Test Server Feedback

Machine Info and Settings

• OS version: OSX 10.7.5
• CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
• RAM: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
• How many clients were you running at the same time? 1
• Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): Medium
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
- Shader Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: Medium
- LOD Quality: low

User Experience

• Average FPS during the fight at the gate in Poitot, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 3 / 2.5
• Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 1.5 / 1.5
• Memory usage of the client (if checked): NA
• Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome): This was bad for a mass test. 2
• Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? Yes. Two. My computer spontaneously rebooted. Then it locked up.
• Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

Changing texture level: No graphics issues, but it took a long time, 3 to 5 minutes. I missed test instructions becasue I was looking at a black screen, waiting.

POS shoot: There was so much lag I never saw the POS icon after I locked it. I did manage to shoot it.

PvP fight: The client lag was terrible. I had to wait 1 to 2 minutes for things to happen. The client never really caught up. For example, I never saw the icon of the target I was shooting or how much damage was on it, and I never got my drones to attack. I did manage to shoot the target, but that's about all. Then all of a sudden Eve voice skipped a few times and then I was looking at the log in screen for my computer. This happened about 47 minutes after the hour.

I relogged into eve. Oddly, the lag was far less when I returned. FPS was 6 rather than 2, and I could target someone, shoot them and see the damage on them. Then the FPS started dropping and again I could not get my drones to attack. Then I got blown up. I waited a bit to see if someone would pod me, but nothing happened. So I warped to a planet. On the way my client totally locked up. But the computer still worked, I could force quit. By the time I got back the third time the test was being called concluded.

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Machine Info and Settings
OS version: WIndows 7 Pro
CPU: Core i5 2.53GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460m 1gb
RAM: 8gb
Two clients- 1 TQ 1 Singulatiry
All settings on medium
User Experience:

Low FPS, duriing fight at Poitot, once i i zoomed out FPS was back at medum. I turned brackets off and got my usualy amount of fps which was about 60. Client performance was about the same during the fights. This was my first mass test and it was enjoyable. Some people decided to smartbomb though. I found an issue wiht the undock button that i could not undock so i had to re-log. Other then that everything went relitvly smoothly.

OS version: Mac OSX 10.8.3
CPU: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB
RAM: 12 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3
How many clients were you running at the same time? 2
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): high
- Anti-Aliasing: high
- Shader Quality: medium
- Texture Quality: high
- LOD Quality: high

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at the gate in Poitot, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 20 fps
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 40fps
Memory usage of the client (if checked): 1.28 GB
Not mass tested so cannot comment on its difference to TQ
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? yes - 1 crash at POS shootout

Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.:

Hacking; was good (shame about the smart bombing titans tho*)
Pos Shootout; Terrible lag more then i've ever had. Caused my client to crash.
PvP fight: Lag in buttons and ui kept trying to open a radial meaning it took awhile to turn on my DC which hampered combat ability

* Real shame about the smartbombing titans after fleet warp to objective A. I was in a BS so i tanked it but many in frigs weren't so lucky and i feel sorry for them being unable to take part because of trolls

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Windows 8

CPU: AMD FX-8150 8-Core Processor at 3.6 GHz

GPU: A Radeon 7950 Overclocked (1020 MHz GPU, 1575 MHz memory)

RAM: 16 GB (3 GB DDR5)

How many clients were you running at the same time? Only this one

Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): (All maximum)
- Anti-Aliasing: Maximum
- Shader Quality: Maximum
- Texture Quality: Maximum
- LOD Quality: Maximum


User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at the gate in Poitot, zoomed out: Around 20, did not test w/o brackets

Average FPS - Zoomed in: Around 15, did not test w/o brackets

Memory usage of the client (if checked): Did not check

Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome): Never really been in a fleet with over 100 people, but I guess I'd put it at 5 or 6.

Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? No, but dat lag...

Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: It was fun. Zoomed in, FPS sometimes dropped as low as 5 FPS depending on the situation. I still can't wait for the high-resolution texture pack even though my GPU will melt!

EDIT: I love the new Apocalypse model! Can we have an EOM - Apocalypse? (Image credit to Funzinnu BT)

Ubuntu linux 12.04 x86 PAE with custom built OSSv4 sound system and wine-1.5.30 from git with patch to fix SSL cert handling (needed to fix the launcher Error -7) No overrides but disabled d3d11. No VC runtimes installed.

Sony VAIO VPCF13Z1R laptop with the folowing specs
Core i7 Q740 CPU
GeForce GT425M GPU (310.14 driver)
8GB RAM
SSD hard drive.
FullHD display.

Got the launcher, the log server and 2 instances of client in windowed mode running.
Everything at the lowest possible settings (business as usual, the GPU is weak).

Got 3.5FPS during the figh with all brakets (didn't think about turning them off) with drops to 1.5 FPS during especially bad camera movements. Didn't zoom in voluntary. On that later.
Didn't check memory usage.
Client was performing pretty good. Can't compare to TQ, since i've got the new wine very recently specifically to deal with the new launcher. But preformance was comparable to the luminare massacre, and I was using only one client there.

Strangely enough, the client was rock-solid stable. When there was a command to change settings to low and back, I actually changed them FROM low to high (since I was at low already). I was on the gate in a middle of a huge fleet. Sure it took a lot of laptop cooler crunching, but the settings changed correctly without causing any stability issues.

The whole experience.

It was the first time I managed to make the new launcher work under wine. Not without some shenanigans, and I'm not sure which one exactly helped. I had to remove the launcher cache, use repair and manually clean the process tree from any remains of the launcher, then run the launcher, change the number of threads to 1, close it, manually clean it from processes again, run it, and it finally did work and stopped hogging a core worth of my CPU. Fix the damn race conditions.

It was also the first time I used the eve voice. It did work (on recieve. Didn't try transmit - it's 1AM here), which I didn't expect from wine.

The client was rock solid. Didn't expect it. I usually run it in wine virtual desktops, because there were stability issues reported with older wine versions and windowed mode, but today I've tried the windowed mode, and it worked like a charm (that's probably not about the client changes, but rather about the latest wine). If not for the broken CQ and shamanic dances around the launcher, I would give the current EVE a golden status on wine compatibility.

Now the complaints.

1) The new stargate jump animation. It looks cool, but have mercy on me. I run big fights zoomed out to the max to avoid my poor GPU grinding to a halt. Guess what does jumping through a gate do? It zooms in on the gate. With half a thousand ships sitting on it. Might as well crunch bitcoins with CUDA when playing EVE.

2) The new system scanner.. It's bugged all over. The sweeping animation plays indefinitely. Someone suggested turning off the scanning overview, but I already had it turned off. I turned it on, then off, and it helped... for a while. Fast forward 5 mins, and it sweeps again. Next, it has a checbox near the filter dropdown menu. Which is called something like [no label UI\infliight] or something. Dunno what it does. Oh. And the worst part. I was doing exploration in 2 windows yesterday. And the new scanner failed to scan systems sometimes. That is, I jump in with 2 characters. One gets sigs in system. The other does not (ironiclly the scanning alt was not getting the sigs). Closing and opening the scan window fixes it, But the scan button no longer works without probes, so there's no manual way to fix it besides closing the window. Also I believe it started after I jumped a gate when in system overview mode. Please consider returning the manual sweep without probes (I also wonder what happens when a new sig appears in a system you are already in).

3) My complaints about the new explo are in the other thread. Now if you excuse me, I'm falling asleep.

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Win 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel i7 920
GPU: Radeon HD 5670
RAM: 12 GB
How many clients were you running at the same time? 1
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): high
- Anti-Aliasing: disabled
- Shader Quality: high
- Texture Quality: high
- LOD Quality: high

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at the gate in Poitot, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): brackets at first, then turned them off. didn't hafe fps monitor running
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets):
Memory usage of the client (if checked):
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) Haven't been in fleets that large on TQ. performance was a little slow at times and jerky, but acceptable. Better than in previous tests. (last one i was in was Feb. 2013 I think)
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? no.
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: Overall good. But at first I could not undock from the station, even though my toon on the other computer did not have any problems. I wa able to undock by first going to Capt. Quarters, then selecting undock.
When my ship was destroyed, I couldn't read all the small red print in time (too small). but I was able to warp away much easier than in previous tests.
I did not make it to the test system in time to participate in the hacking game.

OS version: WIN 7
CPU: AMD Athlon 4 640 3GHz
GPU: Ati Radeon HD4650 1Gb
RAM: 4gb
How many clients were you running at the same time? 1
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high):

- Anti-Aliasing: none
- Shader Quality: low
- Texture Quality: Low
- LOD Quality: high

Frame-rate about 4-10fps during the big fight.
No crashes.

Machine Info and Settings

OS version: Windows 7
CPU: i7-2600k
GPU: Radeon HD6970 2gb5
RAM: 8GB DDR3
How many clients were you running at the same time?
Graphic setting of the client (low / medium / high): High (1sisi, 2 tranq)
- Anti-Aliasing: disabled
- Shader Quality: high
- Texture Quality: high
- LOD Quality: high

User Experience

Average FPS during the fight at the gate in Poitot, zoomed out (brackets / no brackets): 25-30 (didnt test brackets)
Average FPS - Zoomed in (brackets / no brackets): 10-15
Memory usage of the client (if checked): i dont know sry
Was client performance better or worse compared to your TQ experience with the same settings and fleet size? (1=way worse, 5=same, 10=OMG this is awesome) cant compare with a fleet like this
Did you experience any disconnects or crashes? no
Describe your experience, make comments, suggestions, etc.: the lag during the hacking game was to strong for my low internet connection so i cant say much about it. Also it was my first mass test so i dont realy know what is important to say about it =)