In city fps

[[BA]Mo]

I mean OMG!!!! I realise i'm on an isdn connection..and maybe it takes a ickle amount of time to load all the player info and stuff. But when I zone into the city, I gotta wait a good 30seconds before i can move. Even then it's 5fps or so whenever i run about...if that.

Is everyone else having this or are you all running around on 200fps? :p

The game -is- good...just a shame its so frustrating running around in places you wanna run around in. ;)

[Kirakara]

Yeah i get a real low fps.. around .5 - 15 top :P Your not alone though.. even people with 1.4ghz 256 ram etc have slow fps.

Its the eeeeeevil memory leaks and the scale of the dam things.

Your not alone :P

[Nor]

Make sure you turn your view distance down in options mate. I have an Athlon 850 and Geforce2 MX i get about 20-40 FPS in town, but at peak times it does sometimes become a slideshow for a few seconds here and there. Overall its pretty smooth, except when servers are overloaded.

[Nor]

Just read a post by one of the AO team. Apparantly there is a problem with FPS in town and they know how to sort it. Shouldnt take long they say, I'll dig out the post, makes good reading, very promising news in it.

[Jaguar]

Upgrade that old p133 of yours mate.

Btw i got it, and after ages patching im just about to create my character :)

[phatb0y]

Oooooh. Jags too? What a star!

[Jaguar]

Yep m8 , i remember u and Fix talking about AO, seems like age ago :), pity they could'nt have done something about the lag

[Voodoo]

Hmm Ive got a athlon 1000mhz with 256 RAm and a GeForce GTS2. Think I'll get slow down? are they going to fix this problem?

[Nor]

Voodoo you'll probably get slow down in the city areas. I read that they know what is causing the problem and a time of a few weeks was put on it. I have no idea if this is true though.

I have a 850 tbird 128mb and Geforce2MX. Not the biggest beast of a PC. I find outside town perfect. When i go into cities or where there are settlements and players gathering it is fine, unless i have been playing for for say an hour. Then i get horrendous lag with the Hard Disk churning away.

I am positive its the memory leak. Seems to be when you change between zones (like going in and out of cities changing servers) it just eats away at the ram. I only have 128 so I'm probably most affected. Couple of my guild mates said that once they upgraded it helped loads with this type of lag. If i have just walked into a city and its lagging like buggery, I reset my PC. Then its back to nigh on perfect again, even in the city. But if i go out and back in a few times it starts getting bad again.

Dunno if that helps at all, but thats my experience.

[Voodoo]

Quite a strange problem and I think your probably right about the memory leak. It seems bizarre that it would run fine and then decide to start messing up. Also how would you think the game would run on a 56k?

[Nor]

I'm not sure exactly how it would run. I'm tempted to say there would be no difference as it seems the problems are at their end. There are a few modemers in our guild I'm sure, might be worth you popping in and asking them. Dunno if you use IRC but you can get a client for it at http://www.mirc.com Our channel is on the quakenet network, so go onto server irc.gameplay.com or irc.quakenet.org Anyone will give you access to the same channels, just different server farms you're connecting with. Our channel is #spv.

If you're not a IRC fan, you could just goto http://irc.wireplay.net and use their java applet to connect. Type /join #spv once your connect to come into our room. There is also a massive irc room that you can get too from http://ao.stratics.com but most of them are American so even if they are on a modem they are alot closer to the servers than us. Plus they are american.

[Hungover]

Originally posted by Nor
Plus they are american.

:laugh: