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Still supporting XP? Seriously, let it go. It's time for that OS to die. Heck, in less than a year even Microsoft isn't going to support Windows XP.

Thanks, CCP. For updating the game and THEN the requirements. Backasswards.

Yes, I am bitter because my GTX280 is no longer working WITHOUT any notice it would no longer be compatible, until now.

I'll take my $15 bucks to World of Tanks.

Poor people with their shiny i-somethingawful CPU from intel

Btw. Win XP is supported by M$ til april 2014 - first date to phase out support in EVE.

Hi Vincent,

The best way to identify which shader model your GPU supports is to look up the features of your graphics card from the hardware vendor such as NVIDIA or AMD.

This is the only real option available to Mac users that I know of I’m afraid.

Windows users can run this tool to quickly identify their GPU and shader model support: http://content.eveonline.com/devblog/SM3Checker.zip

That was incredibly helpful. Turns out, my pithy little integrated graphics does support SM3, which makes me a very happy camper

I'm so hoping that this is paving a path for increased resolution textures :D

Yikes, while thinking about saying something to the effect of "I hope my T60p will be able to run it for another year or two" I just realized it's now six years old, ouch.

While my main PC is now running a 660 Ti, that ThinkPad (2613-CTO, for the tech-inclined and curious) is forever stuck with its' Mobility FireGL V5250 GPU (hardware-equivalent to an X1700, and yes, technically I could use an ExpressCard adapter to hook up a better card). As said above, hopefully for the next year or two EVE will at least be able to start on it (just enough to set skills, bail to safety after a GPU crash, check market orders, etc.) as it's my only remaining computer that EVE will run on aside from my main desktop.

I won't be devastated if that's not the case, as it sounds like we're being given substantial forewarning and more shiny in EVE is always nice, but it would be mildly annoying, as this isn't likely to change for me any time soon. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time I kept EVE running on something it should not be able to. Being a bit of a nerd, at various points in the last two to four years I've gotten it to run on an Atom box (D510MO + 4GB RAM, Intel GMA 3150) and even an old 900 MHz AMD Duron, paired with a Radeon 9800 Pro and Windows 7 at the time if I recall correctly (just to see what I could get it to do).

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Woo Doggy, with all due respect, I was lagging badly on a 285 as it was on anything except low (in combat situations of any scale 20+). The 280 (which I originally built with, until the fan died randomly and it got RMA'd) is a fair bit less powerful and is now four years old. In other words, if you get better performance than that, consider yourself lucky as it is. As to your "no longer working" comment:

It's about time CCP has started to embrace modern systems.

So can you -- CCP --- Please consider making 2 versions of EVE? The 1st one will run on your currently stated minimum & recommended hardware. Then make the 2nd one that will utilize the upper end gamer systems. An example of what I am suggesting is setting the 2nd version be of the same class as Crysis3 or Battlefield 4 type games. Additionally, really turn on all the Nivida Physic's options.

Oh and just a reminder about putting out the high resolution ships as an optional DLC that was talked about at fan fest -- any chance that will happen in this year??

fingers crossed for the release of the high resolution texture pack

Windows XP is still used by a significant portion of EVE players and I would expect it to possibly take up to two years still for them all to upgrade based on current trends.