Prior to the last big patch, I could comfortably run 10 clients on my machine. Since the patch, I can barely run half that number. Why? Something in your patch has turned your client into a complete resource hog.

Memory usage, per client, has gone up between 40 and 100MB. So where pre-patch usage was between 590 to 640 MB, now it's 660 to 720mb per client. CPU usage has gone through the roof, essentially doubled. At 5 clients, CPU usage is at 99 to 100% constantly. I have a Core 2 Intel Quad 2.2 GHZ CPU, and with 10 clients, I never broke 90% CPU usage. I play with the camera zoomed out to the max, so it's not like there is a lot of problem with rendering a lot of close in detail work. In station, CPU usage drops to 70%, but out in space, it's pinned and stays that way with only 5 clients.

People have lock up and white out issues because of the CPU usage being maxxed out. I was having the same effects and problems, because my CPU was pinned at 100% as well. There just was no more CPU time to process the amount of information needed for multiple clients, and on older machines, even a single client can completely use up all the resources. Nothign has changed on my machine since your patch, this problem is 100% with the way you patched Eve. this isn't a new thing. the exact same problem occurred when you patched in that useless P.O.S. virus you call the unified inventory.

I have friends that all have the same problem whther they're running Vista 64 like me, or Vista 32 bit, or Win 7. Right now, 2 qaccounts are unsubbed because the subscriptions have run out and I have no reason to sub them when I can't use them. I have three others I play with who also let anywhere from 1 to 3 accounts drop for the same reason. I have 2 more accounts coming up that will be unsubbed too. I'm not paying for something you've screwed up. This latest "patch" is already costing you money. If more people do this, maybe you'll actually pay attention to how and what you code, but then, this is just a repeat of fall last year.

At the same time, fix drag and drop, because that doesn't work at all for multiple items. Docking and jumping also doesn't work any more oftne than half the time, if I'm lucky, but that is also a problem that has existed since the useless inventory patch.

Take your time fixing it though. Lots of games to play that actually work ;)

Hopefully it will get fixed ASAP. I've already lost millions of ISK from missing payouts due to this bug.

This issue should be fixed on the Singularity test server now and we hope to deploy the fix next week, please read the following thread: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2687622#post2687622

players dropping like flies in HQ Incursions due to this ****. Anyone lost a ship yet?

The DEVs should consider that it is sometimes necessary to do one step backwards to get further.

Means, if something like that happens in an enterprise network, the IT would quickly make a fallback of the last patches/updates/modifies made. Especially if there is no cure at hand for a real workaround.
This buys time to test and plan the repatch more properly before deploying again.

But the more you wait searching the holy grail, the more angry the player's community will get.
Understandable, if you loose expensive ships in PvP or Incursions only because the game freezed.

And there isn't - unfortunetaly - even the slightest possibility whoever lost a ship due to the freezies and who not, because the bug doesn't log in some way. So you can't reward those pilots for there losses - that would be fair at last, as long as possible.

Hi,

While we have made a bit of progress in looking into this (it happened for example once on my machine), we need to ask you for a bit more information to be able to resolve this faster.
Please respond with following information, if you experiencing freezing clients (which do not recover at all):

• Number of running clients, when the freeze happened:
• Full screen / windowed / fixed window:
• Was the client minimized, when the freeze happened?
• Audio enabled? (on how many clients?)
• Was the character of the frozen client in a fleet?

Several of you have already given some of this information in earlier posts, but it would be great to have a bit more info on this.

Thanks!

Been having issues with Socket closed all the time as ive not been able to play since the new patch deployment, been logged on to singularity for almost 10 minutes now and seems to be working fine pls release the patch asap Thnx

I have been getting the same problem with the freezing of the screen, but the client is still running, I have 4 accts going at same time on one pc. 3 mining ice, and 1 that runs missions and incursions. I have learned one thing that has helped me out. I noticed if i turn all graphic settings on the lowest setting or disabled and turn all the effects off in the options I get no more freezes. I still have my mission runner/Incursion pilot at full graphics, I just do it for the 3 ice mining pilots. Graphics are **** at that point but i have not had any freezes for the past 3 days with more then 8hrs each day on eve. And I really don't watch the ice miners anyway.

Just an option some of you can try until a better fix is found, and not saying it will work for all but has worked for me.

he relogs, tells us in fleet chat he clicked the option to 'wait for program to repond' because he didn't want to lose his machariel IRONICALLY. but that option just delays you infinitely until you close the eve client. I asked both of them to petition, hopefully they'll clogge up more petitions because CCP isn't caring enough to have a concern on this issue

They really need to fix this. Very frustrating.


I've had it resume from the white screen after choosing that option once. Only once, though.

You are indeed talking about something different. You may think the freezes are being caused by the increase in resouce usage but, like I said, it's not the case! I'm not saying it's good or bad for the client to use more resources. I'm just saying that those two issues are NOT related.

If that were the case, my CPU would be burning up too and all of my memory (16gb) would be used. Instead I have 10% cpu usage with 3 clients and less than 3gb of ram used for those 3 clients. Resources, regardless of the new patch requiring more of them, are not the cause for the freezes.

I'm trying to put some emphasize that as I would prefer CCP solve the freezing problems, which is what is being discussed in this thread! My sugestion is that you make a new thread regarding the increase in resources needed for the client, but that's a lost cause, as you'll need more resources for the game to evolve anyway.

Still happening for me.

When this happens to me it also crashes Chrome.

have you downloaded the recent patch today?

i've had 14 clients up for about 5 hours today and not one white screen has occured yet. so far so good... but that can change so we'll see

This issue should be fixed on the Singularity test server now and we hope to deploy the fix next week, please read the following thread: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2687622#post2687622

Fixed a client freeze that occurred in rare situation where there were lots of effects.