Game performance is ABYSMAL.

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Daiena wrote:

Is it me,or does anyone else have a feeling that the new expansion came with a lot of amazing features and also....a huge memory leak somewhere? pre-1.2 i had no issues,now when i close my client after playing for more than an hour,my whole rig stutters for about 30 sec as if it was unable to re-arrange memory,which fix me if i am wrong,is a clear sign of a huge mem leak.

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Jiero wrote:

^ Just to let you know those complete drops in framerate for you there aren't the gpu or the graphical engine of the game (just the minor drops your getting appear to be), they are actually from the single threaded nature of the game combined with slow loading times of assets from the client file. That is why your performance increases with time as more of the zone and it's inhabitants are loaded into ram, with the occasional hangup as other stuff is loaded. Game can't render any frames at all while its loading assets causing a complete client freeze during that, which plummets the framerate if it just spent 9/10th of that second loading a asset with the client at 0 fps during that load time.

Otherwise it's that average of 30 that you would be getting if either the single threaded nature of the game changed (lol, never will happen) or your loading speed (new hard drive, or load entire client file to a ram drive) to get rid of asset load time freezes. And it's likely that strongboxes are a nightmare for you anyway with the current setup.


Try the defrag utility of both this game and if your on a platter drive try using an advanced defrag program (built in windows one is a failure) that can optimize the drive such as the one from iobit. Optimizing a drive means that it moves a larger file to the outside of the platter so that it's read speed is at the highest it can get. And yes, read speeds of a file on a platter drive vary according to where on the platter it is as the outside seections reads a lot faster then the inside sections. A segmented 4gb file spread across random sections of the disk reads at a fraction of what a solid file on the very outside sections of the disk will read at, and this game suffers immensely when that happens. NEVER defrag a SSD of course.


edit - and windows will cache frequently used files in ram to allow them to be accessed faster, so it will and SHOULD use all available ram anyway as long as other background apps don't need it to reduce load times of files it frequently needs access to for this game.

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Lord_Kamster wrote:

You know, the game loaded the levels just fine prior to the update. Maybe something happened with the installation, with data becoming too fragmented?

It's a HUGE dip in performance in any case, particularly considering that this never happened before to such a degree, and at most it lasted two seconds.

I've tried a program before that let me place stuff in the faster-access section of the hard drive. I'll give this a shot. Thanks for taking the time to write the detailed post.