Sihlovian
Eclipse Outsourcing Solutions
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Posted - 2008.02.18 10:26:00 -
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Chalk up another user that suffers from either TDRs (Display Stops Responding), or hard locks while playing Eve. I have not had any problems with the new Trinity client until they patched it and that's when the woes began. At any random amount of time, like many, my machine locks and display shuts down forcing a hard reset, or Windows resets the graphics driver allowing to exit the program and do a soft reset. On average I'd say it happens at least once in six hours of play.
In my case, I know it's not overheating, both gfx cards never exceed 55C while running Eve. The PSU is not underrated for the system. When Eve does occasionally TDR, it indicates that display driver fails to respond and is re-initialized. And regardless of having sound on/off, SLI on/off, windowed/fullscreen, Eve-Voice enabled/disabled, nothing so far has solved this dilemma for me. By comparison, Eve puts a much lighter load on my machine than NWN2 or Crysis. And all my other applications/games run without fault, under extended periods of time, like many other people above me. Some may argue that a bad driver installation is the culprit, and I'd disagree on that to a point. A program making illegal calls/passing incorrect vars to a driver can also cause a failure. Seeing that this problem affects nVidia, AMD(ATI), XP, and Vista users leads me to believe that there is more a problem on the application end of it. I'm not necessarily trying to find fault, but rather point in the direction of a possible solution. I enjoy Eve, and would like to play more. But, everytime I see log showing that the hive files had to be rebuilt because of a hard lock, It doesn't exactly encourage me to play. Hopefully CCP can pin down what changed between initial release of Trinity and 1.1 patch.
System Specs: (all watercooled and no OC atm)
Intel E6700 C2D
XFX 680i SLI Mobo - 15.08 driver set
4Gig Corsair Dominator PC-8500 @ 800
Two eVGA 8800 GTX 768M (SLI) - 169.25 driver
SB X-Fi Platinum - 2.15.0004 driver
Two 150G WDC Drives (no RAID running)
1200W Thermaltake PSU
Vista Ultimate x64 (all updates/hotfixes installed)
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