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Possible to play game on max graphics/sound settings?
RMAing a pos bugged ATI 5870 that has constantly suffered from the grey/vertical line screen of doom (basically a constant hard lock requiring a reboot) for the last two months since I got it. Just ordered a nVIDIA GTX 285 since I wont touch ATI ever again now. Whenever I would try Aion it would get the GSOD as mentioned above and if I turned the graphics/sound settings up, I would immediately get the Cryengine.dll error or whatever. Basically I was screwed out of my free month and NCsoft was unwilling to cut me a break (oh well).
Assuming my new GTX 285 works perfect, is it even possible to play Aion at max settings without Cryengine.dll errors, etc.? I have read about a lot of folks getting these errors with Aion.
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I don't think anyone actually raids pvp with max everything? What AAA Graphics game can? Normal play I have everything maxed.
When there's a lot of people about, it does help to turn graphics down a tad but for normal PvE or small PvP its normally fine to have them on max. I have a low-end laptop and I often have them maxed
AMD 6000 dual core,
HD 4870 1gig Vid card,
I ran everything max with minimal lag on initial load. Have not ventured far enough to play in huge raids to know if I Will need to turn GFX down. Though on LOTRO atm I am running 6 mans lag free.
I run wow on the highest settings with no lag on a geforce 9400gt 512 ram. Would this be fine for Aion would there be some lag?
actually i run it all the time on max settings, but thats only because of the alt/f12 feature. the alt/f12 removes everyone off your screen cept you,your party and NPCs. no spell effects or even sound from other people cuts lag down by ALOT, all you see from the other players is thier name plate over their heads. only use that during LARGE sieges few 100 people per side all on the same screen bogs down any PC.
There is 5 years between those games, 9400 is Nvidias Low budget card from 1 (soon 2) generations ago. Expect it too lag a lot.
OPs card is better, not in class with the 295 but still good, should work fine except maybe in the most crowded places.
There are a large number of factors in both the design of a game and in computer architecture that effect overall performance and the level of graphics is only one aspect. A lot of people will say a game lags when in reality the problem is not really network latency but might be something else.
In general performance is limited by what ever is the most limiting aspect and if you adjust that aspect the performance is then limited by another aspect and so on as there is always some limit that is reached.
As has been mentioned you can play Aion with fairly high settings most of the time on a wide range of systems but there are a number of issues to take into account. First how well your graphic card is capable of supporting that resolution and frame factor is one. But then you need to consider the bandwidth and latency of your network and how many other players are about. Then you have system issues such as how fast your disk drive is as Aion like many games will move a lot of data to and from the hard drive. Frequently you will get a better overall performance boost by upgrading your disk drive than you will by upgrading your graphics card.
Did a large scale PvP battle in the Abyss today with probably around 200 Assmos who were attempting to take over a fortress and about 150 Eloys that were trying to prevent it. My system is generally fine and my graphics card is pretty decent but in that situation the amount of data being sent back and forth over the net has a major impact and doing things like turning off player names and such can make a big difference in how well the game runs and responds.
I'm not sure any game has yet really been able to create and sustain a PvP environment that works consistently well with large numbers of players. Possibly when everyone has 10Gbit to their home things will improve somewhat.
GTX260SLI here. Max settings everywhere else, but when in large fights everything else but distances to lowest.
Never had engine.dll error. FPS in PvE areas 80+ (even up to 200 when facing wall or something LOL!), large fights 10-40.
Other statistics that may apply: WinXP 32-bit, i7 860, 4GBDDR3@1600, resolution 1920*1080.
What I've learned, is NV+Intel give the most stable results. Not trying to start a ATI vs NV flame war here, that's just my observation.