WAR (Warhammer Online)

So yeah, after looking at the system requirements for this game, I thought my PC would be able to run it at least on medium settings well enough, turns out that's not the case. I get low fps pretty much all the time at balanced settings on 1440x900. I only made animation high quality. If I'm in a capital citry forget it, game runs like a slide show and the same for any crowded area. Weird thing is, the game doesn't even look all that great, from a technical standpoint(I like the art style).

Games like EQ2, Lineage II, LOTRO, all looked far better(if artistically not as interesting), and yet I never have FPS issues on those games, even on high settings. WoW is also far from the best looking game out there, but at least it runs like a dream and the art work makes everything look nice and creative, if blocky. This strikes me as odd since I thought they needed the game to run well, because they want that whole large scale battle thing. Now my PC is admittedly old and not cutting edge, but it runs the games I mentioned well enough. Here are my specs again:

Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX 256MB
Pentium 4 3.4GHZ
2GB of RAM
Windows XP SP3

I checked System Requirements Lab and I pass it with flying colors and get similar reults that I do with Tabula Rasa, which also performs very well on my machine. Speaking of that site though, one thing I noticed was that for my Processor, it gives me some weird statistics. It says I have two CPUs running, and that I'm running at "3.40 GHz Performance Rated at 5.10 GHz". WTF?

Anyways, help me make this game playable, because I really do like it so far.

Bump?

There are people that are having unplayable conditions on top of the line hardware and then there are mid-low range rigs that can play it just fine. No one has been able to pin it down yet, but there are a ton of threads on the warhammeralliance.com support forums, you can try to see if your symptoms match someone else's.

www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/forumdisplay.php

I have a 6800nVidia, 2GB RAM, XP sp3, 3.8ghz P4 (3.5 yrs old) and this game is rough on my machine. Lowest settings at 1024 * 768 is the best I can do. On the other hand, my brother has a new gaming rig, and the game looks totally different and detailed. I'm just going to get a new rig myself.

Originally posted by CarpeNoctumX

 

So yeah, after looking at the system requirements for this game, I thought my PC would be able to run it at least on medium settings well enough, turns out that's not the case. I get low fps pretty much all the time at balanced settings on 1440x900. I only made animation high quality. If I'm in a capital citry forget it, game runs like a slide show and the same for any crowded area. Weird thing is, the game doesn't even look all that great, from a technical standpoint(I like the art style).

 

Games like EQ2, Lineage II, LOTRO, all looked far better(if artistically not as interesting), and yet I never have FPS issues on those games, even on high settings. WoW is also far from the best looking game out there, but at least it runs like a dream and the art work makes everything look nice and creative, if blocky. This strikes me as odd since I thought they needed the game to run well, because they want that whole large scale battle thing. Now my PC is admittedly old and not cutting edge, but it runs the games I mentioned well enough. Here are my specs again:

Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX 256MB
Pentium 4 3.4GHZ
2GB of RAM
Windows XP SP3

I checked System Requirements Lab and I pass it with flying colors and get similar reults that I do with Tabula Rasa, which also performs very well on my machine. Speaking of that site though, one thing I noticed was that for my Processor, it gives me some weird statistics. It says I have two CPUs running, and that I'm running at "3.40 GHz Performance Rated at 5.10 GHz". WTF?

Anyways, help me make this game playable, because I really do like it so far.

 

This PC should run the shit out of the WAR code... You would even run AoC on medium or highish setting with this Rig. In other word there is something very wrong or bugged when you need latest and greatest to run last decades graphics (namely WAR).

Hmm i wish i'd read these forums before buying.
 

Originally posted by Matt_UK

Hmm i wish i'd read these forums before buying.
 

I did, I checked a few forums actually, and all signs pointed me to the fact hat I would indeed be able to run the game just fine. This isn't Crysis, and there is no reason why a game that looks like this, stutters on my machine when I can run much better looking games no problem. Something might be wrong with my machine, I dunno, because when I checked www.systemrequirementslab.com, I almost max out  the bar, but it says I have two CPUs running(P4 3.4GHZ) at 5.10GHZ....WTF? Might be a problem at with the site but I would really just love to play this game, so I'l try anything. All my drivers are up to date too, by the way.

I will tell you as a Elder beta tester the game has had the same issues from very early beta. Us older testers got dropped all the time and had DLL and other issues ( i have  a high-end rig) and others with medium to low-end rigs. The worst of it came when they added the freaking piece of shit malware PunkBuster. PB has been known for years to cause all sorts of issues with FPS games and it never works anyhow.

We pissed and moaned about this being added to the core element of the game amongst other things and it didn't matter what us testers thought. Not to mention that we had no say in the class cuts either. That just happened and we were told to deal with it. This was not the beta communities idea for any of this garbage. I had tremendously high hopes for the game considering DAOC was one of my longest running games next to EQ.

Jacobs is one cocky bastard as well and I have lost all respect for him (the little that I actually did have). They had to rush the game out and cut massive corners because they did not want to delay the game again. Bad freaking move and now subscribers are paying for it. I am so disappointed as I once again have no MMO to play and I actually think I am about done with them anyhow. 16 years of the same old grind is enough.....

Originally posted by CarpeNoctumX

Originally posted by Matt_UK

Hmm i wish i'd read these forums before buying.
 

 

I did, I checked a few forums actually, and all signs pointed me to the fact hat I would indeed be able to run the game just fine. This isn't Crysis, and there is no reason why a game that looks like this, stutters on my machine when I can run much better looking games no problem. Something might be wrong with my machine, I dunno, because when I checked www.systemrequirementslab.com, I almost max out  the bar, but it says I have two CPUs running(P4 3.4GHZ) at 5.10GHZ....WTF? Might be a problem at with the site but I would really just love to play this game, so I'l try anything. All my drivers are up to date too, by the way.

WAR has massive FPS problems as AoC had in the beginning. The funny thing is that WAR is getting that with graphics that are a bit subpar. It could indicate that the game was a bit rushed (even though 75% of the content was cut over the last year) to get it out before WoWLK.... Let me know if you wanna have AoC buddykey (have one left) cause your Rig will even run a beast such as AoC very well.