Pitt Hammerfist wrote:
Snugglecog,
Did you test complex shader distance and particles on anything above 0 in a raid environment ?
I have to turn down particles while raiding, because it slows my system to a crawl. This is one of the reasons why so many people are mentioning CPU/GPU load balancing, and doing particles on the GPU
I also have to turn off shaders while raiding , I'm using VIsta 32, amd x2 5200, 4 gigs ram, 8800gtx 768m/b ram, raid 0
Let me again emphasise what everyone is complaining about in the what bugs you thread
Shaders and particles performance in a raid setting is abysmal.
The option Display/Performance/Complex shader distance (does this turn off shaders? what shader model are you using? Why such a hige impact while raiding? )
The option Display/Particle Effects (HUGE Performance impact on 8800 series cards while in combat)
Both of the above options have a huge impact on EQ2 performance
Lets not throw him off the trail so quickly. You're talking about general performance problems that occur regardless of hardware. The main concern of this thread is specifically why the 8800 series video cards cause performance degradation even in the middle of Commonlands with no one around.
I agree that the issues you mentioned need to be looked at, but that isn't really handled by our compatibility lab.
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