Reproducible Lag

[redoubt]

Are you sure that part of the Black Loch cave lag isn't due to the archers? Whenever there are a bunch of mob archers there is a tendency to have lag. You see it at the end of Friends in Low Places too, as well as some other spots in the game.

I can tell you with 99% confidence that the black loch specific lag is the water related. When I run that quest I pull my camera down so it is near the water and I am looking up at my character and thus not seeing any water. As long as I keep the water off of my screen I do not lag. If I goof and move the camera so the water is rendered the game slows.

I don't know what is special about that water. I can look at the water everywhere else and not have any issue, but there is something in THAT water...

p.s. I also see the affect you mention during Friends in Low Places, but I do not believe the Black Loch issue is caused by the archers.

[Flavilandile]

I wonder how the cannith deconstruction is going? I seem to remember all kinds of lag and wait times just trying to deconn an inv full of junk. Did it improve with the datacenter move?

From my point of view, not much change in deconstructing...
But for me, the UI lag in Cannith is caused by a broken index when the game looks up the recipe in the database.

I can't tell for crafting... because crafting is FUBAR for the time being.

Are you sure that part of the Black Loch cave lag isn't due to the archers? Whenever there are a bunch of mob archers there is a tendency to have lag. You see it at the end of Friends in Low Places too, as well as some other spots in the game.

It's definitely the water/light interraction.
Turn off video post processing and you multiply by 10 your frame rate... tinker a bit more with other parameters ( surface reflection, glow mapping, ... ) and you can see the FPS improving.
If it was the archers then changing the graphical parameters woudln't have any impact.

[Grace_ana]

It's definitely the water/light interraction.
Turn off video post processing and you multiply by 10 your frame rate... tinker a bit more with other parameters ( surface reflection, glow mapping, ... ) and you can see the FPS improving.
If it was the archers then changing the graphical parameters woudln't have any impact.

I've had video post processing off; I don't see a difference in my performance between the two in Black Loch. I do see the difference in other places, though, which is why I eventually turned it off. I'll mess with some other settings too, but for me whenever the archers go down my lag goes away in there. YMMV