Sudden drop to 2 fps?Follow

This is the first time this has happened to me in... well... since I started playing back in 2.0 alpha.

I was running along the path in Gridania on a newly created character, and my system went berserk. Lag so intense it felt like FFXI's Dynamis with 64 people when you forgot to turn off your AV. (First thing I checked, by the way.) It took me five minutes to get the client to actually shut down.

I know my CPU is the weak link in my system, but this game was running as smooth as silk just minutes before. Task Manager said my CPU was at 40% usage. I have a pretty hefty video card (well, it was last Christmas when I got it) and 16 GB of RAM...

Anyone else experience this? I'm hoping it was a fluke.

Gonna let someone else have my server slot for the rest of the evening.

To make server space for players. SE is now causing your computer to break so you log off. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I know some people have been reporting some pretty bad slowdown with NVIDIA cards.

This has been an issue for me since beta p4 actually. I tried running at a lower resolution, but the same thing happens. Sometimes it crashes right after and sometimes I get lucky and I stay in. It happens frequently even. I have a amd 7970 gpu and just like you it doesn't even have to be pushed when this happens. It has happened for me in a lot of different situations, dungeon, running in a city, running outside a city, a lot of the time it actually happens as I stand still and just when I hit the teleport button or return it starts. Not really sure what the issues is, but it is very annoying especially at times like this when a crash usually means no more gaming since you will most likely not get back in. If you find a solution (if it is an issue that stays for you) please let me know and I will do the same.

Edited, Aug 27th 2013 1:56am by Belcrono

It's most likely server issues. If it was running fine before it's likely to not be a PC problem.

Haven't had any up until i logged out at 1am EST. Quadcore i5 3.4GHz game been running smooth as silk.

EA update confused my laptop and it kept trying to launch with the GMA instead of 670M. It took a bit to get it loading with the right GPU... not sure if that pertains to your situation but might help others

Eastern shroud around 10pm PST in Ultros was ridiculously slow last night on PS3. I couldn't see or target anything for at least 10 seconds. Makes me happy I have Blizzard II. Once, it even just popped me to a black screen and then back into the log in screen. I started to panic, but by some stroke of luck I was able to log back in immediately. Once I got back in I ported out of Shroud and it was better.

It's worth testing. I think I'm actually running on beta drivers. I'll check my driver version after work and see if a roll back / update fixes it.

This was right in front of the amphitheater for me. I have that same plunge down to 20 fps in Ul'Dah around the aetheryte, but what I experienced in Gridania was ten times worse.

Happened to me again when I teleported, and then I got stuck in between zones. The UI stopped responding so I couldn't call a GM or exit the game normally.

At least I'm in a sanctuary so woo, rested exp next time I defeat 1017.

I posted a thread about this problem with the screen going black and fps dropping to 10-20fps. To fix this, I uninstalled the drivers through control panel in the "add/remove programs." Then I went into control panel ---> device manager ---> display adapters ---> properties ----> clicked uninstall drivers. Rebooted windows without any nvidia drivers and installed a fresh copy of the 320.49 driver. Haven't had any problems since.

You can tell it's a clean driver install when windows reboots and the screen defaults to 640 x 480. If you have any other trace of drivers, windows will display your monitor's native resolution.

Edited, Aug 28th 2013 1:04am by ASpaceman