Originally by: Novaek

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Edited by: Novaek on 07/02/2008 07:27:28
Edited by: Novaek on 07/02/2008 07:24:02
Well I don't know if anyone else had this problem yet, I know folks are having their videocards crash on them due to overheating.

I'm not sure if I am the first or not, but my nVidia 7950GX2 was having issues, after I started playing eve again a few weeks ago sometimes EVE would just crash my computer, couldn't figure out why, tried the audio fixes, etc. Nothing worked, and it would crash just from opening the client, I wouldn't even get to login sometimes before my comp would suddenly crash.

Crashed before login, crashed after login, crashed after I get into a station sometimes, and others it would run perfectly without issue. My last spat with EVE was on Friday the 1st of Febuary.

It actually destroyed my videocard, I would try to boot up, my monitor would display a "No signal detected" then "Shutting down Monitor in 5 seconds". after that, as the computer tries to boot up the internal sound would start beeping, 4-5 times then stop, obviously something was wrong and I found this thread and assumed the worst.

So I ordered a new nVidia 8800 GT, and it fixed the problem, computer booted up fine without fail. I have not yet tried to play eve again, but I am pretty ****ed off EVE overheated and burned out a $550 card(luckily it's under a 3 year warrenty) but none the less this was a ridiculous pain in the ass that cost me an addition $250 for a replacement card.

Obviously if CCP had any tact, this issue would have been addressed already seeing as how many people are people are having problems with this. It's one thing to have buggy software that crashes a game, it's another thing to have a game that's crashing computers and DESTROYING HARDWARE. We are CUSTOMERS here for crying outloud, paying for a game, and we should be getting GOOD customer service as well as a HALF DECENT product.

After some friends got me playing again, I'm not too goddamn thrilled right now since a $550 videocard got burnt to hell, and I had to pay $250 for another just to get my system running again. All thanks to CCP and their ineptitude when it comes to resolving anything.

Thanks CCP for your quality custome service and fine product...

System Specs:
OS Windows XP Home
Dual Core 2.93Ghz Processor
2GB RAM
600GB HDD Space
(Previously Asus nVidia 7950gx2 1gb videocard)
(Currently EVGA nVidia 8800 GT 512mb card)
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality Soundcard
MOBO Asus P5n32 SLI SE Delux

[Edit] Also I notice the post prior to mine also had the same issue... That's weak.

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