Massive lag on Trials; looking for suggestions


Dromio

 

Posted

Hello!

Recently I've been experiencing huge lag on the trials. Yesterday I may have discovered that it's only when I play my MM and have my pets out (Thugs/Poison), but I'm still testing (any thoughts on that are welcome). In the meantime I'm looking for any suggestions to help out with the lag.

I get lag almost entirely through each trial, with extreme lag (to the point of mapserver disconnects) in the escapee phase. Also, it seems like it gets worse the more I play. I'm a casual player trying to drink the trial kool-aid but this makes it very difficult.

- I use Soluto to monitor what's loading on my system at startup, and I don't run with anything in the background.
- Suppressclosefxdist is set to 99.
- I think Show Buffs is disabled.

Any suggestions would be welcome!

Thanks!



Here's my CoH helper info:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at June 12, 2011 11:15 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.110408-1633)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio XPS 435MT
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 3165MB out of 6135MB available
Page File: 8825MB (3442MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B2 ATA Device) 315278MB out of 595047MB (52%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B2 ATA Device) 7961MB out of 15359MB (51%) free
E Drive: (Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-7200S ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9442)
Video Memory: 3314 MB
Driver Version: 8.850.0.0
Driver Date: 4/19/2011 9:07:46 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5783
Driver Date: 2/24/2009 4:12:14 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5783
Driver Date: 2/24/2009 4:12:14 AM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5783
Driver Date: 2/24/2009 4:12:14 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0R849J
Motherboard Version: A01
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Default System BIOS
BIOS Version: DELL - 20090415
BIOS Release: 20090415000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1680x1050
3D Resolution: 1680x1050 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: High quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: High quality
Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality


Gamma Correction: 0.799
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 99.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.052
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 216039 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1950.201102230015.1
Installation Directory: C:\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texts\English\Menus has 6 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Cursors has 6 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 32 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files


 

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World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: High quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: High quality
Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality

I would start by lowering all your settings from very high to the lowest possible and slowly work back up till you find a sweet spot that your system can handle. I currently run at medium settings and it helped reduce the lag. I know shadows and environmental reflections were the ones dragging me down.


Keeping it Brutal !!!!!!!!

 

Posted

Nice rig you have there. It should do quite well on 24 person BAFs.

I think Hot's suggestion is a good place to start, lower gfx settings.


H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

 

Posted

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dromio View Post
.Net Memory Report: 3165MB out of 6135MB available
Page File: 8825MB (3442MB currently in use)
Is that with CoH running? Cause, that's *a lot* of memory usage.

CoH on UM should only be 2.5 GB running. And if gets to 3 GB, most everyone's client start going chuggy.



Please post the results of this:

  • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Is that with CoH running? Cause, that's *a lot* of memory usage.

CoH on UM should only be 2.5 GB running. And if gets to 3 GB, most everyone's client start going chuggy.



Please post the results of this:

  • HijackThis - it will show us what's running on your computer concurrently with CoH. Click on "Do a system Scan and save a logfile." It will automatically open up Notepad and put the info there. Make sure Wordwrap is off in Notepad (Format > Wordwrap unchecked) before you cut and paste here.
Cool, thanks for checking this over!

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MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.7600.16766)
Boot mode: Normal

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C:\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Users\Kirk\Desktop\HijackThis.exe

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