Game Lag

[Twinbladed]

<p>I might have my settings wrong some way or another but, I run a i980x, 24 gigz of corsair ram,sli 2 580x vid cards, and 20mbps connection with 6mbps upload, I have the drivers and bios firmware all up to date. Why is it even on balanced performance sitting in Moors by the broker my frame rates drop to 30 fps. Any idea's?</p>

[Ferunnia]

<p>If you're using shader 3.0 don't and your problem will go away. It's horrible. I run with pretty much everything else maxed with two 470s and an i7 950, all overclocked. I might dip below 30-40fps in a [Removed for Content] PQ but that's about it. Normally run from 40-60fps. Also, you'll never go above your monitor's refresh rate (which for all but 3d capable LCDs is 60HZ, 3d capable run at 120HZ) if you have Syncronize Refresh checked. So if it looks like you're capped on 60FPS then turn that off unless it gives you tearing effects on screen. Outside of that the biggest single hit on graphics (outside of shading effects) is # of High Detail Characters.</p>

[LardLord]

<p>The game is CPU limited.  With my i7 @ 4 GHz, I never use more than ~35% of my single GTX570.</p>

[Ferunnia]

Running mine at 1920x1200 with a second monitor at 1920x1080 running ACT/media player/internet explorer/whatever else. I can get close to 60-70% usage across both 470s depending on what's going on. The 950 is oc'd to 4GHz and core 1 usually winds up running close to peak during EQ2. I just wish it was multicore friendlier, to be honest.