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Madwooki
03.02.2012 , 04:55 AM | #61
Wow I can not beleive that people still think its there pc. There have been hundreds of threads on this already. Its not your PC,its the games hero engine. There is no magical fix unless BW hires a guru on gaming engines these issues will remain.
Most peeps have Zero fps issues until they engage in combat with 15 to 20 peeps in the same area. If you do not understand this I have some property to sell you in Kansas!

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kidatwood
03.02.2012 , 05:08 AM | #62
Yea I started playing this game on my Toshiba dual 2.0 gig laptop. Then. I moved. To my wife's. Dell. There. Was an improvement. Then I. Had to rent one cause she needed her. For. School. So I. Just. Bought a HP. Pv6 with the amd quad core turbo. The rented. One was a dual 2.3 which. Was. An. Improvement over. The. Other. Two but this new one rocks! Also I did notice that. This one doesn't. Heat up like. The other. Three.

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Shadit
03.02.2012 , 05:08 AM | #63
Quote: Originally Posted by overunitee View Post
I was told by a tech customer support on the phone that my system was very capable of running this game

q6600@ 2.4gh

4 gig ddr2

geforce 460 1gb memory.

I have over the weeks gone through various issues from lag crash to desktop ,currently addressing screen freeze/lock and severely fluctuating fps on fleet anything from 70fps down to 5 then back up.

I asked Daniel,Matt and others if there is anything hardware wise I could do to resolve this and was told no.

I was told the developers are fully aware of the issues and that they will be releasing patches to address them in the near future ,but are currently working very hard to identify and resolve the issues and will get the patches out as soon as they are ready .

I am more than willing to upgrade hardware but they assure me that my current system should have no issues .

To be most helpful record a msinfo as soon as you can after an issue and e-mail it to them with a outline of what happened leading to this.

Best way is to press "windows button" and "r" together in the run screen that pops type msinfo32 go to file /export then save to desktop and attach to e-mail.

But dont spend money buying random pc bits when it's likely your current machine may run just fine when they eventually track down the culprits that cause the problems.
If you would just bump the speed of the proc to 3.0/3.2 which is easily done on the type of cpu you have, you will notice a difference.

I assume you know what overclocking is but just in case, it's the process of forcing your hardware to go beyond their streamlined limits. Proceed with caution though because inexperienced overclocking might damage your pc. If you have a tech friend just tell him you want a boost to around 3.0/3.2 on the cpu ( again, easily done on the proc you have with proper cooling) and he'll know what to do. Although more come into play when oc-ing, i'm assuming you didn't cut corners at the motherboard/ram so be careful at the voltages and temperatures, don't set anything to auto if you decide to try this.

And again overclocking done wrong will damage without a doubt your pc, including the rest of the parts not just the cpu. It's an easy boost if done properly but might leave you without a pc for a while if you don't know what you're doing.

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oursacrifice
03.02.2012 , 05:57 AM | #64
Quote: Originally Posted by kidatwood View Post
Yea I started playing this game on my Toshiba dual 2.0 gig laptop. Then. I moved. To my wife's. Dell. There. Was an improvement. Then I. Had to rent one cause she needed her. For. School. So I. Just. Bought a HP. Pv6 with the amd quad core turbo. The rented. One was a dual 2.3 which. Was. An. Improvement over. The. Other. Two but this new one rocks! Also I did notice that. This one doesn't. Heat up like. The other. Three.
That's. A lot. Of periods. I. Don't think I. Have ever. Seen something. Like that. Before.

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Mamono
03.02.2012 , 06:06 AM | #65
Quote: Originally Posted by mhuntly View Post
I had a 2.2GHz amd phenom x4 and upgraded to a i5 2500k. The i5 rofl stomps this game. I also have an msi 560ti twinfrozer2/oc. I have all graphics settings maxed out besides aa is on low and get 100+ fps besides in illums major battles I bog down to about 40fps which is completely payable. That is due to the servers not the "bad code".
ScreenShoot or it did not happen.
Show a picture of you running around in the fleet in peak time with 100fps, and runing around in ilum with 40 fps with 100 people there.
Or are you maybe on a ghost server where no one playes?

And remember this, what you say is "high" is not high. EA/BW removed High settings and renamed medium to high.

And can you open and close your inventory while moving without the game freezing downt o 1 fps?
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2x Corsair SSD Force Series GT 120GB in RAID 0
1x XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5

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Tiam
03.02.2012 , 06:07 AM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by BOLTgamer View Post
you shouldn't need to have an I5 to run a game that looks 8 years old and uses dx9
^^This^^ A million times over ^^This^^
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Mephistofilus
03.02.2012 , 06:14 AM | #67
Again peeps I would REALLY appreciate some help.

I am going to replace this PC.
I've been thinking about it for a while, and the horrible FPS, and not being able to pvp in the lvl 50 areas of this game, as well as not being able to win a one on one duel because the damn competition is skipping on me or ALWAYS seems to be faster than me made up my mind.

I'm NOT building my own.

I really need help shopping.
Im looking here:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/category/intel_pc/

My price range is anywhere from 1.5-2k.
Now if you notice they have PC's in a VERY close price range to each other here that are running different video cards.
It seems the main ones in my range are these:
AMD HD 7950 3GB Video,
AMD HD 7970 3GB Video,
NVIDIA GTX560Ti 2GB, or
NVIDIA GTX570 1.2G
2 x NVIDIA GTX580 1.5GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 3GB 16X PCIe Video Card

I need to know both which one of these video cards is the best and would run this game the best... and which of these PC's would be the best to go with this game based on its other build configurations.

I play this game more than any so I would like the PC to be suited to running it the best.
Also if you know of a better site with better prices I would of course be interested.
I have just heard good things about this place.

Thanks and again I REALLY need and would appreciate the help!

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Arkanovi
03.02.2012 , 06:15 AM | #68
Quote: Originally Posted by mhuntly View Post
I had a 2.2GHz amd phenom x4 and upgraded to a i5 2500k. The i5 rofl stomps this game. I also have an msi 560ti twinfrozer2/oc. I have all graphics settings maxed out besides aa is on low and get 100+ fps besides in illums major battles I bog down to about 40fps which is completely payable. That is due to the servers not the "bad code".
I did the same last week, upgraded from a phenom II x4 955 ( oc'd to 4ghz) to an i5 2500K and it does run this game very well, it's still bad coding on biowares part though, it just takes the brute strength of the sandybridges to make up for the poor optimization

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kidatwood
03.02.2012 , 06:24 AM | #69
Quote: Originally Posted by oursacrifice View Post
That's. A lot. Of periods. I. Don't think I. Have ever. Seen something. Like that. Before.
Stupid swipe on my phone lol

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kidatwood
03.02.2012 , 06:31 AM | #70
Quote: Originally Posted by Arkanovi View Post
I did the same last week, upgraded from a phenom II x4 955 ( oc'd to 4ghz) to an i5 2500K and it does run this game very well, it's still bad coding on biowares part though, it just takes the brute strength of the sandybridges to make up for the poor optimization
Oh I'm. Not saying that the game dosnt need to be optimized. I'm sure it does.
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