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Posted - 2005.04.28 14:27:00 -
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my 2nd PC is currently broken, so i'm trying to run both accounts on this PC. But 2nd account ctd's always, usually within seconds, often doesn't even get into eve. Any idea's?
PC Specs Athlon XP2200 1gb PC3200 GF4 Ti4200 128mb Soundblaster Live Value Win XP Pro SP1 Direct X 9.0c Latest video and sound drivers
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Reash
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Posted - 2005.04.28 14:53:00 -
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I am running pretty much same specs and can run 2 fine
Mine are :
Athlon 2200 700+ PC3200 Radeon 9800 pro Soundblaster live 5.1 Win XP service pack 2.
At a guess id say its the graphica card looking at the specs, maybe it just cant handle 2? not a expert opinion by a long way but my PC is quite simular other than the graphics card. ------------------------------------------------- Defend Amarr space, join the Auctoritan Syndicate today |
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Posted - 2005.04.28 15:04:00 -
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that shouldnt be the reason, i've run 2 before, but that was a while ago, maybe a patch has change things since then, no clue
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Posted - 2005.04.29 02:23:00 -
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anyone else got any ideas?
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SirSpectre
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Posted - 2005.04.29 04:26:00 -
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What exactly is it not doing? If its lag, disable the sound that helps a ton. Try putting 2 seperate installs on seperate HDs if possible. There is one more thing you can do, it involves playing with the prefs.ini file if you want to know just let me know. But the former, should help alot.
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Hornymatt
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Posted - 2005.04.29 12:39:00 -
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Common cure used to be to turn off the sun occlusion. Don't know if this will help in your case, but if you haven't tried it yet it would be worth a go.
Good luck.
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Posted - 2005.04.29 12:39:00 -
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cheers, i'll try these things now
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Posted - 2005.04.29 13:41:00 -
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working, but laggy, and i havent even undocked the 2nd account account yet
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Na'Axin
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Posted - 2005.04.30 11:28:00 -
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disable audio on both accounts and check again.
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Ammonn Blac
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Posted - 2005.04.30 12:09:00 -
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It's most likely the sun occlusion thing. Disable it in both clients. You'll be safe for a few jumps ... but then, it sometimes turns on by itself and *poof* goes your client.
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Bunny Wunny
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Posted - 2005.05.01 15:22:00 -
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your graphics cards not up to it I'm guessing
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Ky Vatta
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Posted - 2005.05.02 12:20:00 -
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Edited by: Ky Vatta on 02/05/2005 12:21:09 With that grafix card, don`t try to undock both characters, or lag will crash the game.
Also, it can also depend on your internet connection...(if insufficient data can get through, 1 account will crash)
Also, as mentioned above, if both accounts are on the same computer, the sound conflicts, crashing the game |
Edison Frisk
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Posted - 2005.05.02 15:30:00 -
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Me n' my pop used to share each others accts in our carebearing days and on his old setup he could without any lag run 4 accts, this is going back a while when a ti4600 was the dogz bollox, now with his 9800pro he struggles to run 3 and 2 accts with no lag. I think in exodus they tweaked the graphics engine which made it a little bit more of a struggle with older cards.
I am sure that a Ti4200 would find it difficult to run two accounts, you might be able to do it if you lowered all gfx settings down to 1024x res, lowering to 16bit bleh bleh, make sure you disable sound ctr+alt+shift+f12 and also you can turn effects off like turrets and all effects (very useful) ctrl+alt+shift+e and ctrl+alt+shift+t, this may improve your framrate, which you can look at by ctrl+alt+f
Hope this helps.
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Zhuge Liang
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Posted - 2005.05.02 17:09:00 -
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Ok if you have a low spec machine and want to run 2 accounts or want it to run better, the following options can be changed:
1. Press Esc in game to get to the options menu.
Generic Options Trails - OFF Sun is occluded by ships - OFF Log chat to file - OFF Show timestamp in chat - OFF
Graphic Options Window Mode Color Depth: 15bit Color Depth/Stencil Format: 16bit Z buffer Depth Buffer: No Buffer Character Picture: Never generate Picture
Audio Tab Audio Enabled - OFF
Ingame Turn Music off from the Jukebox Turn Turret effects off: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + T Turn Effects off: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E
2. Close EVE After changing the color depth the screen freeze and you may need to restart eve. In the case the setting as too basic you can clear your cache folder to go back to defaults.
3. Free up resources Close down all applications you don't need, so you free up CPU and memory resources. Virus checkers, File sharing software, media players, quicklaunch software.
4. Start up EVE and see if you can run 2 accounts.
The above options wont make eve look pretty but if you need your machine to run 2 accounts for something like mining, then it works a treat.
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