EVE General Discussion

Damn forum ate my post so here we go again .. briefly

Your GPU vs a 5770

Benchmarks of 5770 <

note sli and cf named cards are 2 card setups

I'd skimmed your specs and assumed you had something fairly modern to complement your i7

Also try overclocking both the CPU and GPU, always helps.

Fingers crossed for this I guess.

One thing I've been wondering about as a way to improve overview performance is to use primitives to draw the brackets instead of using textures (I am assuming CCP is atm using textures for overview/in-space brackets.)

Though I'm not sure what would be less taxing on a system with a gfx card.

• A one or two-polygon primitive with a 15x15 pixel texture.

vs


• A few polygons (replacing the image shapes) colored by a simple shader....

5670 rofl, SUCKS... wtf.

POS.

Ati is already in the 7xxx series mate. The graphics card will make a huge difference. If you're really into spending big bucks on EvE, why not get all the way up to date with a 7970? (~$500). Although, I can tell you that I run a 2500k with 16gb 1600mhz ram and an Nvidia gtx 570, and that card handles conditions like what you described without much fuss. So anything equivalent would be more than enough. If you're an Ati guy, then this should put EvE in its place for a while to come: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?rlz=1C1CHMO_enUS470US470&q=amd+6970&um=1&hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=923&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14887740486418499614&sa=X&ei=bqo4T7DIC4SxiQKizNmiCg&ved=0CG0Q8wIwAA

BTW Xystance: www.overclock.net One of the biggest gaming/performance PC communities. Also has an EvE thread and ingame channel. Ask in the video card section, and people there will likely narrow it down to specific model, retailer, price, and SKU according to the needs you describe And on a more serious note will likely save you money, if say an SLi/CF of two older cards would work better on your specific setup running EvE than a single cutting edge card, etc.

Oh also: MSI Twin Frozr for life!!!

I could tell a few ways from the top of my head of how to actually achieve this in a fast way, like ...

Single triangle covering the whole screen using a stencil buffer to cut the overlap,
where all brackets are drawn onto this triangle in a single pixel shader.
If the stencil buffer is no option, two triangles covering the screen as a cube work as well.

Same would work for the tactical overlay, which seems to be actual geometry,
instead of a simple billboard ... but there probably are issues with this i don't imagine.

Could also improve performance of planets this way, at least from the distance.
Up close planets and moons are real geometry, which makes sense.

That's in contrast to the sun, which IS a billboard (a square with a sphere drawn onto it) ...
you can notice that by moving close to it and it still looks like it's far away,
compared to planets/moons where one really can dive into and see the edgy surface from close.

The really bad performance brackets had before probably was because
they made a single drawcall for every single one of them.
I don't know that for sure, but it sounds highly probable.

Same thought goes for the overview,
where every single line got updated separately,
instead of all at once.

Anyway, these are all just assumptions based on observation.
Can't even imagine the mess their code must be ... xD

Buying all the best\most expensive stuff doesn't always equal the best perfomance.

Firstly,
It's a 2000 bod fight, it's going to lag, it's going to grind to a hault, TiDi is rather new and it's clearly going to need some time\updates to work awesomesauce.

Go with what the others have said, drop settings to perfomance, drop everything you don't need including chat channels etall,

Secondly,
Those screen shots, as lovely as seeing your fleet fight goes, don't tell us what the PC was doing.
Task manager\perfmon will show you where the bottlenecks were which will then show you what you should get more of.
Hell, it could be disk queue for all we know (it's probably not but I'm making a point) in which case getting a small SSD just for eve would solve the problem.

That said,
I've got an i5, 4gb of ram and a 6750.
Nothing too special and I spent maybe £600 on the machine total.
It's all specific parts though and it's all over OCD tuned\overclocked and kicks the **** out of a friends i7\12gb\2x 6950 PC