low fps with AoC (age of conan online) using DX 10?

[adamknox]

Im on the beach (just after u make your char) and the fps is sitting around 30:/
Settings are set to High with x2 AA.
is that low for my specs? (see sig)

 

[adamknox]

On dx 9 i get around 70-80 fps on the beach. Altho i DO get a warning comeing up saying i dont have the latest drivers for my gpu (which i do and just checked again) .. strange :/

 

[adamknox]

i have a weird feeling there is just something wrong with my computer -_- last few days ive played 3-4 games and ALL of them have had juddering... (lord of the rings online, AOC, Witcher, Risen) You move so far and then it stutters/judders. >< Maybe its the hard drive -_-

Thanks for your help im running a defrag sto try and help it out a bit but then ill try them settings ty

 

[adamknox]

DX10 is still in test mode. Doesn't look any different than DX9 anyway.

YEAH!!! :/ i just took two screenshots and there is NO diffrence. Ive seen screenshots online that make the underwater look a lot better but in the test ive just done..nothing lol (apart from shadows but thats more i hadnt put the cam in same postion on the dx 9 test)

 

[adamknox]

Also your Ram could be the culprit try to run some tests download "Memtest" and run the Windows Diagnostics memory test.

You can also check your HDD for errors by downloading "HD Tune"

And the most obvious, but im sure you have checked is temperatures of the video card and your CPU

Nope no errors on memory (ill run a full one later) along with a HD one. My gpu temps get upto 50-60 and cpu is around 54c Well in safe range

 

[adamknox]

shadows rape fps iirc

When i was a wow addict ..3 months 3 days 1 hour since i last played wo..-sigh- ... Lol with shadows on max my fps allways dropped below 45 even tho i had a pc that was 10x stronger than Suggested spec! Wonder why shadows lower fps so much on online games :/ itw as same for LOrdo, champions online + parts of aion.

 

[adamknox]

Best tip i can give for smoothing out on your setup is to max all your view distance sliders and high quality distance sliders. Sounds strange but the way the game engine calls textures an LoD models has a massive hit on performance. On your hardware maxing them out should actually improve performance.

Thanks ill tyr out the teeak guide .. is so anoying that ATI and Nvidia both have games that work better for there own cards.. -_- Pc is getting like consoles (ps3/xbox360 even going so far theire brining out crap games)

Didn't this game fail?

It failed. so BAD! I bought it when it first came out.. i only played it once and gave up lol (no joke) It was awful. I played it recently over at my friends and it seemed a lot better. Most of the bugs were ironed out. Im just looking for a good fantasy RPG tho. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18141417 see