EVE General Discussion

Sorry can not resist.

What other games? Sudoku?

Melts your GUI?

As in, your buttons and drop-down menus start to sag and drip?

GPU you mean.

CoD which one? If its CoD I then of course its going to run fine.

The fact its a laptop though means you need to either upgrade the laptop or get a real computer. EVEs minium requirements have been creeping up over the years no longer relying on technology 10 years old.

FYI the hard drive is probably having problems because of the heat, it's not causing the heat. The hotter your machine gets, the more likely a hard drive is going to fail. Pretty standard is to check your fans for dust - dust buildup in fans and heat sinks acts as insulation and traps heat. Did you change your hardware configuration lately? Yeah changes in software can really kick up the heat depending on how much they ask the CPU/GPU to do, but 80 degrees is dangerously hot - that's not just a software problem. While graphics cards are designed to run up to 105 degrees C in short bursts, you wouldn't want them spending a long time above 90C. Certainly a CPU at 80C means a problem - the older ones start losing life expectancy above 75C and die around 100C. Newer ones have thermal protection and just quit working before frying.

Consider your case layout, dust in the fans, and if nothing works perhaps it's time to look at upgrading your hardware. Make sure you have a nice case then start with the graphics cards since they are the main sources of heat nowadays.

Hope this helps at all. I myself run 6 EVE clients at the same time on the same machine, and have never seen CPU temperatures above 50C (idle is 37) and GPU above 90C with captain's quarters turned on for all 6 clients. So while EVE may not be co-operating too well with older hardware, it's not _that_ much of a pig. FYI I have an Intel i7-950, water cooled with a Corsair H70, 12GB RAM, and 3 graphics cards - Nvidia GTX 470 x2 and an old GeForce 9400GT, all on a fairly cheap Asus motherboard and a really nice Cooler Master case. While it was an expensive set up when I bought it about 18 months ago it's by no means a "monster rig" today and shouldn't cost more than $1200 to build from scratch. The GTX 470's are going for under $200 each at Newegg, some generics are under $100 each.

Play with the presentation invterval and watch the frame rate.


The issue with a lot of the Nvidia cards is that one of the presentations allows the frame-rate to spiral out of control, yeah great youu 1500 computer is getting 430fps...its also melting the GPU(s).

If you keep the presentation interval so that the frame rate stays within reason (so 40-50fps) it will stay much cooler.

1. got to the store and kick the guy in the face... harddrive, i hope you haven't payed for that
2. get a PC and not a laptop
3. get serious business hardware

bsod. maybe you should upgrade from windows 95.

... and yet I am calling a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) a GUI (Graphical User Interface)

I'll throw in my two isk's, one way to take the stress off of the gpu is to put it on the cpu. It makes playing eve a bit slow, but maybe worth a try.

In the video card driver properties, there are some settings for how 3d is handeled. No clue what it looks like on yours but mine is:

Texture Quality: Performance
Anisotropic Filtering: 2x
Vertex Processing: Enabled software processing
Vertical Sync: On

The main thing is the processing part which should take some stress off the gpu and have the cpu process it instead.

for laptops, F10 is your friend unloads a lot of the GPU use.

/c