Peon'c
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Posted - 2008.02.20 20:10:00 -
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Edited by: Peon''c on 20/02/2008 20:13:36
Short version: setting vertical sync fixed my problem. (Display & Graphics settings, enable Advanced Settings, set Present Interval to "Interval one")
Then the long version:
I installed EVE to continue playing on an account from couple of years back. I don't remember having any issues back then, on my old comp. My new comp is a Core 2 Duo E6600 (IIRC), 2 gigs of memory, Radeon x1900 graphics card. (I expect x1900 to turn out a little underpowered for my gaming needs soonish.) It's a Shuttle case, motherboard and PSU, and that means the PSU isn't especially powerful - but good at overdelivering on their promises. (According to what I remember from hardware test labs anyway.)
Soon after starting the client I could hear the fans speeding up. After spending some time in character selection, or a little sooner if I went to character creation or logged in to a station, flickering graphical artifacts appeared. Later the screen went black. Sometimes the ATI recover tool would reset the driver and things would last a little longer, other times I had to reset the computer. It seemed to be random when the sounds would continue playing or get stuck, but I'm pretty sure the comp stopped to responding to any commands after a moment.
Stuff I tried that didn't help:
- installing newest DirectX and ATI Catalyst driver
- disabling premium graphics
- enabling both premium and HDR
- setting color depth to 24 bits (without alpha)
- turning off Load Station Environment
- switching between full screen and windowed at both 1024x768 and 1280x1024
- lowering Depth/Stencil Format
- enabling 32 bit z buffer and triple buffering for OpenGL in Catalyst Control center (EVE Online doesn't seem to have a setting for OpenGL, but anyway...)
- disabling hardware acceleration for sound
- completely disabling sound
Also tried several combinations of above things. The flickering artifacts never went away once they had appeared after fresh client restart, although it seemed it sometimes took longer for the client/comp to crash. (I didn't always wait for it before tweaking stuff, shutting client, giving it a moment and starting again.)
Then I tried a suggestion by Falkrich Swifthand and Vizhonia in this thread.
 Originally by: Vizhonia
Suggestions:
Enable V-sync lock. Contrary to the general concept that this is a catch all limiter it is not true. Fully digital graphical interfaces that are never passed through an analogue converter do not have V-syncs. They can simulate one but it's not a real v-sync and doesn't really limit the graphics, rather just conferting it to a frame by frame mode of display.
cont...
After setting Present Interval to one - that name sure didn't say V-sync to me btw - I was able to spend 10 minutes logged in without problems, which was already a record. Then I changed all the other settings to their defaults, enabling premium graphics etc. No problems. Finally I changed Present Interval to "Interval default" (default state had been "Interval immediate"), figuring that it'd get it right based on my desktop settings. All good for almost an hour now.
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