Performance problems in FPS

[Adrian]

Hi Community,

Due to some user's reports indicating that after the last update they suffer sudden FPS (Frames Per Second) low downs, I'd like that all of you experiencing this problem leave a constancy of this issue leaving some information about your PCs:

Processor:
Video Card:
Operating System:
RAM Memory:

Regards,

[Znurre]

Processor: Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz
Video Card: Nvida GeForce 7300GO
Operating System: Linux, openSUSE 11
RAM: 1GB 667 MHz

Whenever I am near a fort with many players I get frequent fps lag spikes lasting 2-4 seconds where my image totally freezes.
Enabling Safe Mode increase the performance, but small freezes are still noticable.
I did not have this problem before the update.

I don't know if it helps, but during these lag spikes my gameplay ping goes crazy while my server ping remains calm.

[Mattdoesrock]

Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.2Ghz,
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8600,
OS: Windows Vista,
RAM: 2GB 539 MHz.

Before the update I could hunt at 40 - 60 FPS, if not more. Wars / hunts etc. were NO problem. The only time I would lag was if I got server lag, or if I had been at a fort war for ages.

After the update I'm at ~20 FPS at all times, if I see other players that then lowers to ~15, and at fort wars it INSTANTLY drops to ~7.

[UmarilsStillHere]

Processor:Intel Celeron CPU 3.06GHz
not sure of my card but this is my "display adapter" sounds like the right sort of thing Intel 82915G/GV/901GL express chipset family
OS: Windows XP
RAM: 3.06 GHz 504 MB

I have never realy been brilliant =/ im normaly around 30 FPS in fisgeal 3-4 if im lucky and at a large fort war (mostly herberd) i dont have a fps i have a slide show of every 4-5 seconds. Hunting im normaly fine, hope this helps and if this

not sure of my card but this is my "display adapter" sounds like the right sort of thing Intel 82915G/GV/901GL express chipset family

is wrong as i think it is were can i find my graph card make? 0o

[Pornstar]

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz (P4 based)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 64 mb (AGP 4x)
Operating System: Slackware-12.1 linux-2.6.21.5
RAM Memory: 644832 kB (266 MHz)

Oh yeaah the best PC forever! And you still wonder why i didnt leave this game? I wonder why too :)

[Plover]

Intel Core 2 Duo , 2.40 GHz

790MHz 1.98GB RAM

NVidia GeForce 8600M GT

Before update I would get around 40-60FPS "normally" with all graphics on high, and antialiasing 1x Antistropic 4x. After update I got over 100FPS "normally" with the same settings, but several times I had major freezes where FPS dropped to 2 and lower. The freezes happened over about a 10 minute period, and don't seem to happen anymore.

[save_the_trees]

since a few updates ago (I think it was the tunic paint & fatigue one) I kept experiencing sudden fps drops in medium and bigger fights under linux. Fps drop from 60 down to 1 very suddenly, I can't even exit the game in a normal way. It never got better with the following updates. Additionally fps will drop to about one half if I switch from full screen and back and not recover

So I'm currently playing under Windows again, with bad (since the newest update) but at least constant fps, the big memory leaks and the 5 min to exit the game is really annoying.

my hardware:
Core 2 Duo 1.86 Ghz
1 GB ram , 667Mhz
Ati mobility radeon x1300
and Opensuse11.0 or XP sp2

could NGD maybe make some kind of diagnosis tool which records possible reasons of fps drops/other strange effects, so the community can better help you to fix the problems? For example I'd really like to know if my problems are really my problems or NGD's

[Miraculix]

CPU: Athlon 64 3500+
1GB RAM, Dual Channel
Geforce 6600 GT
Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

I'm gonna test it on my laptop too, and let you know if things are any better on it which is dual-core.

[_dracus_]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (4MB cache)
GPU: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)
System: Debian GNU/Linux (Linux hecate 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 03:23:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux)
RAM: 2GB

My problems are same as the one Mattdoesrock seems to have.

[Hellman2]

AMD Turion 64 Mobile 2GHz (CPU settings to high performance)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
896 MB RAM (+128MB shared memory for ATI)
WinXP Mutlimedia Edition

Edit: At Fort fights or if bigger groups (firends or foes) are near, my FPS drop down to almost 0.
Settings are on lowest, except that of the specials the partical effects are on. Sounds is switched off during playing.
When i am just running around my FPS is between 15 and max value seen so far 55. But normally around ~23FPS in a not crowded area

[Ulmanyar]

Processor: Core 2 Duo, T7100 @ 1.8GHz
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
Operating System: GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 7.10, kernel: 2.6.22)
RAM: 2GB DDR2 PC5300

When I log in, I can peak a bit over 100 FPS, but after a short while of playing I have like 25, at fort wars 5-20. It doesn't matter if I turn post-processing on or off, or have water details low or high (my GPU just gets a bit hotter). Multitexturing makes a little difference, but besides from that I get really low FPS in fortwars, no matter what settings I choose.

Without extensive testing I believe that I have much better results on the other computer:

Processor: P4 3.4 GHz (Prescott)
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 6800 something (not quite sure)
Operating System: GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 7.10, kernel:2.6.22)
RAM: Not sure, but I think it's 3GB PC3200. Earlier it was only 1GB, but it was still a lot faster.

EDIT: Anyone got info about wether multi kernel processor support will get better, or not?

[Blaine]

Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 @ 1.6GHz
Video Card: AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit (2.6.24 kernel)
RAM: 2x512MB @ 667MHz

In safe mode it's possible to play fort wars, otherwise it's impossible. Gameplay ping runs to funny red 5-digit numbers

[Mattdoesrock]

I'm happy to say that after that small hotfix, or whatever you did, my problems are all gone :)

Not only is my performance back to normal - But I can now cruise along at over 100 FPS.

Big thumbs up to you NGD, great work :)

[Miraculix]

Same here. I'm playing at 90 fps at the moment, even on the laptop.

Excellent work.

PS: Of course fps drops at the usual cases, I'm talking about the best case scenario. FPS used to be around 40, now it's over 90 :)

[Hellman2]

Cannot say that the Update fixed my problems. Yesterday at aggers i had 1 FPS and could not even select a target.

[Pornstar]

/offtopic/
This update is bad for me. The game runs worse now. Fort wars are impossible for me, it write 2 FPS, but the actual FPS is different. BTW while my char running the game freezes every 10-15 sec for a sec or 2, and inet ping is ok. Force safe mode graphics. :)

[koolcat681]

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
OS: Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Memory: 894MB RAM

[brumbrum]

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Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS (clocked to: GPU: 600MHz, Mem: 950MHz)
Operating System: Linux gentoo 2.6.25 (system totally compiled 64bit)
RAM: 4x1024MB @ 1066MHz
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I experience the game lag when more then 5-6 players are at the same location at the same time and there are atleast twice as many mobs, and all the players fight against the mobs. (some of the players also used pets, if that helps you in the search for the bug).

Mobs "teleporting" around and even if you are facing the mob at a range of 5-10, there is error-messages as "You are not facing your enemy" and "Out of range" (this is found with a warlock, lvl29, killing "Very hard" mobs to lvl to 30).

A perfect place to recreate these bugs are near Wind Rune Stone, North-east of Korsum Town.

[Jedi-x]

CPU - AMD Athlon64 5000X2 (2.6) Dual Core
2g DDR2-800
nVidia 8200 256 (nVidia 9800 GTX 512 oc 2-3 days)
Win 2K

Although I haven't tested this set-up just yet, currently d/l regnum now, will post after i try the upgrade.

[Miraculix]

Tested on a non-dual core PC: I have the same problems as Znurre in another thread (http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=27726) only my freezes are not small, if people enter in the 50m radius that they become visible, I get freezes of up to 4-5 seconds. Maybe more if there's lots of people that appear at once. I guess duration of the freeze is system dependant.

These freezes almost disappear on my dual-core laptop. Really a huge difference.

[shadow445]

where do i check my computer system stuff like wat my video card is well i know its nevida or sumthin but i dont know the version of series wateva its called. plz tell me where to check my system stuff.

[shadow445]

dont worry i found out about where to find my grahpic card details.
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992 MHz)
operating system: Microsoft Windows XP (service pack 2)
Video card: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500

Im dont know what my Ram memory is or where it is but on the details it says
Memory: 256 MB

[Hellman2]

Just some info. With my new System (the other one posted here is my notebook I normally play Regnum with) QuadCore 2.4GHz, Geforce 9800GT (512MB) and Vista it works quiete fine. Highest Details with 30+ FPS, even during Fort fights. Only sometimes some little Freezes in between. But mostly not.
Maybe the minimum requirements are a little bit too low for this game?

[Wyatt]

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
Video Card: Radeon 9250 256MB
Operating System:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600)
RAM Memory: 510MB RAM

[Angelwinged_Devil]

Intrl(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60Ghz
Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910,GML Express
512 MB ram
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2