Preview Graphics own me!

[Jin Saotome]

Wow, I jacked up all the graphics to max while I was in the training hall and I absolutely LOVE IT! Everything seems much more crisp and fluid, I especially love how I can shrink the 3D section of the screen and expand the text.

Unfortunatly I stepped outside into Holt and my client crashed, a 'Virtual memory too low" error popping up right away! I logged back in to get another 'virtual memory exceeded' message of some sort. Now I can't get past portal space, it all freezes lol!

I'm running an AMD Athalon 1900+
1.59ghz,
256 MB of ram with a Gforce4 Ti 4200 video card.

What do I need to upgrade, just my ram to 512? I've been putting it off but I really want to enjoy the new graphics in populated areas.

[Shaz]

Heh, yea, RAM's cheap now...

I did the same... but managed not to crash, lol but couldn't do anything... I forced the crash myself... Had to...

[Metonic]

I would like to experience the graphics all the way up, even in training halls i get screwed over from lag, I have gotten it up to the high settings and the screen would go black, i can only get medium, which is an impressive upgrade from ACDM but, not enough forme to stay. If lag was lowered some how like maybe putting vendors in all cities then perhaps it be easier to explore or maybe making another preview server with Morningthaw. Anyway, as far as i can tell its good, but i doubt i'll stick around unless the lag goes down on preview world and you can actually tell whats going on. When i first started i was stuck in the purple bubble form for 40 minutes had to log off which took another 10 and log on another 5 and finally got out of it then got portal stormed to another place which the portaling took another 3 minutes, and then i figured id fight a few low level creatures that were a little ways away from the portal storm drop, guy came by and got all mad because He was lagging (as was I) and i was fighting creatures which lagged him more(as it lagged me more aswell) and some how the creatures chased him, even tho he was almost off the radar anyway and they were lvl 5 creatures lol.

By the time i made my way to the new town(hasvent learned the name yet) it seemed to have larger population, and more lag, people were pk lighting outside the city walls, which im sorry but, a massive group of people pkin and observing the pkin right next to the town kinda makes it laggy as hell. I would go north and end up some where in the eastern part of the city. Took me 10 minutes to find the vendor and when i reached him, he wouldnt give me any tokens! 5 minutes of trying then another 5 minutes of finding holtburg portal, get to holt burg took me 10 minutes to find the vendor, got my token lagged into one of those huts with the cragstone portals, which was a little less lagy but still took me forever to do anything. i recalled to lifestone(viamontian town) looked for emmissary couldnt find him after 5 mintues of looking, went to holtburg got my 60 levels, tried to find the vendor again but hit portal storms like crazy tried to portal out to viamont and bam, im stuck in portal space and its saying stuff like portal storm imminent, you havbe been transported, portal storm immient you have been transported... and then i logged off, tried to make a new toon actually go thru the academy, but, it didnt happen. my character lagged into the wasp thing and froze..

to sum it up, would look purty if graphics were raised. graphics would be raised if there was less lag, less lag would make it look purty. Anyway... its near impossible to play with this lag.

[Jin Saotome]

Is it lag from Turbine's side (being on a test server and all with 3000 people) or our computers not being able to handle the graphics? I'm going to upgrade mine tomorrow, I'd like to know what to put into it.

[Rage_Lao]

Is it lag from Turbine's side (being on a test server and all with 3000 people) or our computers not being able to handle the graphics? I'm going to upgrade mine tomorrow, I'd like to know what to put into it.

1gig of ram is good.

However, you may still crash, there is a huge memory leak somewhere. acclient.exe of mine was using 720,000k memory. Normally WoW.exe only uses 300,000k.


it completely bogged my system down. I was able to alt-tab and shut it down.

[Jin Saotome]

1 gig it is then, I'll have em throw the two biggest chips in they have.

[CyranosCottage]

1 gig for me is like $300+ :p

I was gonna settle for 512.. But if that also seems low..

I currently have 256 and when I got close to the towns it took forever to load..

[Unicron]

"1 gig for me is like $300+ "

You can buy 1 gig for about $100 canadian at ncix.com , I'm sure its even cheaper in the states

Its pretty sad this game needs that much memory considering that it doesn't look all that updated when put beside the newer Online RPGs out there...

[wolftear]

Don't put too much faith in RAM solving all off the lag issues. I run a dual core
3.4ghz with 2 gigs of RAM and still lagged to the point of not being able to
play. I tried it with the graphics all maxed and middle settings. even tried all at
the lowest settings...but honestly, why would you want to play with everything
a mushed up blur anyways.

[CyranosCottage]

hehe well even on regular servers, it takes me time to DL Arwic & Candeth Keep :p

[Arcane Katty]

chop chop chop :confused:

funny, I got an ATI card too.

[Hamfast]

I am looking forward to checking out the OMG Full blown Graphics... last night, I crashed 4 times with Graphics issues... other then that it was neat...

Oh, system... 3.2 Gig Intel P4 (dual-core) - 1 gig ram, Radion X700pro... as for some of the other lag issues, I hope the Fiber internet service (15 Meg) will help with that...

I will try again tonight...

[MagicMoonlight]

I have 2 Gig of RAM on my 3000 Ahtlon and i get crap performance like everyone else. That's with a 9800 Pro with 256 Mo.

[MaddyFF]

Unless there are people standing around in the towns and giving me the portal storm warnings, perfermancehas been good.

AMD Athlon 2500
512MB of RAM
8X AGP 6600GT with latest drivers

[mgs316]

Logged on quick before work this morning. Here's the rig:

Althon XP 2000+
2 Gigs of memory
Geforce 2 GTS (my 4600Ti blew up.)

NO ISSUES, and played very smooth with everything cranked up.

So that card is like 4 generations old and playing fine, I'm not sure how you guys can be complaining about lag with 9800's etc.

[MaddyFF]

So that card is like 4 generations old and playing fine, I'm not sure how you guys can be complaining about lag with 9800's etc.

Common theme seems to be ATI. Not everyone, but enough to catch my attention.

Could be driver related.

[Zeds]

"So that card is like 4 generations old and playing fine, I'm not sure how you guys can be complaining about lag with 9800's etc."


perhaps because we are experiencing it?

maybe we should go get some old pos computers so we can run it smoothly too then?

most of us have computers that are beyond reqs to run the newer games at max graphics , and are having poor performance fromm this preview with it's lesser graphics


this indicates to me that there is an issue with the TOD engine, because too many people are having performance problems

if it was just one or two then it would probably be their computers




ATI is not the issue completely either , my friends card is geforce and it has the same issues

[MaddyFF]

"ATI is not the issue completely either , my friends card is geforce and it has the same issues

What card and what version of drivers though?

[mgs316]

"So that card is like 4 generations old and playing fine, I'm not sure how you guys can be complaining about lag with 9800's etc."


perhaps because we are experiencing it?

maybe we should go get some old pos computers so we can run it smoothly too then?

most of us have computers that are beyond reqs to run the newer games at max graphics , and are having poor performance fromm this preview with it's lesser graphics


this indicates to me that there is an issue with the TOD engine, because too many people are having performance problems

if it was just one or two then it would probably be their computers




ATI is not the issue completely either , my friends card is geforce and it has the same issues

Oh I believe you, not making a judgement, just seems very odd.