Framerate Drop

[reddoormedia]

Not seen this problem anywhere. Was playing yesterday and all of a sudden got what I thought was a huge lag spike.
After checking with other players who had no lag started investigating. Network connection was green. But my frame-rate had nosedived to under 20. It is strange because it is the same in LOTRO which has never been a problem to run at high settings same as I run in ddo.

So my game is unplayable. Character moves to slow. If I drop the settings frame-rate improves but I still get spikes of slowness. Just ordered a new video card but wondered if anyone had ever experienced anything like this.

[AZgreentea]

now that you mention it:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php...29#post3584529

I kinda get the impression the last windows 7/Vista update didnt agree with DDO. I havent played since it went in, though.

[EdsanDarkbane]

its the engine, it has SOO many holes in it. thats why the entire team for ddo was fired

[Lorien_the_First_One]

its the engine, it has SOO many holes in it. thats why the entire team for ddo was fired

citation?

[donfilibuster]

such a problem needs some troubleshooting. if it worked before but suddenly doesn't something can have burned out.
From damaged ram to damaged video card, disk holes, windows updates gone wrong, files corrupt, hamsters starved.

[reddoormedia]

I agree it needs troubleshooting. Video card will be the first thing I try. I have checked and reinstalled drivers. If the new card doesn't help I'll probably reinstall windows. I have 4 gb of ram I suppose I could remove a stick at a time.

[Smitey]

As per the sticky for this forum section, please provide a dxdiag reddoormedia:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=199719

[reddoormedia]

I think this was an overheating situation. Fans around the cpu were pretty clogged. Inside of the case too needed to be cleaned.