200 FPS? I don't think any monitor can support that. So maybe your monitor is getting out of sync hence choppy result.

EDIT: Also I suggest checking your graphical card temperature.

For the moment, I know it sounds odd, but try turning off Anti Aliasing ingame for the time being. See if that does "Something"

They borked some graphic setting in 1.5 (I am guessing part of the AMD/ATI fix :/ ) So they still are working to fully find the fix and you sound to be having a similar issue to mine.

Anything running in the background that could cause GPU usage to become an issue (say a web browser with youtube up) or any background apps running?

Nothing really intensive going on in the background... The problem only occurs when the clients in fixed window, so this leads me to believe that it must be something with that. Windowed or fullscreen don't ever drop in FPS. The computer is more than capable of running EVE...


What happens is if you just sit there watching the ship its a constant 59-60 fps. Once you start spinning it goes down to 55-60, then it will dip to 30-40 fps for a couple seconds and then go back up to 55-60. This causes alot of lag on the screen, which just looks horrible. And this ONLY happens in fixed window.

That is a bit odd if it works fine in a normal "window" but is broken in a fixed window..

What is your hardware specs? I am guessing reasonably high end AMD/Nvidia card(s)

Do you have the latest drivers?

And demanding or not, what is running in the background. Turning everything off that can possibly be turned off is always a good start. I don't care what it is, something may be causing the card to pull focus out of the fixed window. :/

Update: The FPS drops happen in a pattern. Has nothing to do with ship spinning or anything.


It goes 60 ----------------- then 40 ------------- 60 again... repeat.

This is silly.


Update: Disabled anti-virus... didn't help.

Is fixed window working fine for others? Or is it just broken overall?

Try this. Disable Catalyst AI in the CCC and get back to me...


CCC = Catalyst Control Center.. you know that right?

Damn thought that would do it.

The fact that your X2 still works is amazing in itself. (over 90% of the people I know with one had their burn out. I went through 3 in warranty before getting a 5870 replacement). Loved that card though.

Hmm... Have you tried going Backward in drivers a bit? Like 12.1's or older? I know it sounds funny, but with the X2 anything is possible. But with AI disabled (= 1 core used) then any studdering from that would be gone.

Lastly, Load up HWInfo (bing/google it) and check the temps of the card as you see it lag and not. If you haven't blown it out or repasted it (after so long it may be that time) it could be downclocking itself to cool itself ingame since eve does push it pretty hard. (especially with vsync/Interval turned off)

Ya it helped a lot in watching temps of everything. Especially that X2 lol. Mine all died wth artifacting cores :(

The last one I was able to boost the voltage to a stupd 1.35v though and while it made it run hotter than the sun, it did prolong its life till I got the replacement lol.

Never seen a GPU hit 120C so easily and still work fine haha. Poor card, but they are on their end of a good haul.

When I was using my X2. it was fine. Now I run SLI 560TI's and asside from the glitches added with 1.5, its just fine. (and it has to bounce around between a 60hz and 120Hz vsync lol so it does fluctuare, but not the way you describe.

Hmm... You could try clearing your client settings and see if starting from scratch might do something..

Asside from that, going to older drivers, did you run driver cleaner before downgrading?