Eve Online problems in VMWare

[Viir (Michael Rätzel)]

@zorro

I had similar problems. VMWare doesn’t work for me even without Sanderling. Eve is so slow that mouse swipe over overview leads to slow wave of selection focus getting over it. My machine is not that modern though. I wonder if I need to upgrade what should I aim for first…

Some upgrading options I see here:

• Upgrade VMWare configuration, there might be a way to improve eve online performance in VMWare player with different settings.
• Upgrade to use Windows Remote Desktop to host the Eve Online Client Window: This would obviate the need for VMWare and this likely improve performance.

@zorro

CPU is not loaded… GPU usage by VMWare Player is limited, can it be the problem?..

I observed that sometimes eve online UI needs more than one of the general rendering frames to react when running in VMWare Workstation. That looked to me more like a problem with the portion of the system that decides when to update the UI.

[shifty (c)]

I encountered this issue recently, did some research and found this is a holdover from version 8 of VMWare. A “working fix” is to set your VM to only have one core, and for some reason the Eve client runs considerably better. It may start running slower after a few hours, but for a couple hours at least it runs better than having multiple cores.