[b4t3m4n]

I am getting the game, regardless, because I have faith. Currently, there isn't an MMO in existance that has hitching (on my computer atleast), and if it does exist its minimal. EQ2 was the worse, but sadly VG puts it to shame. Most of the trolls/flamers/and normal buyers complain this is their biggest turn off. That being said, it would be nice to have a real, technical, discussion about the current problems involved with fixing it. Saying the game will run 10% better doesn't really do it for me. Some real information from the dev team about why the engine is currently struggle on all but the premium machines on loading would be an appreciated gesture.

Currently running a SATA 250 gig drive, 7200 rpm and 1 gig ram (and dont tell me to spend 150 dollars on another gig, you would be killing a customer base if that becomes the mandatory solution)

[Ragekills]

Originally Posted by b4t3m4n

Currently running a SATA 250 gig drive, 7200 rpm and 1 gig ram (and dont tell me to spend 150 dollars on another gig, you would be killing a customer base if that becomes the mandatory solution)

Minimum and recommended specs:

http://www.silkyvenom.com/pages/newfaq.php?faqid=22

Wile 2 gigs is not required its recommended and there for would help with performance.

I only have 1 gig of ram. I will not upgrade it because I will be getting DDR2 for my new computer when I upgrade.

I have accepted the performance of my computer the way it is as should other folks.

There are only a couple options the way I see it.

1) Accept it, and buy the game.
2) Don't buy the game and move on.
3) Upgrade and stop whining.

[Lupich]

Yeah, theres almost just as many people whining about the specs as there is people telling people to get a better machine.

Its an infinite loop of whining.

[Adebisi]

If only upgrading to 2 GB (the recommended) got rid of hitching, you would have a point about shutting up and upgrading. Even with 3 GB hitching is a fact of life.

I will admit though, with 1 GB the hitching is far worse (having tried it).

[neolaw]

I currently am running a Dell 24" FPS Monitor with Nvidia 7800GT 256mb SLI, AMD 64x2 4200 Processor, Hitachi 10,000 RPM SATA Harddrive ,2GB Dual Channel RAM with conn. speed:

Download Speed: 4442 kbps (555.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 360 kbps (45 KB/sec transfer rate)

And I still hitch and rubberband alot of the time. Rain during the game is extremely laggy and all this running at Balanced settings....

Any ideas................

[visceral monkey]

In the short term, the best thing you can possibly do is run the game on a 7200 rpm or faster hard drive and defrag, defrag, defrag. When I say defrag I mean every day and especially after every patch or whenever you install something. Get a program like Diskeeper and have it run defrags in the background, etc.

Long term, there is quite a lot Sigil can do to minimize the hitching effect, in fact, it's already been improved. That kind of thing will continue to improve as they tweak the performance.

[Plethora22]

Originally Posted by Ragekills

Minimum and recommended specs:

http://www.silkyvenom.com/pages/newfaq.php?faqid=22

Wile 2 gigs is not required its recommended and there for would help with performance.

I only have 1 gig of ram. I will not upgrade it because I will be getting DDR2 for my new computer when I upgrade.

I have accepted the performance of my computer the way it is as should other folks.

There are only a couple options the way I see it.

1) Accept it, and buy the game.
2) Don't buy the game and move on.
3) Upgrade and stop whining.

Allow me to just point out that I have faith Sigil will get things right eventually. I think from some of his posts it is obvious Brad would like a bit more time but really has no other options at this point.

That said I think there are some performance issues on sigils end of things that go beyond some pretty steep system requirements. I just recently got my brand new system all set up and ready to rock, and there are a couple of issues that I've had that just should not be happening on my system.

Firstly, I've crashed to desktop a couple of times. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with performance, as only one time of the times I can remember was it even in a high traffic area. I sent in the report like a good little beta tester, but that's issue number one.

Number two, as was stated by the OP, is the hitching. Often enough I get hitching when running into a high pop area, and this is on a computer that gets 30+ fps with all the graphics options maxed out. That just shouldn't be happening. I'm not saying I don't want to see a slowdown, obviously there will be a slowdown with a number of new things are being rendered all at once. What I am saying is that my understanding of good coding is that you string out the object rendering a bit and get a more average drop in the framerate as compared to the 35 fps - 3 fps - 20 - 2 - 35 - 5 -etc. that is essentially what happens when I run into a high traffic area.

-Pleth