FrameRate Crash on Leagues

Wondering if I am alone in this bizarrely persistent issue.

I normally get 45-70 FPS, depending on how many players are visible on my screen (it can drop lower if it gets busy). But when I get on a League, especially a big one, and the fur really starts to fly...my FPS crashes to <1, hovering in the .6-.8 range, and then magically restores at random points (FPS does kinda suck in general when on a league, down to 5-12 FPS).

I just recently came back to the game after a long hiatus, caught the tail end of I19 and the launch of I20.

I do not recall having these issues before I20 and the advent of leagues.

I first recall it happening on a Hamidon raid with a very large league... though at that time I did not understand the specific symptoms that I now do.

I have been working with support on this issue for almost 2 months, and nothing has worked or worked for long to resolve the issue.

I don't have my exact system specs here, but a quick rundown:
quad core AMD maybe 3ghz?
6gb RAM (used to be 8 but one of them turned bad on me)
Win7 64bit Home Premium
BFG Nvidia gtx260 with 1gb
2 SATA drives, one for Windows one with most everything else

In working to resolve this issue these things have been tried:
updated drivers for everything possible
double checked chat logging (its off)
removed combat msgs from in game chat tabs
gfx at lowest possible settings and everything in between
turned off sound
disabled sound card altogether
defragged hard drives
uninstall game client and reinstall
exclude COH from MSE scanning
totally kill MSE process while running game
tried different video card
bought new power supply

Running out of options on things to try, and running out of patience. Its getting worse... this never happened before on a Lambda run, and it happened just the other night post patch (might be relevant, might not be relevant).

The latest thing support has asked for and that I supplied last night was a screenshot of memory resources while the game was running (during the surge on Pinnacle, with my frame rate totally tanked).

It didn't show much... COH was using 1.4-1.6 GB of physical memory... there wasn't much left over, but the PF wasn't really doing much at the same time.

Ideas, suggestions, commiserations, other victims of this?

One thing helped me a little. Leandro came up with it. i am really bad at linking forum posts though. Here it is in a nutshell I saved though:

bugged pohsyb about this for quite a while during Issue 12 beta, and this led to the "Hide Buff Numbers" option. In case you don't know about it, it's located in the General settings, and prevents the game from sending you the buff numbers, or any buff data at all.

See, the option is available in 3 locations: "Status Window" (the panel under your own health and endurance), "Group Window" (for teams) and "Pet Window". By default, the League window still transfers all the buff data and numbers to your client, and there's no way to disable it.

Originally Posted by Avatea
User Interface
• The option to hide buff numbers will now function at the league level.

For the first time i was willing to try the Lambda warehouse after this. It wasnt great, still lagging, walking into walls, but it was better. Big teams still see lag though. Not sure if it will help, but Leandro is a clever fellow, worth a try.

With 3 ram sticks that equal 2gb each are you sure you're running in Dual Channel mode?

Please research DUAL CHANNEL mode for your motherboard and ram.
Example:
If I have 4 sticks of ram that equal 1GB stick each/individually and one goes bad I surely will have 3GB left. Although most pcs will run the 3GB in single channel mode. However, if I remove one more and now use 2 sticks I'll have 2GB in DUAL CHANNEL mode which will raise my FPS considerably in games. WHICH WILL BE SUPERIOR to the 3GB
Matching sticks and the correct DIMM slots are they KEYS to running in channel modes correctly.
Good luck

There is one issue with lag for me in BAF. The 'Escapee' part.. Other than that I do not suffer from LEAGUE LAG- even w/ most Ultra enabled w/ a 24" monitor

I did 3 trials this weekend. Thankfully I am done until 20.5 and the new mish tortures my poor old comp. I cannot run the warehouse in Lambda without crashing 90% time. When i am in the warehouse I have rubberbanding, and if I try to change direction it is like steering a cruise ship. After a long lag the character will start to turn. makes moving in there impossible. I also experience random crashes anywhere in the Lambda. I crashed during both Lambdas this weekend. Got my emps, one common, one thread. Rare on the BAF, altho the team seemed to be doing horrid. Anyways, the Lambda hates my comp. I do not expect they will ever fix it. (see Valley of Lag in the ITF for my reasoning) If your comp hates the Lambda, I doubt there is anything you can do. From my experience, once they publish a mission/task force on live, that is it. They may change it years later, like the Posi, but do not expect running tweaks. A new comp may help you, but as was pointed out further up in the post, it may not. The Lambda was written by somebody with a custom machine sitting 15 feet from the game mainframe on a hard connection. It was never tested for the issues that we are seeing live. My advice? Do what I do, get the incarnate experience that you need (maybe 10-12 torurous Lambdas?) to open both slots, and then run BAFs. The problem for me is less sever on a BAF. Heck, the 16 person BAFs are almost cool, if repetitiously boring as heck. If you are having this problem on BAFs? ach, to think there is someone out there suffering through the trials with a worse comp problem than me. I am very sorry. Our only hope is that in writing the new mission for 20.5 they looked at these issues that have come up on the i20 content, and corrected for that. AND that we can get rewards thru the new mission so as to avoid doing the Lambda which is not written as well.

My problems are not the same as yours Blue Centurion.. though I commiserate.

I spoke to the lead Alien and he recommends that you upppercut yourself and take that 3rd memory stick and melt it down into an aluminum hat to wear immediately.
This will solve all your problems.. Simple fix.