On a recent Dev Blog, Redundancy declared that CCP is working on a completely new client and graphical engine optimized for Windows Vista and DirectX 10. This client will seriously improve the EVE Online graphic quality and keep the game technology on line for the future years.

If you're not an EON subscriber, or you haven't received your copy yet, you may not be aware we've announced that we're working on a number of graphics upgrades to Eve, including a client with a completely new graphics engine designed for DX10 and Windows Vista. The real announcement of all of this is going to happen at E3 but we released a preview, and some pictures of the related remodelling of ships, in EON #3.

We were hoping the EON article would clear up most of the questions raised from earlier references made in interviews, but so far that doesn't really appear to be happening. If you are to take away anything from this incredibly longwinded blog, please let them be these two points:

Development of the DX10 / Vista graphics engine, is development for the future and it will not stop us from continuing to make improvements on, fixes to and support of the current graphics engine.

No one has to upgrade anything. If you can run Eve now, you will continue to be able to run Eve and enjoy all its gameplay has to offer. The current version (Eve Classic) will continue to be the preferred version for performance and stability for a long time.