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The next patch needs to...
Cymdai
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...improve performance for people who are NOT playing on brand new rigs.
Seriously, I can appreciate having performance issues on high settings, or low settings, but when you can't legitimately even see what happens in 18 v 18 PvP, on the lowest possible settings, with everything scaled back, that's a little ridiculous.
Now my comp isn't top of the line, but there's no damned reason that I shouldn't be able to even see some performance.
T7400 Processor
3GB PC5700 Ram
GeForce 7950 GTX
... and on average, between 6-22 FPS on the lowest possible settings, and 1280 x 1024 resolution.
Come on now, Funcom, that's just silly.
Waiting for something fresh to arrive on the MMO scene...
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Have you tried to get the latest graphics drivers (or re-installed them, worked for my guildmate). By some reason anything but the latest drivers slowes the FPS down a lot.
All I can say is be ready for the whole "Get a new PC and stop QQing" crowd, followed by examples of machines that can be built for X amount of money.
But I agree with ya. Fact is AoC was created to be 60% eye candy, 40% gameplay, so people even running bleeding edge PCs are sometimes struggling with it.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Well the last patch also did some screwy things with FPS on systems that were doing fine before, so maybe by monday they will have corrected that (or at least swap it so the half that got the boost will feel the pain and vise versa)
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
ya last patch i droped 5-10 fps for some reason
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´Funny, I get 5-10 Fps more after the patch... Seems like the 8000 and 9000 series got a boost while the older and ATI got slower... Probably a bugg somewhere, but it have to be fixed, yes.
I had a performance hit with the last patch too, experienced a few random freeze up's tonight.
this last patch increased my fps by 10 -15 everywhere, and I'm using an ATI X1600
The next patch needs to...
just shut the game down for good. Put it out of it's misery.
My FPS went down last patch as well, on a 9800 GX2.
Well you can get a upgrade card for less than the game cost you. Playing on a 8800GS its cheap and far from high end but it works fine with medium+ settings. Try tweaking settings with one of the guides on the forums.
I have not noticed any performance increase or decrease from any of the patches. However I got about 10fps increase with the latest Nvidia drivers (175.16)
E6750@2.66Ghz / 3GB DDR2800 / 8800GT
Windows Vista Basic 32, default high settings and 4xAA, 40-60 fps outdoor, 20-50 fps in cities
Judging by his CPU it looks like hes running on a laptop, so an upgrade will be kinda hard
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Try high settings... and remove shadows etc... work down from that... lowest settings never give me good performance... i always get better perfomance like this... try it... AoC low/medium settings have serious issues... as well as most of the sliders...
They need to fix the underutilization of ati gpu's. That is an absolute necessity, before the free month runs out.
Also, playing the game on max settings and getting better fps than on low settings, something is broken there as well.
They also need to patch customer service, if that is possible.
remove crafting completely. They need a year or two to completely rework gathering and crafting. As it stands right now, it is the eye sore of the entire game if you can get past all the zone cloning.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
Having 3GB of fairly old RAM makes your computer a dinosaur, no matter what else you put in it.
Hell, DDR4 is just around the corner man.. RAM is a HUGE part of large raids. If you don't have at least 4GB of DDR2 800.. you are never going to be able to play during sieges. It's impossible, and no amount of tweaking on Funcom's end will change that. That is a user issue.
However, I have 8GB of DDR2 high latency gaming RAM and I still experience freezing up, while not even in big fights. I'm sure we'll see some improvements. Give it time, they can't fix everything at once.
Well the saddest part is when a 24 v 24 raid kills a zone.
Last night, for example, My guild (Darkhand) and Harm had a nice raid fight going on in Kheshatta... and it ran very smooth. All of a sudden, the zone died. It didn't just do the quick crash, but rather a solid 8 minutes of 9k+ ping before finally booting us.
I don't think it's solely my comp though. Performance, when it's good, is great. However, sometimes I'll be running around in the middle of nowhere, and hit a massive framerate spike (down to 2-5 FPS). Other times, like last night, I'll do an entire raid v raid battle at 20 fps.
I just want to see some consistency.
Waiting for something fresh to arrive on the MMO scene...
Having 3GB of fairly old RAM makes your computer a dinosaur, no matter what else you put in it.
Hell, DDR4 is just around the corner man.. RAM is a HUGE part of large raids. If you don't have at least 4GB of DDR2 800.. you are never going to be able to play during sieges. It's impossible, and no amount of tweaking on Funcom's end will change that. That is a user issue.
However, I have 8GB of DDR2 high latency gaming RAM and I still experience freezing up, while not even in big fights. I'm sure we'll see some improvements. Give it time, they can't fix everything at once.
You realise that you can not address more than 3gb ram unless you are running Vista 64 bit? Useable RAM is under that. So unless you are running Vista64 those extra sticks are just wasting space.
Having 3GB of fairly old RAM makes your computer a dinosaur, no matter what else you put in it.
Hell, DDR4 is just around the corner man.. RAM is a HUGE part of large raids. If you don't have at least 4GB of DDR2 800.. you are never going to be able to play during sieges. It's impossible, and no amount of tweaking on Funcom's end will change that. That is a user issue.
However, I have 8GB of DDR2 high latency gaming RAM and I still experience freezing up, while not even in big fights. I'm sure we'll see some improvements. Give it time, they can't fix everything at once.
You realise that you can not address more than 3gb ram unless you are running Vista 64 bit? Useable RAM is under that. So unless you are running Vista64 those extra sticks are just wasting space.
Problem is, the client is 32bit. Even if you have Vista 64, AoC will only ever read 32bit instructions. You can have 128gig of ram and it won't make a difference. A 32bit client is still a 32bit client.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."