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Seems a little perverse that a company suffering such a drop in accounts over a past few years, mostly attributed to there own actions, should again choose to follow a path of introducing yet another 'Credit Card Barrier' into Eve so shutting out even more players.

Why would anyone think this is a good idea, but then looking at the Graphics situation overall it's not really surprising to hear but maybe CCP Devs need to take stock of one or two facts,

Not everyone has unlimited funds to own anything other than a basic computer setup.

Those in the above area have little interest in the updates to graphics as they cannot partake in them anyway so to them they are meaningless, Clouds, Skins what ever they simply cannot run there graphics at the levels required to even see them and for some the station graphics cause them real problems.

Eve was always a game for everyone, if you could get online you could at one time run Eve but this has been lost along the way to a sea of graphics updates most of which a large swathe of players simply find unusable, not really surprising they feel as if they do not matter to CCP.

Removal of DX9 back compatibility will not stand CCP in good stead to those unable to use DX11 simply because they cannot afford to update there graphics cards.

Can you please send me your bug report number (starts with EBR- and you can see it here) in-game?

Or post it here, that's fine too.

The oddest part about the crashes is they don't happen during anything in particular. They seem to be a random. Sometimes I'm interacting with the client, and other times I'm sitting around in station or in space doing nothing. Sometimes the crash is across several clients, and other times just one.

I'm glad to help and I'm looking forward to learning more about this issue. Thanks for your attention. I have some appointments today and after I get back from them I will start putting my system through its paces.

XOXO

In that case, I hope you're sitting down for this. I'm filing a bug report which shows that my in-space fps drops from 60 to 40 when I switch from DX9 to DX11 (ID EBR-91315). As bad as that sounds, it's actually an improvement. It used to drop by 50%. Oddly, they get exactly the same fps in-CQ.

Long out of date with this comment I know, but if CCP are willing to take my money then why on earth do they say that they will not support us?

Not that Linux users need a lot of support. By their very nature Linux users are self-sufficient, IT savvy and used to searching for solutions from other players and web searches. So no big overheads, just a bit of give and take. At the moment it's all take on CCP's part and no give "We do not support Linux". That's not really a very good attitude to have when you are happy to accept a player's money.