“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart, Aviation Pioneer

BVRQ-O VII, FBH-JN Gate

The Drone Regions… perhaps the longest, loneliest, stretch of space I’ve transversed so far. With the completion of the Kalevala Expanse, I can finally say I’m done with that area. I had also hoped it would be the end of xXDeathXx Space, but it seems that’s not quite the case yet. With just one more region to go before claiming the East is done, I’ll be Northward Bound.

As far as Null Sec goes, there’s not much on the West side, so the bulk of what I have remaining to explore in K-Space lies in the North. I eye it with apprehension, eagerness, and wonder. What will the residents be like? Will I be welcomed or scorned? What beauty will be found in the black? What evil lurks in the shadows?

BGMZ-0 VI

In a way, I do feel a sense of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel at least when it comes to K-Space. The final end of this phase is in sight, nearly within my grasp.

Time to take that next step, set my foot upon the path and get on with it… Let’s go, shall we?

Images this week are some of my favorites from the Kalevala Expanse.

LE-67X VIII

OOC:

*** UPDATE ***

Seems I wasn’t consistent running the launcher as admin…

@Katia_Sae I am assuming that you have already tried running the launcher as administrator and that's not fixing it.

— Mark W / CCP Darwin 🇺🇸🇮🇸 (@mark_wilkins) August 9, 2015

Live and learn. Thanks CCP Darwin!

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LO5-LN IX, Utopia Station

I’m not one that usually jumps right on board with anything new technology’wise, but the temptation of Windows 10 for “Free” (still waiting to see just how free it is) was too good to pass up. I mean, like the Star Trek movies, every other release is the good one. So, logically speaking Windows 7 = “Good”, Windows 8 = “Bad”, therefore Windows 10 should equal “Good”. I’m still wondering why Microsoft skipped 9, maybe they wanted the even numbers to be good from now one. Anyway, on to my issue.

I did the usual things, I Googled for any issues in general about 10 and didn’t find anything too bad. For the most part, folks were saying good things like, best of 7 and 8 combined. Then I went and did some research on Eve Online vs Windows 10 and the only issues I could find were folks having launcher issues and offering work some arounds for that. Cool. I checked on other apps and games and didn’t find anything that would be a show stopper.

So why not?

NIM-FY XI, B-VFDD Gate

I should have known better and it was a good reminder as to why I shouldn’t jump right onto something new, because if anything can and will go wrong, I’ll be the one to find it. Remind me to tell you the story of the first car I bought on my own, a new 1984 Ford Mustang Sedan. It ended up being the first with an electrical system issue that prompted a recall of that years model. Good times…

Here’s what happened. I upgraded and all seemed well. Actually for the most part, I’m pleased with Windows 10, no major issues (excluding Eve), some minor issues I’ve worked through (no sound in general), Cortana not talking to me (got sound working except for her) which I think it was personal thing, but I finally got her to talk, and figuring out where Microsoft moved everything to. They love to move and hide things so you have to find them again. Ugh.

So what of Eve Online? Well, that’s the weird thing. After upgrading, I checked out a few things right off to see if they were still good, Eve Online was one of those as I wanted to get some more exploration in. It worked great, no issues, launched just fine, game ran fine, so I kicked off some manufacturing jobs on an alt and logged off with the intention of coming back later. Well, it actually ended up being a few days later and in between that time and when I tried again, there had been some Windows updates and such.

S5W-1Z IX

I come back to Eve Online, logged in to my alt to kick off some more manufacturing jobs before I was going to switch over and continue my exploration and then it happened. In the hanger view, the game was so sluggish that I could barely click on the button to bring up industry. Then it was excruciatingly painful to click on blueprints and kick off new jobs. I finally was able to get some things going before becoming too aggravated and giving up. But the really bad news was, there was no way I would switch to Katia and try to continue my explorations of Null Sec with that kind of lag and performance.

No other game, application, local apps, internet surfing, etc, has that kind of issue. Seriously, Windows 10 has been great so far and for the most part, I’m glad I upgraded, but when it comes to Eve Online, I’m grounded, dead in space.

VW-PXL V

I’ve done the usual things like making sure my video driver is up to date, it is, and it’s one geared up for Windows 10. I’ve set Eve Online for DX9, instead of DX11, which actually seemed to improve performance a tad, actually not that much, but it did seem to make manufacturing tolerable. Still no way I’m flying, however. I’ve tried full screen as I usually do windowed, no difference.
With this being the only game having an issue, the only thing I’m left with is it has to be something with Eve Online itself. I’ve not tried an uninstall and reinstall yet, I guess I could, but I’m hesitate to do that just yet. I’m still hoping I can stumble into figuring out that one little thing I’m sure it is…

For now, the images in this post are some of my favorites from Malpais so far, until I’m able to restart my engines and fly again…

Y6-9LF VI