Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I am posting a possible explanation and fix for hopefully some users out there who are wondering why in the heck they can get (Maybe) one client to launch, but their 2nd one crashes almost if not every time it is launched. Sometimes they may both work without incident, sometimes none of them work or may not work until a stupid number of repeat attempts somehow happens to get it to finally launch but in no way guarantees stability.

I suffer from the slow launch of the EVE process. I get the eve bootloader in the processes and sit patiently for a few minutes till the game finally launches and it always does so though I don't understand it, it is not detrimental to my game. However if multiple instances of the same client are launched, the subsequent ones are launched and the splash is shown instantly (weird huh?) This can speed up the launch process but will require closing of unused launches that will inevitably boot (if the earlier mentioned crashes are not acting up


Anyway the "FIX" For said earlier crashing issue I found was related to my use of MSI Afterburner and the Onscreen Performance monitor (though I was not using it onscreen and instead using my G19's display for GPU stats such as Temp, Load, Voltage, FPS, etc) as well as Fan Control for my SLI 560 TI's (Auto fans like to let the cards chill at 92C ish CQ.. Nothanks I like my setting for around 72C ish Max thank you). *The fix that instantly fixed my crashing issue was to shutdown MSI Afterburner completely*. Once both clients were launched and running normal, I was able to launch MSI AB and use it like normal most of the time but sometimes it would still cause EVE to wig out at random times

Recently I have tried turning the On Screen Overlay part (that has to run to show the info on my G19) to have no onscreen overlay at all (there are settings within it to do this which keeps it from trying to overlay ingame even when no options are set to do so, I am guessing it is still trying to interface with the game) so it will no longer pull FPS from the game either which is no biggie for me. So far this has worked but I need extra time to confirm

So my final advice if you are having a crashing client startup (or even while running) issue (I will update later with the error message that I got consistantly that also helped lead to this conclusion, can't remember it off the top of my head) is to shut down any and all programs that try to overlay information in the game. This could be MSI Afterburner or any version similar, TS/Mumble overlays (Possibly), or any other performance app that trys to show GPU/FPS performance within the game client as it may be what is causing the crashing.




TL:DR Crashing Clients at startup or later randomly ingame with the same error message? Try disabling all FPS/GPU/CPU etc performance tools as well as anything else running that likes to overlay ingame. (At worst, mass turn off all background programs and then reenable one at a time until the crashing returns.

I hope this helps someone as it is what cured my CTD issues and now I have a new bug to isolate since the 1.5 update :/