What kind of PC are you running PSO off of?

[Aquanos]

My loading screen from switching blocks takes 1min+
My loading screen from Ark ship to campship takes 1min+
In 12/12 parties when Falz slaps me, I take no damage untill 2mins later...

I'm running off a pretty trash laptop. This was a Christmas gift and was my first laptop, so I couldn't expect the best in the world.

So for people who load their screen in like...5 seconds plus, what kind of PC do you have, or maybe some suggestions for a PC build to run PSO etc?

My current laptop : HP Pavilion g7-2340dx Notebook

[Horo The Wise Wolf]

My current build:

CPU: Intel i7 4770k (Average clock 3.5GHz)

GPU: Nvidia GTX 770 4GB Windforce

RAM: 8GB DDR-3 1866

(won't bore you with the rest of the details)

This is overkill for PSO2. Loadtimes are astounding. I don't use a SSD (yet) but I wonder how much more that could effect it.

[Ephidiel]

i'm running a decent build 5 year old PC ._.

GPU: GeForce GTX 480
CPU i7 930 @2.80ghz
RAM: 8GB

running very smooth but recently my PC seems to get close to dying
streaming in HD still works fine and i'm running 2 Monitors but only the main for the game

[Achelousaurus]

CPU: Intel i7 4770k (Average clock 3.5GHz)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 760 2GB
RAM: 8GB DDR-3 1866

Almost as good as Horo. I may end up getting a Radeon Sapphire 7950 cause I hear it's a lot better than my nVidia card.

PSO2 runs very smoothly besides 20-40 seconds slideshow in a full lobby.
But I suppose this is server lag / a bandwidth issue and not a performance issue.

[KuroNeko77]

Laptop Model: Packard Bell EasyNote LS13
CPU: Intel i3 2310M (2,1GHz)
GPU: Radeon HD 7670M 2GB
RAM: 4 GB DDR-3

Even if it isn't really a gaming laptop, I can play with everything maxed and keep around 50~60 fps (aside from huge PSE burst).
My loading times are decent ( ranging from 5 to 20 sec ), though I can easily reach 1min+ when changing bloc.

Still having some issues when recording with Fraps sometimes, but I'm not complaining.

[ShinobuVamp]

Intel i7 4700MQ @ 2.4GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755 M SLI x 2 (Yeah 2 graphic cards lol)

8GB RAM

[Gama]

intel i7 470qm @ 1.7ghz "first gen"

nvidia geforce gt 425m

runs at max settings under 30 fps, hd res.

[Husq]

My loading screen from switching blocks takes 1min+
My loading screen from Ark ship to campship takes 1min+
In 12/12 parties when Falz slaps me, I take no damage untill 2mins later...

I'm running off a pretty trash laptop. This was a Christmas gift and was my first laptop, so I couldn't expect the best in the world

All the issues you've listed indicates to me, that network latency is your problem, not your machine.

[Gama]

Do a speed test and check latency to a Japanese server.

[Lego]

intel i5 4670k @ 4.6GHz

2x GTX 780

32gb 1866 rem

[pkemr4]

My loading screen from switching blocks takes 1min+
My loading screen from Ark ship to campship takes 1min+
In 12/12 parties when Falz slaps me, I take no damage untill 2mins later...

I'm running off a pretty trash laptop. This was a Christmas gift and was my first laptop, so I couldn't expect the best in the world.

So for people who load their screen in like...5 seconds plus, what kind of PC do you have, or maybe some suggestions for a PC build to run PSO etc?

My current laptop : HP Pavilion g7-2340dx Notebook

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[Aeris]

CPU: Intel i7 4770k (Average clock 3.5GHz)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 760 2GB
RAM: 8GB DDR-3 1866

Almost as good as Horo. I may end up getting a Radeon Sapphire 7950 cause I hear it's a lot better than my nVidia card.

PSO2 runs very smoothly besides 20-40 seconds slideshow in a full lobby.
But I suppose this is server lag / a bandwidth issue and not a performance issue.
Not really for between Nvidia and Radeon cards, that 760 you have is about good as the 7950 or R9 270X.


Laptop Model: Packard Bell EasyNote LS13
CPU: Intel i3 2310M (2,1GHz)
GPU: Radeon HD 7670M 2GB
RAM: 4 GB DDR-3

Even if it isn't really a gaming laptop, I can play with everything maxed and keep around 50~60 fps (aside from huge PSE burst).
My loading times are decent ( ranging from 5 to 20 sec ), though I can easily reach 1min+ when changing bloc.

Still having some issues when recording with Fraps sometimes, but I'm not complaining.
I haven't heard of Packard Bell computers for years o-o, i still got my crappy Pentium 1 desktop which is of that brand back in 1992-1993 xD, i think you might need more cores since PSO2 makes use of 2 cores which fraps needs to make use of some processing power in order to record as well as your storage drive.

Also for my specs which is rather over 5 years old but the laptop itself is 4 years and a few months old:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz (can use software to make it 2.3Ghz but not much a performance boost)
4 GB of DDR2 800Mhz ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 260M 1GB

Can play at max settings just fine at 720p except for big lobbies full of people and 12/12 mpas with alot of action going give me shuttering and some slowdown which is alright by me but i do have a desktop in the works but no specs on it yet.

[LordKaiser]

Intel i7 920 2.6GHz

6GB DDR3 RAM

Radeon HD 4860 (Sapphire variant card)

Windows 7 64-bits

15MB/s Internet connection

[vbetts]

Mac Pro 5.1
Intel Xeon W3680
6gb Buffered ddr3 10600
Radeon HD 5770(for Mac OS)
Geforce 760 TI(For Windows)
Mac os X Mavericks(Testing Yosemite as well! :D)
Windows 8.1 Pro

This was actually fun to mess around with, got it without the cooler, memory, a bad io board on the front, and a PSU that was all cut up for $200. I put about another $300 in it for the memory, hard drive, cooler replacement, and replacement PSU. Memory for these things aren't cheap either! Buffered memory is expensive...Even more since it's Triple channel!

I love my Mac Pro, and now I've gotten everything good on it! One problem I was annoyed with greatly always was since the 760 TI was plugged in, the boot loader would boot into a blank screen. It was running, but because the 760ti lacks the efi for the MacPro it wouldn't register a video card until it booted into either Mac or Windows, which in Mac it would switch automatically to the 5770 and wouldn't read the 760 ti at all since I do not allow unsigned kexts in Mac.

Using Clover on my Mac Pro as a bootloader to fix this, shows options on how to boot and what to boot into! :D Windows 8.1 works pretty easily under Clover instead of Bootcamp as well.

[NexusAZ]

AMD FX 8320 @ 4.2
990fxa-ud3(Rev. 4)
R9 270x/560 ti(for physx)
Seasonic MI12 II 850w
8gb ddr3 @ 1333

[Chrysheight]

Intel Core i5-2500k @4.3ghz
6GB 1600 MHZ DDR3 Ram
EVGA Geforce GTX 560
Windows 7 64-bit/OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks
120gb SSD for Windows, 750GB for Maverics, 1TB HDD Shared Data
630W PSU
ECS P67H2-A3 (v1.0)

[Infinity Series]

Intel Core i5-3470 @3.2 GHz
8 GB RAM 1066 MHz
HIS R9 270x IceQ
ASRock H61m HGS
500 GB + 320 GB HDD Sata III
Corsair CX Series V2 500W
Windows 8.1 Pro

for loading screen (especially TA:Amdus / riripan) usually take about 5-10 sec,,, i wonder if i can improve it

[bhaal]

Intel i5 2500k @ 4.2GHZ
6 GB ram @1333mhz
Sap radeon 7970@1050/5500
W8.1 pro 64bits
Using radeonpro with supersample + max AA settings and some sweet FX.
Getting between 70-90 fps, and a little less in crowded lobby with very good times of loading (for a mechanical HD).

[red1228]

APU (CPU): Radeon A10 5800K 3.8 Ghz

GPU: Radeon HD 7770 1GB Edition
(APU has a built in HD 7660D, but it would get extremely hot on its own, so I got dedicated GPU to ease the load)

RAM: 8 GB (2x4 @ DDR3 1866)

Most settings are maxed except for Bloom & Sun Beam effects being turned off. Average 70+ frames during gameplay & loading tunnel screens average 5 seconds each (7-10 if its a REALLY busy EQ, like Loser or Falz).

[Skye-Fox713]

Intel Core i7 @ 2.65 GHz
8 GB ram
NVIDA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

64 bit windows 7

[Komeiji Sig]

Asus ROG G75VX laptop
Intel i7 3630QM 2.4 - 3.4GHz
Geforce Gtx 670mx
8gb DDR3
Windows 8 64-bit

[Ludamister]

Processor: Intel i7-4770k
GPU: 2x EVGA GTX 780 Classifieds
Ram: 32GB 1600mhz.

Super excessive for PSO2 but I play on Nvidia Surround using three monitors so 5960x1080 resolution. Runs at around 180-220 fps.

If you're looking to run the game, desktop wise, you can build a $300-400 PC now-a-days that'll run it far better than what you're experiencing.

I hope you find a solution to your troubles!

[musicmf]

Main, Custom Built PC:
- i5 3570k
- GTX 670
- 8GB 1333 DDR3
- - Maximum In-Game Graphic settings, Virtual Fullscreen 1920x1080
During off-hours my load times are just a couple of seconds. But if my internet is acting up (or I'm on when the ships are busy [full of JPN players]), then load times can be a bit longer.

I was running off an 840 Evo SSD; but as PSO2's size kept increasing, I was forced to move it to a regular 7200 RPM drive. I didn't really notice any performance difference between the two.

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I also run an alt on the side at times on my shitty Compaq CQ61-420US, but load times are pretty annoying. At least 4~8x longer than my PC.
- Athlon II M320
- Radeon HD 4200
- 3GB DDR2
- - Minimum In-Game Graphic settings, Virtual Fullscreen 1366x768

[btw-Niji]

i'm playing on a toaster. :(

[Skyly]

-i5 4570 Haswell
-HD 7950 Stock
-8GB
-1TB HDD

[Sara-hime]

This is great as Im looking to move on, being on a PowerBook G4(s) for a decade now! :(

[Nitro Vordex]

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Tower was amazing when I first got it. Upgraded the graphics to what it is now. Processor is long in the tooth, though any kind of problems I get on PSO2 is generally due to my less than stellar internet.

[.Jack]

using ASUS atm:

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[Taskus]

asrock 970 extreme3
amd fx4170 (4.2)
amd hd6950 2gb
8gb 1600 DDR3
1tb 7200rpm hdd (no ssd, but i want one :( ...)

has been running great for the past couple years, much nicer than my old lappy

[Seyle]

FX-8350
Sapphire HD7950
8gb RAM
2TB HDD

I spent roughly nothing on this rig, and it never fails to get the job done. Especially in games like Battlefield 4 where they're finally utilizing octo-core processors, the 8350 absolutely rips it to shreds.

It's not as nice as some, but for what I spent on the parts it was more than worth it.

[AlaskanKactus]

CPU: i5-3570k
GPU: GTX 660 Super
RAM: 8GB
1TB HDD

60mbs downspeed
I've never experienced any lag on PSO2, except in the lobby during an EQ. My gameplay has never been affected though.

[Twinblaze]

Dell XPS 15

i5 2410M 2.3 GHz
Nvidia GeForce GT 525M
4 GB RAM
500 GB Hard Drive

I get a bit of lag when I first load up the lobby, but everything else is just fine.

[Shinamori]

AMD Phenom II X4 955
4GB RAM
650Ti 2G EVGA
2x 500GB HD, 1x 160 GB

[martinmeegan]

Asus M3N-HT
Phenom x4 975 OC 4.3ghz
GTX 660
Samsung EVO 840 SSD
8GB Kingston Hyper X 6400

[NotRankin]

In the process of overhauling my rig, just bought the GPUs.

AMD FX-9590 @5.3Ghz (Shut up, I get a discount on AMD products ;-; )

2x 780tis (Asus Direct CUs, Horo has silly windforces) (was from 2x 650 TI Boosts)

16gb RAM



....I should buy an SSD. But I had to buy a new PSU for those cards >>

[Horo The Wise Wolf]

In the process of overhauling my rig, just bought the GPUs.

AMD FX-9590 @5.3Ghz (Shut up, I get a discount on AMD products ;-; )

2x 780tis (Asus Direct CUs, Horo has silly windforces) (was from 2x 650 TI Boosts)

16gb RAM



....I should buy an SSD. But I had to buy a new PSU for those cards >>


Don't be jealous cause my Windforce 770 knows Sazan Lv 16!

[Z-0]

Can it use Elysion, though?

[NightSun]

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[Drifting Fable]

I should note that a fan has died in my liquid cooling system and that its summer time in the hottest room in the house. Alternatively I intend, to upgrade to a 780 ti(maybe a second one too, but seems unlikely).
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[zegun~kun]

On desktop,
Im running on:
Core i7 4770K running at 4GHz
MSI GTX670 2GB Power Edition
16GB ddr3 1600
The game is in a 500gb sata2 WD Black, while the OS is in an SSD
I try to keep this wd black free from background processes as much as possible
So yeah, im getting snappy lobby transitions with internet being the one thing holding me back

On mobile,
Im running on a Dell Inspiron N5110
Been really smooth with the latest driver update..

[Chik'Tikka]

Intel 2410m @2.9 GHz
6GB DDR3 at 1333 MHz
Nvidia GT 540m 1gb
runs max setting at 1600x900 with about 35-50 FPS average+^_^+
block/mission/area loads take between 15-40 seconds, which means i tend to fall behind in TAs...

[PrinceBrightstar]

CPU: Intel i3770K Stock Speed
MB: Intel DZ77RE-75K
Memory: PC3-10700 Corsair 32GB in XMP-1600
Graphics: EVGA Nvidia 570GTX
Resolution: 1080P with 60-62 FPS when characters/items not loading. (I limit it because of my monitor does not supporting higher than 60 FPS.)
Monitor: Sharp Aquos LC-60LE600U VIA HDMI.
Main Disk: Western Digital RE4 500GB *4 Raid 0

[DJcooltrainer]

Custom built rig here, it's a little out of date, planning on doing CPU/Mobo/RAM upgrades this year. It runs PSO2 at 60fps fine, as long as I keep my model count around 30-40. Any higher than that can get a little sketchy.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 4.0 ghz (water cooled)
RAM: 8GB (4x2GB) OCZ Reaper Low-Voltage DDR3 (1600mhz, 9-9-9-24)
GPU: MSI GTX 670 Power Edition (2GB, overclocked)
Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO
SSD: 256GB OCZ Agility III
HDD: 1TB WD Caviar Black 7200RPM
PSU: Thermaltake 850W

I really need to get myself off this crappy Phenom II CPU, I've had it for like 4 years now.

[KatherineAlexandra]

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I'm supposed to have a ~17 mb/s internet connection too, but my isp just sits in the corner eating clue.
Most days I'm getting between 2 and 3, yet it loads slower than dial up.

On a good day, transitions take about 5 seconds to load. All game settings maxed, but I have bloom turned off because it's fugly.

[Zyrusticae]

As I'm sure some are already aware of, I have a rather monstrously overkill PC for this game:

Intel Core i5 2500k @ 4.4 Ghz
ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3
16GB DDR3-PC12800 (brands are irrelevant for RAM, don't know why people keep mentioning it)
2x Nvidia/EVGA GeForce GTX 670 4GB in SLI configuration

I used to run the game off of my SSD but the thing is tiny (128GB) so I moved it off and the load times haven't really changed as much as I thought they would (likely because I keep all of my hard drives continuously defragmented). The SSD does wonders for the OS and other apps, however.

The game itself runs at 1080p with 4x SGSSAA, forced HBAO+ and SweetFX at a smooth 60 FPS, except when lots of particle effects are flying around close to the camera (because of particle overdraw, which is four times worse for performance with 4x SGSSAA, naturally).

The sad thing is that I've had this setup for a couple years now and haven't had a single compelling reason to upgrade since. No new super-badass hardware, no new hardware-destroying super graphically intense games; nothing of that sort. Stagnation is real, and it is terrible.

[LordKaiser]

LOL I think that I have the oldest PC here.

[Karen Erra]

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50 GHz
RAM: 16GB Kingston DDR3 1866
HDD: 250 GB Intel SSD + 3TB WD Green HDD
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX670 2GB GDDR5
on an ASUS Sabertooth Z77 (LGA1155)

Runs the game pretty smooth. Doesn't help the bad latency times from Europe to Japan tho. Sometimes I get random longer loading times or slowdown, but usually only when switching on blocks that are as good as full. Kind of annoying but oooh well :l

[Crazyleo]

I wish I HAD a PC. Mine died last year and I can't afford to get a new one

[UMVC3_Wolverine]

Ah yes a thread where I can stroke mah dik :3

Corsair obsidian 450D
Samsung Evo 840 250gig SSD/Seagate 2 TB HDD
i7 4770K OC to 4.4 on a Hyper Evo 212
Asus z87-plus mobo
Crucial Balistic sport xt 16 gb ram
GTX 780
Corsair RM750 PSU (ultra silent fully modular sexy looking psu)

My pso2 is installed on my SSD to get the fastest possible load times during TA's.

Speaking of TA I always find it funny how I always load faster than everyone else yet most hardcore TAers that I know of play with PSX settings and im over here with maxed out settings at 1980/1080 resolution with NVidia inspector to add high lvls of anti aliasing and I still load faster than them LMAO.

[btw-Niji]

Funny thing is, I don't care about graphics... I can play perfectly fine on 1.

My load times[4p] on optimized client:
Nab1: 3s
Nab2: 3s
Lilipa: 4s
Amdu: ~5s
Altar: 3s

Keep in mind that load is also ping based, so on min settings you might be around there. Then again, I don't know where you're from.

Anyway, don't talk trash about loading faster than everyone else when even I was beating you... while I'm on shitty Comcast + toaster.

p.s. I'm not the only "hardcore TAer" who was making fun of your slow loading... and they were on toaster, too.

#toasterlyfe

[Dephinix]

Can't remember when this thing was made, I think maybe like September 2009.

Intel i7 920 @2.67GHz
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard
EVGA GTX 275
8GBs G. Skill (1066 I think)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Using AT&T "12Mbps", but I've only DC'ed twice in over a year.

As far as loading goes, I'm usually seeing 2-4 seconds, EQs are a nightmare. Things pretty old, but I think I'll only bother upgrading the video card. My buddy is using a PC we put together with about $500-600, and then added a Radeon 7770 for pretty cheap not long ago, I think $80. He loads less than a second slower, so you really don't need much to play this game. Just... don't use a laptop. You'll need to spend more money to want a "gaming laptop".

[sum182]

My rig I use for everything, it get the job done well :3

AMD Phenom II 6 Core @3.0GHz
ASUS Motherboard (cannot for the life of me remember the model.....)
16GB G.Skill RipJaws
AMD Radeon Sapphire HD6950 2gb DDR5

[Esofor]

Let's not derail the thread, guys.

My rig:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

I generally outload everyone I play with by a good second or so. Having trouble finding people who can actually keep up with my load times.

[Esofor]

Honestly, nishiki does nothing to me either. I like to grace peasants with my presence and not use nishiki anyways. I'm just that nice.

[UMVC3_Wolverine]

Lol, ive even seen good JP players quad dash with nikishi.

Nikishi did lag the hell out of my old 7 year old toaster though. Not my new rig though. That's why i'm convinced that only toasters lag with it. Because I know from actual experience.

I still like to bust it out though, just so that l33t players with their toasters cry moar about it =P

Get off your toaster Chdata :3

[Chdata]

Nishiki doesn't lag me.

But I stopped using it after realizing it was messing up everyone else.

[Shadowth117]

why stop at nishiki anyways? ニレンカムイ za besuto

[btw-Niji]

oh my

i havent seen any good players who ws dash with nishiki

maybe my definition of "good player" is different from yours...

actually, i haven't seen any players ws dash with nishiki in ages. damn...

[UMVC3_Wolverine]

So now all of a sudden nikishi doesn't lag anyone, yet I see you scrubs online with your "NO NIKISHI" English text TA pt's lmao.

[btw-Niji]

i dont even put english text in my taco pt comment

[Chdata]

So now all of a sudden nikishi doesn't lag anyone, yet I see you scrubs online with your "NO NIKISHI" English text TA pt's lmao.

So now all of a sudden one guy not being lagged by nishiki means that everybody isn't lagged by nishiki and it's OK to use nishiki.

$sense=sqrt(-1);

[Esofor]

Guys, if you have any arguments, please take it to PMs.

[BlankM]

Son I play this game on my 4K 3D 180hz Monitor, all 3 of them. Though this is only when I'm not playing PSO2 through my Crystal Cove Oculus Rift. Loading in <500ms, shit my slider goes up to at least 10. MORE RAM THAN THE FUCKING ROCKY MOUNTAINS

[.Gathiel]

I'm on an HP laptop, just gonna copy paste what it says on the description.

2.5GHz AMD Elite quad-core A10-5750M accelerated processor with 4MB L2 cache
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
AMD Radeon HD 8650G graphics with up to 4206MB total graphics memory

My mother bought it for me as a Christmas gift this last Christmas. She got it on QVC, it's not bad but the way they advertised it as being a "gaming PC" when someone asked if it can play SimCity is quite funny. It's not the greatest but it can play PSO2 good enough for me and a few other games I've tried on it.

[Escudero]

Without having read the rest of the thread, if your laptop has a good old platter and magnet harddrive that is probably contributing to slower loading times. Laptop harddrives usually spin at 5400rpms, while typical desktop platters go 7200.