LancerChronics on 4/4/2006 at 20:03
Ok, this thread has two topics that are related for me. Let me start with the arena. I have come to realize it is extremely hard for a stealth based character. I only get a chance to hit them when their shield is up as they only drop it for swinging. Anybody have any fighting tips for me? I am currently lvl 7, first-level in arena, second fight. Armor is the rainment, chainmail helm, leather shield, and (Dwarven Longsword 7-8dmg , Chillrend<3dmg shortsword with 5 dmg frost hit>, and akaviri katana 5dmg).
Now on to Lag. This is what really screws me over. I line up with my enemy, go in for a power swing, then my frame rate drops to like 1-5, fixes and i hit nothing but air. only to have the guy behind me hacking at my back(which means my blocking is useless). I, however, love playing with high textures, though i would mind lowering them temporarily for a fight, but ihave to restart the game every time. Is there a way i can decrease the lag without making any changes that require a game restart?
Also going from high to medium textures barely increases my framerate by 4 or 5 fps.
If you could also point me towards better armor attainable at my lvl, that may help. Thx in Advance.
(oh, and i haven't been powerleveling, though i tried. Sadly it is pointless to keep building skills once you hit the level, cause all the modifiers just go to the next one instead)
LancerChronics on 5/4/2006 at 23:11
Hmm, so no one has any clue. That's a shame. This was how I was going to join DB.
(this post is technically a bump, jic i posted at some akward time that no one noticed it, srry.)
dvrabel on 5/4/2006 at 23:25
I've noticed that if anti-aliasing is enabled than certain spell effects can cripple framerate with an ATi Radeon X700.
GRRRR on 5/4/2006 at 23:27
Arena fights with a stealth car? No idea. Run alot? :p
As for Lag, try lowering the shadow filtering too. Mostly i leave the textures at medium and the filtering at low, since the only major difference i see when switching to the higher settings is longer loading and choppiness. Try some of the optimizations (
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?SCID=27&CIID=36222&p=1) here, most are good (except for the Blood settings. Found huge amounts of decals boggling down performance immensely, would suggest abit of trying with that).
Aerothorn on 5/4/2006 at 23:42
Bleh, I'll make these one day...I more want a guide of what each effects actually does (ala shadow filtering) - I get great FPS most of the time, but do get the occasional frame-rate crashes in fights, even with my Geforce 7800 GT/dual-core 4200+ - probably bottlenecked by one gig RAM.
Tuco on 6/4/2006 at 01:29
Yeah, using a thief character for the arena is about as stupid as having a thief be the arena champion.
People want to steal their way to people's deaths.
Just use your bow a lot ;)
