EVE General Discussion

I'm introducing you to this concept called occam's razor.

Sure looks like an overheated graphics card to me, but it certainly might be something triggered by a remote effects action like missile swarms or neuting that you rarely see in HiSec.

Indeed that is graphics cards related but that IS NOT overheating, ill tell you why.

The picture posted is not artifacts at all because you can clearly see that the dodgy picture follows the lasers from the left.

When a GPU overheats or is on its deathbed the artifacts wont be localised like this is here. Here is a pic I have from when my old X800 XT died years ago

http://imageshack.us/a/img819/1847/shot0002ep.jpg

Very different indeed.

Agreeing though with OP this kind of thing has happened to me before also.

Actually, that screenshot looks exactly like a problem that I had occasionally when undocking or coming out of warp with people in close proximity with sensor boosters, etc. on.

It was an overheating issue brought on by a fan that had gotten partially clogged with dust.

I'd check the more obvious things first before screaming exploit.

The simplest explanation for people only having this problem at gatecamps is that it's an exploit. The odds are greatly against this problem only happening at that time by chance.

Yup obviously the campers magically took control of your computer to **** up your graphics card. Couldn't just be that jumping into that many SEBO effects **** with your computer or anything. ERMAGHERD I CAN RUN BF3 MAX GFX IT CAN'T BE THE COMPUTER. HAX. Jesus christ almighty I swear the average person is just getting dumber and dumber. Next they will be saying that CCP is secretly turning up the DPS from their mission rats or something to make them buy more plex.

Not only on gatecamps. I've had this a number of times, most often when ratting, but I've had it approaching Jita as well. It's not necessarily when there's hostile players doing things. From what I can tell (and I could well be wrong), it's basically a rendering issue that mostly seems to be triggered by 'pewpew' effects (lasers, explosions etc). I've always just put it down to my computer being a bit old and crappy. Someone else in the thread mentioned they had a HD5770 - mine's a HD5670. Possibly something to do with ATI 5xxx cards/drivers? I don't know, just throwing my own experience out there.

It happens sometimes when your client has run for a long long time. Also running multiple client on a single pc increases the risk. It seems playing in windowed full screen can increase the cahnces as well.

But it kinda depends on more factors like your videocard, directx, windows, cpu and memory.

Yeah, I think that has happened to me nearly every time I've been podded. One or two exceptions aside. That and the full Hull, armor, and shield, to all red after or basically when you see the explosion. And is that your pod in the red, or your ship suddenly red, before you wake up in your clone?

Never had the graphics issue though.

Of course, I can't be sure I'm remembering that right, but I'm pretty sure I've had some pretty weird experiences where everything seems to stall, lag, or otherwise all end up catching up with itself at the same time, right before you end up in your clone or pod. I'm also pretty sure that my ship was sound just an instant before in most cases.

Been awhile though, and I can guarantee it's not in every case, and iirc, it was only in gate-camps like this one.

Gatecamp was already there, they didn't just warp in.
And as far as a graphic issue, considering I was running up and down the pipe all day, with numerous gank camps and more ships on every gate, you'd think it would have happened before I landed in a lowsec system.
As far as a graphic card issue, It's a Nvidia card with up to date drivers.
And you'd think if it was an internal issue, that it would have affected the entire screen, as you could see, the overview was unaffected.
I don't have an answer for this, CCP of course finally answered with the standard, "the logs show nothing". According to the logs, it took 3 seconds for the gatecamp to lock my Cloaky hauler, but they could not explain how my cloak did not activate....

I had already decided to let my subs run out before this happened, have generally lost interest in the game again, can't find any gameplay that is fun for me anymore, and tired of all the game issues that CCP seems unable/unwilling to address.

I gave away about a billion worth of ships that I had lying around for years and never flew, even a Raven that had sat in OBE since the first Delve war. Those in Amarr who got a free ship....enjoy. But that was not really a significant amount of assets compared to what I have.

It's always possible that I will come back and try the game again, so no, you can't haz the rest of my stuffs.

This certainly makes me feel like it is the right choice though....