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jmdestere
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Hello all. I have been around during the beta days, and frankly as time has gone on, I noticed that the performance of Neverwinter has started to decline. At first I assumed it was having my video settings too high. Nope, even the lowest settings never recovered my FPS. I also figured that perhaps with the influx of players upon release were clogging my modest laptop's network and ram. Changing instances never helped.
So then instead of QQing, I decided to look into seeing if perhaps windows was doing the dirty work.
After googling "windows 7 3d performance" I stumbled upon one of the most excellent performance tweak guides on the Steam forums. Obviously this only works for Vista/Win7. However after implementing some changes outlined in here, I now run at a reliable 60fps, with settings all high but dynamic lighting and Anti Aliasing. Also the network tweaks have eliminated the rubberbanding I was experiencing.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1315790
I was not comfortable with messing with BIOS or Driver settings, however I did get the best gain by taking these suggestions.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/17/disable-and-turn-off-windows-vista-search-indexer-and-indexing-service/http:// Disable Windows Search Indexer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126127(WS.10).aspx Disable the Windows Customer Experience Program
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757875(WS.10).aspx Set Drivers and System Code to remain in Physical Memory
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281 Windows 7 Ping Spikes Fix
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684247(v=vs.85).aspx Boost Game Task Priorities in MMCSS
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-Responds-to-Rediscovery-of-Vista-Network-Slowdowns/1188244273 Reduce your audio sample rate to 16 bit, 48000 Hz to improve network to cpu prioritization and to reduce DPC latency. (I noticed no difference in sound quality, I use a surround sound setup)
Anyways the original post has an entire cornucopia of tweaks and whatnot you can try, so if you are having any Network or Graphics issues, give it a shot!
So then instead of QQing, I decided to look into seeing if perhaps windows was doing the dirty work.
After googling "windows 7 3d performance" I stumbled upon one of the most excellent performance tweak guides on the Steam forums. Obviously this only works for Vista/Win7. However after implementing some changes outlined in here, I now run at a reliable 60fps, with settings all high but dynamic lighting and Anti Aliasing. Also the network tweaks have eliminated the rubberbanding I was experiencing.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1315790
I was not comfortable with messing with BIOS or Driver settings, however I did get the best gain by taking these suggestions.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/17/disable-and-turn-off-windows-vista-search-indexer-and-indexing-service/http:// Disable Windows Search Indexer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126127(WS.10).aspx Disable the Windows Customer Experience Program
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757875(WS.10).aspx Set Drivers and System Code to remain in Physical Memory
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281 Windows 7 Ping Spikes Fix
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684247(v=vs.85).aspx Boost Game Task Priorities in MMCSS
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-Responds-to-Rediscovery-of-Vista-Network-Slowdowns/1188244273 Reduce your audio sample rate to 16 bit, 48000 Hz to improve network to cpu prioritization and to reduce DPC latency. (I noticed no difference in sound quality, I use a surround sound setup)
Anyways the original post has an entire cornucopia of tweaks and whatnot you can try, so if you are having any Network or Graphics issues, give it a shot!
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Tried... no luck :c
foundry Call of the Blood - NW-DTAK6CXZ2
campaign Heart of Nature - NWS-DUKNH9PPZ
It's about compounding gains to get the full boost to performance.
I am not as techno-savvy as you but will try some of the simpler suggestions.