bad as at the pos bash.

Brackets on/off did not seem to have any effect for better or worse. Sound on EveVoice did not drop/lag or degrade - only the game's sound effects did.

This did not seem to me to be a network issue, but more of a performance issue likely on my end, albiet the response degradation happened during the test at a much faster rate than I usually experience. I experience these same issues on TQ when I've been playing for hours - an accumulation of ever-slowing client responsiveness, that I believe is directly related to my owning a remarkably lackluster video card

On TQ I normally have all my graphical settings at lowest possible and all video effects turned off. For the mass test, I had all my graphical settings at low as I normally do, but for the test I turned on "Turret Effects" "effects" "Missile Effects" and "Ship Explosions".

OS version: OSX 10.6.8
CPU: Intel core i7
GPU: NVIDA GeForce GT 330M
RAM: 8GB 1067 Mhz
Were you running more than one EVE client? How many? One
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): Low


User Experience


Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets disabled - Zoomed out: 12
Average FPS - Zoomed in: 6
On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome): 5
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? None
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

Bugs: I could not join fleet audio. The option was there but selecting it resulted in nothing. The option to join remained, and I could try over and over, but no voice.

During the fleet fight I escaped once, warping to a planet. When I was there I noticed 2 ships at the gate, 28 thousand KM away, still showed on the overview. My guess to reproduce: get where there are many other ships, perhaps fighting, then warp to a planet.

Edit: I notice that two other Mac users both had problems, and were both on OSX 10.7

OS version: Windows XP sp3 32

CPU: Core2Duo 2.8GHz

GPU: GeForce 280M GTX

RAM: 4GB

Were you running more than one EVE client? 2 clients

Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): low

User Experience

Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets on - Zoomed out: 12-17
Zoomed in: 5-7

On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 5

Did you experience any disconnects, complete freezes or crashes? no

Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Just heavy lag :(

Machine Info and Settings


OS version: Windows 7 x64
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
GPU: 2x ATI Radeon 4850 Crossfire
RAM: 4GB RAM
Were you running more than one EVE client? How many? No
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): Default


User Experience


Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets disabled - Zoomed out: 10-15 fps
Average FPS - Zoomed in: 5-8 fps
On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 5, not sure what large scale performance is like in TQ as I've never been in an encounter that size before.
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? No
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Seemed to run smoothly, no server lag but some client lag/low FPS. When all the sounds of the guns were going the sound would randomly cut out, jukebox worked fine though just sound effects, probably because there were so many at once. POS bash seemed to go much more smoothly and lag free than the fight on the gate in poitot.

OS version: Windows 7 Ultimate 64

CPU: AMD Athlon II 640 X4 3.0 GHz

GPU: ATI 6950 2GB DDR5 Mem

RAM: 6GB DDR3

Were you running more than one EVE client? No

Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high):high


User Experience


Average FPS during fight at the gate in Poitot, with brackets disabled - Zoomed out: 10
Zoomed in: 12

On a scale of 1-10, how would you compare FPS and performance between this test and TQ? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) 8

Did you experience any disconnects, complete freezes or crashes? nope

Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Everything was fine