Very disappointing performance

[Norisha]

Hello everyone, Here are my specs: 3800 X2 @ 2400 Ghz 8800GTS 640Mb @ a little higher then stock 2Gigs ram (its good quality…can’t remember what it was…think Crosair XMS) Raptor 74 gig Hard drive X-Fi Xtrememusic   Now...I have a Samsung 226BW monitor and am running at 1680x1050 Res.  I set it to balanced and turned up all the character textures and turned Flora off.  Out in the wild I get like 30-40 FPS and generally around 20 in cities…but in larger groups or when I am fighting a lot of mobs at the same time, my system really jerks up.  I don’t understand why its doing it…just cant figure it out.   Any ideas?   I have upgraded all the drivers and everything is fine with other games…but I just don’t think I am getting the performance I should.  I think it may be that my CPU is really holding me back…and I plan to upgrade too a C2D system sometime in the near future, but I am not to sure that I want to make the upgrade now.   Well, there it is.  Hope someone can help.   Thanks,   Norisha

[Fatmega]

Hello Norisha, Even with mine C2D (E6400 @ 3200Mhz) its not much faster (with 8800GTX) on Windows Vista 32bit. Cause it dont use both cores, only one, i really wonder when they start to upgrade engine. You can try to disable shadows, could speed up game a little too, cause it still use CPU power to render them (on test server they used some different shadows, rendered by GPU, but it was buggy, so its disabled for now).Rendering distance can speed up game too.

[Jal]

Sounds like you have the same issue as alot of 8800 users. Turn your spell effects to 0 and the jerkiness will dissappear.  Its annoying but it seems the root cause of the jerkiness.

[Norisha]

Kallarn@Splitpaw wrote: <blockquote>Sounds like you have the same issue as alot of 8800 users. Turn your spell effects to 0 and the jerkiness will dissappear.  Its annoying but it seems the root cause of the jerkiness. </blockquote> Oh boy...that is something that I really don't want to do <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> It's an 8800 problem?  I was actually going to reformat today after I got back from my summer classes (The person who convinced me to take this should be shot) but if thats the case...meh. Will I not be able to see any casting at all?  Because I for one define classes from spellcasting...and its going to be a lot harder to know I just got blown up if I don't literally explode when a magic-user casts on me. I actually would be tempted to go get my 7800GT and install that again to see if it ran better if this was the case. I'll be back in a few hours to check any other responses. Thanks for the help everyone.

[Fatmega]

That fixes nothing, its jerky anyway, at least for me with 158.42 vista driver. Game need dualcore support, badly.

[Jal]

You still see your own spells fine and some of other peoples but it is reduced alot for others. I have the same issue on my 8800 and ive learned to live with it until a driver fixes the issue but it hasnt so far.  Not all 8800 users experience this but theres quite a few that do.

[Wingrider01]

Kallarn@Splitpaw wrote: <blockquote>Sounds like you have the same issue as alot of 8800 users. Turn your spell effects to 0 and the jerkiness will dissappear.  Its annoying but it seems the root cause of the jerkiness. </blockquote> dumped a pair of 8800's and went back to 7900's and the majority of issues that I was expierencing in both XP-SP2 and Vista Ultimate went away here and in other games that where expierencing problems

[Norisha]

Well well...I just reformatted and I will know if it helped at all in a little bit.  I'll give an update here soon.  If it doesn't help...back with the 7800GT. EDIT: all reformated and all UI and stuff installed....same performance....time to turn down the graphics for now.