By all accounts, new one (Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 275HX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti) noticeably faster than the old one (Intel Core i7-11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070), yet clicking play now on new one is super slow.
The new one has faster SSD, but I also pulled the SSD from the old one to use as secondary storage. I’ve tried running the game from both on new laptop and same effect.
It used to be I click play now on an account and EVE client starts in 3-5 seconds. Now it takes about 15 seconds minimum. Once it starts, everything is the same, it’s just that initial startup. After clicking run now, the button instantly changes to “client is running”.
Ideas? Tried clean cache, tried nuking and reinstalling eve, tried verify files… I am not nuking whole windows over this.
Old one had 8 cores, 4.6GHz each
New one has 8 performance cores, 5.4GHz each… It has 16 efficient cores, but those are not used to start up EVE client…
I don’t think it has much to do with the machine as just bad coding lately. Last month, prior to this launcher update, mine was stalling out. What do I mean by stalling?
Sometimes I would click the Eve quick launch icon on my taskbar and it would try to start but fail. Other times I would get the EVE splash and it would quit without any error report. I ended up clicking between 2 to 4 times just to get the launcher up. That was all last month. At least that seems fixed now.
However you are speaking about the massive delay between hitting Play button on the launcher and actually seeing the game client start. That seems long as well. I searched it up and found some are killing the launcher after the screen says “READY”, yet the client is still loading. It does appear to hasten the client to start up, at least on my end. I never bothered to time the delay but I think it is a lot longer on my PC.
Try killing the launcher and tell us how much faster it starts for you.
