Problem with FPS

If yo get below 30 fps on max settings outside busy towns like Archosaur then something is seriously with your computer. In towns it's not uncommon to get much lower frame rates than outside and it look like it's not always worse results on slower computers.

I have this hardware:

Core I7 920 CPU
Nvidia GTX590 GPU
12GB RAM

and on max settings, usually the client closes down within minutes if I am in west Archosaur. Before that, as objects appear in view teh frame rate frops from about 50 when i tele in to below 30 until the client just shuts down without warning.

It must be something in the engine that is not compatible with newer hardware. Last time I played PWI (tideborn content update came out) the situation was much better even though the fps was still low in Archosaur. What I also noticed that havinig water effect on more than lowest setting in town have a big impact on fps, even if no water is visible.

XXMonaXx - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I think I'm having a FPS problem too.

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I don't see FPS problems. 64 fps at almost full settings (vsync off) is not bad. 100 fps at low settings is even better even though I can imagine you don't want to plat with those low settings. I can see though your ping is not great but still playable.

Here is a rough FPS guide regardless of ingame settings.

60 or more FPS = Best playabilty
45-59 FPS = Good playabilty
30-44 FPS = OK playability
<30 FPS = Bad playabilty

So, as long as you have 60 fps (I assume you play on some sort of flatscreen) with teh settings you want you don't have any problems with FPS.

XXMonaXx - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I was actually making a joke out of it b:chuckle
By the way, it is at the highest settings. Vsync is to prevent image tearing which is due to the graphics card changing image faster than the monitors refresh rate. For an RPG, 30 fps is more than enough. Even a consistent 15 fps is fine.

Actually I don't consider playing with vsync off as "Highest settings" because setting it to on can actually lower the framerate even further making the experience very "choppy" if the hardware can't keep a steady framerate of whatever the refresrate of teh monitor is, which nowadays is usually 60hz. See, i know exactly what vsync is since i have been using computers since 1993...Vsync means the video card waits with sending a new frame until the monitor has drawn the previous frame completely thus limiting the max frame rate to whatever the monitor vertical refresh rate is. That's why everyone are benchmarking with vsync off or they all would have about same results.

As for playing with 30fps or less. I would never want that. Maybe it's more than enough for you but for me (and maybe others too), a steady 60fps vsynced experience is the goal.

I often record game action with fraps and then I have a steady 25fps when I record, which is fine for that purpose but I would never want to play with 25fps for a longer period of times. But I guess the option is different for everyone.

GenSyn - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Actually I don't consider playing with vsync off as "Highest settings" because setting it to on can actually lower the framerate even further making the experience very "choppy" if the hardware can't keep a steady framerate of whatever the refresrate of teh monitor is, which nowadays is usually 60hz. See, i know exactly what vsync is since i have been using computers since 1993...Vsync means the video card waits with sending a new frame until the monitor has drawn the previous frame completely thus limiting the max frame rate to whatever the monitor vertical refresh rate is. That's why everyone are benchmarking with vsync off or they all would have about same results.

As for playing with 30fps or less. I would never want that. Maybe it's more than enough for you but for me (and maybe others too), a steady 60fps vsynced experience is the goal.

I often record game action with fraps and then I have a steady 25fps when I record, which is fine for that purpose but I would never want to play with 25fps for a longer period of times. But I guess the option is different for everyone.

Just because turning something on that lowers the framerates doesn't mean it gives better graphics. As example, we can look at 4AA and 16AA. Vsync is just a limiter that keeps the graphics card and monitor refresh rate in check. If you knew anything about computers, you'd know all 4xx and 5xx along with 5xxx and 6xxx include an automatic vsync in graphic card drivers. But obviously you didn't know that. And hence why I don't turn PWI's "vsync" on. Image tearing usually occurs around 51hz with old graphic cards or AMD's high end 6xxx crossfire cards. People wouldn't have the same benchmarks, also the graphics' cards output of frames doesnt correspond with a monitors refresh rate. Us as humans cannot distinguish the difference between a consistent 30fps or 60fps, so a consistent 30fps is more than sufficient. I can tell you don't know much about computers considering you've apparently coupled an i7 920 with a GTX590 and 12gb of ram. An i7 920 is a bottleneck for a GTX590 and the GTX590 is a high end gaming card, you do not have 12gb of ram in a gaming rig, you have 6 or 8gb of ram.