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Jango7
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Posted - 2009.05.26 09:37:00 -
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What is the realistic minimum pc spec. for dual boxing off one pc?
Cheers
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RaTTuS
BIG Libertas Fidelitas
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Posted - 2009.05.26 10:47:00 -
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6800 nvidia gfx card 2GB ram run windowed YMMV you can run 2 clients on weaker gfx cards - it all depends on what you want to do -- RaTTuS @ InEve, Capital Prints for sale |
Ce Lau
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Posted - 2009.05.26 11:05:00 -
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Just my 2 cents, perhaps somewhat off topic, but useful to know.
I've had better performance running 1 client fullscreen, the other windowed. In general, windowed mode appears to put a higher load on your resources.
What you didn't mention is what your gameplay is, iow do you do fleetbattles or large(r) scale PvP/PvE as obviously this will put more strain on your configuration than say mining :-)
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Ms Delerium
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Posted - 2009.05.26 11:27:00 -
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Windowed mode??? lol, it ruins performance
I have:
Pentium 4, 2.6Ghz 1GB RAM FX5200 gfx card
and I play at 1024x768
it handles 2 clients quite nice, except sometimes I have some lack of RAM issues. Happens when I also got 8x firefox clients, music player, and more crap. But normally 2x EVE clients run fine.
I suggest 2GB ram and a dual core processor to get the best experience.
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MILK Monk
Knights of the Silver Dawn Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2009.05.26 12:23:00 -
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Originally by: Ce Lau I've had better performance running 1 client fullscreen, the other windowed. In general, windowed mode appears to put a higher load on your resources
How do you keep 1 client in fullscreen, when anytime you click out of it, e.g. second client, it will drop down to Taskbar? Or do you have both clients on one monitor, so basically you do not care... in which case having both in fullscreen would be better imo... __________________________________ I do it myyyy wayyyy... Milky Way. |
alambar
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Posted - 2009.05.26 12:38:00 -
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some of us here need to upgrade...lol
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Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2009.05.26 15:03:00 -
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If you have an older box running multiple clients works best if you run them full screen, then switch using the Alt-Tab method or by clicking on them in the Task bar. If you have multiple monitors - you can run the game on one - and have the task bar accessible on the other. EVE can be told in the ESC menu which monitor to run on and in what mode. You can also switch from windowed to full screen and back via Alt-Enter, with the desired application in foreground mode (i.e. - it's the one you are controlling).
What you are trying to do means everything though.
If you are doing team mining with a hauler and a miner - this works very well. If you are doing missions - it works less well. I wouldn't even think of running PVP this way unless you really knew exactly what you were doing.
It is difficult to say exactly which type of a system is going to give you what kind of performance as Video Card, CPU and RAM all make a lot of difference.
What you pretty much have to do - is to just try different things on the system you have and see what works and what doesn't.
I would not go out and buy an older system thinking about running EVE on it. They have just killed off a bunch of older systems because of the elimination of EVE Classic. You'd be a lot better off buying a new system. New systems get you a lot more horsepower for very little money. The more you spend, generally, the more it will do.
Even the best systems can lag though if you are in a giant fleet battle with all kinds of things going on. Then, all you can do is adjust your settings down to the lowest quality.
If you are trying to keep an old system alive, then upgrading your Video Card, CPU and increasing your RAM to the maximum your mother board will take are the best things you can do. Your biggest problem with that though, is that if your system is really old - a lot of the things you may have been able to upgrade it with may have become unavailable.
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Jango7
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Posted - 2009.05.26 22:24:00 -
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Great posts, fantastic info! Cheers
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Grista
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Posted - 2009.05.26 23:21:00 -
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Regularly dual box, 2 clients, windowed 10x7:
P4 2.4 GHz 1 GB RAM 6600 nVidia (BFG card)
For older CPUs, upgrading to 1GB RAM will help a lot, but I don't think going further will help significantly. Also, I run EVE with all effects off, no logging, and graphics all on minimums. I used the Classic Client until it went away. Interestingly, the new, improved premium client with settings minimized runs a little bit better.
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Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2009.05.27 07:22:00 -
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I regularly dual-box on an old 17" iMac, and a Medion 15" laptop. The 17" iMac has a 128MB Radeon x1600 or some such, the Medion has a nVidia 9800M S or some such (120MB of onboard RAM, starts borrowing system memory for textures).
Both systems work nicely when the clients are set to a small resolution (1300 x whatever) and all the graphics settings on "Low". Neither can handle "better" shader levels, and they can only run 1 client in a "playable" state with texture detail higher than "Low".
I would not recommend either system for fleet battles - even running missions I have to point the camera away from dust clouds otherwise the frame rate drops to some number of days per frame.
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RaTTuS
BIG Libertas Fidelitas
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Posted - 2009.05.27 09:16:00 -
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more ram will help - I checked with my 2'nd machine which has a 5200 and 1.5GB ram - it works with 2 clients - just .
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DavesTheName
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Posted - 2009.05.27 09:24:00 -
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I wouldn't touch windowed mode. I've got an ATI 4800 HD and 2 gigglenuts of ram and can run every graphics setting at 100% max in full screen with no problems whatsoever, same goes for any other game on the market right now, but if i put EVE in windowed mode my graphics card overheats and locks up after about 10 minutes.
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