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Are the Special Effect Graphics more Demanding on MM's with Demon Summoning?

Fusion_7

By Fusion_7,
Posted on: 2010-05-13 19:29 in Masterminds

 

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So when i17 went live, I was having zero issues with the graphics. In fact, I was able to crank up most of these as seen below without any type of lagging, freezing or jittery frame rates. Now here comes the perplexing issue. The past few days when playing my level 27 MM with Demon/Trck Arrows, being that I had all my pets active, my Prince, Demons and Demonlings, I was running mish'es at +1/+2, it appears that I am getting some major freezing and lagging while in mish'es. This only happens in mish'es. I thought that this cannot be right. So this morning, I dropped my MM down to +1/+1. This helped a bit but still a little bit of minor freezing and lagging.

Now I know what you're probably thinking. You probably think "well I got a slow operating system and thus cannot handle the Ultra Mode Graphics". This is what I'm currently running:

Gateway Computer, approx 5 years old, Model GX7018E.
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 630 w/Hyper-Threading Technology
Chipset: Intel 915G
Memory: I upgraded to 3GB of RAM as I am running Windows XP and the max is 3GB of RAM for this.
Video Graphics: Upgraded to Nvida GeForce 9600GT 512MB OC Graphics Card
Hard Drive: 250 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA hard drive

Soooo, with that being said, I started to experiment and see if all my other toons were suddenly effected. I say suddenly because this was never an issue before when i17 uploaded. I decided to test out my other MM a level 50 Bots/Traps. I already had her set at +1/+8 yes, you read that right +8. I went to battle this morning and had no problems what-so-ever. No lagging, no freezing, no jittery frame rates. Smooth as silk! I immediately logged into my other MM with Demon Summoning, and that freezing and lagging as I mentioned earlier was more apparent. I tested all my other toons and had no lagging issues, freezing or jittery frames rates while in mish'es or while flying around in different zones.

I thought that by playing with my Ultra Mode graphics all turned down to their minimum levels might help, it really didn't much. I have not turned it off completely though I may have to unless I can figure it out. I would really hate to not play my MM with Demon Summoning less just because I am having extending graphics issues all of a sudden. Again, this was not an issue until I got my last pet and not sure if there is something here "special effects" wise that is causing this? Below I took a snap shot of what I am currently set at on my graphics. Me thinks "A", this might be an issue when all MM Demon Pets are active, or "B" my graphics card just can't handle it when all my pets are active in mish'es being that maybe these guys produce more bells and whistles on the special effects side unlike the other MM sets. I hope it isn't "B" but should I need to turn off my Ultra Mode while playing just this "one" toon, then I might have to. Has anyone else had this issue with their MM's with Demon Summoning?






 

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As of today, there are more fixes up on the test server for both lag and sound issues. It would probably be better if you posted this on the Test Server forum. And logged into Test to try the latest PTS build.

 

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Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
As of today, there are more fixes up on the test server for both lag and sound issues. It would probably be better if you posted this on the Test Server forum. And logged into Test to try the latest PTS build.
Are you talking about the Training Room Test Server? If so, I've never logged into that so what are the exact steps to do so? Also, would that be the spot to posts this (Training Room Test Server) as you suggested as the dev's would probably view this more readily? Thanks.