EVE General Discussion

Check your video card settings and run a stress test on the video cards. I once had a PCIE slot go bad and was having similar problems. Moved my 580 GTX down a PCIE slot and everything was hunky dory.


Are you currently running SLI or running on 4 separate monitors? Also flash video drivers and get the latest ones from NVIDIA. I would start with the driver options and make sure your SLI is setup properly (if you are running SLI) and then move on to investigating hardware.

For curiosity what is spiking when you open your third client? is it RAM or is it CPU?? Also another thing to check for ***** and giggles is the bandwidth drop when you go from your second to third client open.

I run 8 clients on my build and still could open up crysis and play a game on nearly all high settings (couldnt play BF3 as the bandwidth that 8 clients take was bad).

My setup is:
intel I7 2.88 ghz (not exactly sure of the model as I am not home at the Moment)
12gb of DDR3 OCZ memory
EVGA mobo
EVGA Geforce 580 GTX
Dual Monitor

Hope this helps a bit.

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and this all running on one instance of the client

I am running SLI for 2 monitors. 1 Card handles both monitors, and the second card kicks in for physix and if the strain gets to much for the first card.

I checked the performance monitor, the CPU spikes to 100% when launching the client, then it tapers off to around 26% but the computer isnt usuable keeps stopping and starting.. the ram doesnt go above 7GB.

But now im looking at the performace monitor while i have 2 clients running and the CPU is staying between 65 and 70%.. It must be the CPU or something.

Likely this same issue ruined my playing experience since around Tyrannis until I solved it with step 2 after incarna; Any more than two clients tanked my FPS and caused funky window api lag outside of game?

I Have two suggestions

1) Always run the game in different folders; With resource cache "DISABLED" ( If you can't run it with different folders still disable cache )

2) Right click the eve executables/shortcuts > Properties > Disable desktop composition ( While as far as I am aware, this shouldn't be an issue... It is regardless )

3) Clearing cache is for champs

4) Add CCP Program folder to AV exclusions

Just did all this, it improved it a good bit but its still not smooth or playable. seriously dont get this.

Watched performance monitor, with 3 clients running and the VM with 1 core and 1GB RAM dedicated to it, RAM doesnt break 7GB out of the 16GB available, and the CPU hovers between 30 and 40%. Until i shut down the 3rd client then it shoots to 70 for about 30 seconds then goes down to 25% i presume thats just it uses the resources to shut the client down..

Yet i dont get why pc grinds to a half when only 30-40% of cpu being used and only 7gb of ram

Samsung 1TB is my primary drive. Exact model is SAMSUNG HD103UJ ATA Device its not the best or fastest HDD, but my previous build used the same HDD and the same CPU with less RAM and cud run 3 instances of eve no bother...

Thanks ill try this, i didnt know that about SLI and windowd mode i do run my clients in fixed window mode.. I cant say the CPU wud be overheating as i have a V8 cooling tower on top of it and that things a beast, including several fans in the chasis.

I'm assuming you didn't run this on your old machine, alongside 3 clients?

Doesn't matter that there should be enough horsepower left to run 3 clients. That's not how multiple processes on a PC work. You can't take your PCs full specs and divide them among the amount of things you're running simultaneously, and assume that they will each perform as if you were running just that on a machine on those specs.

Multiple processes will cause overhead.

Try and run the 3 clients without the VM.

Also, did you increase the quality of your graphics settings, compared to the settings you ran on your old machine?

Some of the settings don't scale that well with multiple clients running, so even tho you have more horsepower, you might have to scale some back to get similar performance that you had on your old setup, in case you turned them up.

I too was having issues when running three, then unchecked the AA or vsynch, can't remember, and it I went from unplayable to 60 fps and max settings.

IDK but this isn't the way it's worked out for me, I spent some time testing. I usually run 2-3 clients at a time, sometimes a fourth but never for long (my personal attention "fps" isn't very good). Interval immediate indeed gave me serious fps on all clients, like 150-180 or something along those lines. However, it lead to my CPU temps going up as high as 70C and the graphics card wasn't able to keep cool, which soon enough would result in everything going poopy and me having to go down to one client (or close that, too) till stuff cooled down. Interval one, though, even with three clients running, still has everyone moving along at 58-60 fps with one exception: if some character is sitting at a POS, then I would often lose fps on that client and sometimes also on the other two, down to 20 fps. Nothing else does this to me, not bright clouds in PvE sites, nor firefights at gates with stuff flashing, exploding, moving like crazy, drones and stuff (and I have models on for everything most of the time), nothing. CPU temps stay at around 40C, the GPU isn't melting, three clients, 60 fps, zero problems. Something about POS graphics doesn't sit well with my setup.

I run clients from the same directory, no symlinks. GTX 460 (not overclocked), Intel Core i3, Windows 7, 2 monitors.

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Yes 1 card runs my left monitor the second runs my right monitor, they are SLI'd and in the clients i have them set to use individual monitors also

What i dont get is why its doing this at all, my 2 previous ATI cards which were Radeon HD 4870's could run them with no lag what so ever, yet the supirious GTX 560's i have cant... Just doesnt make sense...

Its mostly fixed now thanks to all the posters help but i still notice a tiny jerk every now and again!