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Hearing the Call of Cthulhu
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Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#1 - 2013-11-28 13:24:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Inxentas Ultramar
Something vague happened to my Eve as of late. Yesterday I warped onto a gate, with the intention to jump through. I alt-tabbed out of the game, heard the gatefire sound, and then... a neverending cacophony of daemon tongues erupted from the speakers! I alt-tabbed back, and all was normal. I deemed it a fluke, but then it happened again.

Whenever I would jump a gate while alt-tabbed out, a portal between this world and R'lyeh would open, and a stream of audial madness would enter the aether. And it would not stop once my ship entered the other side, oh no... it kept going, for as long as I was alt-tabbed out. Daemonic gibberish, the laughter of the thirsting gods, whatever it was it was scary as hell. Tonight, after work, I will resume this ritual in an attempt to summon Chtulhu. You are hereby invited for this event, the dresscode is black and it's bring-your-own-virgin-sacrifice.

On a serious note: the game is making a lot of noise when you jump a gate while alt-tabbed out of the client. I have to alt-tab back into the client to make the noise go away. It's not a huge problem, the sound just happens to be really ominous and eerie.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-11-28 14:01:40 UTC
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:
Something vague happened to my Eve as of late. Yesterday I warped onto a gate, with the intention to jump through. I alt-tabbed out of the game, heard the gatefire sound, and then... a neverending cacophony of daemon tongues erupted from the speakers! I alt-tabbed back, and all was normal. I deemed it a fluke, but then it happened again.

Whenever I would jump a gate while alt-tabbed out, a portal between this world and R'lyeh would open, and a stream of audial madness would enter the aether. And it would not stop once my ship entered the other side, oh no... it kept going, for as long as I was alt-tabbed out. Daemonic gibberish, the laughter of the thirsting gods, whatever it was it was scary as hell. Tonight, after work, I will resume this ritual in an attempt to summon Chtulhu. You are hereby invited for this event, the dresscode is black and it's bring-your-own-virgin-sacrifice.

On a serious note: the game is making a lot of noise when you jump a gate while alt-tabbed out of the client. I have to alt-tab back into the client to make the noise go away. It's not a huge problem, the sound just happens to be really ominous and eerie.


As mandatory for these kinds of posts:

EVE has sound?



OT:

Your not the first that has this 'issue'. Maybe some weird bug or something.

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Nerath Naaris
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#3 - 2013-11-28 14:34:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Nerath Naaris
Don´t insult the Outer Gods, don´t you want to be eaten last?

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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#4 - 2013-11-28 15:52:00 UTC
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:

On a serious note: the game is making a lot of noise when you jump a gate while alt-tabbed out of the client. I have to alt-tab back into the client to make the noise go away. It's not a huge problem, the sound just happens to be really ominous and eerie.

There are a number of more or less weird bugs, I mean "unexpected software behaviour", related to graphics, UI and sound that sometimes occur when the eve window doesn't have mouse/keyboard focus.

Sounds that get stuck on autorepeat (or tiny fragments of sound), UI components like fleet or drone windows not updating, cans/wreck not changing colour and so on.

The dreadful "overview not loading" possibly being the worst one.

The biggest problem with them all is that they are often very hard to duplicate in a consistent manner making them very hard to report and just as hard to track down when reported (see Heisenbug on Wikipedia).

Since I often play on two (and sometimes three) computers (using Input Director to share mouse/keyboard) I stumble over such issues quite often. But I rarely manage to replicate them well enough to create a useful bug report.

But I urge anyone who stumbles over any of them, including demon infested audio, to see if then can replicate the error and submit a bug report to CCP with as much data as possible.

Oh, related to that.

If you have a weird behaviour in a running client, then you can start the LogServer (it's in your CCP/EVE directory), File -> New Workspace and then attach your running copy of eve to it using the Monitor (ctrl-alt-shift-M) -> Logs Tab -> Attach.

That way you can snap a hopefully useful log that you can attach to your bug report.

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Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#5 - 2013-11-28 19:09:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Inxentas Ultramar
Nerath Naaris wrote:
Don´t insult the Outer Gods, don´t you want to be eaten last?


Not at all. I've always said Eve's physics are proof we are moving through aether, and Lovecraft's work is thus legit. Cthulhu does indeed lay dreaming, and will feed on our madness when the servers die. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. I just HTFU and deal with it.
Keno Skir
#6 - 2013-11-28 19:17:20 UTC
Yeah if i let one of my clients jump a gate minimised, it will ALWAYS load the ship zoomed in to 0 (camera inside ship) and i have to re-adjust. If i maximise it just before it arrives other side (like during the swooshy tunnel bit) it loads at correct range. Wierdnesses since Rubi..

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#7 - 2013-11-28 19:59:54 UTC
Another cool one: on OS X if you switch to a different desktop, rather than stop rendering (because you're not looking at it), EVE Online will drive CPU and GPU load through the roof. Not good for battery life or lap skin integrity.

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Vincent R'lyeh
Screaming Hayabusa
#8 - 2013-11-28 22:23:41 UTC
People posted whilst you were tabbed out.............I was summoned Shocked

I have deliberately developed an air of cynicism that I originally intended to make me appear somewhat louche and caddish but actually comes across as irritable hostility combined with the unspoken threat of sudden violence.....
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#9 - 2013-11-28 22:28:31 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
on OS X

Hipster

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#10 - 2013-11-29 00:51:37 UTC
Lors Dornick wrote:
Mara Rinn wrote:
on OS X

Hipster


The worst bit is that I actually was in to Macs before they were cool.

(and again I play on the thermal resistance hole of OS X which EVE Online so thoroughly exploits)

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#11 - 2013-11-29 00:52:27 UTC
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
People posted whilst you were tabbed out.............I was summoned Shocked


Can you tell me what the voices in the fan noise are telling me?

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Snaggletooth Slackjaw
Banana Moon Industries
#12 - 2013-11-29 10:04:05 UTC
Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#13 - 2013-11-29 10:43:08 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
People posted whilst you were tabbed out.............I was summoned Shocked


Can you tell me what the voices in the fan noise are telling me?

Yes, get some sleep ;)

CCP Greyscale: As to starbases, we agree it's pretty terrible, but we don't want to delay the entire release just for this one factor.
Cerebral Genocide
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-12-02 23:03:39 UTC
The eldritch calls of the dark ones can not be ignored, heed then or forever languish in the unspeakable horrors that they impose upon you.