weird frame rate drops

[Cathos]

recently i've i have been experiencing some rather weird from rate drops ,nothing appears on the PLF counter but the frames per second on the screen drop and they only drop in some areas while playing camelot mostly runnnig up the hill in both towards to the castle in gothwaite and anywhere on the bridges in thidranki , when running up to the keep in thidranki the frame rate is unsanely bad, but the thing is the PLF meter is fine and it's not like usual frame rate drops this looks more like my character is skipping steps or constantly tripping over somthing as he runs near these areas but it's only just started this last few days.

i've tried virus scanning, adware, re-sizing my page file so it's bigger , lowering the graphics setting on my graphics card , i have the latest drivers for my graphics card and also tried changing setting within camelot i.e precaching ( i have never had it on ) i put it on and smae thing happens, i took of toa texturs/trees , lowered the refresh on the shiny water, still nothing.

any help would be most welcome

comp specs ( not the best , but this has never happened before )
1.5Ghz processor
1Gb DDR ram
radeon 9200se grpahics card
Windows XP Pro

 

[Sycho]

Open your pc case up and clean the gfx card fan, could be overheating since you lowered the settings which didn't help.Has any weird triangles or sparkles appeared on screen too?or just slows down a lot missing out animations on your character?

 

[Cathos]

afaik nothing appears on the screen except for dodgey run animations when in the those areas specified
my brother has also had those problem but he can't remeber how he got around it.

gonna turn off comp and clean the fan as you says and see how it goes

 

[Kelio]

im having the same problems, done everything in my power.

got the fps from ~20 to ~40 avarage, but still experince drops in certain areas.

oh and try joining a keep take with 1fps, its really really fun.

 

[Meza]

recently i've i have been experiencing some rather weird from rate drops ,nothing appears on the PLF counter but the frames per second on the screen drop and they only drop in some areas while playing camelot mostly runnnig up the hill in both towards to the castle in gothwaite and anywhere on the bridges in thidranki.

I´ve had the same problem.. all i did was change my GFX card with a new one and never happen after that again.. alltho ur GFX seems up to date and now a bad one either.. if nothing helps try raedon 9600 or higher


Meza

 

[Sycho]

Yep or radeon 9700 pro...they below £100 now.

 

[SniGlas]

did you guys find any sollution to this ? im having the same problem

1024 ram

amd 3000+

radeon 9600 256pro

only apperas when i turn towards the keep in thidranki

 

[Kalba]

I believe it's because the keeps are nowdays precached in the computer memory in other ways that in OF they were, so you lag "towards" them.

And keeptakes are laggy because of the huge number of data your comp has to go through, I believe.

 

[Light]

i am having the same probs - only seems to be in certain areas. No gfx options make any difference and the PLF meter shows no probs

its a real pain and same with toa or cata client

radeon 9800 pro

 

[Honza]

Strange all of you having this problem have Radeon card... Try some playing with Catalysts and their settings (you know ATI never learned how to make proper drivers). Also could be of help speedisk-ing your DAoC volume, putting swap file on separated volume (ie. let's say disk Z where only SWAP file is and nothing else - simulation of UNIX swap disk), further closing all possible software in background (try to turn off your antivirus for a minute, might be great cause of slowdowns when textures are loaded from disk)... erm.. running out of ideas... also try some 3D benchmarks for a while if it does something similar...

My personal bet would be Catalysts

 

[Fana]

Have the same problem in Thidranki, but nowhere else - i.e. i get the choppy gfx in a completly empty thid, but i have good fps and no choppiness in a crowded siege in normal rvr. Very weird and i cant figure out whats causing it. It isnt overheating anyway for me. Feels like there is some texture in Thid specifically that messes up the gfx somehow. Dont have the problem in other battlegrounds either.

Oh ye i also have a radeon card, 9800pro to be exact, using an older catalyst driver.

 

[Kaun_IA]

i use radeon X800 pro 2.24 gig P4, win xp pro, 768 ddr

i play on cata client and as far as i know dont have eny probs whit fps drops.

try getting then newest drivers, or sometimes the older ones help

 

[Devilseye]

got the same in thidranki.. no where else tho (well when daoc has to load enemy skins (when its 1fg+ or so) then my fps drops for a sec. but thats normal imo


try entering thidranki via HB ... fpsdrops to 20ish (from 120+)

then its normal again.. when you are near the first corner of CK.. fps drops again to 20 and back to 120.. and then its fine again ;?


(tho i'm running 2x catacombs client.. but as more ppl have it. i doubt its because of that)


Guess its just some bad coding/texture


(amd64 3700+ San Diego core, 1024mb (2x 512 dual channel) corsair (pc3200) and Geforce 6800 Ultra XFX 256mb)

 

[Honza]

Since problem showed up on nVidia cards too it can be old CS lag bug reborn..

 

[DeBaRmAn]

also got the same problem it's realy anoying !

also with an radeon9600


tryed all nothing helps

 

[Light]

anyone managed to sort this problem out?

have not been able to and its made Daoc unplayable

running Radeon 9800 Pro - was always fine until last patch

 

[Bluesky]

This is spooky - was browsing round the forums and found this post - the exact same prob has been happening to me teh last couple of days while ive been playing excal while prydwen has been down.

I run with fraps fps monitor running all the time on my pc (3700athy64 1meg cache, 1gig ddr400, x800xt-pe) which is a nice spec pc and has nps playing anything usually. Latest catalyst drivers and catacombs client.

My probs seems to be very similar to Devilseye posted above:

In thid i can leave the pk and run at a smooth 70+ or more fps rock solid stable and smooth - soon as i hit the alb bridge and LOOK at the CK i drop to 1fps - i turn left or right and look at the water my fps rise to something respectable (over 45 minimum usually even with lag and lots of enemies) and rock solid stable again then as soon as i turn towards the ck it drops to 1 again.

From the prob above it seems it maybe something related to a gfx prob with the ck - mebbe a flag or another static piece of scenery that may be causing the prob. I dont think its a server prob as other ppl in my group didnt experience it so im thinking its something related to my pc setup/drivers and something in the ck or an in-game texture.

Would love to know if anyone else has similar probs or has ideas about how to fix it as its annoying as hell.

 

[Shad]

i have tried Omegadriver for some time now (Based on Catalyst), works like a charm.

iam not having much lag at all and my system is not a super machine. read more here http://www.omegadrivers.net/

be sure to read install notes/read me files if you decide to try it out

 

[Light]

well i have found that running in full screen solved my problem .. have _always_ played windowed and its never been a problem - something in the last patch f00ked that for me

all my gfx settings back to full and no probs