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As Much sa I symphathize with you...this game cannot get anywhere without progress....its over 6 Years old if not older.

There's been many changes in industry. Honestly the only thing I'd ask is if they SLOW IT DOWN progression wise.

But what is slow?

Depends on whose computer your sitting in front of.

PS: If they spent an entire patch towards fixing things...might actually help.

Keeping the graphics "fresh" means that you can retain the feeling of novelty while the players are still playing the same game for years at a time.

I'm currently playing EVE on a 17" 2GHz iMac Core 2 Duo, which has a Radeon x1600 graphics card. This is borderline supported, I still play the game just fine (except for shadows: the graphics card hates shadows, they expand to fill the entire universe, bogging the machine down as the processor tries to comprehend the enormity of nothingness), and that model iMac is now 5 years old. It's time for me to upgrade (I haven't tried Singularity on my Mac — by the time I download it, there's a new patch out).

In the meantime, my laptop is getting the same frame rates with "medium" detail as it was previously getting with "low" detail. I don't know what magic CCP have pulled here, but it's pretty awesome.

I would recommend you try the Singularity client. See how it runs on your computer: I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Hi Epsilonion, I will try to give you some information that should put your mind at ease. We take performance into account on any graphics development task we take on and in actual fact I think you'll find the client will only perform better with the current 'upgrades'.

I will give you a few examples:

The Warp Effect - This is a new effect which actually has less overhead than the old warp tunnel because the shader instructions were reduced (It's just been done in a more efficient manner). However, we added the 'distortion' effect which of course has an overhead associated with it which makes the tunnel slightly heavier on resources. We decided to only enable the distortion effect when players select the shader quality 'High' setting.

This means that if people have computers that can’t handle the distortion effect they can turn on the medium shader quality and still experience a really good looking warp effect.

V3ing of Ships - We have created a new texture packing method that is more optimal giving us greater control and fidelity on the ship textures. This method also reduces the size of the textures, thus you will have less loaded textures in your GPU memory and the client size will reduce because the file sizes have gone down.

Now the client size is going to go up this release but the reason for this is that we have actually added all factional variants for each V3'd ship hull, however these are not hooked up in-game yet.

most things can be turned off.

Also I can run eve on a really old lap top I picked up for $50.....

Eve graphics already look like something from the 90s compared to real games like Battlefield 3.

You are mixing up two different things:
- one is the graphics processing load (and the effort to optimize it)
- the other is minimum graphics card feature set, which you upped, because a) you didn't want to maintain multiple code paths, and b) you had to introduce Incarna (which still runs craptastically on the minimum required hardware).


Indeed, for pure gameplay purposes graphics could be reduced to 4 poly wireframe models without losing anything. In fact, in large battles all you see already is only colored squares, bubbles and maybe caps.

Anecdotal reports from SiSi imply that Cruicble will run better than the current Tranquility build, though I'm not sure why it would at the moment. Probably a techy blog full of graphs will explain it.

I would actually ask CCP to upgrade textures on capitals, they are prettey bad (bigger ships need bigger textures) I can see faults even on BS textures, capitals just look bad.

As for stopping upgrades, you see, they probably have an art department, and it's not like you can get a CGI specialist to do a network engineer's job. So even though I recognize that i am probably more fortunate than some, they might as well do something useful as opposed to nothing.

lmao you high mate???

Ahh another game where you get blown to bits and respawn.

Yay for reality...