Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Hey there,

Recently I've encountered a problem that had never happened to me before. While I have been playing EVE on the same laptop at the highest settings for 4 years, after Rhea (more or less) my framerate has started to do strange things.

Instead of having a constant FPS value, it drops briefly once per second, more or less. Its usual value is around 50 FPS, and decreases to around 25 on each "stutter". This happens continously, no matter the zoom level or the action I'm doing, or even what is my camera pointed at. Some things still reduce the overall FPS as expected (wormholes, warp animations... crowded environmets in general), but the stutter is always present.

Curiously enough, this does not happen on the Test Server client; framerate is constant and high.

I don't know where did this issue come from; I did not change anything in my computer before the patches. I also try to keep it clean and tidy, running registry cleaning programs and defragging regularly, uninstalling unused programs...

I know some people had this problem in the past. Is there a solution? I've tried some of the proposed tweaks in old topics but they didn't work, or I already had the recommended settings.

I'd add more information such as DXDiags or EVE logs, but I don't know how to append them...

Please help! EVE loses much of its beauty when a Pulsar stutters like that (along many other effects).


EDIT: [sorry for the wall of text but it's necessary]

This is a screenshot of my framerate, taken 5 minutes ago. The following is a few seconds of data collected by the in-game tool:

0.0 40.00
0.2 49.00
0.4 61.00
0.6 59.00
0.9 44.00
1.1 63.00
1.3 55.00
1.5 42.00
1.7 43.00
1.9 56.00
2.1 47.00
2.3 59.00
2.5 52.00
2.7 47.00
2.9 50.00
3.1 64.00
3.3 51.00
3.6 53.00
3.8 52.00
4.0 53.00
4.2 44.00
4.4 57.00
4.6 52.00
4.8 47.00
5.0 64.00
5.2 40.00
5.5 59.00
5.7 47.00
5.9 65.00
6.1 43.00
6.3 53.00
6.5 63.00
6.7 47.00
6.9 59.00
7.1 45.00
7.3 46.00
7.5 55.00
7.7 47.00
8.0 57.00
8.2 45.00
8.4 46.00
8.6 62.00
8.8 47.00
9.0 57.00
9.2 45.00
9.4 46.00
9.6 45.00
9.8 41.00
10.0 56.00
10.3 47.00
10.5 63.00
10.7 45.00
10.9 47.00
11.1 55.00
11.3 40.00
11.5 62.00
11.7 45.00
11.9 47.00
12.1 56.00
12.3 42.00
12.5 59.00
12.7 45.00
12.9 47.00
13.1 55.00
13.3 42.00
13.5 60.00
13.8 45.00
14.0 47.00
14.2 56.00
14.4 42.00
14.6 60.00
14.8 45.00
15.0 40.00

My laptop does not support DX11, so EVE is running on DX9 as shown on the screenshot. My computer is:

- Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
Manufacturer Intel
Speed 2.0 GHz
Number of Cores 8

- Video Card 1 Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
Manufacturer Intel
Chipset Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
Dedicated Memory 64 MB
Total Memory 1.7 GB

- Video Card 2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chipset GeForce GT 540M
Dedicated Memory 2.1 GB
Total Memory 4.0 GB

- Memory 8.1 GB

- Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Service Pack 1
Size 64 Bit
Edition Home Premium

- Display Maximum Resolution 1366 x 768

- DVD Virtual CDROM USB Device

- CD Virtual CDROM USB Device

- Drive 1
Size 465.1 GB
Free 302.2 GB

- Drive 2
Size 254.5 GB
Free 214.8 GB

- Drive 3
Size 186.3 GB
Free 65.8 GB

yes you are not alone, I have bought this up last month and still have not had a response from CCP with a fix... maybe this patch might fix things.

Edited the OP to add relevant information.

It works O_O Both the main mail window and the new mail one have to be open (if minimized, the problem comes again). But I can drag them to the bottom of the screen and play normally.

Thank you, but this shouldn't be happening...