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No. I've switched to DX9 a while ago and never looked back. However, at that time I've found many reports on this forum about exactly my issue so it's not as if there were no bug reports sent. I know that I should have sent a report anyway which is why I'll try to reproduce the error now. It's a bit difficult though because the error mostly seemed to occur in mid- to large-scale PvP situations.

This needs more attention. I'm sure we can blame AMD but explosions from missiles in Direct X 11 have caused my 290X to crash for about a year now and I know I'm not alone. I have to use DX9 to play .

Edit: Guess I'll try it again, unfortunately it's really lame to lose ships to this.
Second Edit: Well, it took a long time but it works now.

To the best of my knowledge the GPU particles (missile explosions) were fixed in a AMD driver update a month or two ago, let me know how it goes!

SiSi is an option to try it, if you want to make sure you don't lose a ship which has a cost

Three monitors, translation work and management of several other things. I always have at least 10 windows open in the taskbar, I can't be looking for any particular window when I need to change focus. That's why I move my windows in a fixed order when I start something (being EVE, PoEdit, GitHub or anything) in the taskbar.

Oh, and I'm using 3 G keys of my G510 to start each instance of EVE. This way, I don't have to look for a shortcut when I need to launch a client.

Correct there is no current DX11 support in Wine, this is something we've been investigating. We do not have a firm plan of when DX9 will be removed which is why there is no specific date being announced in this message. We want time to investigate further options and solutions for the Mac client.

You know the new launcher allows you to have different sets of settings for Eve? And you can launch all clients at once (with optional delay)

CSM Steve Ronuken and CCP Vertex, I do want to say thank you for engaging on this. Tackling it isn't easy, but I think such active participation has flushed out some good information, and also, Steve, has given the CSM a bump up in the perception that the CSM matters more these days.

I play the game with anywhere between 6 and 15 accounts logged in at any time. When launched using DX11 I get a "socket closed" error on multiple accounts within 2-3 hours, sometimes sooner. When launched using DX9 I rarely get "socket closed".

If DX9 is canned without this issue being resolved I don't see how I can continue to play the game in the same way. I have submitted petitions and bug reports about this and the responses I received insinuated the issue was on my end, despite that no solution on my end seems to correct the problem.

Whether or not this is on CCP's end or my end is irrelevant to my point here however. If there's no DX9 and no solution for DX11 you'll unfortunately be losing many of my accounts. Please don't read this as a whine or a threat. There just isn't a way for me to stay logged in consistently without DX9 at the moment without risking losing my ships due to "socket closed".

You guys are falling into the same problem here that you currently have with the camera. You're removing old features that still have necessary utility despite that the new features don't have that same utility. The result is some percentage of players are being alienated to the point of potentially quitting the game. While the desire to address these issues before the phase out is commendable, ultimately I think it's fair to say that upon some issues not being resolved you will still move forward with the phase out.

So my question is this: Is it necessary actually to phase out DX9? How many subscriptions will you lose due to unfortunate circumstances like above? How much would it cost to maintain DX9 support? I'd do the math. You may find the former outweighs the latter.

And I recall Eve running beautifully with Trinity2 on wine at the time. Ah, good memories! :-)