Having major graphical glitches with windows 8 in eve. It runs but it makes my eyes hurt right now.
The issue what I am getting is crazy colors like it is running almost in a different bit mode. I have no idea why though.

My system is as follows

Asus P67 Deluxe
I7 2600k
16gb Ram
2x HD6970
SSD and HDD
Graphic driver is 12.11

EVE was stalling on startup in Windows 8 when running the same client installation that I was using on Windows 7. It would take 2 minutes to load unless I ran more than one instance. The Repair app seems to have fixed it, though.

I am running Windows 8
everything ran great with windows 7 Ult. i was able to run all 3 clients without any issues -

I have zero issues running one client of EvE .. However - if i try to run 2 or even 3 clients they all crash - any help ?


i did try to run the game in compatibility mode windows 7 with program as an administrator - no joy
i did try to install the game into 3 different dir. and running each client that way - no joy
i did try to mklink /D thing (this in fact made everything worse Eve wouldnt run at all - so NO JOY

the popup message is always the same ccp.exe is not responding

the file sent to microsoft is also always the same
Compatibility issue

I have similar issue too

When its just 1 client running everything is fine

but as soon as 2nd client is started i get serious artifacts in 1st client :(

OS : Windows 8 Pro
CPU : i7 3770k
GPU : AMD HD 7870
Ram : 16GB

Can you please verify that you are using the latest drivers for Windows 8 for me, and report back with the version you are using?

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

This is wrong and a Standard Troll sentence. Has nothing to do with reality, which can easily be tested (install the 90 day Trial) or just read tests from pc magazines. Windows 8 is the desktop installation you get on every out-of-the-box-PC next year. No matter if tablet/touch or Desktop.

It's a normal Windows, whoever says something else obvisouly never had it installed. Don't believe the trolls, you install it, hit the Windows key and you have a regular Windows 7, just faster and more features.

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

While we do not yet officially support Windows 8, we would be interested in hearing about any problems that Windows 8 users have encountered when running EVE Online.

Ideally we would only like to hear of any issues that became a problem when players switched from another OS to Windows 8. This would mean that we can be sure that Windows 8 was the problem.

If you can post in this thread a summary of the issue and also a brief overview of your system specifications (Graphics card, driver version etc) it really would be appreciated.

You sir a dumbass.

Windows 8 is yes a desktop OS but the base of the OS was designed for mobile devices. Check out the windows based mobile phones. Look similar hmm? yes indeed....work the same? yes indeed.

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?

You sir a dumbass.

Windows 8 is yes a desktop OS but the base of the OS was designed for mobile devices. Check out the windows based mobile phones. Look similar hmm? yes indeed....work the same? yes indeed.

Its like a console game being ported to the PC - never gonna work quite right.

Windows 8 is going to be like Vista - a supposed step up from XP yet anyone who used Vista went back to XP and when 7 came out it, made Vista look like millennium edition.

I'm actually upgrading to W8 64 Pro version this weekend, any advice even the most basic one is the most welcome.

Stuff I keep:
Pross: I5 3.2GHz
DDR3 1600Hyperx 12GB
MB: Asus P7
GC: Gigabyte 460 GTX 2G DDR5 (OC version)

PP+regular peripherals being consumable I'm not really worried about. My worries are all about how to make this 64B version exploit at best pross/mem/GC resources to make Eve work perfectly with highest resolution settings. I'm not considering the internet connexion since this one is not a problem right now and shouldn't be after upgrading but can consider about upgrading to 100mB

Opinions about what I should take a good close look at before upgrading or while upgrading?
-software upgrades: AV - navigation security etc?

Thx in advance.

EDIT: I'm not actually upgrading from "x" windows version, I'm buying a full W8 pro version, thus installing in a new HD (sata 3TO 7200t/min 32Mo 6GB transfer), also keeping previous Win version in old HD while waiting for a full system stability.

Eve often freezes, goes from sacades while shooting rats in missions (high sec) or sites (null sec) to complete freeze for several seconds (3 or 4 sometimes +)
...
-randomly after undock or gate jump everything is black but grid, local, cargo and hud display. However ship hud sometimes

There is a solution here, Stick with Windows 7 to make Microsoft actually realize that just slapping a few shiny features onto an operating system explicitly designed for tablets and smartphones isn't acceptable.

Problem Solved

Update for my issue. It looks like it's an ATi driver issue where the CCC Profile process hangs in the background taking up 50% of my CPU. I kill the process and Eve works like a charm again. I only have to do it once per boot.

ATi Legacy drivers + Windows 8 = unstable

I'm not sure if it's an Eve issue causing this or if it's just a crap driver.

on windows 8 64 bit, latest graphics card drivers, retribution install is currently exiting the exeFile automatically every time i try to run it from the launcher. If i run it directly it does not work either.

running the exefile from the launcher or directly with windows xp service pack 3 compatibility mode works, running from windows 7 compatibility does not work

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?

on windows 8 64 bit, latest graphics card drivers, retribution install is currently exiting the exeFile automatically every time i try to run it from the launcher. If i run it directly it does not work either.

running the exefile from the launcher or directly with windows xp service pack 3 compatibility mode works, running from windows 7 compatibility does not work

-randomly after undock or gate jump everything is black but grid, local, cargo and hud display. However ship hud sometimes shows 1/4th of shields/armour/structure damaged.

@ Grim Temar, have you tried running repair.exe? Worked for me.

Having major graphical glitches with windows 8 in eve. It runs but it makes my eyes hurt right now.
The issue what I am getting is crazy colors like it is running almost in a different bit mode. I have no idea why though.

My system is as follows

Asus P67 Deluxe
I7 2600k
16gb Ram
2x HD6970
SSD and HDD
Graphic driver is 12.11

Had a slight problem. Not 100% that its Windows 8 related.

Would click on EVE icon on desktop, and it would open up the launcher. Would then click the 'Play' button and it would 'depress' like I actually clicked it, but nothing happened. The odd part is, the night before, I was playing EVE, running 2 accts simultaneously, the launcher just stopped functioning.

The workaround if anyone should have this issue:

Go into your CCP folder in Program files ->EVE -> bin -> EXEfile

So basically I am paying 4 subscriptions for nothing at the moment as CCP wont help me cos I have W8.....

win8 is not listed as supported. You should just play another game with Win8 support.

it is entirely your fault.

Which graphics card do you have, and what drivers?

I can grab dxdiag/gpu-z/etc dumps if you're interested but, I'm not sure about this one getting fixed since its such an old issue. It's only recently became a problem due to the "easy-fix" being gone.

I can't seem to reinstall the game client I tried both the installer, which starts to download then the status bar goes blank and above it the text string displays a Chinese symbol followed by D2 and freezes the installer.

I am currently suffering from this issue as well, ughhhh, just bought this laptop. Should've seen if eve was windows 8 compatible first.

I've been using Windows 8 Pro 64-bit for few couple months now. Just started playing EVE again on December, and EVE is the first game I've had problems with.

My problem is that my client freezes, it happens when I'm undocking, or locking a target, or doing nothing. Running EVE in compatibility mode or as an administrator, doesn't help. I've tried running the client(s) in full-screen and fixed window and windowed. Doesn't matter if I use 1 or 2 clients, still happens eventually.

...snip

My computer specs:

Intel Core i7 3770K atm unclocked at 3.5GHz
16 GB of RAM, Kingston HyperX
Asus HD7970

I have tried updating and rollbacking my sound drivers and chipset drivers and graphics drivers. None have worked better than the ones I was using.

I've been using Windows 8 Pro 64-bit for few couple months now. Just started playing EVE again on December, and EVE is the first game I've had problems with.

My problem is that my client freezes, it happens when I'm undocking, or locking a target, or doing nothing. Running EVE in compatibility mode or as an administrator, doesn't help. I've tried running the client(s) in full-screen and fixed window and windowed. Doesn't matter if I use 1 or 2 clients, still happens eventually.

If my client freezes in space, I can't log in a for a while. My game always crashes to character selection, showing (Entering game as: xxxxx) and freezes there. After 5-60min I usually can log inside again.

According to Windows 8 Event Viewer I get an Error there, with title Application Hang and following text:

The program ExeFile.exe version 2012.12.45.7575 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.

Process ID: e2c
Start Time: 01cded578473a2bc
Termination Time: 27
Application Path: Q:\EVE\bin\ExeFile.exe
Report Id: 1d380dc0-594b-11e2-be73-000272d5b2a8
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

My computer specs:

Intel Core i7 3770K atm unclocked at 3.5GHz
16 GB of RAM, Kingston HyperX
Asus HD7970

I have tried updating and rollbacking my sound drivers and chipset drivers and graphics drivers. None have worked better than the ones I was using.

Both replies appear to be AMD Radeon flavour graphics cards- could this be the issue? (Im on Nvidia).

I get the same thing, my client ends up "not responding"...very scary in some situations

My computer specs:

Intel Core i5 3770K atm unclocked at 3.5GHz
8 GB of RAM - 1833mhz
AMD HD7970 HiS version


has there been any help for this? (also I don't own windows 7 to roll back to , new comp)

Both replies appear to be AMD Radeon flavour graphics cards- could this be the issue? (Im on Nvidia).

Hey,

I'm using Windows 8 x64 and did not reinstalled Eve or launch it in compatibility mode.
I just started the launcher.exe and it works fine. No crashes or unusual bugs yet.

My computer:
Asus P7P55D
Intel Core i5 750 @3,33Ghz
8,00 GB Ram (G.Skill)
Nvidia GTX560 TI

Sometimes I run up to 4 clients without problems. (All in Windowed mode and I dont use any Teamspeak Plugins)

I just had an issue where I crashed 3-4 times in a row, targeting npc's in a lvl 1 mission. This was pretty random considering I had zero crashes in 10 hours of lvl 4's yesterday. It only crashed when targeting. I warped out the zone, and warped back, and on the 5th time it stopped crashing, and hasn't crashed again for the past 30min. Additionally, i was able to target and complete the mission after the 3-4 times. Random.

I would love any suggestions, my specs are in my previous post. thanks

I've had this multiple times already. I'm now playing in windowed mode, and I've seen that, if I don't move the windows around when playing with 2 characters, I haven't had crashes then. If I move the window to another screen, it starts crashing. Also in fullscreen mode it's crashing in similar ways as Lady Gwenn. When targeting something, and just as you would lock, it crashes. Also when undocking, or logging in, or trying to open market or character info or something.

If i still get unexplained crashes, I may go out and just buy Windows 7...but I would really like not to do that.

I'd rather put those bucks in to another game until someone gets his fingers out of the warm hole to fix our issues.
Downgrade OS to play Eve ??

lol?

I'd rather put those bucks in to another game until someone gets his fingers out of the warm hole to fix our issues.
Downgrade OS to play Eve ??

lol?

Well, it wouldn't just be for EVE. I really dislike some of the Windows 8 features, like the fact that it seems designed for touch screen and I'm definitely not using a touch screen, etc. And I'm not sure, but it seems like some people are saying Windows 7 benchmarks better, and if that's true, that's what I care about, not all this aesthetic stuff that came pre-rolled into my new comp

hey you said "This metro interface sure sucks a little bit until you get used to it, but you can get rid of it and keep the regular bureau without an ounce of a problem." , could you point me in the right direction towards doing this?

To do this when you're in your Metro interface just right click on those active features, you'll see some pannel with options show up on the bottom of your screen, you can then desactivate and even supress them.

Once you're on your bureau you can also use conf. pannel and go to security, then disable "Smartscreen" and don't forget to check the box "disable smartscreen messages"
This is an integrated security feature of Windows 8 useless when you use an anti virus (imo).



Take a look at this, you might find it interesting

Any idea when games start to support Windows 8? It's fine for my other games so far but Eve Online, I just want it to work without risk of crashing during a lvl 4 mission :/

Saw that link, but not sure if I want to download a third party to get my start button back, it really should just be an included option.

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
RAM: 8GB DDR3
Northbridge: Intel P45/P43/G45/G43 rev. A2
Southbridge: Intel 82801JR (ICH10R) rev. 00
Windows Version : Microsoft Windows 8 (6.2) 64-bit (Build 9200)
DirectX Version : 11.0

Im running 2 clients on 2 screens in fixed window mode. When Im switching between them (ALT+TAB) or manually switching. The other becomes minimized. So i cant run both cliends in fixed-window-mode.
Window-mode workes fine but looks ugly because of these window-borders.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]


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anyone found anything that works?

I'm thinking with all these crashes and highspec PC's (myself included - but I don't suffer from crashes) it's not necessarily a Windows 8 thing, but could be a PC hardware thing.

What I mean, is that it may be that these seriously overclocked or beefy (read hexa-core) PC's haven't been built with adequate cooling or are overclocked so much to the hilt that the littlist thing will send them over the edge and cause crashes.

Has anyone who is suffering from crashes tried to run burn in tests (e.g. Uniengine bencmarks, stress tests etc) of their system and report crashes then too?

Win8 uses little hardware resources compared with all previous win versions, in fact from an usual overclocker point of view it's the very first time I have the feeling I can get the best out of my cpu/mem/GPU without even pushing it to it's limits because it's clearly unnecessary, this OS clearly uses a very very limited amount or resources to turn or make things turn on top, it's really impressive how your benchmarks turn on it without OC whatever.
It's a very new direction windows8 as platform took compared with all previous windows versions I've ever had or tested.

My guess goes around the fact game core programing is old and is little compatible with this win version, I just can't and don't want to change this OS, it's far too awesome. But I also can't think CCP will not do something about it, because it's so obviously good (after you've hard tested it), at some point this OS stand point could become another reference for Eve programing/evolution as XP was for almost a decade.

They will sort it out at some point, we just need to be patient which I agree, I'm not very much

... microsoft!

Can't even drive my ship without crashing, coming back and then see myself in a capsule...

I'm going to have to resort to buying Windows 7....Two hundred bucks for you microsoft!
Can't even drive my ship without crashing, coming back and then see myself in a capsule...

Have you tried running eve in Win 7 compatibility mode?

Microsoft Win8 does not drive space ships coded from another age.

Can you please post your CPU and MB specs:

Manufacturer, type,version (ex lynfield, 1st generation/3rd generation i5/i7/AMD/whatever etc), thanks

To set Eve to use a compatibility mode do the following, you may need all or only some of the steps depending on how you already have your computer set up. As I donGÇÖt use compatibility mode to run Eve I give no guarantee this will work for you.

From the metro interface click the GÇÿDesktopGÇÖ icon
On the desktop click the folder icon on the left of the taskbar, it may open as a Library view
Click the GÇÿComputerGÇÖ section to open the computer disk and file browser
Use this to navigate to the folder in which you have installed Eve

IGÇÖm not sure how Eve is installed with Steam as IGÇÖve not installed it under Windows 8 but you would need to look somewhere in '\Steam\SteamApps\Common\whatever steam has installed here for eve'

Start with the following files in order, try setting up compatibility mode for each file then testing if Eve will run.

To set compatibility mode, right click each file and from the popup menu select GÇÿPropertiesGÇÖ and from this window click the GÇÿCompatibilityGÇÖ tab. I leave you to adjust the settings or use the automatic system as you require.

Start with \CCP\Eve\bin\ExeFile.exe

Then work back with each of the following testing each change,
\CCP\Eve\Launcher\Launcher.exe,
\CCP\Eve\eve.exe

Note: the above files may not have the extensions (.exe) visible unless you have turned on GÇÿFile name extensionsGÇÖ from the GÇÿViewGÇÖ menu at the top of the file browser window.

Good luck.

Few issues that I have had (note I have only ever played EVE on Windows 8):

• Since retribution the number of socket closed errors I have had have been quite high
• Since 4 patches ago, EVE decides it does not want to load the client, some basic work arounds have been compatibility mode and/or run as administrator or even uninstalling eve completely.
• At times even can use up to 950MB of Memory at a time (just before it decides that later on it will not load again)

Those are the main two issues when running one or multiple clients that I have had

My issues are just crashing randomly during a fight or just completely random. Ruining my moments. I have attempted compatibility mode AND administrator yet this has not cured it. Trying to get W7 for birthday :/

IGÇÖll assume youGÇÖre using a laptop and also connecting via WiFi if so then IGÇÖve found a small problem with my Dell laptop that may (or likewise may not) have a bearing on your socket closed problem.

IGÇÖm on ADSL 2+ and live a long way from my local exchange so to keep an eye on the broadband statistics I run Routerstats 6.8e to monitor the connection. Under Windows 7 this always worked flawlessly but since upgrading to Windows 8 Pro on the same machine I noticed every now and then the graph would report a short GÇÿdropoutGÇÖ as thought the connection between the laptop and router was lost. I would also get GÇÿConnection Reset by serverGÇÖ message from Firefox around the same time.

Over the last few days IGÇÖve experimented with various settings, and hopefully fixed the problem. I navigated to the wireless adapter settings and turned off IPV6 (just un-tick the box).

I wonder if this is akin to your socket closed problem and wonder if you would like to try turning off the IPV6 setting just as an experiment.

Regards, Blue.

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.

Is there any new information on a fix or patch or something.... This is my third download and re install on a brand new laptop 3 days old.
Wish I would have read the forums first before I bought this new win 8 laptop. It's not like you can get a new anything now with out win 8 unless you build it your self..... FFS!!!

It was known well before release, that Win8 is crap worse than Vista... What have you expected?

Recently purchase a Samsung Series 7 Laptop

I7 3630 2.4ghz
8gig ram
2gig 7870m ddr5
1tb HDD
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit


I've been experiencing serious lock-up issues. They are random. When EVE locks, I can't end task the program no matter what and have to reboot. However, MOST of the freezes occur when I alt-tab out of the game.

Same problem except the way i fix it is by signing out of windows. Happens even if you don't alt tab out but not as often.

AMD 4 ghz 8 core
RADEON HD 7850 GFX 2gig ddr5
Windows 8 64-bit

Hey guys, I wonder if anyone can help me?

I've recently purchased a new laptop with Windows 8 and I'm trying to play EVE, however after installing the game from Steam, I was met with a launcher that closed itself down instantly. I then used the repair tool which took a long which but in the end it gave me an error saying it couldn't patch.

I've tried launching from steam, from the launcher, and the .exe itself and all I get now is an error message... Here's a screenshot

Does anyone know how I can get around this issue? I think I've run out of game time just trying to fix this.

I've searched the net and forums for the above solutions but I'm now out of ideas.

Any help would be much appreciate.

I was all good on my W8 machine until the nVidia 320.x drivers pwned my Shaders settings. Reading around it appears that the solution is to set ones shaders to Medium in order to resolve the image problem.

right now i cant even start the launcher....

I had the same issue, try installing the launcher again from this link:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238130

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;

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Hey im having the same problem, quit eve and screen shows up in distorted colors...
i had my new laptop almost returned to shop... god this is so annoying.
now i see this is not hardware problem. thanks!!

I'm having the same issue on my surface pro. Moreover, stylus projection in the esc menu is way off, whereas it works fine otherwise, but that's most likely not Windows 8 related but rather a wacom driver issue with eve.

Why is my Vid card having so mutch problems with eve online ?

Hick ups during undocking
Hick ups during Gate jumping
Hick ups during docking
Hick ups during warping

I use the 314.22 whql drivers on windows 8 ad 64 bits

Asus rampage 4 extreme
Core i7 3820 socket 2011
Gskil 16 gb 1600 mhz cas 7
EVGA GTX 690
Antec 750w power supply
2x vertex 4 in raid
Onboard sound
iiyama pro lite 26 inch monitor
logitech G19 keyboard
logitech performence MX mouse
Seagate baracuda 3tb harddrive

Windows 8 pro english
Everyting with the latest drivers
Only the grafics card is using old driver becose of bug

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?