Unplayable soon

except some bugs/gliches i only hate that during 7-12 pm for me +2GMT i have constant lag spikes from 400ms to 8k or even more and that is not becouse of my connection i already tested that

mogwai wrote: »

My home pc meets or exceeds PWI's minimum system requirements.

My pc's C is 60% free, D is 80% free.

I perform my own pc maintenance weekly, during your maintenance.

I have been running game at lowest settings since ~December 08.

Your game has not been getting the attention it needs and is continuing to "break", not only with small issues but large ones as well.

Old issues never getting fixed and new ones arriving every few patches.

Some of us know that the solution(s) to these issues are known.

I want to play PWI however a hypothesis as to when it will no longer be playable without top end equipment ... 6 to 8 months from now.

I'm confused, what has a lot of hard drive free space have to do with playing PWI?

Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »

I'm confused, what has a lot of hard drive free space have to do with playing PWI?

A computer with very little hard drive space will often run very slowly. In any case, the issue is not with your computer, it's with the buggy client. Rubberbanding and the like is the result of unfinished programming and will happen no matter how good your computer is.

A Mod or Admin usually scan posts pretty quick, and if a few keywords they read seemed like it was going to be a TS issue, they moved it.

Thanks for your post by the way.

One pattern I am noticing is because PWI is a single core game, some newer CPUs, the way they handle "older" single core applications isn't always the best, or they do some types of emulation process which can slow the game down.

The older PWE games on the first version of the Angelica engine may have some more hiccups in the future if they aren't multi-threaded for multiple CPU cores. So it isn't that the game is getting to be too super tech heavy on features, it is that technology for single core stuff is being left behind by CPU manufacturers and the older engine isn't optimized for multiple cores. AMD CPUs have this issue more then Intel on the players I help.

The Terrain setting in game has been making some noise, where if people turn it all the way off, the framerate jumps back up to normal, this is even on awesome systems. It may not look as pretty, but it works for many players.

So based on what you're saying darth, if I limit PWI to a single core, I should get better performance? (I would do this by setting processor affinity on elementclient.exe)

That would essentially force the client to only use one processor core and will eliminate the multi-threading issue.

I set the affinity to just one core and haven't noticed a change in FPS so far.