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Ram rarely runs into issues so long as you leave it alone. Messing with voltages and overclocking is where issues come up. Ram, much like... most other electronic components... rarely come from anywhere except for a very specific 3 or 4 places. If the reviews on newegg don't state otherwise, assume that it is a relatively…
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Well, its not really given consideration given that the game was released before the availability of >4GB systems was reasonably capable. Updating the method of linking on an executable can have long-reaching implications on an install base that extends back to that very time. Given the current list of problems they have…
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I'm noticing more problems than just new romulus. I can't get to my ship bridge (andorian), but I have no issues getting to my shuttle bridge. I can't beam to the academy, but ESD and the sector block are fine. It's different for all places I try. I can't get everywhere, those places that I do get to rarely seem alright,…
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While I will definitely say customer support could be better, coming from the world of it I can also definitely say that it is both impossible... and highly inefficient... to treat every "its you, not my computer" request with true focus. The reality is, most of those claims are stated without any true collective factual…
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I am back in and doing fine, however I d/ced doing a solo episode mission, so I don't know if my success is due to the smaller needs or simply that it is sorta working now. That being said, for the past 48 hours before just now I was doing perfectly, almost no rubberbanding etc. The last 15-20min have been obviously bad,…
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I'm back in... but not counting my chickens yet.
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Same. I got a few unresponsives, but they recovered. Now I'm completed booted, and no account server connectivity.
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Your card is well beyond the requirements of the game. The bus alone is years ahead of what the game was developed for. My FPS drops to about 4, give or take a couple frames, when baloons impact my machine. The switch from hardware to software rendering is pretty quick, especially since the integrated card gives up quickly…
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I hate to say it, but he's right. Just from RAM alone, you shouldn't have any problems. The card added on top of that, you shouldn't have frame rate drops at all. I'm on an AMD A6 integrated card on a laptop, and I don't perform as bad as the way you're describing. Clutter may not be the problem, but something is the…
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I would agree that he should not be encountering it. I'm on a laptop with integrated graphics. Mind you, its not crappy integrated graphics... but I am limited in resources by a significant amount. I've been able to handle balloons to a certain extent, but it is not hard to reach a point where its obvious my system is…
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So, the balloons themselves are definitely an added lag if you have low memory - gfx or otherwise. They are physics particles, so in some ways they are actively rendered - each additional balloon is another pipe eaten up to process it, and when you hit the max for your card it quickly goes to the next source... which is…
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On a positive note, and back on topic, my rubberbanding and map transitions stopped going bonkers :|
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I know, but more remember Spock than Surak. Was like wrath erased all the prior uses :|
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You don't get the ability to kick players who are already online. You never paid for that. All you paid for, is the ability to access the game at a priority, whereby if free to players were in front of you in line, you would get a priority access - not the ability to just log in at any given point if the capacity isn't…
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Lifers do get priority, and pay-per-months behind that, and then free to players. That is nothing new, and never will be new. That is absolutely one of the values of being a paying customer, you are - to the absolute degree of POSSIBILITY - entitled to be ahead of those that do not. This is not a new concept, no matter…
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So... you play 24/7/365? You paid for a lifetime subscription, did you not? Do you expect to play it until you die? The people that paid, that are playing, are they being GIVEN more than you are? Hell, lets apply this to real life. You pay for a ticket to a general admission only concert. Everyone paid the same amount.…
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So, lets be completely frank here. The amount of money you put into this game, do you figure it out to be... what, maybe the salary of a call center person? Come on. I pay for a magazine subscription, I don't expect the magazine to be compelling and absolutely as awesome every month out of the year. I pay for a cell phone…
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I don't see that as a viable solution, and actually I consider that a rather selfish one. You can't play, so those that can get on shouldn't be able to play either? Gameplay isn't broken right now... map movement may be, but I was able to complete the event quest just fine on two characters now... and there are plenty…
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Have you ever been to a concert festival where the space was below the capacity sold? Have you ever tried to make a cell phone call after a major situation... disaster, celebratory incident, etc? Planning for critical moments of singularity type events, no matter the situation, is impossible. Queues exist everywhere. You…
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Yep. Transparency continues to prove its benefit in so many situations, but no matter how often its benefits are exposed, isolationism and blanket devoid-of-information statements will stay the norm for quite some time I'm afraid. I'm happy that there is community response at all even through a community manager... too…
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I agree. Personally, the fact that I had intimate insight into the problem to begin with the past few days, only served to infuriate me more... and, much the same now... I would have preferred ignorance so I could just go on believing its just overwhelming patch downloads causing the lag :) Well, in either case, I will…
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As much as I know you don't want to hear this, but the reality is threads mean nothing to them. The forum is a community effort... to any extent unless the ******** on the forum is substantial enough (as it was with the network issue the past couple days), then the majority of the content here is really just ourselves…
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I dont know... gameplay has subtly been affected for me. What used to be rubberbanding occasionally is happening frequently. In moving between sectors, even when not map loading, I am experiencing not responding messages and then getting the rubberband effect. And, as I watch it progress further, its almost becoming…
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Though, there is definitely something strange happening with map transitions. Every map change is at 40.72% for me, and even when its done and I can actually go into the map it is still at 40.72%. It never changes from 40.72%. I usually don't get a server not responding thing until it starts patching mid-change. I am not…
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I get the feeling that we are facing a bit of a compounded issue from earlier in the week. I seem to remember a patch being loaded on sunday or monday, and since the next few days the majority of the game was offline due to the network failure I'd be willing to suspect that we are seeing traffic from both sides of the…
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Its the entitlement perspective. Drives me mad. Its not only limited to those of us trying our best in IT roles. You see it at restaurants, doctors offices, hotels, the DMV... no one considers that there might be someone else in front of them, or that their thick steak cooks longer than a salad. They are inconvenienced, so…
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Not really. Networks are organic, the device that stops traffic isn't always the device causing the problem. In addition, networking hardware isn't just a stop and go set of patches between two ports at a distance. Software plays a key role on these devices that manipulates and processes where things are supposed to go.…
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I am a subscriber to swtor, to eve, was to wow for a long time, and to a certain extent every other MMO at one point or another. Running an MMO is impossible to be perfect at. Blizzard lost character accounts when migrating servers, EVE had years of network problems because single stations were so populated it was…
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Unfortunately this is kind of where the difficulty in interpretation comes into play. Since the real problem is a bit of a tier 4 issue, its not easy to explain whats going on. The majority of companies in the internet world cannot afford the network hardware required to power the games we play, so in order to facilitate…
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Actually the funny thing is, while I hate the fact that this stands true, cryptic has given nearly zero information about whats going on anyways. They didn't actually say what happened last night, that was myself and a few others. The only things I know that are absolutely true right now is last night a border network…