# Can't play Eve with multiple clients since updating to Windows 11. Random Clients will freeze

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**Category:** General Issues\
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cant-play-eve-with-multiple-clients-since-updating-to-windows-11-random-clients-will-freeze/421902 "2023-09-26T16:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bo\_Ondra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bo_ondra/32/388488_2.png) [@Bo\_Ondra](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bo_Ondra)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cant-play-eve-with-multiple-clients-since-updating-to-windows-11-random-clients-will-freeze/421902/1 "2023-09-26T16:11:49Z")

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Since updating to windows 11, I’m essentially unable to reliably play eve with 4 clients open. I’m experiencing three main issues, and here they are ranked from most problematic to least:

1. One of the clients will reliably have it’s UI completely freeze after a few minutes of playing the game. I can still hear Client sounds when I move my mouse around, so it seems like the client is still getting some input, but the UI will freeze completely, and nothing I do seems to unfreeze it until I close and reopen that client.

2. The game seems to “refresh” the UI at random intervals across various clients. By this, It literally looks like when you refresh a tab on a web browser. The client will go black, or show a weird blurred version of the client, and then UI elements will slowly load. As an example, when it’s loading, I might have the inventory loaded, but all of the item icons will still show black until they also load. This happens pretty regularly and seems to happen more when I alt-tab between clients

3. The game will cause system wide lag spikes, where even my sound and mouse freeze for a second. I found [this post](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-causing-full-system-stutter/384653) on that same issue, and disabling HPET seems to have helped with that issue at least.

Things I’ve tried:

- Running with DirectX12
- Disabling HPET
- Watching Task manager to see if there are other apps spiking CPU or Memory (there aren’t)
- Using NVIDIA control panel to minimize FPS of clients in the background to 20fps

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**Author:** ![Bo\_Ondra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bo_ondra/32/388488_2.png) [@Bo\_Ondra](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Bo_Ondra)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cant-play-eve-with-multiple-clients-since-updating-to-windows-11-random-clients-will-freeze/421902/2 "2023-09-26T20:00:35Z")

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Update: Disabling DirectX12 might have resolved the issue, will keep playing and see if I can reproduce the issue with it disabled

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cant-play-eve-with-multiple-clients-since-updating-to-windows-11-random-clients-will-freeze/421902/3 "2023-12-25T20:01:21Z")

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