Game gets choppy and slow after about an hour of game play

[Korban_Dallas]

Ok so here is the issue the game runs great for about one hour then it will get really choppy and slow, loading screens will take longer, lag will increase etc.

I have noticed that when I am doing a lot of switching in between characters to move items it will bring on the choppiness quicker.

The only thing I have found to fix the issue is quit the game and reload and it will be fine again for about an hour but it is getting kind of annoying to keep having to restart the game that often.

Also I should mention that I don't see this problem in other games such as WoW and Diablo 3.

Anyone have any ideas?

Some specs: I should mention I had to revert back to 12.10 Drivers because the game crashed with 13.1

[Imatotalnoob]

Your overheating.
Download 'speedfan' its free and map your temps while you play.

I had a laptop do the same thing.
Cheers mate

[Korban_Dallas]

Your overheating.
Download 'speedfan' its free and map your temps while you play.

I had a laptop do the same thing.
Cheers mate

I thought that might be it, however this is a screenshot of the temps after about 4 hours straight of gaming. Processor capped at 69° C and Video Card capped at 64°C which is well with in safe range.

[Korban_Dallas]

Little more info that I found interesting, this first screenshot is after about 6 hours of gaming. 5.78GB of Memory usage.



And this second one is after quitting the game and reloading. 3.76GB of memory use.

[brickwall]

If your not using a SSD and you have a traditional moving parts Hard drive I Highly suggest the use of diskeeper as ddo has a very big problem with fragmentation.

[Korban_Dallas]

If your not using a SSD and you have a traditional moving parts Hard drive I Highly suggest the use of diskeeper as ddo has a very big problem with fragmentation.

SSD, This http://www.corsair.com/us/ssd/force-...ard-drive.html is my only drive in the PC.

I store all my "stuff" on my NAS.

[donfilibuster]

I treat those two things as separate problems, remember lag stacks.
One is the regular leak that causes us to relog as a matter of habit. (and before raids)
The other is the switching of toons, which is kind of well known. (i'd say it was worse back by u11)

You seem to have a good rig there with a SSD and all. In theory only a ramdisk would be faster.
The thing is the process indeed keep growing, so even the faster rigs notice at some point, eventually.
Not sure if windows would play fine with such a big bulky process even if no longer constrained to 2GB.
I wouldn't compare with other games if they aren't realtime, DDO is kind of sensitive to problems.

If wanting ideas to try, try the readyboost, and obviously not on a usb stick, maybe a partition or something.
(i wouldn't even dare run without the stick, since i have no ssd)

[Missing_Minds]

If your not using a SSD and you have a traditional moving parts Hard drive I Highly suggest the use of diskeeper as ddo has a very big problem with fragmentation.

Again, that doesn't help with internal fragmentation.

The OP is really just suffering memory leaks with the game. Something he really can't control. The only other thing he could possibly try is to re install but do not install under "program files".

I'll have to see just how large of a memory stamp I'm getting after an hour of play. And I play with a bit of lag now due to my fracking slow hard drive.

[mystafyi]

The OP is really just suffering memory leaks with the game. Something he really can't control.

Agree. I am wondering if the OP is using the low or high def graphics. iirc, the low def version has more issues with internal fragmentation.

[Korban_Dallas]

Agree. I am wondering if the OP is using the low or high def graphics. iirc, the low def version has more issues with internal fragmentation.

I am using the High Def install and I run the game on Max settings.