EVE Information Portal

I don't know what kind of magic the old launcher did, but it took < 20 seconds in total from double clicking the EvE icon on the desktop to me flying a ship.

The new one takes some minutes, this is a quite hugely visible difference.

HD6790 recommended? lololol. Maybe if you're quad boxing. For single box, I'm running a 4890 on all max settings and it eats Eve alive. Go dual box and I have to turn the most memory intensive features off, like HDR, resource allocation, etc. Everything else stays at max and I have no problems until there are literally hundreds of players on grid.

The only windows 8 problem I had was also on my Surface Pro. I had to use the arrow keys and tab in order to accept the EULA because the mouse and stylus were not synced with the position of where the "accept" button was located. No problems since then. I haven't tried since before the last expansion however.

Well, I'm going to ignore the Windows 8 flamage because that's what I got. So, thanks for the support. Up to now, my client just doesn't work in full screen mode on Windows 8 so that's the first change I hope to see. Changing Eve so it can accommodate a touchscreen would be good as well, because really Eve is already *almost* there with touchscreen support since it isn't a twitch game. The problem is it requires pixie like finger presses to make it work.

Secondarily, keep in mind there's plenty of new ultrabook hardware out there with Intel graphics on board that run Eve mighty fine right now. Mine's a dual-core I7 but the graphics processors on board and it can't be upgraded. Every PC game vendor I've seen give these low-end processors short shrift, so CCP isn't alone in that, and actually does a better job than others. However, how much would it take to turn down the shiny on some of these graphics processors and still have it perfectly playable?

I am wondering why the change to requiring a quad core.
Are you going to be adding some multithreading to EvE that would actually use the extra cores?

It's hard to tell exactly what is going on. The eve client has suffered from massive footprint bloat in recent years so it is possible that you may be running into RAM problems. If that's the case then it's possible that some cheap ram could help you out quite a bit.

However it's more likely that Eve's processor bloat, for no tangible benefit, is the culprit.

Eve sound is a huge resource hog even when no sound is being played. You can try turning it off completely (disabling parts of the sounds system doesn't seem to have much effect), and that may help quite a bit.

If you're playing in windowed mode then Fixed Window seems to be noticeably less processor friendly than regular window mode.

Try moving radial menus to a mouse button that you don't ever use, the constant flashing of radial menus on the screen whenever you try to left click seems to impose a noticeable load on the system. Unfortunately even when assigned thusly UI performance is still noticeably degraded since Odyssey.

(Of course, drop graphics settings to minimum but I expect that you already do that.)

Given the lack of quality out of CCP recently (launcher, downtimes, radials etc.), it's no surprise that they've chosen to raise requirements rather than work on better implementation.

The way I see it, if you run more than one account (multibox) you should be prepared to deal with the fact that your machine might not be up to the task of it even if it does meet minimum or recommended specs. If it does great, but it's not something you should come to expect IMHO.

Personally I would be much happier to have some better multi-gpu support. I mean it works most of the time, but sometimes it acts a bit funky.

When the game was updated to require shader model 3, that caused me to stop playing for about 3 years.

Nice, finally some use for gaming hardware.

Hope to get a graphics update by next summer (that will finally make me think that 6950 isn't that good any more)

CCP, could you support macros for gaming mouses/keyboards? It's a pain with current shortcuts.

That graphics chip is so terrible it makes Intel HD Graphics look super-powerful. The drivers for it are broken in all kinds of hilarious ways - it really can't handle complex stuff at all.

If CCP somehow wants to make EVE to work on it, it would take a ton of special workarounds for this specific horribad chip, to work around driver bugs. Just saying from experience...