In the last couple of Issue releases, I have had to start decreasing my GFX settings before doing any missions/TF/SF/Trials that contain outdoor maps. Anything that requires teaming or leaguing often causes me to crash, where as prior to i20 I had no issues at all on outdoor maps, teamed or solo. Even dropping my GFX settings does not completely prevent crashing. Soloing on outdoor maps causes power activation and animation lag spikes.
Now I've also noticed whilst on these outdoor maps, quite often the audio will start crash looping. It's worse on iTrials, but I've also experienced it when soloing on my MM. In fact most of my iTrial / TF crashes had audio crash loops just before the inevitable happened, usually just as I had activated Howling Twilight on a vast number of mobs, or any other AoE that amplifies its sound when more mobs are hit.
I get the feeling that it's the audio that is causing the huge lag spikes, random crashes etc on outdoor maps rather than gfx.
In the last couple of Issue releases, I have had to start decreasing my GFX settings before doing any missions/TF/SF/Trials that contain outdoor maps. Anything that requires teaming or leaguing often causes me to crash, where as prior to i20 I had no issues at all on outdoor maps, teamed or solo. Even dropping my GFX settings does not completely prevent crashing. Soloing on outdoor maps causes power activation and animation lag spikes.
Now I've also noticed whilst on these outdoor maps, quite often the audio will start crash looping. It's worse on iTrials, but I've also experienced it when soloing on my MM. In fact most of my iTrial / TF crashes had audio crash loops just before the inevitable happened, usually just as I had activated Howling Twilight on a vast number of mobs, or any other AoE that amplifies its sound when more mobs are hit.
I get the feeling that it's the audio that is causing the huge lag spikes, random crashes etc on outdoor maps rather than gfx.
btw my audio card is an ASUS Xonar DS
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