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Karash Amerius
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Posted - 2006.02.01 16:58:00 -
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Hello everyone,
I am looking for opinions about running Eve on an Athlon 64 Dual Core chip, 4 gig of memory, and a 7800gtx vid card. I am reading that some people are having problems with Eve on dual core chips in the "Known Issues" forum. Would like to get some more feedback regarding this.
Also, who here is running the Eve client on Windows x64? 
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Isidien Madcap
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Posted - 2006.02.02 01:06:00 -
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I'm using an X2 4200 with a BFG 7800 GTX (512MB) with no problems; ASUS A8N-SLI32 motherboard. It seems to be pretty hit or miss as far as people who have problems and those who don't...
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Kaladr
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Posted - 2006.02.02 04:58:00 -
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I do get occasional problems on my setup, mainly the EVE process migrating between processors results in a see-saw effect on frame rates.
The quick fix? Go to the Task manager's process list, find your eve.exe, right click, choose Set Affinity, and only leave one of the processors fixed. No more migration and cache problems.
Locking a process to a processor also helps tons for running 2 clients.
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Iavia
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Posted - 2006.02.02 11:40:00 -
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I ran Eve for a while on XP x64.
It in and of it self was fine, but my sound drivers were not fine.
In the end XP x64 wasnt worth the small slow down most of my 32 bit apps got. And other than some stuff me and a friend wrote (dont ask), I've not seen any worth while 64 apps.
Microsoft doomed XP x64 by making it OEM only software. The market share is so small that almost no one bothers to make good drivers or port apps to it.
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Kaladr
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Posted - 2006.02.03 02:40:00 -
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I agree, Windows XP 64bit is blah. I don't bother.
But man does Gentoo-amd64 scream   
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Karash Amerius
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Posted - 2006.02.03 16:37:00 -
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So Athlon64 x2 = Good
WinXP x64 = Bad
Right?
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Admiral Pieg
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Posted - 2006.02.03 17:40:00 -
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 Originally by: Kaladr
I do get occasional problems on my setup, mainly the EVE process migrating between processors results in a see-saw effect on frame rates.
The quick fix? Go to the Task manager's process list, find your eve.exe, right click, choose Set Affinity, and only leave one of the processors fixed. No more migration and cache problems.
Locking a process to a processor also helps tons for running 2 clients.
THANK YOU. I thought i was the only one with the see-saw problem, thanks a million mate.
After that quick little fix, eve works perfectly on my x2 4400+
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Kaylana Syi
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Posted - 2006.02.03 21:23:00 -
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Works fine here on my X2 3800+ w. 2gig ram.
Originally by: "Oveur"
I don't react to threats any better than you do
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Lokimon
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Posted - 2006.02.08 19:16:00 -
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Originally by: Karash Amerius
Hello everyone,
I am looking for opinions about running Eve on an Athlon 64 Dual Core chip, 4 gig of memory, and a 7800gtx vid card. I am reading that some people are having problems with Eve on dual core chips in the "Known Issues" forum. Would like to get some more feedback regarding this.
Also, who here is running the Eve client on Windows x64?
I've got an FX-60, 4 GB of memory and a 7800gt running Windows XP with the latest patches on an ASUS A8N SLI Premium motherboard.
Keep in mind that XP can only address 4 GB. My ASUS MB also only addresses 4 GB. The video card, ROM and other things consume some of that address space. When it is all said and done you get only 3.2gb of available RAM. ASUS and Intel have white papers on the issue on their websites.
Windows x64 and some of the server OS's support more memory as do other MB chipsets.
If you are planning on over clocking your machine, keep in mind that 4 1gb memory sticks eliminates the possibility of over clocking your memory bus. I've got 2 pair of matched OCZ Platinum 1gb sticks and I can't get over 200mhz on the memory bus.
That said, I run 6 EVE clients simultaneously and they are all as smooth as glass. CPU utilization with a couple of them orbiting stations in Rens and the rest in other systems is around 90%. :)
I'd buy another FX-60 in a heartbeat!
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akakjs
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Posted - 2006.02.11 11:39:00 -
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I run two eve clients happily on an AMD X2 under win x64, 7800gt, asus A8n-sli. As long as you remember to set the affinity of each client to one core, its rock solid. However if you forget to set the affinty expect it to last till the first gate/undock where it will CTD :)
However all my hardware is reasonably standard, so the drive support is fairly good.
akakjs
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Omnious
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Posted - 2006.02.17 01:55:00 -
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If you have the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor get the cpu driver from AMD and the choppy graphics will be gone in a flash no need to set the affinity. Im currently running a 4200+ dualcore with 1 gig memory, AX8 2.0 board, evga 7800gtx and winxp pro 32bit works like a charm. Windows XP 64bit is a lost cause dont use it wait for Vista.
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Kralizec
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Posted - 2006.02.24 14:40:00 -
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Originally by: Omnious
If you have the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor get the cpu driver from AMD and the choppy graphics will be gone in a flash no need to set the affinity. Im currently running a 4200+ dualcore with 1 gig memory, AX8 2.0 board, evga 7800gtx and winxp pro 32bit works like a charm. Windows XP 64bit is a lost cause dont use it wait for Vista.
Is that the oktober 26th 2004 1.2.2.0 driver?
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Isidien
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Posted - 2006.02.26 01:47:00 -
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Originally by: Kaladr
I do get occasional problems on my setup, mainly the EVE process migrating between processors results in a see-saw effect on frame rates.
Heh.. ever since the last patch with the cluster upgrade, EVE has been using significantly less CPU than before for me. The result was that the system was scheduling it differently, and was bouncing it around different cores more often -- and thus I was getting the see-saw effect now. Setting affinity fixed it.
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Kyozoku
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Posted - 2006.02.26 02:58:00 -
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Edited by: Kyozoku on 26/02/2006 02:58:36
I have an opteron 175, 2gb of ram, an x1900xt and run x64.
It runs smooth as hell. I've had no problems with frame rate or slow downs and I run it on both cores.
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Solntsev
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Posted - 2006.04.10 09:57:00 -
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you generally want to set affinity to one cpu for your eve process if you see problems. this is not (completely) an eve issue - the biggest problem is the video drivers (especially xp 64 ones), which are buggy and don't deal with smp well at all. if you do encounter problems, setting affinity will usually make everything work smooth as silk. x2s (which is what i have) are screamers in the performance department - give them enough ram and you will immediately see performance like you've never seen on a 'doze box before. xp64 is terribly rough around the edges though.
-s
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