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Tomatys
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:02:00 -
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This question is mainly directed to people using old machines/ or laptops with low specs...what are the memory, cpu, video specs, and how does EVE run on your machine?
thanks in advance...I'm thinking of buying a laptop, and want to make sure it is EVE-able 
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Vince Draken
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:11:00 -
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I can run up to three eve clients on my laptops with no issues (unless they are in jita).
The above thoughts and statements are IC and should be taken as such. |
Jenney
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:16:00 -
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Very badly
last time i tryed playing on my lap top i almost lost my dominix to an easy spawn that i could normaly mine with because every thing lockedup.
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Grimpak
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:22:00 -
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in my AMD XP 2000+ with 512mb ram and ati 9600 I run eve well untill I go to a fleetbattle of over 30 people.
...frame rate drops like hell by there 
..realy need a new cpu for this machine.
WTB: AMD barton series CPU
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Meretricis
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:26:00 -
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Runs EVE like a dream on my (hint, hint) Barton 2400+ Mobile with 1GB of ram and an Nvidia 5700.
I may be willing to part with the old Socket A chip for the right price...evemail me if you were serious.
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spiralJunkie
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:27:00 -
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i got two machines - one, new machine, no worries
the old machine, eMachines ~1gHz Celeron, 300 odd mb RAM, 128mb Graphics card (PCI - not PCIE)
works ok, just a bit choppy
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Tenacha Khan
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:31:00 -
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I run p4 3.4ghz, 1.2gb ram and 7800gt with 2 accounts and no problems
before I installed my gfx card I was able to play eve no problems with my onboard display adapter
p4 2.8ghz 512mb ram and geforce 5600 fx, used to run 2 accounts on that, but it was a bit laggy, dunno if that was dial up or the comp itself. Not too laggy to play
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Carson Kain
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:37:00 -
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Im on a Toshiba Satelite and mine is ok. I can maybe run 2 clients depending on what im doing. But when i goto a POS. My comp crashes and resolution blows up.
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Iavia
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:41:00 -
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On a 1.4 gHz Athon with a old a crud GeForce 2 MX with 32 Megs of Video Ram, and 256 Megs of system RAM it seemed to be playable but not great. When I upgraded that box to 768 Megs of system RAM it ran quite nice. Ok the frame rate wasn't great but what ever.
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Griff Skyshock
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Posted - 2006.02.13 02:53:00 -
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Runs alright with a P4 1.5 ghz, 512 mb ram and a Radeon 9600.
Until I get to fleet battles. Anything over 15 ships and my framerate drops like a stone. Around 2 fps.
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Gaelzor Falmite
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Posted - 2006.02.13 03:27:00 -
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Currently using a PC with specs: 1.8Ghz, 512mb RAM, 32mb GeForce 2 MX.
Yup, doesn't get much crappier than this now days, but I still can do everything up and including level 3 missions. Doubt it would hold up for a fleet battle or the such. I couldn't say about level 4 missions, as I haven't attempted them yet. I do have to frequently play zoomed quite far out when there are loads of NPC and play by using the overview, but so far so good, haven't had any problems which were not mistakes of my own.
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My grandfather
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Posted - 2006.02.13 03:33:00 -
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I run eve on an Acer Aspire 1800. 1256mb ram, 3GHz P4, Radeon x600 (128mb internal). I get around 60fps in station, 20 outside station, 30 when warping, and about 10-15 when in a belt (darn roids). Very happy with it.
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Van Cleef
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Posted - 2006.02.13 03:34:00 -
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If you have an older laptop, create a shortcut to the game and add the line -swtnl to the exec line to see if the game will run then.
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.02.13 03:42:00 -
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running a client on Compaq x1000
512meg ram
80 gig hdd
dvd burner
ati9200 32meg radeon mobility --fyi do NOT move to latest catalyst drivers. ATI is dropping support or has issues with the 9200/9000 series mobility hardware. compaq/hp haven't updated these drivers in over a year. Omega 5.6 series drivers works great.
EVE running at 1280x800 rez full screen or windowed.
frame rate is decent, not great: 20-32fps. I have used this during fleet actions, and didn't notice anything other than normal lag, although do not expect high fps during those times.
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DarkWizzard
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Posted - 2006.02.13 03:54:00 -
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Yea I updated to the latest drivers and noticed a slight decrease in frame rates, I notice it alot more now when I run two clients (I used to run 2 totally fine).
Also with the new drivers it seems that if I move the mouse of the eve window (I run in window mode all the time) it caused eve to drop in frames as well. Going to back up my machine and try and go back to the old version.... :/
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Tomatys
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Posted - 2006.02.13 05:12:00 -
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thx for the posts. sure looks like memory is most important for the job. i'll rack up 
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.02.13 08:21:00 -
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My old latop runs a lot better since I set the affinity of the Eve process to just one of the dual cores on my CPU. If anyone has a hyperthreading CPU (two or more CPU windows shown in Taskmanager) you should give this a try. It doubled my framerates and made that machine useable again.
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Tar om
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Posted - 2006.02.13 10:08:00 -
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I think that the priority for hardware goes something like...
1. A gfx card that will actually run EVE. Without this you're stuffed. DX9 preferable but DX8 is doable (mebbe even lower?) I've not managed to run EVE _well_ with less than 64Mb graphics RAM but I've managed two clients with 64Mb graphics ram. 32Mb graphics cards will just about do it, but you often get missing textures, screen tearing and awful FPS/resolution. Your mileage will definitely vary.
2. 512Mb RAM, more is always better but 512 is fine. If you want to run more clients, add more RAM. If you have a very slow HD, add more RAM and increase the buffer size in prefs.ini.
3. Processor. The biggest you can get, 2Ghz P4s will do it... 1.7PMs will do it, or equivalent AMD parts. The more you get after this, the better you will cope with loaded systems and piles of NPCs. EVE seems to be more CPU bound than most games.
4. As with all things, if you go and spend a lot of cash on a top whack computer you'll get more performance but the value for money will decrease rapidly. This post is for people who are trying to play EVE on a budget. I hate people who sneer at other gamers who are not as fortunate as I am. Remember that the PCs some threw out a year ago were top of the line when EVE was released.....
This post is from my experience playing EVE on a wide variety of desktops and laptops that I install at work. The first thing I do with a new machine (or with the first from a batch of machines) is install EVE and see how the performance looks. I use EVE as a benchmarking test at work :) If you have other experiences please add them.
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Chronus26
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Posted - 2006.02.13 10:31:00 -
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Edited by: Chronus26 on 13/02/2006 10:31:23
I tried to run EVE on my das's new AMD turon Laptop a couple of nights ago, It's got 1 gig ram and a Turon 64bit Mobile Processor. The graphics Chip in it is an ATI Radeon Xpress 500m or something.
When I installed and ran the EVE client,it loaded up fine, looked fine on login untill i got to the character selection screen, where the graphics themselves looked fine, its just the display was 'flashing' on the screen ie. disapearing then re-appearing again. Tried tweaking the setting on graphics adaper and the game but no improvments at all.
I recon it was the graphics card its-self tbh so that might be one to look out for.
I was rather dissapointed in that, my Desktop is bearly able to run eve, I think its about to give up totally, and I was hoping to find a substitute for it.
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FireFoxx80
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Posted - 2006.02.13 10:46:00 -
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I run two clients on a 2400+, 512Mb RAM, and 9200SE
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Llucia
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Posted - 2006.02.13 11:04:00 -
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At work i used the Laptop to play eve. Which, runs pretty well. never tried more then 1 client though as i only have this account.
P4 3.4
ATI Mob Radeon 9700/64MB
1024MB DDR Ram
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Will Mer
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Posted - 2006.02.13 13:49:00 -
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It runs fine on:
3500 winchester
1gbram
7800GTX
I run with 4x AA and 8x AF as well. Don't get any lag what so ever. I get it in fleet battles but I think thats partly due to lag and partly due to the 4xaa and 8xAF as well.
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Ampoliros
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:14:00 -
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Edited by: Ampoliros on 13/02/2006 14:14:13
My current laptop is:
3.0GHz
1gig ram
radeon mobility 9600
Runs eve great, will run most other games on pretty high settings just fine.
I have an old computer, specs are:
800MHz
512 RAM
Geforce 4 mx 440 (crappy, but eh)
I'd call it 'functional' - or, perhaps, 'skill training computer'. It runs, but it doesn't run well. Even looking at your average station or big glowy cloud significantly reduces FPS - not to slideshow, but still badly. The only time I ever had critical problems running EVE with it was way back in beta, when I had a TNT2 (and 256 RAM) instead and it wouldn't start up at all.
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Nero Scuro
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:22:00 -
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My old (old, old) computer used to have a 1.6ghz Duron, 256mb RAM and a Geforce 2.
Not only did it run EVE, I participated in conquerable station sieges with about 20-15 FPS.
Mind you, that was a year ago...
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:29:00 -
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Edited by: Sevarus James on 13/02/2006 14:29:54
Its been mentioned before, but the way EVE processes graphics, its almost more important to have a faster CPU than it is to have the hottest graphics card.
Example: My amd2400+ desktop with 6800 GT OC 256meg RAM is definitely better FPS wise than my Compaq X1000 widescreen with radeon9200 mobility with 32meg ram...BUT its not unplayable on either.
Devs may have mentioned this in another thread...can't remember exactly, but the CPU with current client build is definitely most important at this point.
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Fergus Runkle
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:31:00 -
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My system
P3 1.26ghz
512mb Ram
Geforce 5600 Ultra
I don't PvP so I can't comment but I can do most of the lvl4 missions without much lag (depending on time of day / solar system). FPS is in the 17-30 range normally. Having the whole fleet from 5/5 Human cattle shooting me and 5 of my corp shooting back (in a quiet system) gave me about 10 fps.
My main source of lag comes from my 56k dial up connection and my instance on running TS
yeah now you all can laugh. 
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Capsicum
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:34:00 -
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I believe that CPU has been the limiting factor for a while now.
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Orvus Prime
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:46:00 -
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My comp has P4 2GHz 256 RD ram Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440 64MB, it runs fine until fleet battles and sometimes lags in missions, it locksup for about 30 secs.
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Lost Minnity
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Posted - 2006.02.13 14:49:00 -
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P4 1.5GHz
Geforce 2 MX400
384 RAM
Runs slow as hell when peak hours hit. Lost 2 domis to horrible lag already. Being halfway around the world from London doesn't help a single bit. 
Upgrading to Geforce 6xxx and probably 512 RAM soon.
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darth solo
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Posted - 2006.02.13 15:01:00 -
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i bought the best PC i could find last year, dual gforce7800s and all the toys, the best of everything.. even got it setup for maximum performance...
BUT eve still lags, it still drops, it still does all those bad things my old pc done.
It doesnt matter what u have, u will always run into trouble with EVE as its quite an unstable laggy game, but thats why we love it ..
just get something thats good enough to run EVE, rather than something that "should" blow it away.
d solo.
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Lord WarATron
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Posted - 2006.02.13 15:17:00 -
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I use a Ferrari 3400.
Runs eve fine. Also runs Halflife 2/UT2004 at 1280x1024 max detial no probs.
Runs Quake 4 no probs, though not at max all out detail.
Lags out to death with x3 with latest patch on argon prime :(
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Sha'blach
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Posted - 2006.02.13 15:32:00 -
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Edited by: Sha''blach on 13/02/2006 15:34:36
Edited by: Sha''blach on 13/02/2006 15:33:35
you're gonna wanna kill me:
Fraps says 392fps My machine is as follows:
Windows XP Professional 64bit Edition
AMD x2 64bit 4400 (oc to 3.45ghz)
4.5gb DDR pc3200
Duel SLI Geforce7800 GLX 256mb PCI Express 16x
Nforce 4 Mainboard - Chaintech
100/1000 Optical running through a 36mB optical line (rarely get lag)
EVE: 1600x1200 24bit 8bit alpha
Card's settings: 8x AA 16x AF
All settings turned on/high in eve's setup bar - running in windowed.
I can easily handle battles of 200 ships or more as far as FPS are concerned, but the lag bottlenecking is CCP's issue, not my net connection's
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ThrudUK
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Posted - 2006.02.13 15:43:00 -
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Originally by: Chronus26
Edited by: Chronus26 on 13/02/2006 10:31:23
I tried to run EVE on my das's new AMD turon Laptop a couple of nights ago, It's got 1 gig ram and a Turon 64bit Mobile Processor. The graphics Chip in it is an ATI Radeon Xpress 500m or something.
When I installed and ran the EVE client,it loaded up fine, looked fine on login untill i got to the character selection screen, where the graphics themselves looked fine, its just the display was 'flashing' on the screen ie. disapearing then re-appearing again. Tried tweaking the setting on graphics adaper and the game but no improvments at all.
I recon it was the graphics card its-self tbh so that might be one to look out for.
I was rather dissapointed in that, my Desktop is bearly able to run eve, I think its about to give up totally, and I was hoping to find a substitute for it.
I haven't read to the end of this post BUT this problem is solved by the first sticky on Known Issues and Workarounds...
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Phenoxan97
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Posted - 2006.02.13 15:57:00 -
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Eve Runs like a dream, Like all my games do
AMD Athalon 64 3800
2gb ddr400 Geil RAM
GeForce 6600GT
Soundblaster X-Fire.
Only a month old and i love it.
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lansha
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Posted - 2006.02.14 15:46:00 -
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Originally by: Sha'blach
you're gonna wanna kill me:
Fraps says 392fps My machine is as follows:
Windows XP Professional 64bit Edition
AMD x2 64bit 4400 (oc to 3.45ghz)
4.5gb DDR pc3200
Duel SLI Geforce7800 GLX 256mb PCI Express 16x
Nforce 4 Mainboard - Chaintech
100/1000 Optical running through a 36mB optical line (rarely get lag)
sounds like some1 got an alien ware ;)
an enemy of an enemy is a friend |
keepiru
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Posted - 2006.02.14 15:55:00 -
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my lappie runs 1 fine, or 2 not quite smoothly:
P4 2.8GHz, Fx 5600Go 64Mb, 768Mb DDR
My desktop... hehehehe
FX-53 @ [varies, 3.2GHz atm]
2x 1Gb @ DDR 595
X1900XTX
watercooled ^^;
i must say though, if i try to run 2 clients @ 1680x1050 windowed it still creaks a bit... windowed mode is really murder, but i just cant go back to fullscreen after 12 months of playing with the sound off while browing the net. Id upgrade to dual-core but its hard to find a 90nm core that OCs like this clawhammer tank :)
well, i'd get an opty 180 but theyre bleeding hard to get a hold of.
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Madscotsman
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Posted - 2006.02.14 15:59:00 -
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You won't believe how relieved I am to know I don't have the oldest PC to play Eve on
AMD 1.33GHz Athlon
slightly under 400MB RAM
Geforce 4 MX440
Definetley playable but have to zoom waaaaay out for fleets or deadspace with lots of clouds. Still get lag spikes where it locks for between 30 seconds to a minute, and random crashes now and again.
Got my beady eyes on an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, NVidia 6600GT, new motherboard and 1 GB RAM. (fingers crossed)
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Sha'blach
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Posted - 2006.02.14 16:02:00 -
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Originally by: lansha
Originally by: Sha'blach
you're gonna wanna kill me:
Fraps says 392fps My machine is as follows:
Windows XP Professional 64bit Edition
AMD x2 64bit 4400 (oc to 3.45ghz)
4.5gb DDR pc3200
Duel SLI Geforce7800 GLX 256mb PCI Express 16x
Nforce 4 Mainboard - Chaintech
100/1000 Optical running through a 36mB optical line (rarely get lag)
sounds like some1 got an alien ware ;)
two words: hell... NO!
Alienwares are not only not worth the money, but they are EXTREMELY overpriced. I actually did a small experiment when I built my new PC(s); Mine cost me roughly 1,200usd to build. I went on www.alienware.com and checked out the same kind of PC and it ran into the 5-6,000USD range. All you're really paying for is the purty case, the neonlights and blinkie LEDs ;) (btw, my main workhorse looks identical to an alienware, bought an alienware case off of ebay)
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Threv Echandari
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:14:00 -
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Laptop Specs:
HP/Comapaq TC1100 Tablet:
OS: WXP SP2 Tablet edition
Processor: Pentium M 1GHz with SSE2
MEM: 1GB
HDD: 40GB
Video: Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go 32m (AGP4x 32MB video memory) Driver: version 6.14.10.4574
Performance:
Adequate for Mining, chatting and minor furballs. Some Stuttering but not enough to keep me from playing. I use an 802.11g conection that sometime get dropped causing CTD Runs best isn Full Screen though Windowed mode is still possible. Most Graphics and lag issues are in Windowed mode
Settings:
24 bit color
Windowed (or FS)
1024x768
32bit z buff w/8- bit stencil
Z buffer on
Issues
I use an 802.11g conection that sometime get dropped causing CTD
Memory Leak? Performance stars to detoriorate after 2-3 hours contius play.require Restrat. sometimes the Space background turns "White" all other objects are normal. Sometimes fixed by switching to full screen. I'm playing around with the Color depth and Z buffer stttings to fix that.
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Hehulk
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:35:00 -
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Mines in the middle of an upgrade atm, so it's a tad hodge-podge
AMD 3000+ Newcastle Core
Asus K8V-X Motherboard
Sapphire X700 256MB AGP
512MB Corsair DDR400
160GB Hitachi Drive
I usually get around 40-50 FPS, save for fleet battles.
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TuRtLe HeAd
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:39:00 -
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I use a laptop and a desktop.
The laptop is
Pentium 780 2 gig
1 gig ram
pci express geforce go 6800
And the game looks stunning !
My other computer is
Athlon 64 3200+
1 Gig Ram
Radeon X850 XT 256mb
And it runs smoother than anything on that. The only problem is that the monitor only supports up to 1078x1024 Damn flat screen rubbish.
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Asael
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:52:00 -
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Edited by: Asael on 14/02/2006 17:52:43
Edited by: Asael on 14/02/2006 17:52:22
I must say that eve ran pretty nice on my old machine. And i mean old
The specs where as followed:
* Amd Duron 950 Mhz
* Ati Radeon 9200 SE 64 mb
* 640 Mb Sdram (That is one bar of 128 and one bar of 512 from another brand)
* 10/100 Lan card
And i managed to play stuff like Act of War or Doom 3 on it on average  , but i cant remember the fps on eve or any other games.
Needless to say, the old cat burned herself out a few months ago.
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wiater
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Posted - 2006.02.14 19:33:00 -
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Originally by: Tomatys
This question is mainly directed to people using old machines/ or laptops with low specs...what are the memory, cpu, video specs, and how does EVE run on your machine?
on my athlon 2.5k, 1gb ram and geforce 6600 gt i have crazy amount of... 10-15 fps...
thats so damn sad, graphic is nice, but no fun in watching slideshow :/
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J Valkor
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Posted - 2006.02.14 20:07:00 -
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Edited by: J Valkor on 14/02/2006 20:07:24
Looking through these, I would like to note my compie isn't completely top of the line, but runs a lot better then most of your systems. I mean, it's not choppy, period. The only thing I can tell the difference in that might seperate my compies from a lot of yours is:
Buy a better Mobo. My current Mobo is no longer sold by MSI because it made buying their newer series unneccessary.
Buy better RAM. Yes, having several gigs is nice... I guess. However, better timings is prolly gonna be better for EVE.
Those are the only things I can think of that would seperate my compy from a lot of yours.
The current cost of my comp is >1000USD (I payed 1200 for it when I got it) and it runs the game with high settings, AA and AF, etc. with absolutely no issues. Also turn off transperencies in Menus. That's an easy ten FPS.
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