Darki
Jun 28, 2012, 01:36 AM
Hey there! I decided to make this post after a very frustrating experience with the game yesterday trying to clear the free Desert mission, and let's hope I can sort this out once and for all.
I play the game on max settings, because the game *seemed* to go with it. The specs of my computer are:
S.O.: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU: Intel Core Quad Q6660 @2.40GHz
RAM: 6143 MB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
When I first tried to run the game, in both my computer and my girlfriend's laptop, I put them at level 5 graphics to go lowering them in case the game went bad. To my surprise, while the laptop went horribly lagged and slow, my computer ran it really smooth, so I kept the settings at 5 and went on. I was a bit surprised mostly because I've been playing lately a couple games that to my eyes don't seem to be as good in the graphics department as PSO2, namely, The Sims 3 and Prototype, and they get lagged sometimes, but well, as it worked, I left it as it was.
My first surprise came when playing at full screen (both "real" and "fake" fullscreens). After a while playing, that can be from minutes to hours, the game randomly freezes and the computer gets completely unresponsive. It can freeze in two ways: either the screen just freezes and that's all, or it comes with a very nasty sound from the speakers that seem to be the game sounds very slowed down.
Then I decided to go with window mode, and it worked in a way: when it freezes, the first case only freezes the game and I can just ctrl+alt+del it away, but in some cases, the second case happens and I still need to restart the computer. On top of that, the game shows some visual glitches every now an then, like textures that get "spiked" out or out of place.
I assume this is a graphics issue, but what bugs me the most is that when my gilfriend's computer gets nasty in the graphics department, it starts slowing down like crazy and *then* freezes when it goes very bad. In my computer it just goes to hell without any warning. And it never shows any sign of graphics overload: it can go smooth in a double code duel with two dragons in the middle of Caves with a shitton of monsters and 12 people spamming techs, but freeze in the Desert in a place with no enemies or items. I decided to lower the game graphics to 3 (I seriously can't play at 1, it looks worse than PSU, damnit), but I didn't notice much improvement.
I've also been lurking some related posts and I've seen that many people run on the same settings with even lower spec hardware, which makes me wonder if it's not that my computer hasn't enough juice to run the game, but that there's something broken in the computer.
Any ideas?
I play the game on max settings, because the game *seemed* to go with it. The specs of my computer are:
S.O.: Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU: Intel Core Quad Q6660 @2.40GHz
RAM: 6143 MB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
When I first tried to run the game, in both my computer and my girlfriend's laptop, I put them at level 5 graphics to go lowering them in case the game went bad. To my surprise, while the laptop went horribly lagged and slow, my computer ran it really smooth, so I kept the settings at 5 and went on. I was a bit surprised mostly because I've been playing lately a couple games that to my eyes don't seem to be as good in the graphics department as PSO2, namely, The Sims 3 and Prototype, and they get lagged sometimes, but well, as it worked, I left it as it was.
My first surprise came when playing at full screen (both "real" and "fake" fullscreens). After a while playing, that can be from minutes to hours, the game randomly freezes and the computer gets completely unresponsive. It can freeze in two ways: either the screen just freezes and that's all, or it comes with a very nasty sound from the speakers that seem to be the game sounds very slowed down.
Then I decided to go with window mode, and it worked in a way: when it freezes, the first case only freezes the game and I can just ctrl+alt+del it away, but in some cases, the second case happens and I still need to restart the computer. On top of that, the game shows some visual glitches every now an then, like textures that get "spiked" out or out of place.
I assume this is a graphics issue, but what bugs me the most is that when my gilfriend's computer gets nasty in the graphics department, it starts slowing down like crazy and *then* freezes when it goes very bad. In my computer it just goes to hell without any warning. And it never shows any sign of graphics overload: it can go smooth in a double code duel with two dragons in the middle of Caves with a shitton of monsters and 12 people spamming techs, but freeze in the Desert in a place with no enemies or items. I decided to lower the game graphics to 3 (I seriously can't play at 1, it looks worse than PSU, damnit), but I didn't notice much improvement.
I've also been lurking some related posts and I've seen that many people run on the same settings with even lower spec hardware, which makes me wonder if it's not that my computer hasn't enough juice to run the game, but that there's something broken in the computer.
Any ideas?