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SwitchBl4d3
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:01:00 -
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here is my best eve related tip in the whole wide world.
basic sound acceleration. i love it so much i bathed in a load of it last night.. then u ignore the bit where eve says "i havent got 64 digital channels or whatever."
Most game lags are due to sound not up to par with GFX.
Start>run>dxdiag
Thankyou for your time
"Teh lord of Nonni"
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SwitchBl4d3
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:01:00 -
[32]
here is my best eve related tip in the whole wide world.
basic sound acceleration. i love it so much i bathed in a load of it last night.. then u ignore the bit where eve says "i havent got 64 digital channels or whatever."
Most game lags are due to sound not up to par with GFX.
Start>run>dxdiag
Thankyou for your time
"Teh lord of Nonni"
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Mr nStuff
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:04:00 -
[33]
Same thing forever. And I refuse to play in fullscreen mode. EVE takes up enough of my time how it is. And if I play in fullscreen, I can not even use my computer. Because EVE becomes completely unstable if I press Alt+Enter or minimize while in fullscreen.
P4-1.6 WinXP 512mRAM
Let the game run for 30 minutes in windowed mode while sitting in the trade channel. Then watch your memory usage monitor. It should easily be in the 250 megabyte zone by now.
áNow minimize the EVE window (while in windowed mode). Notice the memory usage for EVE instantly drops to around 14kb. Now maximize the window and watch how quickly it goes up. About 8k a second.
Thought that was kind of weird.
Dunno though.
5 R&D Agents, 10months, Zero BPO Offers..
Onboard navigational [Planetary Avoidance] computer.
My account will be suspended at the end of the current play period.
Expires on 19. September 2004 |
Mr nStuff
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:04:00 -
[34]
Same thing forever. And I refuse to play in fullscreen mode. EVE takes up enough of my time how it is. And if I play in fullscreen, I can not even use my computer. Because EVE becomes completely unstable if I press Alt+Enter or minimize while in fullscreen.
P4-1.6 WinXP 512mRAM
Let the game run for 30 minutes in windowed mode while sitting in the trade channel. Then watch your memory usage monitor. It should easily be in the 250 megabyte zone by now.
áNow minimize the EVE window (while in windowed mode). Notice the memory usage for EVE instantly drops to around 14kb. Now maximize the window and watch how quickly it goes up. About 8k a second.
Thought that was kind of weird.
Dunno though.
5 R&D Agents, 10months, Zero BPO Offers..
Onboard navigational [Planetary Avoidance] computer.
My account will be suspended at the end of the current play period.
Expires on 19. September 2004 |
fras
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:05:00 -
[35]
actualy that would make sense my fine minmatar friend, I think system #2 has a soundblaster live thingy, where #1 has onboard nforce2 something or other(assuming not as good).
I'll try that tonight.
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fras
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:05:00 -
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actualy that would make sense my fine minmatar friend, I think system #2 has a soundblaster live thingy, where #1 has onboard nforce2 something or other(assuming not as good).
I'll try that tonight.
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SwitchBl4d3
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:08:00 -
[37]
dxdiag basic acceleration
please all dont spam my mail thanking me a small donations fine
byeee
"Teh lord of Nonni"
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SwitchBl4d3
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:08:00 -
[38]
dxdiag basic acceleration
please all dont spam my mail thanking me a small donations fine
byeee
"Teh lord of Nonni"
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mahhy
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:16:00 -
[39]
 Originally by: Fletch Carver
Edited by: Fletch Carver on 02/08/2004 14:51:10
Omega drivers add a slight(*) quality increase, some performance increase(*)...
Or a very significant performance increase if you cna use the softmod 
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mahhy
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:16:00 -
[40]
Originally by: Fletch Carver
Edited by: Fletch Carver on 02/08/2004 14:51:10
Omega drivers add a slight(*) quality increase, some performance increase(*)...
Or a very significant performance increase if you cna use the softmod
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Vladimir Illyvich
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:17:00 -
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When given focus, ANY well-written game will spike to 100% cpu usage.
A. It uses a different cpu mode than office applications.
B. When given focus, it always want to pump out as many frames per second as possible.
You could try altering the process priority, but its likely ccp added a line of code to rebumb it back up when it gets focus.
Seriously, even wc II will do 100% usage. ( although it does truly funny things cause of it being meant to be played on 386sx)
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Vladimir Illyvich
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Posted - 2004.08.02 15:17:00 -
[42]
When given focus, ANY well-written game will spike to 100% cpu usage.
A. It uses a different cpu mode than office applications.
B. When given focus, it always want to pump out as many frames per second as possible.
You could try altering the process priority, but its likely ccp added a line of code to rebumb it back up when it gets focus.
Seriously, even wc II will do 100% usage. ( although it does truly funny things cause of it being meant to be played on 386sx)
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:11:00 -
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It doesn't just spike though.
It stays at 100% for the entirety of it's focus.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:11:00 -
[44]
It doesn't just spike though.
It stays at 100% for the entirety of it's focus.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Drangot
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:22:00 -
[45]
Well ur specs look ientical to my pc. Tho im not getting any severe problems with eve. I did read somewhere on the eve support area that in xp, u should set pririty fo below normal. this i have done on both accounts, along with removing show turrets and trails on my hauler account. theres the sun occlored thingie which im sure u've done.
I was getting some problems from my 9800 a few weeks ago, with VGart showing it as agp = off, opposed to agp x8. this was sorted with the format. However i have also noticed that eve goes all blocky with the latest .7 cataclyst drivers. even the .6 ones are pretty naff, with stations and gates looking pretty naff.
Looking at your graph make sure u havent set the priority of eve up high. tho sort it out hit "ctrl + atl + del" once when eve is running (wondowed) and go into processes tab, and select eve, right click > priority > chhose the one below normal. this helps alot, when it comes to performance.
Cant recomend much more advice. However if your able to format well thats something that might help. just make sure u have all drivers backed up along with ur ****. 
Cant suggest alot morer but eve has posted some stuff on the support pages on the site (the equilevent to F12 in space).
Best of luck sorting it out.
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Drangot
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:22:00 -
[46]
Well ur specs look ientical to my pc. Tho im not getting any severe problems with eve. I did read somewhere on the eve support area that in xp, u should set pririty fo below normal. this i have done on both accounts, along with removing show turrets and trails on my hauler account. theres the sun occlored thingie which im sure u've done.
I was getting some problems from my 9800 a few weeks ago, with VGart showing it as agp = off, opposed to agp x8. this was sorted with the format. However i have also noticed that eve goes all blocky with the latest .7 cataclyst drivers. even the .6 ones are pretty naff, with stations and gates looking pretty naff.
Looking at your graph make sure u havent set the priority of eve up high. tho sort it out hit "ctrl + atl + del" once when eve is running (wondowed) and go into processes tab, and select eve, right click > priority > chhose the one below normal. this helps alot, when it comes to performance.
Cant recomend much more advice. However if your able to format well thats something that might help. just make sure u have all drivers backed up along with ur ****.
Cant suggest alot morer but eve has posted some stuff on the support pages on the site (the equilevent to F12 in space).
Best of luck sorting it out.
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Swedish Bob
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:37:00 -
[47]
It looks in general like eve has some sort of problem with ATI cards. I have:
Radeon 9800
Opteron 240
512Meg ram
plays decently in full screen most of the time but is unplayable in windowed mode. I've played UT2004, L2 and FFXI in windowed mode on the system with no performance loss. So give that I'd say the problem is probably on CCP's end.
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Swedish Bob
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Posted - 2004.08.02 16:37:00 -
[48]
It looks in general like eve has some sort of problem with ATI cards. I have:
Radeon 9800
Opteron 240
512Meg ram
plays decently in full screen most of the time but is unplayable in windowed mode. I've played UT2004, L2 and FFXI in windowed mode on the system with no performance loss. So give that I'd say the problem is probably on CCP's end.
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Frazzled
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:06:00 -
[49]
Originally by: Drangot
Well ur specs look ientical to my pc. Tho im not getting any severe problems with eve. I did read somewhere on the eve support area that in xp, u should set pririty fo below normal. this i have done on both accounts, along with removing show turrets and trails on my hauler account. theres the sun occlored thingie which im sure u've done.
Looking at your graph make sure u havent set the priority of eve up high. tho sort it out hit "ctrl + atl + del" once when eve is running (wondowed) and go into processes tab, and select eve, right click > priority > chhose the one below normal. this helps alot, when it comes to performance.
Hi mate, just tried that and it completely froze down EVE for a couple of minutes then it ran REAL slow. Do you mean when in windowed mode or fullscreen?
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Frazzled
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:06:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Drangot
Well ur specs look ientical to my pc. Tho im not getting any severe problems with eve. I did read somewhere on the eve support area that in xp, u should set pririty fo below normal. this i have done on both accounts, along with removing show turrets and trails on my hauler account. theres the sun occlored thingie which im sure u've done.
Looking at your graph make sure u havent set the priority of eve up high. tho sort it out hit "ctrl + atl + del" once when eve is running (wondowed) and go into processes tab, and select eve, right click > priority > chhose the one below normal. this helps alot, when it comes to performance.
Hi mate, just tried that and it completely froze down EVE for a couple of minutes then it ran REAL slow. Do you mean when in windowed mode or fullscreen?
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Miss Cenva
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:21:00 -
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spikes at 100% cpu usage shouldn't be a problem, when eve pushes the cpu to 100% all the time, without dropping the cpu lower then 100% you have a problem. Eve is a multi threaded application. Windows works with message queues inside each thread, each message identifies what a thread needs to do each time the queue is handled. This handling of a queue also takes cpu cycles and is only handled at intervals.
When a program (or a particular thread) pushes up to 100% continuesly then the OS has a hard time giving priority to a thread, which can result in giving cpu cycles at a delayed interval. Which can result in lower performance of the application. and even the os in some cases. The first thing you will notice in these cases is slower UI reaction of the application and/or OS. Since the background threads push themselves above the priority of the UI threads.
In other words, 100% all the time will result in lower performance or bad UI reaction, 100% in peaks is good usage of CPU and will give other threads time to react and handle the Message queues.
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Miss Cenva
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:21:00 -
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spikes at 100% cpu usage shouldn't be a problem, when eve pushes the cpu to 100% all the time, without dropping the cpu lower then 100% you have a problem. Eve is a multi threaded application. Windows works with message queues inside each thread, each message identifies what a thread needs to do each time the queue is handled. This handling of a queue also takes cpu cycles and is only handled at intervals.
When a program (or a particular thread) pushes up to 100% continuesly then the OS has a hard time giving priority to a thread, which can result in giving cpu cycles at a delayed interval. Which can result in lower performance of the application. and even the os in some cases. The first thing you will notice in these cases is slower UI reaction of the application and/or OS. Since the background threads push themselves above the priority of the UI threads.
In other words, 100% all the time will result in lower performance or bad UI reaction, 100% in peaks is good usage of CPU and will give other threads time to react and handle the Message queues.
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Kayar
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:25:00 -
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okay well i just printscreened my cpu usage for eve. just realised didnt show it was underneath anything. however trying it again, it does seem to lower the usage to around 50%
http://kayar.ukvikings.co.uk/cpuusage.jpg
As you can see, around 10% usage while loading, 50% orbitting inside the hanger, 80-90% while the black screen says undocking and 95-100% while orbitting the station.
Stats for the computer im using are Athlon 2500XP @ 3200XP levels, 1GB ram, Radeon9600xt 128mb with the Cat4.7's and XP Pro
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Kayar
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:25:00 -
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okay well i just printscreened my cpu usage for eve. just realised didnt show it was underneath anything. however trying it again, it does seem to lower the usage to around 50%
http://kayar.ukvikings.co.uk/cpuusage.jpg
As you can see, around 10% usage while loading, 50% orbitting inside the hanger, 80-90% while the black screen says undocking and 95-100% while orbitting the station.
Stats for the computer im using are Athlon 2500XP @ 3200XP levels, 1GB ram, Radeon9600xt 128mb with the Cat4.7's and XP Pro
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Admiral IceBlock
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:37:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1 - Everest system Information/Diagnostic Tool. Freeware Edition.
what are you suppose to do with that prog?
"We brake for nobody"
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Admiral IceBlock
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Posted - 2004.08.02 17:37:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1 - Everest system Information/Diagnostic Tool. Freeware Edition.
what are you suppose to do with that prog?
"We brake for nobody"
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Rod Blaine
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Posted - 2004.08.02 18:09:00 -
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Josh, i looked just now while logged in in wondowed mode (always play that way), and my cpu (p4 3.2 ghz) doesnt top 50% use.
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Yes yes, blogging is passÚ I know.
Rod's Ramblingz on Eve-Online
Solutions to your issues. |
Rod Blaine
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Posted - 2004.08.02 18:09:00 -
[58]
Josh, i looked just now while logged in in wondowed mode (always play that way), and my cpu (p4 3.2 ghz) doesnt top 50% use.
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Yes yes, blogging is passÚ I know.
Rod's Ramblingz on Eve-Online
Solutions to your issues. |
Amarr Agent
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Posted - 2004.08.02 18:36:00 -
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Hi. I am Joshua Calvert. 95% of my post content is my sig.
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:23 ] Crispy > I had this weird dream about a killer monkey :/
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:32 ] Venom SGZ > lol Mitch o0
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:45 ] Joshua Calvert > oooh, killer monkeys with laserbeams for eyes?
[ 2004.07.30 09:24:02 ] Hyssax > no nasty teeth
[ 2004.07.30 09:24:16 ] Hyssax > bloody scarey :)
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Amarr Agent
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Posted - 2004.08.02 18:36:00 -
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Hi. I am Joshua Calvert. 95% of my post content is my sig.
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:23 ] Crispy > I had this weird dream about a killer monkey :/
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:32 ] Venom SGZ > lol Mitch o0
[ 2004.07.30 09:23:45 ] Joshua Calvert > oooh, killer monkeys with laserbeams for eyes?
[ 2004.07.30 09:24:02 ] Hyssax > no nasty teeth
[ 2004.07.30 09:24:16 ] Hyssax > bloody scarey :)
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