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Post by Dewey on Mar 6, 2011 11:56:43 GMT -5
I'll say this right now: my computer is nowhere near state-of-the-art. It has 2GB memory, an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT video card, and an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Processor. I run the game on minimum settings and I play at about 20 FPS. Occasionally it'll drop down to 8-10 FPS when a large effect appears, but that doesn't happen very often.
For some reason in Zombie Apocalypse, once zombies start coming my frame rate drops down to about 4 FPS, and once it really gets going it's around 1 FPS. I don't know about you, but I can't play under these conditions. Does anyone else experience this problem? Does anyone have a fix for it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 14:38:14 GMT -5
I'll say this right now: my computer is nowhere near state-of-the-art. It has 2GB memory, an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT video card, and an AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Processor. I run the game on minimum settings and I play at about 20 FPS. Occasionally it'll drop down to 8-10 FPS when a large effect appears, but that doesn't happen very often. For some reason in Zombie Apocalypse, once zombies start coming my frame rate drops down to about 4 FPS, and once it really gets going it's around 1 FPS. I don't know about you, but I can't play under these conditions. Does anyone else experience this problem? Does anyone have a fix for it? If a computer were a set of lungs then CO would be similar to the effects of years of cigarette smoking. CO is hard on hardware and it's brutal on nvidia cards. I have to constantly keep two external fans cooling my tower case and two pointed directly at my computer's innards just to keep the cards from having a blue screen meltdown and I'm using two GeForce 9500 GTs. The stress this game puts on nvidia cards is horrid. I now have to keep the fans going constantly when playing older games like WoW or I risk a shutdown. While playing CO I don't get much of a framerate drop unless there are a lot of people gathered nearby or I'm in Lemuria.
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Post by Dewey on Mar 6, 2011 17:16:45 GMT -5
Hm, so Lemuria is bad? I haven't been there yet, and it sounds like I might not.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 17:56:55 GMT -5
Hm, so Lemuria is bad? I haven't been there yet, and it sounds like I might not. It's nowhere near as bad as it used to be but my problem isn't with the zone being laggy it's that my video cards go bonkers in that zone.
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Post by GammaBreaker on Mar 6, 2011 21:14:51 GMT -5
The snowfall in ZA was a major cause of framelag for people, but that bug was supposed to have been fixed.
That said, the GF 6800 is an antiquated card at this point, and as HG said, this game punishes nVidia cards. Lemuria isn't bad if you turn off underwater effects, though.
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Post by Dewey on Mar 7, 2011 10:09:50 GMT -5
I feel like the snow may be what is causing this lag. Is this there any way to disable just that effect? Maybe in the game resources? Or is that illegal?
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Post by GammaBreaker on Mar 8, 2011 12:25:05 GMT -5
While I don't think that Cryptic particularly watches for altered game resources, it may well break your game to tamper with that effect. Their systems seem to be all intricately linked, where one tweak can cause a cascade of other changes.
As for disabling it, I'm not sure what would cut it out. Possibly particle effects? If you're really desperate, you can flip on Half Resolution for ZA. The game will look terrible, but it should run better.
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Post by Dewey on Mar 8, 2011 16:18:34 GMT -5
The funny thing is, I used to play at half-resolution all the time. The game looked like crap and I was constantly around 17-18 FPS. I turned half-resolution off and my frame rate increased significantly at times. I'm not sure what the deal is. Maybe half-resolution is bugged?
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Post by GammaBreaker on Mar 9, 2011 17:15:49 GMT -5
I'd be genuinely shocked if Half Resolution ever caused any loss of performance, given that it's effectively rendering the game at half the normal size and then stretching it out (making an ugly, but easy to render picture). There's a special command (which I don't recommend you use) to increase the rendering scale rather than decrease it, which is nice for high-def screenshots but cripples performance.
If you really want to identify the issue, there is the Safe Mode option in the launcher. Before starting the game, in the launcher Options, there's a checkbox for safe mode that will turn all the game settings to the bare minimum. You can then turn the game on and adjust the settings one at a time to see which ones have the greatest impact on your game.
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