Are the Special Effect Graphics more Demanding on MM with Demon Summoning?
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Fusion_7,
Posted on: 2010-05-14 19:40 in The Global Training Room Test Server
Hmm I have vista 32 bit and Geforce 220 GT and I have yet to have issues with ultra mode. I haven't played a DS much, plus I can only do so on test ATM
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Someone told me to post this thread here on the the Training Room Test Server as the Dev's might get around to viewing these. |
Originally Posted by Mattwo7
Hmm I have vista 32 bit and Geforce 220 GT and I have yet to have issues with ultra mode. I haven't played a DS much, plus I can only do so on test ATM
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If you read my post, I mentioned that only my MM with Demon Summoning seems to be boggy or slow while in mish'es (only in mish'es). Outside of mish'es all seems to be normal. This seemed much more prominent once my Demon Prince was established. I was advised to set-up a test server account and transfer my MM over to work out the bugs. My thoughts are that the Demons have more Special Effects than your normal type of pets and may be much more demanding on certain computers or graphic cards that can't handle these type of graphics, but and I say "but" this seems very unusual and unlikely because all my other toons, including my other MM with Bots/Traps, all seem to function very smooth with my current graphic settings.
I've never done this test server thing but if this will help the dev's look into this further then maybe I will do so.
Please post the output from running CoH Helper into a new reply here.
You may also want to post the output from a HiJackThis log.
Looking at your graphics settings, I'd recommend lowering the World Detail Level to High or Medium and lowering the Max Particle Count to 25050 for now. Also, you may want to try either disabling completely the Ambient Occlusion or lowering the settings a bit. Those should be a good starting point until the logs are posted.
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oh yea I think I did turn down world detail ...heh
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.
Has anyone else had this issue with their MM's with Demon Summoning?
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.