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[Deadfish12345]

I am getting super bad performance and lag on my computer, especially on the new river city,and forest colony maps. I am running mostly everything on low, and the textures, and object detail on high. Here are my specs. Any ideas to help me get some more performance out of this computer?
Amd Athelon II x4 3.0ghz
Ram -16 gb
2x ati4850 crossfired
windows 7

[cx5]

Hi,

What's your framerate like?
What do you use to monitor them?

Solutions and ideas in these links

http://mwomercs.com/...me-rate-solved/

http://mwomercs.com/...s-have-working/

According to this simple chart
http://www.tomshardw...iew,3107-7.html

Your 4850 crossfire is equavalent to my old 5870, which I could put everything in HIGH and still gets 40+++ fps.

Mind you the only real reason why I don't push beyond HIGH using 5870 is because the amount of Vram needed exceed 1GB, hence keeping it under 1GB is simply all HIGH ok, beyond is overloading the GPU Vram. See all the links I provided. Good luck.

[IraqiWalker]

Deadfish12345, on 20 August 2015 - 07:41 PM, said:

I am getting super bad performance and lag on my computer, especially on the new river city,and forest colony maps. I am running mostly everything on low, and the textures, and object detail on high. Here are my specs. Any ideas to help me get some more performance out of this computer?
Amd Athelon II x4 3.0ghz
Ram -16 gb
2x ati4850 crossfired
windows 7

Crossfire might be causing problems. I would also recommend dropping quality on everything to low.

Oh, and for the record, the game is CPU bound, meaning that your GPU doesn't get taxed that much. While your processor has to deal with most of the detail in the game.


EDIT: could you give us the exact processor you're using? I don't remember any Athlon processors having an "x4" in them.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 20 August 2015 - 08:07 PM.

[Not A Real RAbbi]

Those two maps run a LITTLE slow on my 2011 20.5" iMac (Win7/64). Still playable. All the other maps are pretty smooth. That's with medium settings. I tried running LOW, but got sick of the considerable difference between the appearances of cover at range and the actual geometry (impossible to snipe effectively that way).

Word of advice: Check into what else is running on your machine while MWO is running. Anything you don't need, don't even let it run background. KILL it.

[Dragoon20005]

What i suspect is the GPU issues

if not you are looking at your CPU


check background task

and try to update your GPU drivers

although i doubt the recent Catalyst drivers support HD 4xxx series

run at DX9

[Rogue Jedi]

do you use a hardwired network connection or wireless?

I have found that playing on WiFi tends to cause bad lag spikes and disconnects, compared to a hardwired connection which is far more stable, since switching to wired I will get bad lag maybe 1 game in 100 as opposed to in half of all games over wireless.

as far as system specs your CPU definitely looks like the week point, the Athlon II range was AMDs low to mid range line, they finished releasing them about 4 years ago.

Edited by Rogue Jedi, 21 August 2015 - 12:17 AM.

[Tarogato]

Rogue Jedi, on 21 August 2015 - 12:12 AM, said:

do you use a hardwired network connection or wireless?

I have found that playing on WiFi tends to cause bad lag spikes and disconnects, compared to a hardwired connection which is far more stable, since switching to wired I will get bad lag maybe 1 game in 100 as opposed to in half of all games over wireless.

Depends on your connection. I play exclusively on WiFi and I've never had a problem except when somebody else is sapping up my bandwidth.

Besides, OP is talking about poor framerate, even though he might not realise it. Newer maps = higher hardware expectations = worse performance on most systems.

Edited by Tarogato, 21 August 2015 - 12:47 AM.

[McHoshi]

i guess it´s your cpu because it´s a real old one and not the fastest amd i guess
3 ghz is way to low to get good playable fps on an amd cpu!

[Rogue Jedi]

McHoshi, on 21 August 2015 - 12:53 AM, said:

i guess it´s your cpu because it´s a real old one and not the fastest amd i guess
3 ghz is way to low to get good playable fps on an amd cpu!

my 4 year old Phenom II X6 3ghz is fine for frame rates at custom (mostly medium) settings, but the Phenom was about 30% faster per core than the Athlon II on release,
clock speed is not relevant, it is how the computer uses that speed,

e.g. a new Intel i5 at 3ghz will seriously outperform my Phenom II because the newer chips are better designed.

[Nick Makiaveli]

I have a Athlon X2 with dual 3.3ghz and only 6mb of Ram, so I suspect either Crossfire (heard of issues) or way too many background programs.

If you have MS Office, Adobe Reader, etc installed they are almost certainly set to pre-load in the background so they appear to launch quicker.

I use CCleaner from Piriform.com. It will show you what automatically starts when you boot up and let you disable it from that screen. It's also the ONLY program I trust to clean my registry (otherwise I do it manually) which can help especially if you've never reformatted the hard drive, and have installed/uninstalled many programs over the years.

Next get Defraggler, also from Piriform. (No I don't work there, I've used their products for over 15 years.) It's the best defragmenter program I know of. Run a quick defrag, then when you have time set the option to move large files (like movies) to the end of the drive to increase seek time, you can also defrag the free space to reduce future fragmentation. It can even defrag your page file (I've set mine to run at every boot, only takes a few seconds).

If all that fails, get MalwareBytes and scan for rootkits etc. Actually get that anyway and run it just in case.

[nehebkau]

Look here:

Why the AMD Hurt?

[Hougham]

What resolution are you running at as this can massively impact performance. Also try dropping your details settings down as I found they really do crimple my frame rate. I have two system, one is a AMD A4-5300 APU that runs good at 720p and all the lowest settings. I can up the textures and object detail to medium and it is still playable but it starts to get a little choppy in the real thick of it. If I up them to high its unplayable. The CPU spec on this one should be comparable with yours. I have another with AMD Phenom 2 x6 1100T and HD4870 cards but even on this I have to be quite restrained on the graphics. If your after a bit more go on the cheap see what CPU your motherboard can take, you can pick up Phenom II x4 for not a lot.

Edited by Hougham, 22 August 2015 - 08:37 AM.