Originally by: CherniyVolk

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What is a T2 ship gonna look like? The Faction Ships?

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Originally by: Le Skunk

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they look crap. Like seom cartoon or seomthing

SKUNK

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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I've got a treat for all of you.

Here is a VIDEO of comparisons, old ships and new, for the Celestis, Iteron, and Tristan.

EVE Comparison Video!!!

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Why didn't we use them 80 man-years to fix bugs?

Well, that's simple. We can't. These are visual ar

Originally by: MotherMoon

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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I've got a treat for all of you.

Here is a VIDEO of comparisons, old ships and new, for the Celestis, Iteron, and Tristan.

EVE Comparison Video!!!

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form 2006

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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Originally by: MotherMoon

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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I've got a treat for all of you.

Here is a VIDEO of comparisons, old ships and new, for the Celestis, Iteron, and Tristan.

EVE Comparison Video!!!

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form 2006

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yeah, god knows why no one else linked it yet...

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Why didn't we use them 80 man-years to fix bugs?

Well, that's simple. We can't. These are visual ar

Originally by: Rashell

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I like how they made the ferox's wings less stupid. Hopefully itll transfer over to my nighthawk. Overall i like this update

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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Friendly neighbourhood bump.

PS: Who do I have to talk to/make love to, to propose that this be stickied?

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Originally by: Tyr Vaantau

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New Screenshots for the BRUTIX, TEMPEST, MERLIN, and ARBITRATOR are in this link:

---> CLICK HERE <---

Of those, only the Merlin has been seen before (and it was in a different skin anyway).

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Originally by: ThaMa Gebir

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Ok, I do have a question. What is this that the GPU is actually used? I was under the impression that it was not in use per sT, rather that it was only used for accelleration or somesuch. (I am only a layman so would have very little idea tbh. Mechanical engineer )

So it means that (if I have understood this correctly) eve actually uses massive graphics resources which kill my cpu but leave my gpu relatively intact, even though my setup on half life 2 can run with little trouble with most if not all settings at high up to and including 72fps.

With eve I am lucky if I get 35 in station...

Is it really such a resource hog?

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Originally by: Haffrage

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Edited by: Haffrage on 08/09/2007 10:35:44

Originally by: ThaMa Gebir

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Ok, I do have a question. What is this that the GPU is actually used? I was under the impression that it was not in use per sT, rather that it was only used for accelleration or somesuch. (I am only a layman so would have very little idea tbh. Mechanical engineer )

So it means that (if I have understood this correctly) eve actually uses massive graphics resources which kill my cpu but leave my gpu relatively intact, even though my setup on half life 2 can run with little trouble with most if not all settings at high up to and including 72fps.

With eve I am lucky if I get 35 in station...

Is it really such a resource hog?

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The GPU, or graphics processing unit as it is cunningly named, is designed to render graphics. The CPU, or central processing unit as it is slightly less cunningly named, is designed to run about everything else (Other than audio for the audio card, or if you have a physics card and one of the like 2 games that uses them physics, etc.)

Windows calculator? CPU.
Half Life 2? GPU.
MSN Messenger? CPU.
Bioshock? GPU.
Eve Online, run on Trinity 1? CPU.

I'm sure you see a pattern with the first four, and see something terribly wrong with the fifth.

I'm no computer hardware expert, I learned enough to build my own computer years ago and have forgotten all the acronyms by now. There are plenty of words I'll use that are probably a bit off. But I do remember that graphics card have hardware specifically designed for rendering environments with stuff like shaders, anti-aliasing, etc. It has memory designed to efficiently store and access this information, differently from typical RAM. CPU's and standard RAM sticks are designed for longer term storage, like loading a song for WMP or remembering all that stuff you wrote in notepad.

Someone like me has a meaty graphics card thanks to their old one dying and getting a new one, but has a not-so-meaty CPU. Bioshock on full = no problem. Eve on low in semi-large fights = zomg ctrl+q before it asplodes

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Originally by: Ishina Fel

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Edited by: Ishina Fel on 08/09/2007 10:34:45
EVE uses the GPU for DirectX 7 level effects, such as hardware Transform & Lighting. The GPU also does the textures, as well as the optionally available multisampling.

For today's GPU's, that's barely worth a yawn, really - but it still hogs resources due to the archaic way the code uses CPU, GPU and RAM. Just think abnout it, Intel is up with their SSE4 instruction set, yet EVE probably works with SSE1, if even that much.

A good analogy: think of you computer as a long line of people passing on buckets. They are able to handle pretty big buckets, filled to the brim with water.

Now EVE comes and hands them somewhat smaller buckets. On top of that, they are only one third full of water. But they still take up the hands of the people passing them on, and any person can only pass on so many buckets per minute.

Then you enter a fleet battle, and a lot more stuff needs to be processed. EVE now hands your system bigger buckets... much much bigger buckets. In fact, they seem to get exponentially bigger the more ships are there on your screen. And even though the amount of water in them hardly increases, and your system has no problem handling the weight, it crumbles because of the sheer size of the buckets.

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