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[krolmir]

Since the last hot fix my game on all my systems is now unplayable, I cannot provide value to my team when I am running 90 FPS max graphics, only suddenly to drop to low teens. Lowering graphics does nothing to help this phenomenon. Before last patch and hotfix, this was happening on my laptop only, for quite some time. I used to play MWO on my laptop at max graphics with FPS of 75+, its been almost 8 months since then, and steadily ever so steadily I've had to keep lowering graphics here and there to maintain a consistent frame rate. About a month ago even bottom of the barrel low graphics wasn't enough to stop the drop monster, on the laptop. So I switched to MWO on my desktop only. I was still able to play it at max graphics and have a 80-90 FPS with no drop monsters. Than the last patch hit and no problems, than the hot-mess 2.whatever comes along and low and behold, now the desktop is doing it.

Ran the repair tool on both comps repeatedly to no avail, still does it.

Internet speed is a steady 18.8 MPS.

Router is brand new Lynksys WRT1900 AC the best one they currently make.

Both Comps are high-end Alienware (waiting for slew of anti-AWare comments already, lol), about a year old, and no its not the comps because I can run every other game I have, most with better graphics than MWO at 90-120+ FPS....

Graphics drivers are the newest from Nvidia.

I had a eerily similar problem to this way back in Closed Beta. This feels fundamentally the same, and I remember than how support and dev's vehemently denied and issue with the game, only to recant about 3-4 months later, and than a new patch came out that fixed it for most players right away, others at the 2 or 3rd following hotfix.

On that note I hope someone seriously looks into this, or I will have to start requesting refunds on my CW3 and R2 packs.

[ninjaphobos]

I have also experienced a 'drop monster', but mine has only been from 30 fps to <20 fps on a far weaker NVidia 650M GPU laptop.

[Ironwithin]

Did you try switching back to the 32bit client ?
Upper-right corner of the launcher, cog-icon, "Force 32bit-game client".

The last patch made the 64bit client default for any machines running a 64bit OS.

[Night Thastus]

I used to have this "drop monster" and it ruined my experience. Learned what it was. My laptop had a single fan for a giant-ass GPU and Quad-core CPU, and the fan itself was covered by plastic shrouds, rending it near worthless.

Check your temperatures. If they get into the high 90's or 100's, congratulations, you've found your problem. It's likely something in your system throttling to deal with the heat.

You can use OpenHardwareMonitor to check your temps. Just make sure to do a graph, that way you can see how it was over time. If you tab-out of the game to check it, you'll likely get a lower than real number, since the game is in the background.

If it is heat, put on Vsync to limit the framerate (and thus heat generated by the GPU) and lower a couple graphics settings. The particles effect in this engine is broken, and even on amazing systems (64gb Ram, 4.0 Ghz CPU, etc) it can bring them to a grinding 20FPS due to particles. Put that on it's lowest settings. AND FOR THE LOVE OF COMPUTERS CHECK YOUR COMPUTERS FOR DUST. DONT JUST BLOW ON THEM. GET A COMPRESSOR/COMPRESSED AIR CAN TO TAKE CARE OF IT PROPERLY.

All I've got.

Edited by Night Thastus, 18 May 2015 - 01:55 PM.

[Grendel408]

Night Thastus, on 18 May 2015 - 01:53 PM, said:

AND FOR THE LOVE OF COMPUTERS CHECK YOUR COMPUTERS FOR DUST. DONT JUST BLOW ON THEM. GET A COMPRESSOR/COMPRESSED AIR CAN TO TAKE CARE OF IT PROPERLY.

All I've got.

Oh yeah! Clean that bad boy weekly too! Something like this Take that thing apart, component for component if you need to to clean it out... laptop or not, dust produces heat, creates less air flow and causes static buildup that can lead to a discharge that can... well kill your PC if you're not grounded properly.



edit: I've gotten a Corsair 1050w PSU (sem-modular) since this pic and a GTX660Ti GPU too... but you get the idea

Edited by Grendel408, 18 May 2015 - 02:28 PM.