FPS drops to 2 per/sec game unplayable

[Apostle67]

<p>Hi, I have been playing since release, starting wed/thur the 27th of feb, when i log in everything runs great as normal, then after about 10 mins my frame rate drops to 2 or 3 per sec, for about 10 or 15 mins then back to normal etc..... up till thur it was great.  I havent changed the game settings in years, and i havent changed anything on my system.  my system is windoes xp/ meadia center edition ver 2002 with service pak 2....intel cor 2 6700 @2.66ghz with 3.24 gb ram.</p><p>like i said, until now, i have never had but the slightest flicker of lag anywhere.... now i get this on and off lag, in any zone/instance and on all characters, i have reinstalled video drivers, done a virus scan, defrag'd, and had the game run a full file scan, and tried playing in windowed mode and full screen.... Im all out of options, can you please help the game is basicaly unplayable for me at this point as with the low frame rate/lag   aggro=death</p>

[TSR-DanT]

Might want to consider trying a new video card, it's possible the one you're using is on it's way out.

[AgingGamer]

Apostle, be aware when upgrading/buying a new card that at least some users are experiencing poor results (E.G.: low frame rates and associated performance issues) when using the EverQuest 2 with:<ul><li><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=408857" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new model 8000 series NVidia cards</a></li><li><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=409656" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new model dual core 3870x2 series ATI cards</a></li><li><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=33475" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">multi core Intel and AMD processors</a></li></ul>At the moment, your best bet for EQ2 performance seems to be the fastest single or dual core processor you can get (extra cores won't buy you much at all: with EQ2 it is all about clock rate) and a previous generation video card such as an ATI X1950XTX or NVidia 7000 series.  If you purchase the "latest and greatest", you may experience moderate to highly disappointing performance results within EQ2, including performance below that you would get with previous generation components.

[TSR-DanT]

<cite>AgingGamer wrote:</cite><blockquote>Apostle, be aware when upgrading/buying a new card that at least some users are experiencing poor results (E.G.: low frame rates and associated performance issues) when using the EverQuest 2 with:<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=408857" target="_blank">new model 8000 series NVidia cards</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=409656" target="_blank">new model dual core 3870x2 series ATI cards</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=33475" target="_blank">multi core Intel and AMD processors</a></li></ul>At the moment, your best bet for EQ2 performance seems to be the fastest single or dual core processor you can get (extra cores won't buy you much at all: with EQ2 it is all about clock rate) and a previous generation video card such as an ATI X1950XTX or NVidia 7000 series.  If you purchase the "latest and greatest", you may experience moderate to highly disappointing performance results within EQ2, including performance below that you would get with previous generation components.</blockquote>Excellent post! Very informative.

[Spaceweed]

<cite>TSR-DanT wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>AgingGamer wrote:</cite><blockquote>Apostle, be aware when upgrading/buying a new card that at least some users are experiencing poor results (E.G.: low frame rates and associated performance issues) when using the EverQuest 2 with:<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=408857" target="_blank">new model 8000 series NVidia cards</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=409656" target="_blank">new model dual core 3870x2 series ATI cards</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=33475" target="_blank">multi core Intel and AMD processors</a></li></ul>At the moment, your best bet for EQ2 performance seems to be the fastest single or dual core processor you can get (extra cores won't buy you much at all: with EQ2 it is all about clock rate) and a previous generation video card such as an ATI X1950XTX or NVidia 7000 series.  If you purchase the "latest and greatest", you may experience moderate to highly disappointing performance results within EQ2, including performance below that you would get with previous generation components.</blockquote>Excellent post! Very informative.</blockquote>Indeed, a very informative post.  Here's an idea, why don't your company 'do' something about these issues?  Shall we design a rig to be able to comply with your dinosaur of an engine, or spend our hard earned cash on something that can play everything else on the market?I know what I did, and guess what?  I enjoy EQ2, but my enjoyment is ruined half the time with issues that are caused by b-u-y-i-n-g a d-e-c-e-n-t s-y-s-t-e-m.Roll on War and AoC..

[AgingGamer]

<cite>TSR-DanT wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Excellent post! Very informative.</blockquote>Thanks, Dan- I appreciate that.  My first attempt to reply to this thread was rather sarcastic and got caught by the moderators- it included the same info, but had a tone more like SpaceWeed's.Emotionally, I agree with Space- I've spent a couple of grand in the last two weeks trying to make my year old dual core machine faster/better, and for EQ2 (which is the game I play the most) it has been wasted money.  My quad core, brand new dual GPU system with 4 GB of RAM is *slower* by a substantial margin than the dual core, single (two year old) single core GPU system it replaces.  Sure, Crysis runs beautifully now, but EQ2 is slower...I'd like to see some comment from the EQ2 developers saying "we recognize the multi-core/advanced GPU issues with the current client build, and we have a plan to address this in the following XXX releases of the game."  That would be very uplifting, particularly if it was a nice big sticky in this forum.  I am aware that trying to deal with the issues users of the newer systems face *must* be frustrating for the dev and support teams as well.  I'd say for some of us at least, getting the multi-core/new technology GPU issues dealt with is a higher priority than new content or many of the other things that come with updates.   EQ2 with higher quality settings is a beautiful game: it really is almost a totally *new* game when you can enable these things.  If there are things that the users can do to help get this the right level of attention it would be great to know.  Or if it is clearly something that will not be addressed, then knowing that would be (although painful/frustrating) a good thing too.  Hopefully we'll get a client to allow us to experience EQ2 in all its visual glory one day.

[macsux]

I recently turned up graphics up to quality just to wonder at "what if"..... what if i could actually play on that setting. But then my raid time comes and I try to find every last setting I can find in options to turn off to squeeze a few extra fps. And even then, my uber XPS dual core runs 10-14fps when I'm all raided up. x4 vs x4 PVP drops to low single digits fps. Sucks...Honestly I think all that hard work that art department did with uber textures, shadows and all that other stuff is totally wasted cuz right now most people play the game with graphics at EQ1 level.

[Zeldane]

<p>It feels like lag, but it just isn't. It's the new feature they put in, [x] Smooth Mouse, and put slider in the middle to adjust how fast mouse moves the screen.. and, yeah.. Thats it. I felt the same way after GU43 and was wondering. It can and may also be the camera setting they added to the game which actually makes you see a bit more than usual, more to render?</p>

[AgingGamer]

<cite>Enternal@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It feels like lag, but it just isn't. It's the new feature they put in, [x] Smooth Mouse, and put slider in the middle to adjust how fast mouse moves the screen.. and, yeah.. Thats it. I felt the same way after GU43 and was wondering. It can and may also be the camera setting they added to the game which actually makes you see a bit more than usual, more to render?</p></blockquote>Sorry, Enternal, but you are wrong.  It *is* lag because I'm not moving my mouse.  And you posted this exact same statement, word for word, <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=410416#4584595" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on another thread</a>.  Perhaps you "discovered" the smooth mouse setting was a problem for you, but it has nothing to do with what most other users are experiencing.To be clear: my character gets < 15 FPS standing still in many areas with balanced settings.  This is on a system that has a 3DMark06 rating of over 15,000.  I got equal or better performance from my old machine, which had a 3DMark06 rating of about 5,000.  Others seem to be experiencing similar things: current model multi-core CPU and highly pipelined or multi-core GPUs like the latest NVidia and ATI cards are actually substantially slower in EQ2 than older, less powerful configurations.

[Thmy]

<p>I don't dual boot into vista to play eq2 any more but   with XP </p><p>my E6700 dual core  2.66 GHZ - 8800gtx 4 GB memory - intel  MB system runs at 50 - 110 FPS. Very seldom I have seen 35 FPS but that never lasts for long.</p><p>I don't have the reported low frame rate peoblem or the out of memory erroro.</p><p>---------------</p><p>Check the other threads - a lot of us are giving feedback to find the problems. </p><p>It would be so easy of we all had the problem but we don't.</p><p>I even have Norton and mcAfee running on this system BUT this is generall my EQ2 system SO  keep most of anthing else off of it.</p><p>and YES Crysis runs VERY well on the high setting.</p><p>IF I use ACT parser I put ACT into the other cpu core.</p>

[macsux]

I'm running XPS 1710 Laptop.P4 Duo 2.0GHzGeforce 7900GTX 512MB4GB of RAMProblem is most NORMAL games will utilize a lot more power from your video card. This game unfortunately is all about CPU juice while utilizing only one cpu/core, which in todays world is highly problematic since CPU manufactures realized that they are better off slapping multi core CPUs then chasing higher frequencies.