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Giving Up on EveHQ

I've long been a fan of the all-in-one EveHQ tool. EveHQ did everything that EFT and EveMon and more:

* Skill tracking and planning
* Ship fitting simulation
* Personal/corporate asset tracking
* Order monitoring
* POS simulation
* Industry simulation including T2 invention
* Wormhole effects database
* PI planner

All of these features and a reasonably laid out interface made it my tool of choice for a long time. That is no longer so.

I have stopped using EveHQ and have migrated to EFT and EveMON for my tools. EveHQ has become too frustrating to use due to interface lag, occasional crashes, and massive memory use. After a few hours EveHQ will use as much as 800 MB of memory, which is sometimes more than my EVE clients!

The main issue is interface lag; the program will often fail to maximize or minimize, or take an unusually long time doing so. Switching between tabs or selecting new UI elements can take seconds to respond, or lock the entire program while changing.

It's a shame, because EveHQ has a feature set that nothing else currently offers. But if you can't use it, it doesn't matter how many features you have, does it?

This entry was posted on June 30, 2012 at 1:30 AM by khalia and is filed under The More You Know.

2 Responses

  1. Shegunna Blow
    June 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM

    *sigh* I've had to do the same thing recently. The auto-update "feature" never worked on my PC, and updating manually has been sketchy at best.

    EFT is just so damn basic... I miss being able to see my turret tracking on-the-fly, amongst other things.

  2. LacrimaMundi
    June 30, 2012 at 11:07 AM

    hi.

    I'm also a long running user of EveHQ, mainly for the fitting managment (prefer it over EFT) and the Prism plug-in. only skill planning is done elsewhere (I find EveMon simply better at this). but you're right, EveHQ got bulky with time. initial startup, plug-in load time and memory usage just aren't that good...

    hence I want to point you to this blog post Vessper has released just today: http://eveit.net/2012/06/30/some-version-3-information/
    he writes about some major improvements that would likely address your issues with the program and will presumabley improve the performance of this handy tool a lot.

    regards. Lacrima.