EVE General Discussion

please move wherever would be best if neccessary, not sure where this sort of question is best suited for.

looking towards getting a new computer. the one I have now is REALLY terrible, so dang near anything will be an upgrade from what I have now. BUT, I've got a few questions, largely related to EVE, as its what I am most concerned with playing effectively.

the main uses for this computer would be usual internet-browsing type stuff, EVE (likely 2-3 boxing in the forseeable future), Tribes Ascend, possibly Mechwarrior Online. I don't need super-awesome maximum settings running at 1000fps or anything of that sort, just want it to run nicely at nice settings, rather than run barely-sufferably at minimum settings.

Windows 7 vs Windows 8.
not heard a lot of good things about Windows 8. how much of these issues are legitimate concerns, and how much is people just being reluctant about change?

in essence, what "warnings" would you have for someone who is thoroughly computer literate but a little out of date on some things, about choosing Windows 8 over Windows 7? what limitations or quirks might come up that one might wish they knew about ahead of time?


AMD Fusion Processors.
from what I've read, these processors likely would serve my needs and budget rather well. a particular system I'm looking at uses an A8-5600K, comes with 8gb ram, and can take up to 32gb. this seems like it should suit my needs to a T, am I missing anything about this that would make it substantially less-so?

I run i5 processor, 120gb ssd, 16gb ram, geforce gt630 2gb, and a basic motherboard. And Win8 and run 2-3 clients without a sweat. All settings on high, not using CQ because I find no use for it.
Amd is something I have no experince of. But as far as operating system gors, I see no reason too choose Win7 over Win8.

I run W8. It's nothing new. People are giving a lot of flak to the Metro Interface, for BS reasons, mostly after using it for 5 minutes, and deciding that learning how to use it was bogus.

I'd say 70-90% are people who don't want to change.



Meh, it works just fine without a touchscreen. You can set it up the way you want without problems. (And if you were navigating the the Vista/7 start menu with your mouse you were mostly very inefficient.) Learn to use the "type to search" function.

W7 will feel more familliar, but I advise to use W8. It might be easier to learn actually.

Nah. It has some severe deficiencies in terms of discoverability that even the most ardent MS-cheerleaders are complaining about.

Some of it makes a bit of sense if you use a touch screen, but even then, it's less than obvious when, what, and how various bits of UI can be triggered and what it's all for.

Personally never had them (Primary system is Debian)

Please enlighten me, because my Google-Fu is failing me on this.

edit; Durr, misread that. Indeed. Some things are hidden at weird places. Thank god for Shortcuts like win+x and win+i though.

I like windows 8.

Yes it was very unfamiliar at first but the new start menu is great once you have everything placed there.

thanks for all the opinions, this has reassured me about getting one with Windows 8 rather than 7.



any thoughts on the A8-5600K processor?

I wouldn't go out of my way to get win8, but we will be forced to use it when new laptops gets installed with it starting this year.
Consider the i3 before you get the amd.

i5 -2500k
GTX 560 ti
Standard Asus motherboard
120gb SSD
8GB RAM ddr3
Windows 7





A decent mid level computer

New build with windows 8 here. It's absolutely rock solid at the moment, performs just as well as Windows 7 if not better from feel - I've not run benchmarks examining 1fps here and there differences.
Running dual clients in fixed window mode works a lot better than it did in 7, Framerate his is a lot smaller and I can alt tab between the clients much smoother.


I've not come accross any usability issues. Yes Metro isn't ideal without a touchscreen, but you don't need to use it for anything at all. Go to desktop view, and you'll find that any advanced settings / control panel etc are much quicker to get to than before (press Windows + X or right click in the bottom left of the screen for a quick menu) - I've found that's solved most peoples complaints with 8!