EVE General Discussion

That is strange. I rarely ever see CPU utilisation go above 50%. Also the memory always allocates the maximum amount possible, although eve doesn't actually need the full amount, but if you have it spare then it will take it. So using all of the 4GB of memory is normal.

EVE is only really intensive on GPU up to a point, once your GPU can give you 60fps at fullgraphics, the next bottleneck its the CPU and will keep being the CPU for everything, this is SPECIALLY noticeable on large fleets where you will notice your GPU running at relatively low temps, your CPU crunching a single core at 100% use, and getting only 4FPS.

the titan in luminaire allowed me to test it with some decent hardware, GTX 680 ivy bridge at 4ghz and ram at 2000mhz, yet my screenshots at 1080p and fraps both clearly show the CPU Was to blame for the low client performance, of course the server performance is totally Irrelevant and even if I had been able to get 120fps... tidy was locked at 90% so who cares it was like the matrix.

From 48 hours ago, I'm the proud owner of 32 GB of RAM. Putting Eve Online into the RAMDisk was one of the first things I tried to do. My take:

Copying the 12 GB/1133 files EVE installation folder (Program Files\CCP\EVE) to the RAMDisk is NOT enough to make it work properly, and this should also apply if I wanted to move the Eve install folder to anywhere else inside my Hard Disk. If you execute EVE\launcher\launcher.exe, it seems to be bugged somehow, because it wants to re-patch itself to the same version (Didn't let it finish to see what happens):

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You can open the client directly using EVE\bin\ExeFile.exe. However, after entering my character, it opens up as if it was a fresh install with NO settings. This means that you will have to place and resizing windows and tabs all over again - not happening. Also, if I use the launcher, cancel it while creating the patch and later execute the client, it complains that my installation is corrupted or modified because checksum doesn't match.


Besides the installation folder, Eve Online also has files scattered through two other places: Documents and Settings\[My user]\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE. Its just 342 MB, but with 20599 files, and it seems to include Characters poirtraits and the like, mostly client cache. As some people should know, performance with TONS of small files is MUCH lower that if it was a single, or a few, very big files, so those DO are an annoyance. There are also files on My Documents\EVE, with just 90 MB but nearly 2000 files, that seems to be comprised of chat logs.
I didn't checked Windows Registry to check what Eve has there. Will check to see if modifying the install route I can get it working, as I copied just the install folder, the other two are still where they were before. To be honest, I would prefer that Eve Online was encapsulated to make it easily portable, or at least that the cache folders were easily user-seteable.



After my first year playing Eve, I had some horrible client start up issues right after login, it took two or three minutes to load the Character screen with constant HD activity - and by no means my HD is slow, is a Samsung SpinPoint F3 3 years old that was top notch in HD performance. Googling I found on forums than I should clear the Cache - indeed, that did it, as at that time, My Documents\EVE had 80000 files of chat logs and the other things it saves by default for one entire year. So Eve load times CAN be VERY heavy on I/O if you let that Cache grow like mine did, as it seems to check all of it at login.
Ideally, I suppose that Eve could use the RAMDisk for both static client files if you can give yourself the luxury of having enough capacity to fit those 12 GB in it for near-instant load times, as it wouldn't have to read those files from the HD everytime it needs to load more game data, and also cache, that is most specifically, all those sort of small, I/O consuming files. Maybe it could throw them all at once along with logs to the HD after closing the client, but I could also do it myself manually if I want to save something. Either way, that is mostly discardeable data.

Placing Eve on a RAMDisk is a good chunck of the job that it should requiere to make it portable. The important thing here are settings, but cache would help too. Recent searched terms and the like are very helpful.

Running 12GB here with 0 ramdisk (W8) 2 clients working without an issue

As some1 who multiboxes like crazy in other than mining situations...

Biggest Upgrades were SSD w/o pagefile & vastly more ram. I have an i7 cpu that never see's past 25% on multiple clients. Ram on the other hand gets used up quickly. 5 clients can turn up ram usage into the 12gb range easily. As far as graphics, turn them down or upgrade. pretty simple.