Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Performance has been getting nothing but better for me. I was running 6 clients at a time and only recently dropped 4 of them simply out of disinterest in using them anymore. I have a couple of programs that track CPU/GPU usage and heat. Over the past few patches performance has increased notably for me.

I think if you are having performance issues, you should probably see a doctor.

When I expect to be in a busy dangerous situation I always set Eve to "Above Normal" but not higher :)

I have all my backfround email clients and IM clients etc all at LOW, firefox I set to disable the IPC for the plugin surrogate process.

Definatly try that, and the Firefox solution. Ofcourse disable the HDR and stuff but that's a no brainer. its the subtle things that can have an impact liek the IPC hogging stuff on the system.

Roll back the DX update then.

Please explain how i can do this? Lol

Programs and Features? Windows Restore points? Ghost Images?

Meh sounds like a fail PC issue... 4 accounts almost max settings... no issues... pcs 3 years old lul.

I odn't think so I haven't the same issues

i7cpu 3.1
8gb of ddr3 ram
ATI 7690 2GB ddr5
SSD

I mean I only get 20 fps at lowest settings. And I'm not the only one.

Well, I can't recommend settings that max out your GPU load by going well beyond what is considered the average visual requirement of 60FPS. What you are doing there is adding unecessary computation to push out massive frame rates that you can't even detect without something to tell you it's happening. Good way to kill a GPU.

As for your PC, I'm guessing it is either Core 2 or Phenom or something. Your old board had DDR2 and new has DDR3 but same proc. so it has to be an older CPU. 560 is a nice GPU, but does have limitations. Actually, it is in some places considered a step down from the 460 it is based on due to the 460 pushing better performance. Unfortunately, IIRC they don't make the 460 anymore.

Should keep up on these things more, but I don't have any reason to.

The DX thing doesn't surprise me, but I think it's a mistake to think CCP is upping polycounts just because. They may end up with more when rebuilding a model to fubar'd for DirectX 11 Tessellation, but no game developer intentionally increases polys for the sake of it. It is best to have optimal polycounts everything considered, and the lower the better if you can keep a pretty nice model and still do it.

The textures and particularly Spec and Bump maps are what really make the difference from a player perspective in most cases, and with V3 those have been and are being improved a great deal. Makes a heck of a difference, but there isn't a solid reason why they would affect your FPS in the hangar or even in space. The only time you can really see them and have them affect your FPS is when you are looking closely. All other times the res drops with every increase of view distance and the textures just appear to be cool.

Visually, you can't see them anyway, so the game removes the high quality textures you see in your hangar and replaces them with lower quality ones incrementally.

One ship in your hangar, (which is all old textures still as far as I know; haven't seen a change anyway), isn't going to do anything to your GPU or have any great adverse effect on your FPS. Drivers or an incompatible or corrupted DirectX update might.

I just popped in to game and ran both clients on my normal settings with no noticeable change from usual. Fullscreen; I didn't try windowed mode. PC specs: i7 870 with HT off and dumbed down because of last years meltdown, 460 SC, 8 GB 1333 KHX RAM, WD 640GB HDD and Win 7 Pro on an MSI mobo replacing my orig. high end board cause it needs to be RMA'd.

So, yours is functionall much higher RAM and should outperform with 560s in SLI, but you might have issues from merged tech with the DDR3 and old CPU architecture. Should't be a big deal, but quite often it never performs as well as it should and sometimes just doesn't.

Basically, your CPU can't really deal with the bandwidth from your PCI Express and RAM. It's not designed for it. It will handle it to some degree, (better if it's Intel I suspect), but will have at least some bottleneck and possibly a little lack of functionality compared to a newer motherboard and CPU with everything else the same.

So yeah, anyone running into these issues should look at their drivers first, and maybe DirectX if that doesn't help. Tweaking your GPU settings might help too.

Hi

I use 4 year old computer AMD64 X2 4600+ GF 9600gt, 4GB (3.25) Ram, windows XP system, for meny of you im Dinosaur, but quess what, i run on this computer triple box, and i run all 3 clients in window mode on mixed low - med details grafic with average 60fps, im abble to run missions even pvp with this preformance and im happy, in my opinion EvE client is well designed and optimized espetially while you look at other actual games engines, that kill our computers preformance.

No offence but what you want, 400 fps or somthing ? Im sure your clients works awesome with high details with your compter configuration no idea why you so mad, btw while dual box pvp try focus on pvp not on grafic.

Regards

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