Age of Conan

I have a Windows XP system with a Quad-core 2.4,4gigs of ram and a 8800GT. When usually get 50-130fps and in cities the fps never dip below 30. My connection is always around 100 so I doubt it's lag. Any idea on if I should upgrade the cpu? When I start out in new areas and start to run/walk I get 1-2sec studders like it's loading the content or something. Other then that the game runs perfect on High setting, I've tried to change the setting to med or even low but I still get the same little studders.

Originally posted by DragonOpt1

I have a Windows XP system with a Quad-core 2.4,4gigs of ram and a 8800GT. When usually get 50-130fps and in cities the fps never dip below 30. My connection is always around 100 so I doubt it's lag. Any idea on if I should upgrade the cpu? When I start out in new areas and start to run/walk I get 1-2sec studders like it's loading the content or something. Other then that the game runs perfect on High setting, I've tried to change the setting to med or even low but I still get the same little studders.

I think everyone stutters, I have a beast system with a quad core extreme, 4gb memory, and dual 8800GT cards.  I also have two 10k rpm raptor drives in a RAID array, - and I still get the stutter every once in a while.

Originally posted by tripmode

Originally posted by DragonOpt1

I have a Windows XP system with a Quad-core 2.4,4gigs of ram and a 8800GT. When usually get 50-130fps and in cities the fps never dip below 30. My connection is always around 100 so I doubt it's lag. Any idea on if I should upgrade the cpu? When I start out in new areas and start to run/walk I get 1-2sec studders like it's loading the content or something. Other then that the game runs perfect on High setting, I've tried to change the setting to med or even low but I still get the same little studders.

I think everyone stutters, I have a beast system with a quad core extreme, 4gb memory, and dual 8800GT cards.  I also have two 10k rpm raptor drives in a RAID array, - and I still get the stutter every once in a while.

This stutter is probably everything being swapped to memory or to your Cache file.  No amount of upgrading is going to get rid of it completely.  If you haven't already defragment your harddrive and that may help a little.

How much ram do you have? It just sounds like its storing to ram or something. Usually more can make it smooth out. I run 2gb and it runs pretty smooth sometimes it might stutter.

Hard drive specs? It's probably your HDD.

Well I would have to say it is your connection personally.  Don't get me wrong haveing a 100ms ping to a server is great if that ping is updated every second for you to view.  It is my experiance that the ping is taken at random times and then updated, an example of this is in WOW, I had many times when I played that game where it would pause then suddenly I would catch up to the game and my ping remained at a constant for the whole time.  But occasionally I would get this same type of problem and the ping would be updated rought the same time and show 700ms or higher but then 10-15 seconds after things normalized the ping would go back down to 90.

Remember your only as fast as your slowest connection, for you the slowest connection will be your ISP or the internet.

Good luck.

I have a  HITACHI - 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 16 MB BUFFER HARD DISK DRIVE

Originally posted by DragonOpt1

I have a Windows XP system with a Quad-core 2.4,4gigs of ram and a 8800GT. When usually get 50-130fps and in cities the fps never dip below 30. My connection is always around 100 so I doubt it's lag. Any idea on if I should upgrade the cpu? When I start out in new areas and start to run/walk I get 1-2sec studders like it's loading the content or something. Other then that the game runs perfect on High setting, I've tried to change the setting to med or even low but I still get the same little studders.

Your using a q6600 2.4 cpu, these are the most highly overclockable quad cores on the market. Its definitly not your cpu, but you should know that you can push that cpu well over 3ghz with just air cooling. Greater than 3.6ghz would require watercooling. You should definitly look into overclocking.

Originally posted by MasterPain55

 

Originally posted by DragonOpt1

I have a Windows XP system with a Quad-core 2.4,4gigs of ram and a 8800GT. When usually get 50-130fps and in cities the fps never dip below 30. My connection is always around 100 so I doubt it's lag. Any idea on if I should upgrade the cpu? When I start out in new areas and start to run/walk I get 1-2sec studders like it's loading the content or something. Other then that the game runs perfect on High setting, I've tried to change the setting to med or even low but I still get the same little studders.

 

Your using a q6600 2.4 cpu, these are the most highly overclockable quad cores on the market. Its definitly not your cpu, but you should know that you can push that cpu well over 3ghz with just air cooling. Greater than 3.6ghz would require watercooling. You should definitly look into overclocking.

True ... i have one myself .... yesterday i pushed it to 3.6Ghz by just upping the fsb and vcore voltage.

But from what i have seen, the studders are always accompanied by hdd activity ... even with my raptors in raid I have that issue.

Keep your disks defragged, and you could try completely disabling pagefile (windows will still use it though) ... with 4Gb ram you should be fine.