So I've been noticing lately that when I use AoE attacks or debuffs and hit any number of mobs my FPS drops down from about 60 to 10> for a second or five which can be extremely annoying and kinda dangerous when I'm trying to click my self heal at 2 FPS :P.
My computer should easily handle the game at max settings and I haven't noticed any similar problems in other games or while doing other things in CoH, I've tried updating my drivers and I've tried running the game in safe mode on various characters but no results yet. I figured I would check here and see if anyone has run into similar problems before I contact support. I upgraded to Windows 7 around the time it came out but I just started seeing the problem and I've done no other upgrades or changes to my computer recently.
The FPS drop varies from mob to mob and doesn't seem to depend on any particular variables, sometimes it just gets really choppy for a second and sometimes it goes on for 5 seconds straight, doesn't get worse over time so it doesn't look like a leak anywhere. Both my CPU and GFX card are running at normal temperatures, neither one is under heavy load and no other programs I run at the same time get any lag at all.
Specs are as follows:
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4 GB DDR2
GeForce GTX 285
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Any help appreciated!
Update: after further testing it appears the problem only exists on some characters. When I initially tested it I tried 3 different characters, one brute, one blaster and one rad defender. All three of these had massive lag when using AoEs of any type on anything, when I later tested a lower level brute there wasn't even a hint of lag. Same goes for another lvl 50 blaster and a lvl 50 empathy defender. Now I'm going through my characters finding the playable ones.
So I've been noticing lately that when I use AoE attacks or debuffs and hit any number of mobs my FPS drops down from about 60 to 10> for a second or five which can be extremely annoying and kinda dangerous when I'm trying to click my self heal at 2 FPS :P.
My computer should easily handle the game at max settings and I haven't noticed any similar problems in other games or while doing other things in CoH, I've tried updating my drivers and I've tried running the game in safe mode on various characters but no results yet. I figured I would check here and see if anyone has run into similar problems before I contact support. I upgraded to Windows 7 around the time it came out but I just started seeing the problem and I've done no other upgrades or changes to my computer recently.
The FPS drop varies from mob to mob and doesn't seem to depend on any particular variables, sometimes it just gets really choppy for a second and sometimes it goes on for 5 seconds straight, doesn't get worse over time so it doesn't look like a leak anywhere. Both my CPU and GFX card are running at normal temperatures, neither one is under heavy load and no other programs I run at the same time get any lag at all.
Specs are as follows:
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
4 GB DDR2
GeForce GTX 285
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Any help appreciated!
Update: after further testing it appears the problem only exists on some characters. When I initially tested it I tried 3 different characters, one brute, one blaster and one rad defender. All three of these had massive lag when using AoEs of any type on anything, when I later tested a lower level brute there wasn't even a hint of lag. Same goes for another lvl 50 blaster and a lvl 50 empathy defender. Now I'm going through my characters finding the playable ones.