Game runs like shit!

[Anonymous]

Ok guys now for all of you that have known me for a while now, you know I was in beta with some of you. I ran my game all the time at 1600x1200 at full detail and I did the same when the game first went live. NOW it runs borderline unplayable on those settings. Average detail is no better and lower the res a bit doesnt help much as well. What is the deal here?? I cant play like this!! Help me!! Help Evan ;-;

Also....as a side note....the server has become pvp crazed....even though thats what its for. I cant get through ONE mission w/o getting picked off by some level 40 who thinks he is real tough cuz he can kill lil ol level 17 Evan that doesnt even have his Neo coat yet....ugh wtf. Oh well im dont ranting now. Any help on my first topic would be greatly appriciated. Thaaaaaaaaaaanks!

[Anonymous]

Actually Evan, I was clearing out my inventory and I have about 40 of those blood drinker teeth for you. I thought i had recycled them but I guess not. As for the game, it has been acting weird lately I do agree with you there. Whenever I get to a HL, even if there is nobody around, the game starts lagging like crazy sometimes. Sometimes, it just lags for no good reason.

The obvious and probably most sensible answer is that there is a lot more people playing in the server right now. In beta the game ran pretty good actually on my old crappy comp but one it hit release, the population grew and it put hell on my video card and memory. So I upgraded and got a new comp but even this one still doesn't run optimal. In the Gamespot video review, the guy says that this game won't even run good unless you have a top of the line system to run it on, and sometimes, not even then. So it is definitely the game and not your fault. The devs have been so concerned with other stuff that they neglect the neccesities of the real MMO experience. It's hard to get into a game if you keep lagging and freezing all the time. They need to update and improve their damn servers.

[Anonymous]

There is supposed to be some kind of memory leak with the game..

[Ketamininja]

yeah I haven't played for a bit, but the specs changed, and I upgraded before running away on my vacation from MxO. I still only have 512Mb RAM in just now, but with the top end gfx card, and 3500+ cpu, it runs ... fair-to-good. I know that with 1Gb the difference is phenomenal.

As the game gets further towards its real "gold" level, expect more stress on your PC.

[Anonymous]

yeah, all of us have had this problem evan. mainly, they just went server-crazy the first week and we had like 20 servers to choose from. now we have i think 8, and half of them only like 50 people play on. it's rediculous. beta i could run on high detail and it was fine, now its laggy as hell with all settings to low or off. the only time i can indulge myself in high detail is in a dungeon where no more than 5 people show up on my /who

[Manic Velocity]

I'm able to run the game pretty well on medium detail with 512mb of ram.  I've turned down the pedestrian/NPC count to almost zero.  Exterior and interior distance levels are at their half-way points, as well as weather detail.  I don't notice much difference in performance when I have anti-aliasing turned on, so I usually just leave it off.

I get a little bit of rubber-banding and lag when I enter a building or district, but it usually lasts for no more than a second or two.  This also happens when I'm coming in for a landing on a hyperjump.

I plan on upgrading to two gigs of ram within the coming months.

My guess is that it's a server-side issue.

[Anonymous]

well i WAS going to upgrade so that i would have 3gig of ram, since my motherboard supports 4 ... but get this .... the site stating details of the motherboard says that it "supports 4 gig of RAM using 512mb technology" ..... so YOU do the math .... how can you get 4 gigs of RAM out of 4 sticks of 512?!?!?! *kicks intel* and yes, i sent them an e-mail and they sent me back a response like a was a 5-year-old and i should know better, and then pointed back to the exact site that screem and i were looking at to figure this out. bastards!!

[Anonymous]

/sheds tear for Grim's RAM & Evan's Neo coat

Don't feel bad Evan.  I just hit 16 so I'll be joining you & the 'Reconstruct' button now, I'm sure of it.  Especially when the FA tag gets added to it...like having a target on your back.

On another note, do you get some kind of buffed out Neo-esque coat for the Blood Drinker teeth?  If so, I'd love to get a few of those teeth you mentioned Xtreem...if it's no trouble

[Anonymous]

Hey Evan good to have you back. About the lag I dont know where you guys are comming up with this lag. I run everything on high everythihng maxed out and no lag ever eving during events. And my machine is one and a half years old. I have a 3.2 P4 with HT 256MB 9800XT ATI graphics card and two gigs of RAM my hard drives are the highest IDE speed with over 400 Gigs of space. Just thought I'd brag

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

I miss good ole Algo. or before that World 1.

[Anonymous]

Big ups to one server.  And i totally agree that there is a memory link yes there are more accounts this time but they should have been prepared for this.  I hope they find this soon.

[Anonymous]

I have a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1 gig of PC3200 and A Radion x700pro and it runs great on everthing maxed. But I do get laggy when it Caches the Textures in a new distruct or Building.

[Anonymous]

For all those who say this game runs lag-free like Mazda, YOU SUCK!!! I wish I had your damn PC....   :p

But for the rest of us, like me, I have to constantly change my graphic settings...ALL THE DAMN TIME!!! AHHH!!! One day the game runs as smooth as slik with everything on high, and the next day, SHIT, EVEN ON LOW!!!!! So yah, like Doan said, there's a f*&king memory leak somewhere in the damn servers they have. All I can hope is that they fix whatever the F&^KING problem.........SOON!!!!........AHHHHHHH!!!!!  :S

[Styan]

I agree there are areas in the game that spike quite high for lag.  Unfortunate and hopefully they'll get fixed.

As for the reconstruct button friendship, i made 16 last nite so I will surely begin experiencing that tonight.

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

make sure you always have evade combat loaded and activated! number one tip for hostile server survival.