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Yes they are a bigger strain then the old. Yet my rig is overkill so I don't see a differance unless tripple boxing. But I would lower graphics at that point anyway.
a off, mid, and high missile effect would be nice. But keeping the old math around for the old grphics may just be too much of a burden when the host is trying to tell your client how to render things.

Strange thing is that last Sisi build is using more cpu/gpu than TQ build. Still, performance hit like this means something on Sisi is using more HP i guess.

i would prefer the option: x disable smoke
think this is the performance killer.

correct. smoke/fog/clouds are big hits on performance. This has caused issues on tons of FPS games but most of them do not give you the option to turn them off completely as that would give the player an advantage. Smoke has never been an issued before in EVE because they did not have any so I doubt CCP will include a graphics setting to where you can turn it off or lower the quality.

CCP devs should know smoke can be a performance killer as it's common knowledge so hopefully, they tested it with and without smoke to check how it performs.

It affects a single mission runner noticeably, FPS drop, and increased GPU usage, fans spin like crazy.
Now imagine a fleet battle, where the only choice is to turn off all effects.

A performance hit like this makes all work pointless, bcouse i would rather turn effects off then look at stuttering FPS and GPU hovering around 90% (barely 50% before) with GPU fan sounding like a hairdryer.

I LOVE the new launchers but i like the old missile effects more than the revamped ones, also theres less performance hit. Keep the new launchers but old effects. Make the massive smoke trails optional please. I'm running dual 6970's with 8 gigs ram and still get signifcantly lower FPS with the new effects.

So for multiboxers the new missile effects have an interesting "feature".

I often run side clients in system map view to avoid crashes and get better performance.

Well, what happens now is that when you exit map view, you get all missile effects of the last x minutes/hours "displayed" at once, which in practice means a

solid several minute freeze of that client.


At least if you did a pve site to watch the pretty missiles on your main client window in peace, meaning there were a lot of missiles flying during maybe 20-30 minutes.

Possibly it's turret effects too, impossible to tell.


This is with every graphics setting minimized or disabled.


What's even more interesting is that this happens even after warping off grid, in which case no missile effects are displayed, but client locks up regardless.

Please submit a bug report on this with a video if you can.

ugh is my system gonna be able to handle it?

Id kinda like to at least be able to see it but it wont let me get on. says I have the wrong pwd when Ive tried every combination I use

Its hitting performance ingame, its confirmed, and its noticeable. Maybe its smoke, maybe its the hit effects....dunno. All i know is that SiSi build goes down to TQ cpu/gpu usage once i turn missile effects off. And that's a lot.

I didnt wanna use CQ since 90% Cpu/Gpu was pointless for no gain in productivity (only eye candy), i like new missile effects, even put cruises on training just to have some fun with them. But with this performance, i am looking to buy a new GPU or save money and kill the missile effects. And i am not swimming in cash right now.. :(

@Sigurd
For me on:
E6500 @2.93ghz
HD5770 1gb
4gb ram
Win 7 x64

its a noticeable hit, at least 1/3 of FPS drop. And 5770 is around 4850 range, so you with weaker card are gonna have even more issues...and that is sad. I loved eve when i could run a client or 2 and barely notice cpu/gpu usage, now i have a reactor meltdown :(