Poor/Terrible performance over time

[loligager 0]

Hi there, I'm "running" on a

AMD Phenom II X6 3.20 Ghz

2GB RAM

nvidia Geforce GT 220

All on windows 7.

The issue is that whenever I play it seems to rn great at first but then over time my FPS deteriorates until It is unplayable and there it stays. I COULD be that I am just heading in to more difficult to run areas (towns) over time but I swear there is something else going on. I have fiddles with all the video settings (I have a pretty good knowledge of what all of them do) and gone in to my task manager to set the process priority to high, yet no matter what I do I cant seem to be able to get it to run well consistently. It seems like my PC should be able to run this game well but maybe I'm wrong :/ hope somebody can help I have really enjoyed what I have played so far.

Thanks in advance -loligager

[Blossomycrowd 1]

Does this happens on different server?

[Zeppa 562]

I think that is related to servers, tends to happen for me too on some servers...

I think its because objects spawned on the server over time gets fps to drop etc or bandwith get split due many players or so...

Some servers tend to be low on fps from the second you join and some of them are unplayable (~10fps)

note that if you set your game priority to high it may take resources from windows applications and that may result poor gaming performance. I recommended just to leave all to normal, your system should able to run the game without fooling around. I bet the problem lays with the game structure(engine) and mod build.

Edited August 26, 2012 by Zeppa

[hazedaze 89]

your gpu - gt220 is a terrible video card. its probably choking after some time.

[loligager 0]

It seems to happen over all servers,,, I hope its not my GPU :c

[Zeppa 562]

If it would be an GPU issue you would have it most likely from the start...unless..

Do you play with lowest settings, might try that tho (to easy the work for the gpu)... download afterburner etc software to monitor your GPU(usage, temp, clocks). One option is that it get overheated and protection starts lowering clocks to decrease amount of heat its giving out. Check that data and see if you need better cooling and/or GPU

It seems weird that you have this on all servers, I have noticed (even yesterday) that server I was on does that. At morning it was all good 50-60fps. Over the day it had dropped to ~30fps and at evening it was at 10fps and unplayable when I tried, weird tho that after server restart is stayed that way.. everytime there was like 10 players online. To me that sound somekind of networking issue. Seems that some ppl can play on that kindof server with no problems(looking the players ingame) so it could be somesort of local issue.

OR the server gets growded with object etc and those wont "flush" upon the restart.

[2str0ng4u 2]

yea like everyone is saying is the servers same with me. I got amd phenom ii x4 3.0 ghz, hd 6850, 4 gb ram and on some server i run at 50-60 fps and some i run at 10-15 it sucks on how the game isnt very optimized :P