Eve Online crashing shortly after entering combat on higher end PC

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1

I have been playing Eve Online for a year now. Built a new PC 6 months ago. Today, going into L4 The Assault mission, I have crashed by 7 times. First crash happened after maybe 10 min with 30 enemies on screen. Then crashing faster and faster with fewer and fewer enemies. Now down to last 4, then 2 enemies and crashes 60 seconds into combat. With no drones, Salvage drone, or 4+ combat drones. Just goes to not responding.

I just found a windows update and rebooted.
Uninstalled Eve and reinstalled it. Crashed within 60 seconds of combat twice.
Yesterday was an Nvidia update, but no beta stuff.
I have run launcher as Admin.

I have zero challenges in other apps. A 500 mbps connection. I have run Adobe Suite Premier and InDesign and Acrobat with no challenges.

This is a clean system using Bit Defender with Eve Online White Listed.

NVIDIA system information report created on: 05/01/2026 13:10:02
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.7.247
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26200
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 596.36 - Tue Apr 28, 2026
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-13600KF
RAM: 64.0 GB
Storage (2): SSD - 1.8 TB,SSD - 31.4 MB

Graphics card
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 3072
Graphics clock: 2490 MHz
Resizable BAR: Yes
Memory data rate: 17.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 128-bit
Memory bandwidth: 272.032 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 40846 MB
System video memory: N/A
Shared system memory: 32658 MB
Dedicated video memory: 8188 MB GDDR6
Video BIOS version: 95.07.36.00.e1
Device ID: 10DE 2882 51611462
Part number: G173 0371
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen4

Display (2): CB271HU
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate
HDCP: Supported

Display (1): CB271HU
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: Variable Refresh Rate
HDCP: Supported

2

Try again after rolling back the video driver update, NVIDIA has been having issues, I would not be surprised if there is another round of them.

3

I would, but it crashed 1/2 the time before the update just the same. Then the Video update, and still crashing.

4

To me, it sounds like a hardware related issue, I suspect something didn’t get installed correctly, Driver?, OS?, possibly worst case would be a fault on the hardware itself.

Did you have any issues on your old system?

5

“Higher end PC”

…Choose one

6

I would blame either the GPU or Windows 11.

I’ve heard bad things about 11 and gaming.

7

My old system would crash sometimes in battles. That was infrequent and a totally different system. But that was 9+ months ago so hard to remember.