Since the latest patch my CPU spikes to 100% and stays there when running multiple eve clients.
When I run a single client, my CPU sits at 2-4% which is normal.
With two clients open at the same time, my CPU jumps to 40%
With three clients open at the same time my CPU jumps to 75%
Any additional client and I stick at 100% CPU. I have been running 8 clients comfortably and without issue for years.
This high CPU is for simply running the clients, docked, doing nothing. I run in complete potato mode. I have the same result regardless of using Directx 11 or 12.
CPU - 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-12700KF 3.61 GHz
RAM - 64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
OS - Windows 11 pro version 24H2
Are you docked at a player station or an Npc station?
Player stations also have an extremely high utilization rate for me in the indoor view, but when I activate the outdoor view it improves immediately.
Since installing Windows Pro 11 24H2, the performance on my Alienware Aurora R11 has degraded significantly. I have also had other buggy behaviors which existed before 24H2. The machine has an i9-10900, 10 cores (20 logical processors), and 64 GB memory. One would think that with a high-performance computer, an operating system should not throttle it with a bloated set of services.
To follow up, making sure all my clients are on performance mode and Dirext X 11 seems to have dropped the cpu to a normal 20%-55%.
The really odd thing I am finding is, I will get 100% CPU and stick at 100% still. Seems random, I have to shut down all clients, restart them and they may or may not spike. If I get no spike, it seems good to go. If I get a spike…well…i usually end up freezing up.
For anyone facing similar problems. When my CPU spikes (and stays pinned) to 100%.
I have found toggling ultra potato mode (alt+shift+f9) on the clients with the highest CPU reliably fixes the issue. Usually only have to do this on one or two accounts and I got from 100% to 22-32%. Dont ask me why this works, but it does.
I use potato mode, and it still happens. I think its a Windows 11 + eve issue, where the high CPU is a symptom rather than the cause of my issues as I also get complete PC freezes that I need to hard boot from.