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Just ran through the install and it does appear to go under %Appdata% ...so C:\Users\user\Appdata\Local\CCP.

Edit: Also, it's configured in the Launcher settings to be under C:\ProgramData\CCP\EVE\SharedCache ...so it can be changed.

Can you please leave your dirty fingers from my filesystem. Stay where I allow you to through the install path!

Ummmm......Sure.

There's going to be a marketing challenge to make sure that new players don't go WTF??????? when they start up and don't see epic graphics right off the bat. Like huge, flashing red letters or something in the download ui.

The word "cache". Good if it isn't the case.

Do you encounter problems with you current TQ client after trying it? I had to redownload >7GB and all my settings are gone I don't want to set up everything again Cant' play with default crap Want play I don't want to set up everything again ...

Part 3.

13) Made it to Jita. SC is now 1.72GB. Open Market browser - icons for in browser view for sections ripple in quickly. Look at buying a couple of different ships. Text info on each is immediately available. Hull icon graphic pops in after 3 to 5 seconds for each. Hull looks low res. Preview takes 15 seconds to load. Initial is medium res. Another few seconds popped to hi res, stretching open and zooming in the view confirms at hi res. Abaddon is smexy! :) Repeating the entire process for a Rhea - everything is much faster! hmmm.. I guess shared elements might have helped there.

14) Quit out of client. Launch another client session from launcher that I still had up - launcher locks up!!! This is the second time it has happened, first time I thought I had done something wrong on my end. BUG CCP. Quit out of launcher and restart again. Launch client, quick look at mail, market browse for Tornado, info check Tornado, preview ship (same loading delays as second trial of looking at a hull) . ESC, Quit Game. Use Launcher to start a client again - no problem, although as last time "logging in" screen is up much longer than typical for TQ.
So, whatever is bugging out the launcher I would say it is something that takes time to show up.

15) Pop on a different toon. Check PI - open neocom ui for planet selection, double click first planet in list to invoke planet view. Takes 50 seconds for planet view to load. Double click an extractor to program a cycle - everything comes up immediately. Extractor head movement works just fine. Double click select a different planet to view (first was a Barren) and encounter 15 second delay with black screen. Try a Lava - black screen for 25 seconds. The little unit 3-D hovering icons (extractor, factory, advanced factory, command center, etc) all are there immediately.

16) Inventory - Randomly checking through a large inventory through Personal Assets, found a bunch of Decryptors with "no messageID: 296725" tags on them for item name and similar 296724 for group name. As I scroll through the asset list for this one hanger it takes 10 to 15 secs to load icons for each page. Some come singly, others in batch. There were 156 item stacks that I scrolled through. Opened an "Inventory" UI - it would take around 5 seconds for each container view to populate item icons. One container of 102 items took over 20 seconds to populate the T2 BPC icons. This is all for the graphics only. I could work with each icon immediately (info, open to Industry, etc) without issue.



SC size check: 1.72GB
Running out of things to try and been at it long enough for now. I'd say it is all working pretty darn well for this stage!!

Edit 1:
PS Shut down client, since it had been a while tried to kick off client from launcher again - which froze. So definitely a launcher up time related bug that is hard core.

This is my second test with the new downloader (I posted my first test in the wrong place), this is on my laptop over WiFi so loading times were slower as expected.

The initial small download of the installer went fine.
I then made a folder on my D: drive ready for the installation (so I could browse to it)
Ran the installer and browsed to the folder

The launcher downloaded and installed as expected
Adjusted the path in the desktop icon to point to Duality
Ran the launcher and came across the first problem, you cannot pause the download so you can change the resource path location before the download commences

Really the launcher should ask at this point where you would like the shared files stored, with copious details of what is being download and the suggested locations for the files, or should pick up the drive letter where the launcher is installed and use this as the default drive for the shared files.

Went in to the launcher settings and changed the path to D:\Eve Shared Files
Closed the launcher to prevent further downloading

Restarted the launcher and checked it was downloading the files to the correct folder on D: (it was)

While the download continued I browsed to the \ProgramData folder (normally hidden) and deleted the already downloaded files in the \CCP folder (only 38Mb).

Once complete I logged into the game (slight delay on getting to the selection screen but not excessive), clicked on my character and again a slight delay on entering the game (not excessive).

The longest time for me was setting everything up because on the laptop the FPS has taken a huge hit and even with everything turned down I can only get 30FPS where before I could get 60FPS.
Might be time for a new laptop LOL.

Changed ship from Helios to Procurer which seemed to go pretty smooth, undocking was a bit GÇÿjitteryGÇÖ as resources loaded (somewhat expected as the laptop is struggling).
Scanned for an ice belt, flew to belt, extracted 5 blocks of ice and re-docked all seemed fine

Total size of folders; D:\Eve on Duality\Eve 314Mb, D:\Eve Shared Files .99 Gb (the same as on my main PC.

Hope this helps, regards Blue.