Age of Conan

I gotta interject here as I have been in PVP weekend and open beta.
My System:
INtel 6850 (3Ghz)
2GB ram DDR2
EVGA 8800GTS (G92)
500Gb H/D
64 bit OS

and in cities the FPS drop to 13-20fps at medium. Out in the wild 75FPS all day.

I'm gonna need more ram for in cities but don't plan to live my existence in AoC there, just to make the game a bit more enjoyable. The game looks amazing but in cities its turning my HD into memory and slows down to slide show quality.

Just be cautious of what you get if you got the opportunity to buy 4 Gig of ram and your OS will allow get it on one shipping charge.

It may just be the extreme amount of detail in the cities, so ram may not help as much as you think it will however Ram is so cheap right now I wouldnt see a reason not to get 4gigs if it does help at all.

Well, your HDD is kinda large which might slow you down for loading but its probably more like you are weighing your system down with other horseshite. If people knew how to keep their system clean they would probably get a 50% performance increase. Learn to run a clean system, I run this with an -average- of 45 fps with graphics maxed (never going below 20).

Windows XP 32bit

Intel E6750

Geforce 512MB 8800GT

2 GB RAM

4 GBs of RAM isn't needed quite yet unless youll be multi-tasking a media editing program or something else processor/RAM heavy while you play and MMO. Even then you should be fine esp with a dual core processor.

Another possibility is depending on what your motherboard is you could put yourself in a bottleneck if you dont know your way around a PC.

Hell it could even be your system getting too hot or perhaps your power supply isnt pumping enough power for your GPU to stress itself. So many possibilities although I find the most common is an unclean OS.

Once they patch up all the memory leaks, 2 gigs shouldn't be a problem at all. I balance out at 80% of 2 gigs, but it creeps up slowly to 98% as I go to 6+ diffrent zones. It doesn't seem to clear all the old memory for zones you have left.

well you are running a 64bit os so I would recommend 4gb RAM but also when was the last time you defragged?keep your system clean and running well

You may know this already but I do the following:

* Check your startup menu and switch off all the crap applications like MSN messenger, Quicktime etc.  Easier still just go to 'Run' and 'MSCONFIG'.  See what your PC starts up with and shut all non essential items down.

Use a program like:

* CCleaner (Free I think) or PC Optimizer (not free) They scan your system and clear out a lot of junk and fix registry errors

Seriously clear out all the crap on your HDD.  If you have loads of games installed, uninstall the less played ones and keep the save files.  Backup all your photos etc to disk and delete from HDD.  Scan and Defrag.

Install a Ram freeing XP program like 'FreeXPRAM' if you have this in the background it will constantly try and free up Ram for you. 

It will definitely help if you do the above. 

Or if you have cash do what I do and buy a fast HDD and just use that for games and nothing else. 

If you really want to improve gameplay, get rid of vista.  You need 4 gigs with that beast running.  2 gigs on XP runs great. 

Vista is not the problem, I run Vista and it runs fine. As seen below I have only 2gb, it runs around 60fps at full settings constantly. But it does drop to around 20-30 FPS in towns, mostly it pops back and forth so causes a "jerkiness" which I assume is a issue with the game mostly. I keep my HDD cleaned out, and defrag regularly, I actually noticed a 5fps jump after a defrag. But I am going to be buying another 2gb of RAM here before AoC comes out to get the most out of it. Also one day I will probably by a faster HDD.

Originally posted by Kaze

I gotta interject here as I have been in PVP weekend and open beta.
My System:
INtel 6850 (3Ghz)
2GB ram DDR2
EVGA 8800GTS (G92)
500Gb H/D
64 bit OS

and in cities the FPS drop to 13-20fps at medium. Out in the wild 75FPS all day.

I'm gonna need more ram for in cities but don't plan to live my existence in AoC there, just to make the game a bit more enjoyable. The game looks amazing but in cities its turning my HD into memory and slows down to slide show quality.

Just be cautious of what you get if you got the opportunity to buy 4 Gig of ram and your OS will allow get it on one shipping charge.

With a system like that you can afford $40 for more ram.

Originally posted by Kaze

I gotta interject here as I have been in PVP weekend and open beta.
My System:
INtel 6850 (3Ghz)
2GB ram DDR2
EVGA 8800GTS (G92)
500Gb H/D
64 bit OS

and in cities the FPS drop to 13-20fps at medium. Out in the wild 75FPS all day.

I'm gonna need more ram for in cities but don't plan to live my existence in AoC there, just to make the game a bit more enjoyable. The game looks amazing but in cities its turning my HD into memory and slows down to slide show quality.

Just be cautious of what you get if you got the opportunity to buy 4 Gig of ram and your OS will allow get it on one shipping charge.

What about your page file, using a USB drive or dedicate HD?

I've heard from a few people that they had less performance with the Open Beta client then they did whith the one they're still bound to the NDA with.