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Festering
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Posted - 2005.10.10 20:18:00 -
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Well I'm on the 14day trail, or should I now say 12 day trial... I've played Eve before for about a year, but got bored and left. I got tempted to give it another shot but though it would be wise to try and take a trial before commiting any money as Pay by Cash is so damn expensive. Anyway...
The last time I played Eve was about 2 months+ ago and Eve ran fine on my then brand new setup. Athlon 64 Venice 3200+ NForce 3 ultra mobo, GF 6800GT. But after coming back with the only thing changed being I now have 2gigs of RAM and Eve of course going up a version or so. Eve now crashes, usually after about a minute and does a hard lock resulting in a complete freeze and I have to reboot my machine. I've upgraded to the latest drivers and everything is up to date, tried different compatability modes etc... ensured AA and AF is disabled, tried windowed/fullscreen, tried reinstalling Eve etc... and all other games work fine. I'm certaintly glad I opted for the trial first, but even so its dissapointing.
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Festering
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Posted - 2005.10.11 19:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Toaster Oven
I've been having the same problems as everyone else and I think I've finally settled it. Switched to 81.84 Beta Forceware driver and my A64 3000+ and 6600GT are finally getting along with Eve again.
Gave it a try, but made no difference 
Seems a bit silly when new, demanding but buggy games such as Battlefield 2 run fine on my machine.
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Festering
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Posted - 2005.10.13 22:39:00 -
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Tried running my gfx card at 4x AGP with fast writes disabled, naturally it made bugger all difference.
It works on my old celeron 1.6gig laptop with a 32mb Geforce 2 Go, well at 15fps... and I ain't gonna play it on that when I've got a comp easily capable of running it at 50fps with AA. Quite funny really, thinking I'd give Eve a try again and all the problems come flooding back! Still I expected it would be due to lag and downtime, not a buggy client 
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Festering
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Posted - 2005.10.14 22:48:00 -
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Edited by: Festering on 14/10/2005 22:48:23
Yeah the Eve client is using 100% CPU and probably GPU too as both the CPU and gfx card go up to their maximum temperatures. However they are not overheating so that isn't the problem. I thought the Eve client has always done this (not really the best way of doing things) but I might be wrong, I'll try lowering the Eve thread priority and see if that helps.
I can't help but think its probably due to some 'optimisation' that has completely buggered up the client for the effected machines. Still it would be nice to have some acknowledgement the problem is going to be fixed. However I don't have much time with about 9 days remaining of my trial account in which I only just managed to create a character and kill 1 drone in a training area (after multiple restarts) 
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Posted - 2005.10.17 20:32:00 -
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There is obviously a problem with the amount of people in this thread. Yet as far as I know they haven't even acknowledged the problem. 6 days left of my trial account remaining out of 14. Where I've probably played a maximum of 3 minutes at a time before having to reboot. 
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Festering
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Posted - 2005.10.18 18:56:00 -
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Edited by: Festering on 18/10/2005 18:56:12
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i have to think 3 mins at a time is a slight exaggeration.
but i seem to get the problem too, warping into a belt, my clients lags for a good few secs. quite often i ctd too. only been since cold war patch.
No it isn't an exaggeration, I can't even finish half of the beginning tutorial before it locks (Skipping it makes no difference either). Usually the best I can get is to fly to an acceleration gate (whilst already being near) fly to a training drone and if I'm lucky blow it up before it locks up the machine completely. If I'm really unlucky sometimes even the login screen completely freezes the computer, not just a CTD. Once I managed to run the login screen for 10 mins or so without a crash but then it locked up as soon as I went ingame. It doesn't sound like you have the same problem.
As for sound, I've got an Audigy 2 and I've tried disabling Eves sound to no effect. Onboard sound is also disabled in BIOS. I still haven't yet found a solution and I don't think I will since every other game is fine and last time I played Eve (2 months ago or so) it also worked fine.
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