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Griffinous Jenquai
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Posted - 2006.06.19 23:50:00 -
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Hello everyone, I've noticed theres some confusion around EVE not working on Vista. When installed, instead of getting a login screen, you're greeted with a black box.
"Meh" You'll be thinking.
Fear not, because this can be fixed!
Heres your idiots guide :-
Start menu - Run - "regedit"
In the registry window
HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Microsoft - Windows - CurrentVersion - Explorer - Shell Folders
In this directory, create a new String Value and name it "Fonts"
In Value Data, input C:\Windows\Fonts
Now run EVE! :)
Vista is a fantastic OS, theres a few annoying bugs that need to be ironed out, and it is power hungry, but not so much so that it stops you from gaming or doing everyday activities. Granted my PC has 2 gigs of RAM and a AMD 4000 Dual Core CPU, and twin 7800 GTX GPUs but I have installed it on my laptop too.
That has a Pentium 4 3.4ghz 1gig of RAM and a crappy 128mb Geforce Go 5200 GPU and Vista still runs like a dream. Don't be put off with rubbish that it uses 800mb RAM when its sitting idol.
Anyway, for those of you who are using the information supplied above, let me know how you get on.
-GJ-
MSN [email protected]
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Pieterzoon
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Posted - 2006.06.20 06:05:00 -
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thank you, works perfectly :)
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Spudufuzz
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Posted - 2006.06.21 15:20:00 -
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I read this on another thread and I can get eve to run, but I DO have some problems:
Eve eill run for 5 mins than crash, I mean properly totally lock the computer so you have to power it off.
Eve runs quite slowly and it's jerky.
My pc it's terrible it's a
P4 2.8 (800fsb)
1GB RAM
Radion x800 pro
anyone know of any fixes?
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Whemette
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Posted - 2006.06.22 07:54:00 -
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I'm Running the new Vista fine, although I have 4Gb of memory and a dual core 4800+ amd processor and finally a 256Mb 7800GT.
To get it to run, I have made the EVE Icon (on the desktop) run with Admin Privaledges, without them there was a window where you had to accept the agreement that you just couldn't get to. I also did the font patch, but not the edit on the file with the direct X change.
Once done I can play fine - with one (HUGE) exception if I minimise or alt+tab thats it game over I need to use the task manager to exit EVE and restart. It's a huge pain, but no way as huge as not being able to play at all!
When is CCP going to give us the beta of the real vista client - that would make things great - and help them - after all the two clients will have to exist in RL soon - begs please |
Jon David
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Posted - 2006.06.22 14:29:00 -
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Tried to run on Vista Beta 2 and am getting a Direct X error. Downloaded direct X and still no fix. Read above that there is something for direct x what is it?? E-mailed EVE and they just said we do not support Vista! Have my computer dual boot so I go back to XP to play EVE. But would like to play on Vista side.
Thanks for any help
David
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Aarthorn
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Posted - 2006.06.23 15:24:00 -
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thx guys for your help on this one, just installed Vista on my really slow machine
1.2ghz athlon
1 gig ram
fx5200 128mb gfx card
only got time for a quick test b4 i head to work i'll post the fps results for yas
around 13fps and not really seeing anymore lag than i used to get with xp pro
I've not yet updated direct x to 9.0b so i expect some improvement once i get all that done after work tonight.
Got fps up to 17 now at an asteroid belt
i'll post more after work
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Faraelle Brightman
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Placid Reborn
Placid Coalition
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Posted - 2006.10.24 20:32:00 -
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Edited by: Faraelle Brightman on 24/10/2006 20:34:46
Edited by: Faraelle Brightman on 24/10/2006 20:33:21
I'm running Vista RC1. I downloaded the Kali patch and installed it to a seperate copy of my EVE folders and I'm running into the black box problem, although I don't have the issue with the current Tranquility build. The regestry key that's supposed to fix the problem allready exists except that it points to G:\Windows\Fonts (C: is my Windows 2000 install, D: and E: are optical drives and F: is my zomg lots of big files drive, I'm dual booting Vista on my main (and only) machine.)
Also, "CCP Blue Framework" doesn't always close cleanly and I find myself having to kill the processes manualy. I didn't figure this out until I started having some major slowdowns and lockups.
For the record, my 3 year old machine hasn't exploded at least and I've only had one major system crash in 2+ weeks. There are a lot of annoying issues with nVidia's beta drivers, however and they're not limited to EVE. I'm running on a 1.4 ghz AMD Athalon, a gig of ram and a gForce 5700LE.
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Gut Punch
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The Revenant
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Posted - 2006.10.25 00:40:00 -
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I'm running EVE on Vista RC1 on a laptop! In fact, I've been able to run two clients at the same time. Works great.
As for the black box, do you guys all have Nvidia Cards? My Core 2 Duo Dell has a cheap ATI mobility card in it and I'm wondering if MS's drivers have issues and are responsible for the black box. This is an easy fix for you people with Nvidia as they already released WHQL certified Vista video drivers. ATI has yet to release them, to my knowledge.
Anyway, I'd recommend vista for laptops. The network options you get for wireless go above and beyond what you can get with XP. For me, I'll get Vista simply cause I need DX10. But it isn't so bad. I would recommend that you have more than 1GB of memory tho...and perhaps one of those flash memory buffered hard disks to help with the indexing that Vista does.
Gut Punch
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Faraelle Brightman
Gallente
Placid Reborn
Placid Coalition
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Posted - 2006.10.25 01:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Gut Punch
As for the black box, do you guys all have Nvidia Cards? My Core 2 Duo Dell has a cheap ATI mobility card in it and I'm wondering if MS's drivers have issues and are responsible for the black box. This is an easy fix for you people with Nvidia as they already released WHQL certified Vista video drivers. ATI has yet to release them, to my knowledge.
If it wasn't evident from my above post, I'm using the drivers from nVidia's website, not the default ones Vista provides. There is a more recent version out than the one I have but it's only supposed to work with RC2. The majority of the issues I've had so far have been those drivers crashing (however, Vista manages to restart them farily well). There are other issues I have with these drivers that primarily relate to my other massively multiperson online time sucker, Second Life. I've not had the black box issue on the current Tranquility build, it only appeared when I applied today's Kali patch on a copy of the game folders for Singularity.
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