The only problem i have so far is maximizing the game after tabbing out, sometimes it takes 5-6 tries before the game actualy maximizes, it kinda does maximize but all i can see is a tiny box with a part of the game screen and then i need to tab back to windows and redo the process before i get the game to "fully" maximize, this also happens alot more when running 2 clients.

It can be a nvidia driver problem but its the only game that does it :)

Other then that win8 works superb for EVE, running at 340FPS using i7 with a 670 OC, also running monitor at 144hz

The only problem i have so far is maximizing the game after tabbing out, sometimes it takes 5-6 tries before the game actualy maximizes, it kinda does maximize but all i can see is a tiny box with a part of the game screen and then i need to tab back to windows and redo the process before i get the game to "fully" maximize, this also happens alot more when running 2 clients.

It can be a nvidia driver problem but its the only game that does it :)

Other then that win8 works superb for EVE, running at 340FPS using i7 with a 670 OC, also running monitor at 144hz

I just upgraded my custom-built PC to Windows 8. I am having a similar problem as others where I get randomly disconnected from EVE. More clients seems to drastically increase the probability of the disconnect. I'm fairly sure it's a problem between EVE and Windows 8; not the NIC drivers. I swapped harddrives and tried the EXACT same hardware on Windows 7 with no issue. I set up a constant ping test to my local wireless access point and determined that the EVE client actually shuts down my connection entirely. I have tried to recreate this disconnect with other applications (downloaded a 2GB file, load test software, etc). My computer did not drop a single packet for two solid days until immediately after running the EVE client. I tried two different NICs (Cisco AE1000 and Belkin N900 DB) but both have the same issue. I use FIOS with the MI424WR-GEN2 wireless access point, but I'm sure that it's not the problem because Windows 7 does not experience this issue. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds have nearly the same software installs (Skype is the only difference).

So I think I have eliminated hardware, drivers, access point, and configuration, but EVE client still temporarily kills my network connection.

Anyone with any ideas?

Posting to notify whoever's reading that the problem I described in my last post has mysteriously vanished as of Retribution 1.0.14. I very recently installed some overdue updates for Windows, so it looks like my particular problem was on the Windows side and not the EVE client's.

I just upgraded my custom-built PC to Windows 8. I am having a similar problem as others where I get randomly disconnected from EVE. More clients seems to drastically increase the probability of the disconnect. I'm fairly sure it's a problem between EVE and Windows 8; not the NIC drivers. I swapped harddrives and tried the EXACT same hardware on Windows 7 with no issue. I set up a constant ping test to my local wireless access point and determined that the EVE client actually shuts down my connection entirely. I have tried to recreate this disconnect with other applications (downloaded a 2GB file, load test software, etc). My computer did not drop a single packet for two solid days until immediately after running the EVE client. I tried two different NICs (Cisco AE1000 and Belkin N900 DB) but both have the same issue. I use FIOS with the MI424WR-GEN2 wireless access point, but I'm sure that it's not the problem because Windows 7 does not experience this issue. Both Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds have nearly the same software installs (Skype is the only difference).

So I think I have eliminated hardware, drivers, access point, and configuration, but EVE client still temporarily kills my network connection.

Anyone with any ideas?

Been running Windows 8 on two desktops and one laptop since last August. No problems with main Tranquility client of any of the test clients (Buckingham, Duality, Singularity) since then. Overall they seem to run exactly the same as they did on Windows 7.

I did a clean Windows 7 Ultimate 64 install. Upgraded to Windows 8 Pro 64.
Downloaded updated nvidia drivers. Updated everything else..

Game still crash after a random time playing.. from 10 seconds to 5 minutes.. This freeze the whole laptop.

Laptop is Asus K50i
Nvidia Geforce GT 320M 1GB
8 GB RAM
128 GB SSD
Too lazy to open to look at CPU.

But with windows 7 installed, I can run Eve with no problem whatsoever. So must be something with that combination Windows 8, Asus K50i and Eve..

The crash I experienced with the Win 8 beta too..

Get that. just bought a new comp, won't run 3 or even 1 client. Random seconds of game play = white screen crash.

Repair tool don't do it, compatability settings dont either.

HP= Intel core i7-3770cpu @ 3.50GHz
16Gig ram
windows 8 64bit OS

AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Just updated to all latest drivers. this is really frustarating. I got 13 more days to return comp, I don't want too. Please tell me this will be fixed.

PS: Alt-Tabing between eves agitates the problem and guaranties a crash

Just installed Windows 8 last week. Whenever I close the client, it has major graphic issues, the colors turn neon, mainly pink, like a spectrum of rainbow. You can hardly make out anything. I've seen some with the pink screen graphic issues from Windows 7.

I'm using a fairly brand new computer (2 months old):
AlienWare
Intel i3 @ 3.30 Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
8 Gb RAM
Windows 8 Pro

Didn't have any problems with Windows 7 until I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro.

Please help, any suggestions?

Windows 8 is made for mobile devices, It will not work anything close to anything like Windows 7.

Also suffering some socket closure on Win 8. Sometimes repeatedly, sometimes just once, most of the time not at all. Can't find a specific trigger, has happened both in space and in hangar.

Another issue seems to be occasional dark or black screens in hangar, but only the hangar view, the windows remain normal. Always resolved by ESC to the er, ESC menu.

So I'm having 2 issues with EVE on my Win8 laptop, both of which appear to be mentioned in this thread:


1: Whenever I play EVE fullscreen, when I quit the game my desktop basically looks like a Carebear puked on it while tripping on acid. I can fix it by changing my resolution settings in Control Panel, this causes the monitor to do a soft power cycle, and when the picture comes back it is fine. That's not really a big concern for me, however;

2: If I have Mumble (voice chat) running and am connected to a server, when I try to run the EVE client it crashes to desktop shortly after it executes. I don't even make it to the login screen. From what I saw this is common not only with Mumble but with other voice chat clients as well (TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, et cetera)

So far those are the only two issues I have had with the EVE client specifically. However, I am annoyed as hell at Windows 8 in general, and after discovering the above I figure it's high time I downgraded. Even if Windows 8 has better performance, it's not worth the extra trouble of using the Metro GUI. Besides, since Win8 is still relatively new, most developers haven't been able to effectively patch their applications to work with the new OS.

Just a suggestion to anyone running a Microsoft OS, it may not be a bad idea to always use the oldest OS that is still supported, or the OS that came before the newest one. Generally Microsoft won't cut support for an OS until it's at least outdated by 1 1/2 times (i.e. they cut support for XP after Win7 had been out for a year or so). There are two reasons for this. One, Windows tends to follow an alternating trend of good, crap, good, crap. Windows XP is good. Windows Vista is crap. Windows 7 is good, and Windows 8 is crap, and so on. Two, it takes some time for any application developed on one OS to run smoothly on a newer OS. This is because the various bugs that appear due to compatibility differences need to actually be found and fixed, and this takes time and a lot of sifting through user bug reports.

My point is that anyone who is considering getting Windows 8 should hold off for now, and that anyone attempting to play EVE on a Win8 computer would probably have a lot less hassle if they rolled back to Win7. Win7 is new enough that most applications still support it, but old enough to where there has been plenty of time to find and fix compatibility issues with these. This is true for all applications not just the EVE client.

That said, I probably will have to take a day off of playing so I can get Win7 installed. It's going to take a while, I have to wait for my old laptop to finish being wiped so I can install it on there and use it as a backup/LAN file server for all of my files on this computer. Then I'll need to xfer, wipe, install, and xfer back. It'll probably take most of the night and that's if I decide not to take a break and sleep.

I have Windows 7 64 bit sitting in my disc drive but, to be honest, downgrading is a HUGE pain in the ass. I can't even get half the drivers I need for Windows 7 for this laptop. Luckily I can play EVE on my Windows 7 desktop at home still.

Wish I would have read the forums first before I bought this new win 8 laptop.