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Preformance issues, Please help D=

talealocktalealock Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 40
edited May 2013 in Bug Reports (PC)
For some reason in some zones I am having some major FPS issues. Helm's Hold is the major kicker here dropping as low as 15 to 20fps in the main part of the zone. I get 22 to 25 in town as well (which I could care less about).

Here are my specs

Radeon HD 7770
AMD Fx 6300 (oced comfortably to 4.0ghz attempted with and without the oc)
Windows 7 and Windows 8 (tried both, both legal and fully updated)
1920X1080p

Temps are higly monitored and do not get anywhere near there thermal junction. Cpu 48c GPU 58c while playing

Now I know these aren't amazing specs by any streatch of the word but what concerns me is my room mate has a five year old video card and a core2 duo and he gets slightly better preformance in these areas :(

I thought that something might be wrong with my computer upon entering helms hold so i went and made sure my other games were playing OK and they were fine.

Tera maxed settings 45 to 60 fps (lowest 28 in nexus raid during combat)
Skyrim steady 60+
WoW 80+ easy pretty much anywhere (not saying much)
I could go on and on....


It just seems odd to me, but I looked this up and I don't see where anyone else is having issues like this so I look to the community. Am I missing something? I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Tried old/new/beta graphics drivers (properly uninstalled and reinstalled via driver cleaner)

I even went as far as to reformat (I love this game)

The only way to make these areas playable is to turn shadows completely off and even then I only get 28 to 30. In these offending areas flat lining my graphics only net me 45 fps.. anywhere else at max settings (default) I get 45ish (which seems low to me but perfectly livable no complaints).

I love this game, please say I am just missing something silly because I really want to enjoy this game to its full capacity. I would assume it was my hardware but it just seems odd to me that a computer that is much worse than mine can play these areas with higher frame rates and that I can play games that he can barely play at minimum settings (he gets 20fps in tera at best on lowest settings).

Thanks in advance for all your help :)
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  • bridgemongerbridgemonger Member Posts: 194 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    You might want to try the tech support and bug forum with this. Seems like a better place.
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  • talealocktalealock Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 40
    edited May 2013
    anyone have any answers for this?
  • duskywolfduskywolf Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    No worries, there is nothing wrong with your rig, first the game is poorly optimized and hates AMD CPU, and there is a UI issue which eats fps, i play usually with 25 - 40 fps. if i turn off the UI i get 60 - 80 fps with VSync off, i know they say its beta but i really doubt they will do any patch to improve any perfomance.
  • talealocktalealock Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 40
    edited May 2013
    thanks for the response. I was kind of afraid I would hear something like that.. just read something similar on tom's hardware. I really hope they do something with the bottleneck because a twitch game like this really is more fun with better frame rates. (i just tried the UI thing too and it was a significant boost, I see a lot of people say the same with Tera but that isn't an issue for me there I wonder if there UI is based on flash as well, seems to be the issue there.)


    I'm also getting this strange phenomena in some zones (mostly neverdeath) where the shadows behind me look great but forward they look horrible. its literally like half the screen isn't fully rendering the shadows. Not a big deal to me but thought I'd bring it up
  • inmydotinmydot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I'm using an i5 2500k at 4.1ghz and stock GTX 680 and Helm's Hold is very buggy for me. In the forests random models go invisible when I point my camera at specific angles and my FPS is pretty low there compared to other areas.
  • talealocktalealock Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 40
    edited May 2013
    that is exactly what happens to me inmydot. I'm almost 60 now and haven't seen any issues anywhere else so heres hoping its just that place. Though all of a sudden last night after a "patching files" popped up in town I started getting a LOT higher fps in the main town. were talking about a 10 to 15 fps boost. Not sure where that came from but I'm not complaining. I'm not the only one, my room mate saw a boost in town too. Did they fix that bug where there will be 100+ companions stuck at the gate? =p
  • immunetohateimmunetohate Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    If the game is not fully updated (meaning, game-date is being downloaded during play), you might experience lag/framedrops when you turn the camera around since it requires the texture to be loaded.

    Going to a new place as well can cause this, since the game needs to loads materials for the first time.

    To fix it, run laucher, click options and tick "disable on-demand patching" then login and let the laucher fully update.
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