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If I leave my PC on for a few hours and boot up Eve I get these weird flickering graphical overlays that remind of a C64 crashing. If I restart my PC it fixes the problem, the oddest thing about it is I can't screen grab the glitch which leads me to believe it might be my monitor it's only Eve that is causing me problems as I have also updated my GFX drivers. I have noticed that Eve is using a lot more CPU than it used to, I was wondering is anyone else having similar problems?

I had an identical thing going when a video card started malfunctioning, after I while I got these weird striped areas somewhere on screen and only a reboot would fix it for a while.
It happened everywhere and didn't seem to be related to just one program so maybe you have something else going on.

eve makes video cards run HOT, it may be a temp problem. Blow out the dust inside, check the fan on the card, add an aftermarket cooler to video card, if none help, replace the video card.

Apocrypha has introduced some of the weirdest GFX errors, like invisible control towers, squarey flickering textures, skybox going white and other textures inverting - it might well be a problem with EVE, not with your hardware.

Make sure EVE is set to run locked in at 60 fps or whatever. If you let it run free, EVE will run at '200+' fps and melt your video card. You won't notice any change in quality.

How do you tell it to run at 60 fps?

In the ESC menu, graphics options there's a drop down with "interval immediate", "interval default" and "interval one"

Apparently these are CCP-speak for vsync - "interval one" should throttle the video card to the screen refresh rate.

This setting made a dramatic difference regarding my cards temperature while running two clients

It made a big difference for me too. Thanks for the info!

Ok since the patch it seems to have improved the impact of the glitches.


I tried this before but the glitchiness was so bad it had no effect, that said since the patch it actually has a noticeable difference which at least points to where the problem is stemming from. Also DEP was switching off my Eve client but now it seems to be ok.

Lately I've seen my client tend to crash when alt-tabbing out of it (not every time, but maybe 10-20% of the time...), which is really annoying.  If I don't do that, I don't have problems.  grr.

Yeah, I was having trouble with that last night.  Booted me out a couple of times.

Yeh the DEP is what's causing problems most likely, if I switched to windows mode it seems to fix it just noticed.

I find that Windowing the client before alt-tabbing around helps avert crashes.

I get fairly consistent crashes after closing the Eve client (I run in windowed mode) and not-infrequent ones after after swapping ships, usually from SMAs but also in station hangars on occasion.

Finally installed the new client on the laptop.  Ugh.  Totally unusable.  It occasionally sees 25-30fps in near-empty space, not doing anything, but 5-9fps is more common in or near stations.  Have cranked around the graphics settings a bunch and think this is as good as it gets.  Grumble!

Yeah - my laptop ran it fine in it's previous incarnation - Apocrypha's system demands ruined that. TY on the Vsync fix - it stabalised the game nicely for me :)

Do you mean Data Execution Protection?  I just learned about that this morning.  That makes total sense since I believe the client makes use of client-side python scripting which probably compiles and runs out of the data area.

I think it's defaulted to off for 32-bit OS and defaulted to ON for 64 bit. Or maybe vice versa.

Yeh Data Execution prevention, it's doing something DEP doesn't like and I have tried to switch it off for the Eve.exe (the real .exe is in the data folder not the main Eve folder) but it won't let me. I don't know if you can totally switch DEP off without having a negative effect. It's possible one could switch off DEP using msconfig (anyone know?) and not have any problems as long you have a good virus checker but I'm not completely convinced. AFAIK CCP are aware of this problem but I think they just haven't found the source yet.

Oh and yes I can't figure out how to switch off DEP the only options in the DEP tab are

Turn on DEP for essential windows programs and services only:

Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:

The first one I presume is the one I should use?

tl;dr: yes.

It sounds like you're in OptOut mode.  According to this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352), the best way to fix it is:


That will turn on OptIn, which means only programs that request to be DEP'd will be.  That amounts to some OS files only.

On the same page is a Boot.ini hack to turn it always off, but I don't feel like being responsible for your computer not booting so you can read it yourself  :drill: