shader 3.0 long load when changing settings

[DarkMalken]

<p>When running in shader 3.0 and the game has been running for a little while, it takes a long time ( up to 30 seconds ) to change from windowed to full screen, or changing between different graphical settings. Without shader 3.0 running this takes about 2-3 seconds max. Is anyone else having that problem?</p><p>basic specs are:</p><p>Core i7-920</p><p>radeon 5870</p><p>12 gigs ddr3 1333</p><p>windows 7 64 bit</p>

[DarkMalken]

<p>anyone else have this problem or know a solution?</p>

[MurFalad]

<p>I find Shader 3.0 takes a long time to change from windowed to full screen and vice versa too. </p><p>I think its always done this, not sure why but its one of those things I've had to live with so far.</p>

[Humayon]

<p>Has happened to me a lot. I play in windowed mode and sometimes changing settings/zonining/logging causes the client to become non-responsive. I sometimes have to shut down client and start again. Unbelievable annoying when  you are in the middle of a raid and changing zones.</p><p>Fix for me was to revert back to shader 1.</p><p>Shader 3 is just not implemented well enough to be active on live servers. It still needs a lot more work and i think it should be taken out of the game for now. So many textures are missing and not optimised to run with S3 on. The whites are too [Removed for Content] white in some cases.</p><p>Lets just naively hope that something will be done about this to improve performance and/or get a complete overhaul to the dogged eq2 engine.</p>

[DarkMalken]

<p>well, I'd go back to shader 1.0, but for some reason my game hangs for anywhere from 3-20 seconds randomly on raid with shader 1 going. Which isn't really an option because I'm the MA and AE caller 'n such. Still have not found a way to fix that. The computer actually reboots itself if I have Catalyst A.I. disabled in my ati catalyst control center. It never hangs at all with shader 3.0.</p><p>Shader 3 also runs higher FPS for me anyway, by about 10 or so. I can raid with it on high quality and usually stay around 70 fps, dip to about 35-40 in some parts of UD though.</p><p>The long load time isn't that big a deal, I usually like to play in full screen and need to swap back to windowed to look at a more detailed parse is all. So its just a little annoying tbh, guess I'll just have to live with it.</p>

[Daladfar]

<p>I7 860  OC to 3.36</p><p>GTX 460 1g gddr5</p><p>4g ddr3 1600</p><p>Win7 64 bit</p><p>And i cant go anywhere near Shader 3.0 -- i play in balanced and only way for me to achieve 55-60 fps is to have 3.0 turned off and all shades also turned off -- So if u can raid in High quality and get 70 fps i would say dont worry about it lol</p>

[DarkMalken]

<p>Well, technically its high quality with flora turned off cause I hate it, and max spell results for other players set to 0. It's too distracting for me to see everyones spells, i'm not sure if that would make up for that extra FPS or not.</p>

[MurFalad]

<p><cite>Daladfar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I7 860  OC to 3.36</p><p>GTX 460 1g gddr5</p><p>4g ddr3 1600</p><p>Win7 64 bit</p><p>And i cant go anywhere near Shader 3.0 -- i play in balanced and only way for me to achieve 55-60 fps is to have 3.0 turned off and all shades also turned off -- So if u can raid in High quality and get 70 fps i would say dont worry about it lol</p></blockquote><p>Ironically it seems like Nvidea cards do not like EQ2 as much as ATI ones here, that card should be equivalent to an ATI 4870 according to toms hardware, and on my 4870 shader 3.0 is a definite plus in the frame rate.</p><p>As for the look and someones suggestion to remove it from the game, definitely not.  Some things now actually look wrong in shader 1.0 compared to shader 3.0 (such as plate armour), there is a lot to be improved with shader 3.0, but its not that far from being a complete feature like GPU shadows finally now is (seems like a stealth update in GU58 finally got us full quality at full range there <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> ).</p>