Issues, Workarounds & Localization

This issue was completely ignored?

I still haven't submitted the bug report CCP Habakuk asked me to submit, and the reason is that on my latest rig I haven't been getting that interface lag I was getting before, at least not as often. Strange that it suddenly subsided when I finally complain about it, but it is still happening on my brother's rig so maybe I'll eventually submit one from his.

I hope you guys are submitting bug reports as well! Refer to post #5 for instructions.

I recently came back and the market lag is so bad now, I thought I was in Jita.

I was not in Jita.

Same issue here - If I open the market after a fresh launch of the client or click on any item in the neocom there is a few seconds of lag while the game decides how to open a window..

This issue has been occurring for months (I want to say pre-Paralyx patch) but I've just learnt to deal with it.

Will submit a bug report next time I'm in game and it occurs. Hopefully it gets attached and doesn't sit in idle like a few of the reports open under my characters.

Yes, I have been experiencing this as well. Opening the market, or the fitting window, or the character sheet sometimes incurs a delay of several seconds. This suddenly started happening a few months ago and I have not changed my hardware at all.

Does your processor have at least 2 cores, and are you running a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or later?
If either of those are a no, then that could be part of the problem. If they are both yes, then you might just need to get the most up to date drivers, or possibly a more esoteric set of custom drivers that are not the standard. Sometimes the standard drivers aren't the best for games.

I thought of two more possibilities.

What's your video card and vram, and what size of fleet fight are we talking? Any time dilation?
Also open task manager while running EVE and check the resources tab to verify that EVE is using all 4 cores.
It can probably run on just one core though, what you experience actually sounds more like a video card issue, especially since you've already told me you aren't running EVE on a fossil.

Well all your hardware seems to be good for running EVE, but your processor cost for running EVE seems pretty high for what you're running it on. I would indeed seek help from techie friends/GMs/help sites to see if you can pinpoint the problem. You shouldn't have to run EVE on low settings.



Response from my computer savvy brother:

These are guesses based on what you showed, but I would expect your machine to preform better then that.

1. netsvc is using a lot of CPU in the screencap. Is that normal? You don't show your system RAM usage but Win 7 has a bug on a lot of Win 7 machines involving the WUAUSERV process. try disabling it in the task manager services tab, especially if you have less the 4g of system RAM.

2. You can always try an older driver but if you've been updating them regularly and this isn't new then that's not the issue.

3. if you have less then 2g of system RAM (or even less then 3) that would create a serious bottleneck.

I think you might need to post your computer rig stats as well. Can you also provide more detail as to your specific issue? What do you mean by "it keeps deteriorating" when you jump to new systems?

Is your video card or hard drive overheating perhaps? Is your cache full? You can check your cache in the task manager (with Windows). It'll say physical memory and give you a percentage used.

I believe it, in fact I expect that based on your rig. You should be able to run a fight of that size on medium settings with no significant decrease in performance. So whatever is causing this is likely to be some driver issue or a bug in a separate process. Given how many processes are running in windows and how many bugs there are among them, it is difficult to say what it might be.

I've got a solution for you to try if you're desperate. It's not something any self-respecting computer tech would recommend, then again it isn't going to cause long-term damage to your machine. From the desktop, end the process called explorer. This should shut off the desktop and leave you with just your background image and task manager. Your start menu and icons will all be hidden. Now look through your processes (click show processes from all users) and end any processes that have a high memory usage or that are using the processor, except do not end anything in which SYSTEM is the user.

Once you've cleared some active programs from memory and cleaned out the task list a bit, run EVE from the task manager. Just go to the applications tab and select New Task, then browse. Quite possibly this will cause EVE to run better than you imagined. Even better is if you can cause your computer to boot up without running explorer, a lot of those redundant processes won't even start up in the first place.

I haven't done this with Windows 7 before, but I did it with Windows XP on an older rig and it not only caused the viruses and malware to be completely shut off, it also made everything run faster than when it was new, almost as fast as running on Ubuntu. It seemed to do this by preventing anything but the bare minimum system processes from auto-starting, everything else had to be started manually. You might think all those processes streamline enough things to make the computer run faster and more smoothly, but there's just so much redundant processing and caching going on that it's actually faster to load only the needed processes when they are called for by a specific program.