Need help with game slowness!!!

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• edgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  It looks like a problem with your graphic cards / drivers. How old is the graphics card? have u checked the temperature when you are playing?
  
  Are you sure u checked and tried all the video options, such the ambient oclusion as well the ones in the troubleshooting tab?
  
  I usually need to wait about 30-45 seconds sometimes in some loading screens, but thats all. I dont experience anything weird.
  
  Also, tried to use DX11 instead of DX9? (or the opposite).

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• tfomega Member Posts: 812 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  edgecrysger wrote: »

  It looks like a problem with your graphic cards / drivers. How old is the graphics card? have u checked the temperature when you are playing?
  
  Are you sure u checked and tried all the video options, such the ambient oclusion as well the ones in the troubleshooting tab?
  
  I usually need to wait about 30-45 seconds sometimes in some loading screens, but thats all. I dont experience anything weird.
  
  Also, tried to use DX11 instead of DX9? (or the opposite).

  
  it is an Radeon HD 5700. I have checked and unchecked everything that is possible under the video options (mostly all set to low or off and turned off all advanced graphical settings). I have also gone under the troubleshooting section and changed framerate to 30 from 60 and other settings such as framerate stabilizer etc..
  
  I really think it is the dropped packets from cogentco that other people have reported. Graphics temperature never exceeds 42 degrees Celcius, which should be fine.

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• crownvic351 Member Posts: 20 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Good excuse as it being a card issue in fact it is not. Stop telling people its their card. It's Cryptics conflicting coding that is causing the issue and they know it. They try to tell u its your card but the funny thing is it ran the game awesome before season 8. I myself had a 512 ram 5450 radeon card that ran the game ok with little lag. After season 8 I upgraded thinking that it just was getting over worked. I put in a radeon r7 260x 2 gig ram and over 1000mhz processor and it runs just as bad as the 512 did on season 8's coding. Runs other games even neverwinter on HIGH graphics and doesn't miss a beat... Run GpuZ and watch your gpu processor load... when it lags mine drops to like 5% load then jumps back up to 60%. On other games like neverwinter it runs nice and stable so please explain how I can run graphic intense games just fine but cant run STO on med graphics..

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• captainpugwash1 Member Posts: 908 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  I use a radeon 5700 as well but since season 8 it has played up but i have also tried 2 other cards and had the same problems, 1 was out of my brothers new PC. The funny thing is for the last 5 days i have had no problems with graphic's or game crash but last night the server started playing up.
  
  
  PS use to crash 2-3 times a night.
  
  Location U.K.

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• mightylepton Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  tfomega wrote: »

  Cryptic, are you no longer compressing the graphics or are the hogg files getting too large to decompress or is it really cogentco dropping packets that are the problem?
  
  It is taking longer and longer for even the background (wallpaper) in the login client to load up.
  
  It is not my computer. Even ker'rat, a map as old as dirt which has never had graphical updates, and one that I solely play when I log in, has long stints of lag and graphical slowness.
  
  I have reinstalled windows and made sure I had the most up to date drivers, I have taken my computer apart and cleaned all dust from it thinking it was getting too hot. I have set my dual fan Radeon 5700 to 100% RPM speed on both fans. I have tweaked the game's video settings to their lowest and still experienced lag and graphical slowness. I have an OCV Vertex 4 SSD hard drive
  
  AND STILL... the game has gotten really slow on loads, slow in even loading the login screen background graphic, etc...
  
  Help!

  
  Easy to find out.
  
  Download a program called Pingplotter and tests against cryptics servers.
  See your ping, and check if you have any packet loss.
  
  If all is good, its pretty obvious its something to do with your PC. Im not saying its bad, but really the game has become quite a resource hog, even high end PC's can sometimes barely handle it.
  
  Honestly though, you can totally unplug your cable and create instantaneious disconnects, the game will stay at a solid 60 fps, also when lagging or when im downloading TRIBBLE. (lol)
  
  FPS and stuttering = Your PC
  Rubberbanding = Internet/Network
  
  
  But yes, long loading screens are mostly to be blamed by Internet Lag, or slow harddisk access to the Hogg files.
  
  Well, if you also lag in the game itself while playing, its both to be blamed on your PC, and on Cryptics unoptimized game. Game doesnt fully utilize one's CPU, especially not quad cores. Rendering and UI both run on a thread but thats it. On the other hand, you could say your PC simply gotten too slow for this game, you can look at it on both sides. Its hard to say who is right or wrong, the game simply optimzied for Quad core Pc's, and even for dual cores it totally puts your CPU in overdrive mode (assuming your GPU is not bottlenecking the game)
  
  
  
  Honestly, since i added this Intel SSD to my i7 PC, the game loads super fast for me, changing maps take 5 seconds or so, at most. But FPS is still pretty crappy at times, for a high end pc.

  Read the book of the Rihannsu.

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• captainpugwash1 Member Posts: 908 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Well i spoke to soon, 5 days trouble free and now got toons that look like ghosts and white ships,,,,,,,have to keep logging on and off to get graphic back but only works for a short time.
  
  Think i might start up my old dual core tomorrow and see what happens on that one as that was the one i was using when first started playing........

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