The optimization.

The graphics are so so, the animations are weak, then why the hell does it lag like crap whenever there are 50 people on my screen?

I have a high end computer, can't imagine how it is for those with less luck, but sieges are almost unplayable, and I see no reason for that to be honest.

From what I hear it random on peopels machines.. a mix of hardware, OS, memory. a combo of al lthat that can cause problems.

Two peopel with similar specs seem to get different performance.. greatly.

I woudl assume running XP with 2 gigs of ram, 512 meg video card, shoudl perform quite well  as long as you have a 2.3ghz Duo Core or 3800+ processor

latest Direct X, Sound Video and Mother board drivers

No doubt, what is up with the lag and low rez. I have no problem with low rez as long as it runs well keeps me involved but it is not. I left Eve because of game stopping lag I hope that dosen't happen with WAR. Why invest all that time,effort and money for RvR and when you play in large battles the client freezes for multiple seconds and only comes back at the respawn screen. I hope DF dosen't have that problem but probably will.

Are you running the game off of the Beta Client?

If so reinstall it with the game disks.

If not, take your View Distance and switch it to the minimum. I have a high end machine and upon reducing the VD and leaving everything maxed out (as well as forced AA) I run very smoothly.

When I run on max settings with the view distance maxed it stutters upon having 50+ people in view.

(Dual-core 3.33, 9800gx2, 4gig)

Running the beta client is going to get you worse graphics and more lag.

Install the final release disc you have asap, it offers a huge improvement on smoothness and graphics, at least from what i can tell.

My specs suck and I dont have any issues with lag except when my connection gets slow; and obviously Mythic cant do anything about that... damn Optium Online...damn them.

Originally posted by crunchyblack

 

 

 

Running the beta client is going to get you worse graphics and more lag.

Install the final release disc you have asap, it offers a huge improvement on smoothness and graphics, at least from what i can tell.

I downloaded mine from D2D and I think it was still the beta client. I figured you could patch to the retail client but I could be wrong.   I just checked D2D and the download is 10.97gigs and the beta download was 9.3.  Im going to download this one and do a reinstall and see if I notice anything different.  Im getting good performance as is but hopefully I'll get better with this.

I'm running from the beta client and have absolutely no lag whatsoever. Only using a core 2 duo 2.1ghz 4gigs ram 8800gt on vista. Always used high res and no matter the people, it runs the same for me.

Haven't really heard that about the beta client to discs you get. I just patched and worked perfectly.

Originally posted by Vynt

I'm running from the beta client and have absolutely no lag whatsoever. Only using a core 2 duo 2.1ghz 4gigs ram 8800gt on vista. Always used high res and no matter the people, it runs the same for me.

Haven't really heard that about the beta client to discs you get. I just patched and worked perfectly.

Hmm... could be RAM then?

I got  4 gigs but i'm still on the old XP (don't ask...) which adreses up to 2.5 gigs. I noticed game stuttering and lagging during keep sieges at say 50-100 people in near vicinity.

That could be the thing imo. I'll try to find an upgrade to XP 64 bit soon and see whats the performance then (sorry, but there's no way in hell I'll let vista on my pc).

Lol, that would be something if war required 4 gigs to run smoothly all the way.. Thankfully RAM is dirt-cheap nowadays but still, 4 gigs is a lot.

Oh and btw, this talk of beta client.. Does this apply to open beta or just the old beta one? If it does I'll reinstall from disks and see what's the score.

Something changed, for the worse, with a patch during the head start. The second to the last day of open beta, there was a brief period where the only server up was a new Open PvR server. People flooded the server and there ware well over a hundred people running around the initial spawn point when I got in. There was absolutely no hitching or visual lag, at all. I was incredibly impressed and thought it bode very well for massive RvR in retail.

Since launch, I've had hitching and visual lag problems, with world RVR somethimes having severe problems (though Scenarios seem to be fine all around).

I hope EA didn't inject some BS into the mix. Since launch, I also sometimes get a "disk not found" error when I quit out of the game. WAR never had that issue before launch. This has me wondering if some botched EA anti-cheat, anti piracy stuff is now floating around in the game?

My specs:

Q6600 3,0 GHz

4 GB DDR2 800MHz Ram

2x WD raptors, 1 just for the games i might run

8800 GTS 640MB

Playing at 1920*1200, I have no issues in BGs, none at all, but whenever I get to a siege in T2, specially on the stairs and the second floor, my PC lags like hell, I have to go to the balcony just so I can have a good chance to target properly and heal.

Will try to install the disc stuff and tell you if it works, since yes, I was playing with the beta's client.

This game runs good for me.

Originally posted by Ephimero

My specs:

Q6600 3,0 GHz

4 GB DDR2 800MHz Ram

2x WD raptors, 1 just for the games i might run

8800 GTS 640MB

Playing at 1920*1200, I have no issues in BGs, none at all, but whenever I get to a siege in T2, specially on the stairs and the second floor, my PC lags like hell, I have to go to the balcony just so I can have a good chance to target properly and heal.

Will try to install the disc stuff and tell you if it works, since yes, I was playing with the beta's client.

I had exactly the same problem last night (you playing on Karak-Norn? :) )

Anyways I have a comparable machine but the game did start stuttering and lagging during the keep fight in the empire zone and it got progressively worse.. and not always dependent on numbers of players around.

No.. come to think of it when I ressed framerate was noticably down even in the warcamp.. Hmm this smells like a memory leak in the empire keep area.

And the stairs are bad that's true.. could be that's a mini-zone boundary or something.

Anyway do tell is it any better after reinstalling from discs. My current version is patched up open beta as well.

When the game is loading stuff from the HDD it stutters (a little), experienced this some times now in large battles. Once everyone is in memory and on screen it runs smooth as silk. I have this "problem" with about any MMO that features large groups, harddisk is bottleneck when a game only uses a small amount of RAM (like WAR only 1 GB), you can play on a NASA rig and this would happen... to a lesser extent, but still

Specs: E8400 @3,2 Ghz, 4 gig RAM, GTX280 1gig VRAM

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op u can get a bit of more ram and make a ramdisk and put all client on ram disk
u can use this software http://www.superspeed.com/download/trialversions.php

a application from M$ to redirect folder s http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

Is the game free?

It probably has something to do with your PC waiting for the Server response to know where to put what where graphics wise so that'll reduce your framerate.

Originally posted by repapips

Is the game free?

Seriously,  you've posted  this several time now, Spammer.

Originally posted by Ephimero

My specs:

Q6600 3,0 GHz

4 GB DDR2 800MHz Ram

2x WD raptors, 1 just for the games i might run

8800 GTS 640MB

Playing at 1920*1200, I have no issues in BGs, none at all, but whenever I get to a siege in T2, specially on the stairs and the second floor, my PC lags like hell, I have to go to the balcony just so I can have a good chance to target properly and heal.

Will try to install the disc stuff and tell you if it works, since yes, I was playing with the beta's client.

I dont think there is any difference between beta and release client.

Now i have very similar PC. I run everything on max and have no lag at all. Except perhaps 1-2 seccond stuttering when entering completely new area.

Still the game is memory hog. It will take up to 1.5GB memory easily. And there are some areas in game that are less optimised and slow down performance. This is probably what you are experiencing.

Also it is good idea to

1. Defragment the HD , including system one

2. Not run any programms in background

I dont have a high end machine, but it is high enough (9800 gtx, 4gb ram, etc), and Ive huge problems in scenarios already

ok what do you consider "problems"? Occasional hiccuping? you can not prevent your PC from doing these, even with the most high end rig imaginable.

Or are we talking about serious problems like heavy loading lag. If someone with a multicore, 4 gig, 9800gtx rig is experiencing heavy loading lag, it's certainly not the game, it's something wrong with the system.

Mythic stated that GFX-card and CPU are the most important components for this game. RAM is not that important as it is utilized up to 1 gig on XP and 2 gig on vista.

Also, keep in mind, smooth framerate drops in a situation where nothing new is loaded are usually GPU correlated, whereas lagspikes with 2, 3 seconds of loading time followed by relatively smooth gameplay are usually CPU or VRAM related. A occassional loading skip of some sort when many new objects are loaded are common on any rig, after all, the information of the game is on the harddisk, and a harddisk is slow. Always.

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