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CCP Snorlax

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#41 - 2014-07-01 21:40:24 UTC

Two step wrote:

Please document the file format for the test scenes, so eve movie makers can use this to make awesome movies!

There are some issues with the tools we use for setting up the animations. We either need to find a way of making those tools available to EVE movie makers or change our approach, so we can't do this for the first release, but we'll take this under consideration.

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Mara Rinn

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#42 - 2014-07-01 22:53:43 UTC

Sarmatiko wrote:

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EVE Probe then gathers performance data, such as frame times and memory usage and sends that back to our server, along with your machine specs and display settings.

I hope that it also logs GPU temperatures.
Sometimes you just warp-in to some random dungeon with one LCS and couple of asteroids and GPU temp start rising rapidly like you playing latest shooter on max settings.

I'm not saying it's Dust clouds,

But it's Dust clouds.

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Hicksimus Torgue Likes received: 666	#43 - 2014-07-01 23:30:41 UTC 1 I hear there will be a CQ shower scene benchmark. Recruitment Officer: What type of a pilot are you? Me: I've been described as a Ray Charles with Parkinsons and a drinking problem.

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CCP Vertex C C P C C P Alliance Likes received: 348	#44 - 2014-07-01 23:33:44 UTC 9 Hicksimus wrote: I hear there will be a CQ shower scene benchmark. Yea, it's behind the door. CCP Vertex \| Senior Development Manager \| @CCP_Vertex

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Sturmwolke Likes received: 688	#45 - 2014-07-01 23:49:39 UTC Good. Now do one for network troubleshooting and you're golden.

Tarsas Phage

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#46 - 2014-07-02 01:41:59 UTC

Alundil wrote:

Marcel Devereux wrote:

Here is an idea. Let us "record" scenes from the game and play them back with EVE Probe.

Yes - an EVE "Battlerecorder" (a la Battefield 2142) would be most excellent. luv u long time

That's like, 100% outside the scope of what Eve Probe is supposed to do.

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Vivi Udan Caldari Provisions Caldari State Likes received: 43	#47 - 2014-07-02 02:40:11 UTC I support this service and/or product. o7 The Mittani of House GoonWaffe, First of His name, King of the Goons and VFK, Master of griefing, Lord of the CFC, Warden of the West, and Protector of Deklein.

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#48 - 2014-07-02 05:36:56 UTC

Daenna Chrysi wrote:

Would love if the probe gave some sort of score number on how good the puter is, I think the community might love comparing how good their hardware is, by who has the biggest score. Also would be cool if it was possible to run multiple instances, to see how many clients the computer could handle.

Additional feature could be recommended settings for EVE once the analysis is complete.

Yep, they forgot to mention multiple accounts holders, the single client on max graphic settings isn't same when you have 2,3,4...etc. clients opened, your PC starts to slow down and your FPS starts to tank. Although I have solution to release the stress on the 8 cores I found by accident but they need to look into this.

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Tarsas Phage Sniggerdly Likes received: 408	#49 - 2014-07-02 09:18:08 UTC 2 Daenna Chrysi wrote: Would love if the probe gave some sort of score number on how good the puter is, I think the community might love comparing how good their hardware is No, no and no. There are already such benchmarking tools out there, so CCP does not need to waste developer time getting into the hardware epeen comparison business.

CCP Snorlax

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#50 - 2014-07-02 10:46:38 UTC

Tarsas Phage wrote:

Daenna Chrysi wrote:

Would love if the probe gave some sort of score number on how good the puter is, I think the community might love comparing how good their hardware is

No, no and no.

There are already such benchmarking tools out there, so CCP does not need to waste developer time getting into the hardware epeen comparison business.

Our focus will squarely be on making EVE Probe useful for us to improve the stability and performance of EVE. That in turn translates into a better experience for you, the players - we have no intentions of turning EVE Probe into a generic benchmarking suite.

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Vincent Athena

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#51 - 2014-07-02 13:06:17 UTC

CCP Snorlax wrote:

Our focus will squarely be on making EVE Probe useful for us to improve the stability and performance of EVE. That in turn translates into a better experience for you, the players

But telling me the average fps WILL improve my experience.

Right now, I try to adjust the graphics settings to give me a good looking game while still having a reasonable fps. But many changes to the settings cause a small fps change. Depending on what I am looking at, the fps can bounce about quite a bit, masking the effects of the change. It makes evaluating what different settings do for me quite hard. If you gave me an objective number, it would be much easier for me to optimize my settings, resulting in my having a better experience.

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CCP Snorlax C C P C C P Alliance Likes received: 1,235	#52 - 2014-07-02 13:14:20 UTC 1 Longer term, the plan is to have a way of having EVE Probe guide graphics settings for the EVE client so you can run EVE Probe and have settings selected automatically based on those results. CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/

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#53 - 2014-07-02 13:19:21 UTC

CCP Snorlax wrote:

Longer term, the plan is to have a way of having EVE Probe guide graphics settings for the EVE client so you can run EVE Probe and have settings selected automatically based on those results.

Has there been any thought of having the graphics settings auto-configure based on target FPS?

So for example, I might say, "I want 40 FPS" and the actual game will automatically adjust graphics detail and number of effects in order to keep FPS as close to 40 as possible?

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TheMercenaryKing Collapsed Out Pandemic Legion Likes received: 376	#54 - 2014-07-02 15:27:11 UTC Will there be an option to run multiple clients of the probe? I run 3 Eve clients now, but i use to run up to 12. I think it would be good to offer this option of "Emulate X clients"

Vincent Athena

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#55 - 2014-07-02 15:29:55 UTC | Edited by: Vincent Athena

CCP Snorlax wrote:

Longer term, the plan is to have a way of having EVE Probe guide graphics settings for the EVE client so you can run EVE Probe and have settings selected automatically based on those results.

How is it going to automatically read my mind and figure out what I think looks good? There may be choices and compromises I am willing to make, and without control and objective feedback, I cannot make them.

CCP, please, please, in general, please stop telling us what we want.

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CCP Snorlax

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#56 - 2014-07-02 15:39:09 UTC

Vincent Athena wrote:

CCP Snorlax wrote:

Longer term, the plan is to have a way of having EVE Probe guide graphics settings for the EVE client so you can run EVE Probe and have settings selected automatically based on those results.

We'll make sure to solicit feedback before we start thinking about this feature - we're getting into very speculative things here. I certainly don't want to read anyone's mind.

CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/

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Katrina Bekers A Blessed Bean Pandemic Horde Likes received: 272	#57 - 2014-07-02 15:56:08 UTC 1 CCP Snorlax wrote: I certainly don't want to read anyone's mind. Especially dirty EVE players' minds... << THE RABBLE BRIGADE >>

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#58 - 2014-07-02 23:28:57 UTC

CCP Vertex wrote:

Hicksimus wrote:

I hear there will be a CQ shower scene benchmark.

Yea, it's behind the door. Big smile

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On topic: This is very nice to hear! When it was mentioned at FF I immediately thought it a very good idea. Glad to see it get out in the wild this summer.
I will arrange some extra coal to burn for my ancient machine. I just hope it doesn't explode.... Shocked

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Little Dragon Khamez Guardians of the Underworld Likes received: 1,552	#59 - 2014-07-03 09:13:56 UTC \| Edited by: Little Dragon Khamez Has anyone at CCP thought of the advertising/affiliate potential of this. For example If I choose to send a friend a copy of the eve probe software or download link so he can see how eve looks and that guy later signs up, can I haz goodies? Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...