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    Player
    Chumeia's Avatar
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    Mar 2011
    Location
    Fed. of Windurst
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    26
    Character
    Chumeia Messmer
    World
    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Black Mage Lv 54
    For what its worth, those of you on Vista or Windows 7 can add all kinds of nifty monitoring gadgets to your desktop. If you have multiple monitors this works great.

    I have one for GPU, System (cores/ram), Network, Hard Drive, weather and time. There are a pair of support programs that augment temp readouts and virtual memory by adding sensor kit software to the mix. So all in all I can see everything happening with out about 1 second lag from the sensors. Well all but Shader core and Video Ram... but that's another story.

    What I have observed with my i3-560 and ATI 4650, is that my Hard drive is generating allot of lag as I walk in town. In-fact in town the demand on the GPU drops to about 35%. The lobby server locked me out and I cannot login, I see 21% on a black screen. GPU @ 109 and fan 12%.

    Now aside from the issue a hard drive can cause when it has to keep pulling data to display the screen, so to can a network cause lag. Infact in many MMORPG the network cuases more lag than the hardware especialy when your in a buisy location.

    You can always turn down or off the graphics. But the network and HDD accesses are pretty much fixed for you.

    I agree a high end system should be able to brave the waters. Unfortunately its not as simple as get the best and win the battle. I have been through this with a Microsoft flight sim nut who refused to listen when our shop told him that his SLI was not able to handle his Flight Sim on High. We would fix the comp and he would call and complain that it didn't work and he was angry. We told him not to adjust the settings, which he always did because he believed the combined power should be more than enough to play the game on High. To bad, Microsoft Flight Sim... NOT COMPATIBLE with SLI.

    The lesson I want you to take is that just because you have the best there is doesn't make you a GOD. If it doesn't work, realize that there's a reason for this. It might be the Hard drive, it might be your network, it might even be the software is not yet fully compatible with your hardware. Take a breath. Quit the game. Reduce your settings. Enjoy the game like he rest of us, just for a little while. I am sure a patch will come soon enough and you can test out your power then.
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    Kohta's Avatar
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    Mar 2011
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    Gridania
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    Character
    Hana Song
    World
    Lamia
    Main Class
    Summoner Lv 70
    It might surprize you to know but it's a simple fix, you would think i wouldn't lag with my rig (below) but before i upgraded my Platter HDD to an SSD, it made a HUGE differance. The sluggish framerates were due to my HDD constantly looking for information as characters, PC/NPC were showing up as i was running/they were running to me, ever since i have had everything maxed with 60fps.

    Intel Core i7 2600k @ 5.1ghz - Noctua NH-D14
    4GB RipJaw 2133 7-8-7-16
    Dual Radeon HD 5970 O.C Core: 850 Mem: 1200
    120GB Corsair Force SSD R: 260MB/s | W: 270MB/s
    Corsair Professional 1200W

    Before i would run into Gridania or some camp with a hand full of people and i would have to come to a complete stop to let it catch up, i noticed early on that my HDD indicator was lit up contantly, my frames rates seemed to increase but a tad, when i say a tad, i mean the old HDD (7200rpm platter) made my frame rates dip from 60 solid to 30-45 for several seconds or until i stood still, it would continue to fall behind until it evetually stuttered, this was maxed out as well, now i can't even tell if someone is coming towards me and it's a nice change.

    1920x1080
    8xQ MSAA
    General Draw Quality: 10 (Highest)
    Background Drawing Quality: 5 (High)
    Shadow Detail: Highest
    Ambient Occlusion: On
    Depth of Field: On
    Texture Quality: High
    Texture Filtering: highest
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    Last edited by Kohta; 06-19-2011 at 04:16 PM.