Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I think i may have found the issue.....The HDR setting and it has to be turned off.


I also play with the resource cache feature enabled, and all other settings to max levels and for the first time, played a 2 hour session with no lockups though still on a single screen.....I have yet to try 3 screens in eyefinity with the HDR setting off.

I only use 1 client so i can't speak for those that run more than 1.


However, i tried eyefinity and it was good for about 10 mins until it locked up yet again, so i'm back to playing eve on a single screen, but at least it's stable for me this way, as long as HDR is disabled and even with quad crossfire enabled, wich is complete and total overkill for a single screen and eve...

XSPC cube case....Here's the link

http://www.xs-pc.com/products/cases/h1-cube-case-10pci/

It's one of the few cases that can fit the SR-2 along with 5 radiators, 4 pumps running off twin seperate loops( GPU loop and CPU loop), along with 2 power supplies and a grand total of 20 fans, using 3 fan controlers...It is physically impossible for this system to overheat, even in the warmest summer days and the system is heavily overclocked of course....GPU's at 1200Mhz( stock is 925), and Xeon chips humming along nicely at 4 Ghz even( stock at 2.66 Ghz).


GPU's never exceed 55*C, and CPU's stay at the 50*C, both under maximum load wich is considerably less than the usual 80*C+ they can hit, especially when overclocked, and yes i'm proud to say i put it all together myself....


Here's another pic of the inside:

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/P1030506.jpg

And the cards with the blocks installed:

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/xx298/Superfly101_02/P1030457.jpg

Hello everyone.

I will share my knowledge here too.

I run EVE on PC and Mac. And results i get are these:

Mac (i5 MacBook Pro with intel lame graphics) : Game runs quite okay, although i did get two full system freezes in one week of playing (had to hard reset).

PC (Old school Nvidia EN9800GT video card (1gb vram), Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 4GB ram one monitor, one client) : Crashes with BSOD, crashes to desktop, and freezes up for 2-4mins with no crash every 30-60 mins. One of these three always happen. And i tried beta drivers, newest drivers, old drivers i had (2yrs old), repairing EVE, reinstalling EVE, running EVE safe mode, all setting configurations, forced disable/enable video card AA, anything i could think of. Nothing helps and i still get these crashes every 30-60 mins. (If game gets more intense like battle, the crash can appear sooner, but if i fly or try doing nothing - game lasts longer).

Seen some fixes like disabling audio, disabling HDR, disabling AA, installing new flash (one of more crazy ones), installing specific drivers, reinstalling DirectX, updating all drivers and etc. Done everything, but nothing helped.

fix this now ccp!

The issue dicsussed in this thread is not an overheat issue, it's a bug in either the AMD drivers or the EVE client. CCP seems to claim the problem is on the AMD end, and I have a fair guess what AMD's stance is...

I agree with you, although my nVidia graphics card was also crashing constantly. So this issue is wider than just for ATI cards.

I have been playing eve for while now and decided to pick up a couple extra accounts. I started with one and eventually had four accounts on two monitors on a 5xxx series AMD card. Then I got an AMD 7850 card so I can play on a third monitor. Within one hour after plugging in the new video card, it crashed as I did a search for people and palces (not very graphic intensive). I knew immediatly that I was going to have future issues since it was my first freeze and it was right after a new card went in. I then reformatted the PC and reinstalled windows 7 just incase it was my PC with a ton of driver issues. I installed Windows, my video card drivers, and eve... nothing else (plus windows automatic updates). My PC still froze playing eve on two monitors. Over the next week, I continued to have system freezes (no sound, no alt tab, no nothing). It occured during pulling up the map or sometimes doing a search for people and places.

I am returning the card today with a 20% hit because I opened the box.

One of the things that I expect from a company that takes money for a serivice is to provide support... support would also include working with ATI to resolve this issue and not play the blame game while thier customers suffer.

Now that my old video card works perfectly on two monitors, can someone tell me what video card does work with eve on three monitors? I plan on ordering it ASAP. Thanks.

I have a feeling it just needs to be replaced.

i've since replaced the ASUS HD7970 (DC2T) with one from Newegg, and used their will-call to pick up in person. this helps if there are issues in the future. the new card works great.

I was almost a week out from the 30-day cutoff through tigerdirect, but they have accepted the return and i'm waiting on the refund.

no fault on tigerdirect's part. or CCP.

This i don't agree with, simply because if drivers were perfect there wouldn't never be a need for driver updates at all, yet every couple of months here comes a new driver that sorts out stability issues, performance issues and in some cases even visual anomalies, or issues with specific features working properly that are supported in hardware.


Drivers are always busted somehow and the perfect driver that works with every possible hardware configuration and every possible piece of software will never exist, period.