Choppy graphics in crowded MMO areas
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:22 am
I've been mmo gaming for a long time and I have this problem with every single online game.
When I get into a crowded area.. my smooth rendoring turns turn into jumpy glitchy choppy turns. I used to think it was my outdated computers but now that I have finally built a monster, I'm still getting video lag spikes around crowdes of other people!
Here's my specs as reference:
Windows 7 home premium
i7 920 (not overclocked) on a P6T V.2
Harddrive: Velicoraptor
Gcards: SLI 512mb geforce 250 superclocked cards
Ram: 6gb OCZ running at 1666 correctly timed
Sound: Onboard
Ethernet: Onboard
I do weekly maintenance with ccleaner and MyDefrag, and its a pretty clean install. maybe 30 gb used of the whole drive. Everytime I'm done with a game.. I uninstall, (and after installs) run the ccleaner, and then the mydefrag. I'm a fanatic about keeping my Pc in tip top health. All the drivers are up to date, including nvidia.
So, I bought this new Star Trek mmo to test it out... And as soon as I enter a space dock with other PEOPLE.. not other peoples SHIPS, it starts to get jumpy again. I'm fine by myself. The graphics in that game arent like real high end or anything. I thought about getting one of those expensive ethernet cards but was told that those wouldn't really make a difference unless its put on a older PC in some conditions. My Ethernet line is 6mb, and I did a speed test and its 5mb down and 800 up.
It's the same in Aion, Conan, FFXI, WoW, (not Eve) Planetside(very old) and now STO. Crysis on high graphics is beautiful, Bioshock is too. There is one advantage... On Crysis online my framerate always jumps like one click when a enemy is near by, so its like a heads up when it chops
What can I do to stop the choppy framerate in MMO user crowded areas? Any ideas or tips greatly appreciated! Thanks
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PS, this form I am typing on keeps scrolling to the top with every keystroke.
When I get into a crowded area.. my smooth rendoring turns turn into jumpy glitchy choppy turns. I used to think it was my outdated computers but now that I have finally built a monster, I'm still getting video lag spikes around crowdes of other people!
Here's my specs as reference:
Windows 7 home premium
i7 920 (not overclocked) on a P6T V.2
Harddrive: Velicoraptor
Gcards: SLI 512mb geforce 250 superclocked cards
Ram: 6gb OCZ running at 1666 correctly timed
Sound: Onboard
Ethernet: Onboard
I do weekly maintenance with ccleaner and MyDefrag, and its a pretty clean install. maybe 30 gb used of the whole drive. Everytime I'm done with a game.. I uninstall, (and after installs) run the ccleaner, and then the mydefrag. I'm a fanatic about keeping my Pc in tip top health. All the drivers are up to date, including nvidia.
So, I bought this new Star Trek mmo to test it out... And as soon as I enter a space dock with other PEOPLE.. not other peoples SHIPS, it starts to get jumpy again. I'm fine by myself. The graphics in that game arent like real high end or anything. I thought about getting one of those expensive ethernet cards but was told that those wouldn't really make a difference unless its put on a older PC in some conditions. My Ethernet line is 6mb, and I did a speed test and its 5mb down and 800 up.
It's the same in Aion, Conan, FFXI, WoW, (not Eve) Planetside(very old) and now STO. Crysis on high graphics is beautiful, Bioshock is too. There is one advantage... On Crysis online my framerate always jumps like one click when a enemy is near by, so its like a heads up when it chops
What can I do to stop the choppy framerate in MMO user crowded areas? Any ideas or tips greatly appreciated! Thanks
.
PS, this form I am typing on keeps scrolling to the top with every keystroke.