Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I selected DirectX 11 once it became available as a launcher option, or a few days after.

For some days, everything worked fine, but then I started getting strange graphics issues, both in-game and out-of-game. Out-of-game I'd have weird transparency issues where text from one window would "sort of" appear visible on top of another window even though the first window was supposed to be behind the second. I could sort of reduce this problem, although not remove it, by frequently clicking the "Show desktop"-button on the Win7 task bar, so that I'd only ever have a single window or program (e.g. Chrome) "on top" of the desktop at any given time, but that was hugely annoying, and as I said, it didn't make the problem go away entirely.

In-game I also got lots of weird graphics errors, such as large white rays emanating from Stargates, especially in Jita.

I run Win7-64 bit, plenty of memory, fairly good 2012 graphics card, good specs overall. I run a single EVE client, but I alt+tab in and out of EVE frequently. I think I usually have the Aero thing enabled.

On a few cases, Windows asked me if I wanted to somehow downgrade graphics (it was not very specific in its question, and I don't recall any mention of "Aero") because my computer had performance issues (even though, with its spects, there shouldn't be any!), and I've said yes. That may have reduced one or both problems, but ddin't make them go away.

I was seriously worried that my 20 months old graphics card was dying.

Then I switched to DirectX 9, and all the problems went away, both in-game and out-of-game. So there is some kind of DX11 bug here, maybe interacting negatively with Win7 (perhaps only 64bit), that somehow affects out-of-game Windows graphics too.

You get graphics errors outside of EVE too, while EVE is running? In the Windows interface?