Okay, last night it was unplayable, I mean I couldn’t turn the character to cross the bridge in Caledor by the Order warcamp. I would press the key to rotate the view and it may respond. If it did respond it would over turn. It would be fine up to a point and then I would lose all control of the character. It kind of reminded me of early years DAOC when in a relic siege, you had to face the camera at the floor.
Obviously it frustrated me. I bought the Sapphire ATI 5850 to bring up the bottom end of the frame rate, the CPU wasn’t being overtaxed, 5 – 25%, a couple of spikes here and there. If I was moving forward in roughly the right direction, I would have a slight move forward, then a pause, then a move forward and then a pause, and so on. A friend was using a similar spec machine, with an Nvidia 280, I think (Teshla) and he wasn’t having any problems, bar a reduced frame rate. His characters wasn’t unplayable. Now I appreciate that it was a high stress weekend, but I can’t see how I shouldn’t be able to manage something more than this. It was funny, characters would appear on the screen, then disappear, no movement, just a brief appearance.
This new card seems to handle the really large battles worse than the older Nvidia 8800 GTX, which is strange considering its age. I know I said yesterday, but the system hits a point and then just shuts up shop.
If anyone from Mythic technical happens to read this blog and could spare a few moments of their time to share some thoughts, I would appreciate it. If anyone has any thoughts on tracking this issue down, so I can see whats causing this panic attack in the system, then again it would be very useful.
System specs are
I7 920 @ 2.66
Sapphire ATI 5850 1GB
Asus P6TD Deluxe
6GB of DDR3 memory
300GB WD Raptor
Using onboard sound.
Catalyst 10.7 Drivers
Warhammer Online running at 1920 x 1280 on a Benq FP241WZ.
It would be shame to have to send the card back, but it was bought for one purpose.
EDIT: It’s a while since I’ve had to look for a problem of this nature, so if anyone has any suggestions on any programs which allow me to monitor temperature and various other gfx/cpu bits and pieces over a period of time, then let me know.
It’s not the card, I’m using a 57somethingoranother. Also running 4 gig ram, the same raptor but a Phenom X4 OC’d to 3.3ghz at 1680×1050 (or whatever it is), i’m running Ooooh Shiney in zergs and it’s playable.
Though if the only thing you have changed is the gfx card then it’s a good chance there’s something not right, double check it’s getting enough power and it’s not overheating and can’t see why it would cause problems
Temperature in the mid 40’s so no problem there. I will check clock speed later, just to see if it’s having to slow it down.
Well the only thing that pops into my mind (bear in mind I’m not a tech-wiz by any means) is the already mentioned gpu not getting enough power, as new cards seem to be very power hungry. And the second is ram? I know WAR is hellish on it and if it’s underperforming it would result in something like that?
I’ve 6GB and the amount used when playing Warhammer when I checked was 2.8GB. The board can take 12GB, but I’ll be damned if I’m throwing in another 6GB 🙂
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Making a game profile at your video cards software make WAR run better. I am always following this guide: http://evansims.com/2009/03/optimizing-warhammer-onlines-game-performance/
I suggest the same, give a shot.
I would check your Power supply the requirements for that card are steep:
500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode).
I have a 620W in the case, but I am taking steps to cover that base.
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Something very relevant:
OS!!! I cannot stress enough, some OS just WILL NOT WAR effectively… Vista being a notable culprit. If you are indeed running Vista, it might be time to upgrade to 7. If you’re still on XP like some of us… I can’t think of a reason why it would be lagging out with that kind of hardware.
Rikker,
I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and have been since the launch.
The lag (network/fps/combination) is a major cause of concern and is frustrating the ass of me.
The one thing that most people don’t think of, are the drivers. It could be the ATI drivers are having a spasm when maxed out and effectively shutting down the machine, so to speak.