Extreme FPS downbreaks without any reason.

[ZerkerDwarf]

<p>Since a few days or since the last two updates there are sudden extreme FPS downbreaks without any reason. Suddenly the FPS sinks from about 40 to about 5. Sometimes accompanied by a total crash to the desktop with the message "out of memory".</p><p>E.g. flying a griffon in Kunzar. Extreme "loading lags" during the flight and when it is about to land, FPS sinks to 5 and I am lucky if EQ2 does not crash.</p><p>I have 4 GB ram, 512 MB video ram, good old Windows XP Home. I've never experienced such problems before. Everything worked always fine so far.  I haven't changed any hard- or software. Latest version of all drivers. The PC that runs EQ2 is a mere gaming machine without any unnecessary background programs. </p><p>I've also heard from other players experiencing such problems in the recent time, so I don't suppose it do be due to my PC/settings.</p><p>Is it a common problem since the last update? Has it to do with the new performance-anything-detection?</p><p> ----</p><p>Should have been posted on the tech forums.</p>

[KatrinaDeath]

You are not alone... For a week now my fps will drop from 40-55 down to a solid 6. It will do this after 15 minutes to 3 hours of gameplay and is only fixed by reboot.

[LordTuatha]

A lot of people are having this problem, one of the fun side effects of LU 44.

[KatrinaDeath]

<cite>LordTuatha wrote:</cite><blockquote>A lot of people are having this problem, one of the fun side effects of LU 44.</blockquote>Oh! It's an effect... Can you cure it off me plz?

[LordTuatha]

Rangers don't get heals <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[AngusMcLachlan]

I've noticed a quick fix will include simply /exit and then right click and end tree for eq2.exe.   Out of 10 times, it's only not worked once.Annoying at best.

[Nazgul]

<cite>ZerkerDwarf wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Since a few days or since the last two updates there are sudden extreme FPS downbreaks without any reason. Suddenly the FPS sinks from about 40 to about 5. Sometimes accompanied by a total crash to the desktop with the message "out of memory".</p><p>E.g. flying a griffon in Kunzar. Extreme "loading lags" during the flight and when it is about to land, FPS sinks to 5 and I am lucky if EQ2 does not crash.</p><p>I have 4 GB ram, 512 MB video ram, good old Windows XP Home. I've never experienced such problems before. Everything worked always fine so far.  I haven't changed any hard- or software. Latest version of all drivers. The PC that runs EQ2 is a mere gaming machine without any unnecessary background programs. </p><p>I've also heard from other players experiencing such problems in the recent time, so I don't suppose it do be due to my PC/settings.</p><p>Is it a common problem since the last update? Has it to do with the new performance-anything-detection?</p><p> ----</p><p>Should have been posted on the tech forums.</p></blockquote>Aye, getting the same problems too.  These constant problems are getting old fast - hmm, anything else worth considering next month?

[ZerkerDwarf]

Why aren't such severe problems not filtered out by running a new patch on the test servers before it goes live? I mean, such issues are not a typo bug within an unimportant quest that hardly anybody comes across.

[Jal]

Everyone has different hardware, you cant predict what will happen with every combination of OS and hardware and drivers interacting with the software you can only take a best guess and aim for the industry standards.If you're getting out of memeory issues have you tried enabling the /3gb switch in your boot.ini file so eq2 has access to more of your memory (it only has access to 2gb normally on a 32 bit OS)?  They added this with the last GU so might be worth you doing its certainly helping my system no ends.

[Joyful]

How exactly do  you do that?

[Daine]

I have 4 GB of memory, with the /3GB switch enabled, and yet I can't seem to get EQ2 to use more than 1 GB of memory  =(