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Kedrich
Neverness Corporation
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Posted - 2017.01.15 19:03:47 -
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Please, please make UI scaling bigger than 150%. 150% is not sufficient for 4K and 5K monitors. |
Kedrich
Neverness Corporation
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Posted - 2017.01.25 13:30:16 -
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Bump? |
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CCP Savior
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2017.01.26 14:48:58 -
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Hi there,
I'm sorry to say that until 4k monitors become more wide spread, committing dev time to support hardware that only a very low percentage of our players have will be a hard sell to the powers that be. I will, again, voice my concern over 4k users and the UI scaling, but it might be a while before you guys see any work done on this. If you can convince a large enough group of people to go and buy 4k monitors, it would make my job easier getting support for it :)
Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
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Mafone
The Dark Space Initiative Scary Wormhole People
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Posted - 2017.01.27 10:43:45 -
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I presently run 2 4K monitors for eve which I have to switch to 1080 as eve is virtually unplayable without a magnifying glass at 4K I very much doubt I am alone, others n my corp do the same. It's a shame with all the work on the graphics and ui you cannot see it at its best and are forced to cut back on resolution. As eve players are by definition gamers I suspect many if not the vast majority of us use pc's that are high end including in graphics. Especially if like myself they have a vr headset for Valkyrie etc. |
Kedrich
Neverness Corporation
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Posted - 2017.01.27 12:49:59 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Hi there,
... hardware that only a very low percentage of our players have ...
I doubt it's very low percentage. Many people who play EVE are of past-adolescence age, and have means to purchase high end hardware. Did some one make a real estimation of what that percentage is?
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Katrina Bekers
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
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Posted - 2017.01.27 17:42:02 -
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CCP Savior wrote:I'm sorry to say that until 4k monitors become more wide spread, committing dev time to support hardware that only a very low percentage of our players have will be a hard sell to the powers that be. This is a bit of catch-22.
Until the EVE UI is actually usable in 4K, even 4K owners will upscale from fullhd, but will result as 1920x1080 users. And thus the percentage will stay low, and work on that will be delayed...
I play in 4K, and while at times I literally lose the mouse pointer onscreen, it's so insanely beautiful that I would never go back. I raised everything I could (from font size to UI scale), but I'd love a small notch above that - especially for the cursor!
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2017.01.28 03:43:49 -
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We have a number of 4k monitors in the office and we do test to ensure that Eve works in its current form on them.
Unfortunately, extending UI scaling beyond its current limits for Eve will be a complex task touching multiple teams, and as CCP Saviour says, adoption rates of high-res monitors do drive our priority for that work, which, when it happens, will take away time from other new features we could be working on.
We do have direct information about how many Eve players can benefit from this, and this matter is definitely something we're keeping an eye on closely.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Kedrich
Neverness Corporation
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Posted - 2017.01.31 22:07:54 -
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Thanks for clarification. Will wait for Soon(TM) |
Cyrina Manto
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.02.01 00:41:43 -
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I'm not even using a 4k monitor and I want this. Using super-sampling, scaling 4k down to 1080p for example, makes the UI unusable even though it makes the game itself gorgeous.
This may become a more common problem even if 4k monitors are not widespread. My old GTX 670 can play down scaled from 2560x1440 with decent performance. RX 480/GTX 1060 can almost do 4k acceptably except for some sites with the huge gas clouds.
Super-sampling is a great way to throw more work at the GPU if you have a decently modern mid range to high end card, the UI just keeps many from utilizing it. |
Laszlo Miklos
Licence To Kill Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2017.02.05 12:09:15 -
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Another 4k monitor user asking for better UI scaling. |
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Snuskpelle
Snusk Inc.
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Posted - 2017.02.05 12:57:52 -
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pleeeze make this happen. 4k+ is the standard these days! |
Elindreal
Planetary Interactors
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Posted - 2017.02.06 01:30:30 -
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am i bad at settings or does eve only run 4k in "full screen" mode?
i can't figure out how to make the game available in "fixed window" so i can properly dual box. |
Alfius Togra
Mindstar Technology Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2017.02.09 10:25:09 -
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When away from home I use a laptop with a slightly sub 4K (3200x1800) 13" panel. Even with UI scaling set to 150% I still have to squint to read some of the smaller text, CCPlz. |
Merc101
Repercussus Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2017.02.14 00:42:34 -
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I'm running 2 4k monitors right now with 2 GTX1070's. This game, even at 150% scaling is near impossible for me to see. You can drag the left menu and make it larger, why can you not customize the other menus and text? In station, the right side menu and tab that shows everyone that is docked is grossly small. Don't let me forget trying to overheat...haha...that's a joke, I literally cannot do it because I cannot see. There is so much in this game that is customizable but when it comes to the user interface, it's lacking severely with newer hardware. It literally makes me want to play something else as I literally can barely see. Eve is the only game where this is an issue for me. |
Ronin Gabe
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.02.14 07:23:54 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Hi there,
I'm sorry to say that until 4k monitors become more wide spread, committing dev time to support hardware that only a very low percentage of our players have will be a hard sell to the powers that be. I will, again, voice my concern over 4k users and the UI scaling, but it might be a while before you guys see any work done on this. If you can convince a large enough group of people to go and buy 4k monitors, it would make my job easier getting support for it :)
CCP won't do anything about scaling or text sizing in game until people are quitting the game in droves, citing vision issues as the reason. Really, let's call it what it is. Fixing this issue is considered to be an unnecessary expense to the business, and dontcha know, TPTB can't stand the idea of spending money to fix their product, until the clamor becomes intolerable. Don't blame the devs, blame the greedy 'stakeholders' powerlunching on your dime.....::chuckling::
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Cat Evergreen
The Graduates The Initiative.
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Posted - 2017.02.14 09:38:30 -
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Currently waiting for the new computer with 4K screens being delivered. I hope EVE moves into the 4K-age too someday. |
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
2393
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Posted - 2017.02.14 21:03:51 -
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Merc101 wrote:Don't let me forget trying to overheat Shift-clicking a module will toggle overheating it. You don't have to click on the little green bar.
Quote:Fixing this issue is considered to be an unnecessary expense to the business It's a request for a new feature, and we look carefully at every feature we implement to assess how much value it'll bring to our players for the investment, not just this one.
In the meantime, I would recommend setting your display resolution to half your screen's resolution to play Eve. The game will perform better than it would at 4k and you'll be able to see and read the UI more easily.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Merc101
Repercussus Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2017.02.15 05:16:18 -
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CCP Darwin wrote: In the meantime, I would recommend setting your display resolution to half your screen's resolution to play Eve. The game will perform better than it would at 4k and you'll be able to see and read the UI more easily.
That sounds like a wonderful idea and yes, this worked for a time for me and then suddenly stopped. Now, the game will ONLY display my display's native resolution in windowed mode. In Full screen mode, it will display what ever I want and I can see. The problem with this is that I play with several characters at the same time and tabbing out to the next and waiting for the monitors to refresh is a HUGE PITA. I created a ticket on the issue (377531) with quite a few screen shots and descriptions of the particular issue I'm having. Luckily, I was able to get a screen shot of the both my clients at the same time while one was messed up and the other wasn't. I still have no idea what I did to mess it up. Once I restarted, both clients became messed up.
The game, in 4k and 150%UI is still way to small. At least make it to where we can customize the sizes of all text, pictures, etc..etc.. and we'll be good. You can make the Neocom larger, why not everything else? Makes no sense. I also never had any idea you could hit shift and click to overheat, I always hit the tiny green bar and will likely continue to do so once I'm able to see to play the game again. |
Cade Windstalker
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Posted - 2017.02.15 05:49:11 -
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Merc101 wrote:CCP Darwin wrote: In the meantime, I would recommend setting your display resolution to half your screen's resolution to play Eve. The game will perform better than it would at 4k and you'll be able to see and read the UI more easily.
That sounds like a wonderful idea and yes, this worked for a time for me and then suddenly stopped. Now, the game will ONLY display my display's native resolution in windowed mode. In Full screen mode, it will display what ever I want and I can see. The problem with this is that I play with several characters at the same time and tabbing out to the next and waiting for the monitors to refresh is a HUGE PITA. I created a ticket on the issue (377531) with quite a few screen shots and descriptions of the particular issue I'm having. Luckily, I was able to get a screen shot of the both my clients at the same time while one was messed up and the other wasn't. I still have no idea what I did to mess it up. Once I restarted, both clients became messed up. The game, in 4k and 150%UI is still way to small. At least make it to where we can customize the sizes of all text, pictures, etc..etc.. and we'll be good. You can make the Neocom larger, why not everything else? Makes no sense. I also never had any idea you could hit shift and click to overheat, I always hit the tiny green bar and will likely continue to do so once I'm able to see to play the game again.
FYI you can enable additional logging by clicking the "E" in the upper right on the launcher and clicking "Start LogLite", submitting those logs may potentially help CCP figure out what's going wrong here. |
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2017.02.15 12:28:06 -
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Merc101 wrote: Now, the game will ONLY display my display's native resolution in windowed mode.
Would you submit a bug report for this? Press F12 in-game and click Report Bug. Would be interested to see the package of system info that comes with that bug report.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Merc101
Repercussus Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2017.02.15 17:28:39 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:Merc101 wrote: Now, the game will ONLY display my display's native resolution in windowed mode.
Would you submit a bug report for this? Press F12 in-game and click Report Bug. Would be interested to see the package of system info that comes with that bug report.
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
2396
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Posted - 2017.02.15 17:50:38 -
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I took a look at your report. A few things:
Looks like the basic issue that you're struggling with is that in windowed mode, changing resolution changes the window size such that one pixel in the window matches one pixel on the display. That isn't necessarily the most desirable behavior for a very high resolution monitor, but it's not a bug.
There is a maximum setting for UI scaling that is based on your Eve screen resolution, including in windowed mode. If you set the UI scaling to 150% and size the window down, it will set that setting lower if you make the window small enough, and restore it to 150% if you make the window larger. This behavior means that your UI elements may or may not change size as you drag the window to different sizes, but they'll never get bigger than they are in full-screen mode.
Also, in windowed mode, maximizing the window does disable choosing a resolution as long as you're in maximized mode. If you manually drag the window to be the size of the screen, you can choose a resolution, but that will make the window a different size.
I don't believe any of this behavior is unintended, but it may not be the best design choice for users with very high res monitors. I'll make some notes on this and share it with our UI team.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Merc101
Repercussus Northern Coalition.
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Posted - 2017.02.15 18:00:47 -
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CCP Darwin wrote:I took a look at your report. A few things:
Looks like the basic issue that you're struggling with is that in windowed mode, changing resolution changes the window size such that one pixel in the window matches one pixel on the display. That isn't necessarily the most desirable behavior for a very high resolution monitor, but it's not a bug.
There is a maximum setting for UI scaling that is based on your Eve screen resolution, including in windowed mode. If you set the UI scaling to 150% and size the window down, it will set that setting lower if you make the window small enough, and restore it to 150% if you make the window larger. This behavior means that your UI elements may or may not change size as you drag the window to different sizes, but they'll never get bigger than they are in full-screen mode.
Also, in windowed mode, maximizing the window does disable choosing a resolution as long as you're in maximized mode. If you manually drag the window to be the size of the screen, you can choose a resolution, but that will make the window a different size.
I don't believe any of this behavior is unintended, but it may not be the best design choice for users with very high res monitors. I'll make some notes on this and share it with our UI team.
Edit: With respect to my earlier suggestion to run Eve at a lower resolution, you might consider setting your display adapter to that lower resolution. Then you'll get a larger view and better performance in Eve, and still be able to take advantage of windowed mode. I know that switching that around is not necessarily ideal or convenient, it's just my best suggestion until changes are made to better support high-res monitors.
The problem I have with this is that it was working fine before I accidentally hit ALT + Enter. Once I did that, something changed and I do not know what. Before I did that, I could see everything, never had to modify the resolution, everything always looked great even in windowed mode. Maybe it was broken before and hitting ALT + Enter fixed it, I don't know. Also, when I'm full screen windowed mode and have the UI set to 150%, if I make the window small again and then back to full screen, say dragging from one monitor to the other, the UI scaling will change to 125% and I have to manually put it back to 150% every time. Either way, I can't play it like this.
edit: Something that should be noted...now, when I open my launcher, everything is very large, the way it was before but the game is still really small. When it first happened and I restarted the game, the launcher text was just as small as the text in game. |
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CCP Darwin
C C P C C P Alliance
2397
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Posted - 2017.02.15 18:46:15 -
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Thanks for the additional information. I'll take another look at this tomorrow.
CCP Darwin GÇó Senior Software Engineer, Art & Graphics, EVE Online GÇó @mark_wilkins
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Harry Forever
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
1326
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Posted - 2017.02.27 13:39:52 -
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CCP Savior wrote:Hi there,
I'm sorry to say that until 4k monitors become more wide spread, committing dev time to support hardware that only a very low percentage of our players have will be a hard sell to the powers that be. I will, again, voice my concern over 4k users and the UI scaling, but it might be a while before you guys see any work done on this. If you can convince a large enough group of people to go and buy 4k monitors, it would make my job easier getting support for it :)
I think this is the wrong approach, if you wait until the mass market adapted you are way too late to add the feature, you might even have people stop playing if they switch to 4k now and are not able to read stuff anymore.. 4k monitors are coming quick, I plan on switching my tv to 4k soon and I'm playing eve on it as well.. this is a big topic that needs to be adressed sooner than later
Harry Forever vs. Goonswarm
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Avashiel
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.03.27 18:22:12 -
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If extending the current UI scaling mechanism (which I imagine works by using different assets for each UI component) beyond 150% is too much work, could you consider implementing an independent and simpler scaling mechanism that just renders on one resolution off-screen and then rescales the whole framebuffer to another resolution? I'm sure that is fairly straightforward to implement in comparison, and as a bonus it will even solve another possible issue - GPUs that are too slow to render at native resolution and need to work on half-by-half resolution instead.
I'm not quite at 4k but have performance issues at my native 3200x1800, so I have to use 1600x900. But then I can not use "full screen windowed" mode, it has to be real fullscreen, making alt-tabbing problematic. A mode that does its 3d work at one resolution and then rescales the 2d result to 2x would solve both mine and the OP's problems.
I think there are a lot of laptops nowadays with such above-fullhd "retina" displays that it should be worth to cater to them. |
Lilly Cookie
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2017.03.29 17:07:45 -
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Are you kidding me? Only a "small percentage" plays on higher resolutions? What nonsense. Do you count the people using super-sampling? The people using high-res laptop screens? The people using 15" laptops using full-hd still being unable to read everything? People playing normal resolutions who just have bad eyes (yes, not everyone is as gifted as your dev's with eagle eyes apparently able to read this small stuff on 4k screens... *i smell bogus*)
So what you are saying is that you dont need any of the aforementioned people playing your game, right?
... Well, guess what people are most likely to pay to play EVE or buy from your store. Is it the people who buy high-end hardware, or the people that dont have the money playing on older hardware *scratching head*
I just wanted to start to play. Didn't play any EVE Online yet (apart for 1 day years ago). But I cant read anything. Its rediculous and feels cheap. Even games from 10 years ago have scaling for 4k because the render the UI independently and are even able to let people change the font size *shock*.
So my first impression of this game is: It looks nice, but I cant read the menues and the dev's apparently dont give a rats ass about it. That is also a way to make sure you dont find new paying costumers.
Lets see how staying in the past and ignoring the present and future will go for EVE Online >.> For the moment you are one player down who would have payed to play. But I guess my money isnt important enough to you to care about it. Though maybe you should keep in mind that most people just leave without raising their voice to complain. :) |
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
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Posted - 2017.04.12 11:47:45 -
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Lilly Cookie wrote:Are you kidding me? Only a "small percentage" plays on higher resolutions? What nonsense. Do you count the people using super-sampling? The people using high-res laptop screens? The people using 15" laptops using full-hd still being unable to read everything? People playing normal resolutions who just have bad eyes (yes, not everyone is as gifted as your dev's with eagle eyes apparently able to read this small stuff on 4k screens... *i smell bogus*)
So what you are saying is that you dont need any of the aforementioned people playing your game, right?
... Well, guess what people are most likely to pay to play EVE or buy from your store. Is it the people who buy high-end hardware, or the people that dont have the money playing on older hardware *scratching head*
I just wanted to start to play. Didn't play any EVE Online yet (apart for 1 day years ago). But I cant read anything. Its rediculous and feels cheap. Even games from 10 years ago have scaling for 4k because the render the UI independently and are even able to let people change the font size *shock*.
So my first impression of this game is: It looks nice, but I cant read the menues and the dev's apparently dont give a rats ass about it. That is also a way to make sure you dont find new paying costumers.
Lets see how staying in the past and ignoring the present and future will go for EVE Online >.> For the moment you are one player down who would have payed to play. But I guess my money isnt important enough to you to care about it. Though maybe you should keep in mind that most people just leave without raising their voice to complain. :) There's a huge range of tech in use by the EVE Online community.
To a lot of players, part of the game's appeal are the relatively modest resource requirements. This leads to a lot of older or lower end hardware still being in use. Or hardware, that isn't really designed for gaming, like my Toshiba Z20t, which is still fine for quite a few things in EVE, as long as not too many pilots are on grid. For the time being I'm restricted to using this device. So I'm happy I can login and do some stuff at least.
Remove standings and insurance.
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Qen'Ko Tawate
Nobody in Local Of Sound Mind
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Posted - 2017.04.18 00:32:21 -
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Merc101 wrote:
The problem I have with this is that it was working fine before I accidentally hit ALT + Enter. Once I did that, something changed and I do not know what. Before I did that, I could see everything, never had to modify the resolution, everything always looked great even in windowed mode. Maybe it was broken before and hitting ALT + Enter fixed it, I don't know.
i think i was in the same boat you are - eve unplayable on my 4k displays because the resolution scale was too low. what i have is windows dpi scaling set to 225% (yea, i'm blind). this *used* to scale windowed eve clients up, however with the new launcher it stopped working for me. then it randomly started again, then sunday it went away. and it seemed to go away because i started an account that opened in fullscreen mode.
i'd lost hope entirely, but a corp mate spotted this old forum post which solved it for me https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6793938. it looks like the problem is that the new launcher is managing a hidden shortcut that you cannot directly change windows compatibility settings on, but with a windows patch they changed the default value on `Disable display scaling on high DPI settings` from unchecked to checked, so i followed his instructions and unchecked it. now it works perfectly for me again!
hopefully that is also your issue, and you can do the same thing.
i'd also like to request that this fix be put in some easy to find place, i've been on this quest a number of times, and done various things like quit the game in frustration for a few months, buy isboxer, buy random other software, etc. knowing it was just this checkbox would have saved me massive amounts of frustration.
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Bobman Smith
Justified Chaos Spaceship Bebop
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Posted - 2017.04.20 12:10:42 -
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Guess I got to chime in with my 2 cents.
I just purchased and yet have to pick up/set up a sick PC build literally today!
The PC: MSI Nightblade 3 i7 7700 MSI GTX 1070 Gaming 8GB GDDR5 SSD
Top of the line PC for the most part!
The Screen: 49" Sony X900E Native 120hz (There's a new 49GB/s HDMI cable coming out soon supporting 4K+ 120hz) Second only to OLED TV's for picture quality (no burn in)
Purpose of Build:
1.) Video Editing I'm getting into YouTube content creation as a Marketing Tool for some business ideas.
2.) Eve Online. First I wanted dual screens... But I figured the size of a large 4K TV would be like having 4 screens, 4" higher and 8" wider then the 17" laptop I'm used to using. Run 2 clients, web-browser, and monitor system information or whatever else on 1 screen all in windows mode. I heard about problems with multi screens; if they are different models, hard to match the colors. Mouse issues when scrolling from screen to screen if the resolutions different.
So I intend to run the desktop in 4K and my Eve Clients in 1080p, a light task I'm sure for my RIg. However, reading about some of the 4K issues with Eve UI, add me to the list to vote support for us 4K guys
Otherwise I will keep you guys posted on how well my build goes. I'm also moving into another house so it might take awhile before I can get it set up/tested/working. I intend to do a fairly detailed write up so if others wish to join the Eve 4K Bandwagon, they could use my experience/amateur tutorial to assist.
T3 immune to remote reps. They should be the most powerful solo/small gang ships but not useful for large fleets as T2 ships should be used.
Remove Insurance from game.
Ban Frigate Pirate Ships from Novice FW Plexs.
Buy me Ice cream please!
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