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Rift: Planes of Telara |OT|
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Hawk269
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So would any of you consider it unethical in a way that when I go to take a meal break for an hour or so that I dont log off? I just stopped to eat and checked the shard status and there is a 400+ wait right now...that is like about 1 1/2 wait...so I figured I would stay logged in at the character select window but started thinking that I am screwing one of my fellow belmont brother/sister out of getting into the game.
BTW...The more I play the more I am loving the game. It is so good looking. I do think that it is a bit of a resource hog in a way. I have a AMD Phenomx4 965 running at 3.8, an Nvidia 580 Overclocked to 900mhz, 8gigs or Ram and Win7. Even with turning off Supersampling and no Edge Enhancement, Shadows to enviroment only, the AF or whatever it is to 2 and I get in open areas about 45-50fps, in Rifts as low as 17 fps, on average I figure I get about 40 fps or so. I would think with my hardware, I would of been able to be much closer to 60fps (which I do get at times).
I guess I was dreaming when I built this rig that i could run EVERYTHING at MAX EvERTHING, but sadly that is not the case, actually not close at all. To me it looks so much better with the Super sampling, but I dip to an average of about 30fps when I do that. I am thinking I should SLI the 580, but that would mean a newer PSU and another 500 bucks for the card. Anyone playing with everything at MAX (I mean everything) can share your setup to achieve that in this game?
BTW...The more I play the more I am loving the game. It is so good looking. I do think that it is a bit of a resource hog in a way. I have a AMD Phenomx4 965 running at 3.8, an Nvidia 580 Overclocked to 900mhz, 8gigs or Ram and Win7. Even with turning off Supersampling and no Edge Enhancement, Shadows to enviroment only, the AF or whatever it is to 2 and I get in open areas about 45-50fps, in Rifts as low as 17 fps, on average I figure I get about 40 fps or so. I would think with my hardware, I would of been able to be much closer to 60fps (which I do get at times).
I guess I was dreaming when I built this rig that i could run EVERYTHING at MAX EvERTHING, but sadly that is not the case, actually not close at all. To me it looks so much better with the Super sampling, but I dip to an average of about 30fps when I do that. I am thinking I should SLI the 580, but that would mean a newer PSU and another 500 bucks for the card. Anyone playing with everything at MAX (I mean everything) can share your setup to achieve that in this game?
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
I am on a Phenom II X3 @ 3.4ghz, 4gb of ram and a 5770. I am playing on the High setting and usually get about 40fps everywhere but in a Rift. When in a Rift the FPS drops in half to about 20.Morn said:
Hawk269
Member
Morn said:
Next time I load up I will do the same to see what happens. I currently have no edge enhancement or the Supersampling on, but some of the others like the AF is only at 4, shadows only on enviroment.
I am sure when a new driver comes out it should improve, but that is going to be a wait, I have a leaked version of the next beta driver, so unless the final of the one I am using adds better support for the game it is going to be a while till they improve.
Nvidia was pretty quick to improve performance for the Final Fantasy game, so I would assume with the popularity of Rift, they will be on it pretty fast...at least I hope cause i cant afford any upgrade for at least a month.
Dude, I know.AceBandage said:
It's so complicated. Have to apply like 3 debuffs, 4 DoTs, and roll some slows in there for good measure. And I'm only level 16!
Still, when the enemy takes like 20% extra damage, is DoT'd to hell, and is slow as a snail and it's ALL your doing...it's a good feeling.
AceBandage
Banned
Einbroch said:
Oh yes, it's fun as hell.
It'll be a great raiding spec, at that.
Still, I can usually kill a mob my level in about 10 seconds.
The Opportunity Proc makes it overpowered.
Hawk269
Member
Some more noob questions. On a few quests, I have been given items that say they will bind on my character. Am I correct in assuming that it is a pernament thing? I am only level 12, I would think that it could not be pernament being that there are like 38 more levels to go and I am sure I will get another pair of boots or something. Anyone care to explain?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Hawk269
Member
Hawk269 said:
Well, I upped everthing and have super sampling off, but maxed out everything else and to be honest, I only noticed a slight change in the fps..of course a little lower, but it does look even better. I tihnk I can live with the fps I am now until I can afford to do another card or a new cpu. For some reason, I did not max everything else cause I was going with the notes that pop up that state AF is very GPU heavy, but going from 4 to 16 AF did not really impact the frame rate at all. What did a bit more was putting shadows to everything...that took it down a little bit.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
LOL it just means you can't trade the item anymoreHawk269 said:
AceBandage
Banned
Hawk269 said:
It means you can't sell it to another player.
You can only vendor it or break it down with Crafting.
So since my 2500K 4.6GHz and 2x GTX 570 runs this game 'okay', I figured I'd give it a shot on my buddy's 920 @ 3.6GHz and GTX 275 to see how it ran. The framerate was certainly lower (as low as 30 on High), the game just felt so much smoother. So there it is...I think the SLI rendering method for this game is introducing microstuttering, which is making the game feel much choppier than it should when the framerate drops below 60fps.
I wanted to try SLI with my new system just to see how I liked it. It works nicely in Crysis and Metro, where I couldn't push the settings I normally could, but some games just don't play nice with it. I doubt I'll be going with a dual GPU setup in future systems.
I wanted to try SLI with my new system just to see how I liked it. It works nicely in Crysis and Metro, where I couldn't push the settings I normally could, but some games just don't play nice with it. I doubt I'll be going with a dual GPU setup in future systems.
AceBandage
Banned
From everything I've read, XFire and SLI just introduce more problems than it's worth for a people that are looking to push games.
Might as well just spend that money on a better GPU.
Might as well just spend that money on a better GPU.
Hmmm. Well. When I'm running at 30ish FPS (Ultra, in Meridian), it maybe feels more sluggish. Maybe not. I'm not sure anymore.
I do get significantly higher FPS in other places though, and as long as the FPS is staying 45-50+, it feels great.
Maybe I'm just imagining things.
I do get significantly higher FPS in other places though, and as long as the FPS is staying 45-50+, it feels great.
Maybe I'm just imagining things.
Union Carbine
Member
I'm running SLI and it feels perfectly smooth to me. However, since I haven't turned it off to compare, I can't say it's smoother than a single card setup.TheExodu5 said:
Big Papa Husker
Member
I have a 4870x2 and on Ultra I get lucky to get 30FPS when there is no one around. In Meridian it drops to 10-15FPS and in Rifts I am lucky to get 10FPS. :|Union Carbine said:
I'm not sure whether my CPU (Core 2 E8600 3.33GHZ) or graphics card is the bottleneck.
So, I just went into my first of those huge Rift events, but wasn't able to really help.
My latency suddenly jumped to 15k ms, and I couldn't do anything. Three disconnects later, it was over, and my latency was back to normal.
Sounds like Trion has a lot of work to do with those, specially considering how they're the main focus of the game.
My latency suddenly jumped to 15k ms, and I couldn't do anything. Three disconnects later, it was over, and my latency was back to normal.
Sounds like Trion has a lot of work to do with those, specially considering how they're the main focus of the game.
I've been playing connection-heavy games for years with this connection - been through 40-man raids in WoW, and a lot of huge events in FFXI, for example - and never had any problems like this. My latency always stays at around 200 ms, no matter what's going on in the screen. I somehow doubt the problem is on my end.1stStrike said:
Big Papa Husker
Member
My drive is: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s1stStrike said:
Yeah, okay, I'm definitely seeing the microstutters with the SLI setup. In one area, I'm getting 35fps with one card, and 55 with the two cards. While the 35fps one does feel a little slower, it's smooth. The 55fps setup, on the other, hand, introduces stutters. When I'm running forward, I can notice the ground below me skip at an uneven pace. As long as the framerate stays above 60 with the SLI setup, it's fine. When it drops below 60, things get blurrier. It can be smooth for a bit, but microstutters are random and can find their way in.
Microstutters occur when one card produces it's frame too late. Let's say card one produces it's frame in 0.05s, card two should introduce it's frame in between card one's first frame and it's next frame. If card two doesn't manage in time, then card one can't introduce it's second frame yet.
I'm not sure why the stutters are introduces, and why one card would render slower than the other...but it's definitely happening.
I'm still going to play with SLI, since most of the time it does feel smoother. Shame it's not a flawless experience.
Microstutters occur when one card produces it's frame too late. Let's say card one produces it's frame in 0.05s, card two should introduce it's frame in between card one's first frame and it's next frame. If card two doesn't manage in time, then card one can't introduce it's second frame yet.
I'm not sure why the stutters are introduces, and why one card would render slower than the other...but it's definitely happening.
I'm still going to play with SLI, since most of the time it does feel smoother. Shame it's not a flawless experience.
Brazil said:
Think about it logically. If it was a server wide issue or a client issue we would all be experiencing your problems regardless of our location. It's either a local network issue or you have a bad route to the server (in which case you need to run a traceroute to the server)
I deal with customers all day who try to say that their server is lagging when I ping 60 MS to it. Half the time these guys live in some 3rd world country and have some shitty excuse for an ISP.
For those of you that may not read the LC forums regularly, I encourage you to see the following thread.
For those in the guild, I'm holding a contest to create a promo video for Lotus Cross. The first place winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to amazon.com. Multiple entries will be voted on by the other members of the guild.
For those in the guild, I'm holding a contest to create a promo video for Lotus Cross. The first place winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to amazon.com. Multiple entries will be voted on by the other members of the guild.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
If the game performance is not where you thought it should be, it might be worth Checking this out.
AceBandage
Banned
Haha, I think all the NPCs got broken.
Dreamwriter
Member
Me and my friends did one last night, where the entire world went dark - we got into the largest pack of people we could find and followed them around killing things including giant bosses and dragons. No latency issues at all for any of us, using two different internet providers (Comcast and a local cable company). It's really sounding like a problem with your provider (or router I guess) since nobody else is experiencing the problem.Brazil said:
spandexmonkey
Banned
I'm emerging from three days of near solid leveling... I think I've found my mmo. Just finished a massive death rift invasion. Fought through 4 or 5 rifts then a steady stream of invasion forces, then while cleaing a major rift the big boss of the zone wide event spawned on us. We were doing fine until what felt like dozens and dozens of invasion forces swarmed us.
Lots dead, but I was able to catch up on the healing and namer goes down. Just crazy.
Lots dead, but I was able to catch up on the healing and namer goes down. Just crazy.
AceBandage
Banned
So, Lotham experienced a full server crash.
None of the NPCs worked.
They're restarting now.
That was weird.
None of the NPCs worked.
They're restarting now.
That was weird.