EVE General Discussion

If someone with a bit of Tech know how or some one with a similar system could let me know I can just give up trying to problem solve and just try to live with sub par performance.

Issue : I used to be able to happily play with two clients open and running Eve on max settings with no issues and a steady 60 fps on both toons.

After some patch I cant remember which, (it was a few ago) I now cant even run one on max settings let alone two. I have adjusted the settings to medium and the fps fluctuates between 40 and 60 fps on one client. I don't even bother to try two any more. The issue seemed to start over night and I feel it is a massive dip in performance to occur so quickly.

I have tried a number of things to try and fix the issue : roll back graphics card drives, system diagnostic with the hell of Dell to make sure everything is working ok. Run Eve as the administrator.

I only really use this thing to play eve so I do not have a large catalogue of games to compare performance with, saying that Guildwars 2, world of tanks and Elder scrolls Online seem to be fine.

My system is:
17 in Alienware laptop (I will not be buying Dell again but that is another story)
Intel i7-3740QM CPU
16 Gb ram
Windows 8.1 64-bit

I would have hoped that the above would have been enough to run eve at Max for a few years. Can anyone let me know if they can play at max on the above configuration or below please. Or suggest what I might be able to do to fix the issue.

Thanks in advance

try dropping the settings a little.

also lol alienware

Don't laugh at Alienware. That solves nothing. Instead, laugh at the people who bought it at full price, for the joke was on them all along.

Waaaaiiit. You said "rolled back". Did you mean "rolled back" as in that windoze option to reset windows to default again?

If yes, you need to do windoze update and reinstall your graphic drivers again. That may fix it.

Make sure you're running in DX11 as opposed to DX9 from the launcher maybe?

It is running DX11. but thanks for the idea.

Remember that if your GPU doesnt fully support DX11, it will run it in partial software mode, slowing things down. Try DX9 to see if you get a speed boost. You didnt say what GPU that laptop has, so just spitballing here.

Also make sure your video drivers are the latest possible.

Dont forget, you can upgrade to Windows 10, its working fantastic for me and could give your laptop a boost, for free.

check your cpu isnt parking its cores

i have a lower spec dell xps with 8gig ram and a i7 cpu, for some reason my cpu's parked half the cores, caused cpu spikes and terrible eve performance. unparked them and the laptop started using the cpu to its full potential and sorted it.

I run 1 client on max settings, when i run 2 clients i set both on low

I have an Asus laptop with similar specs, but with a GTX 660 and began having some odd issues with my framerate. In some places, my framerate would halve (If interval one was selected, I would drop from 60 to 30. If interval immediate was selected, I would go from ~200 to ~100)

Turns out, something odd was happening with the dynamic shadow stuff. I've since turned off shadows, and now all is well. (It only seems to turn off the new dynamic shadows that they added in a previous patch, so everything still looks pretty)

no its not turbo boost, laptops park cores to save power, you need to actually unpark them via editing the registry