[xCarnageV1]

Press ESC *or F10*.
Go to Video Options.
Click "High". I don't care if your computer sucks. Click it and shut up.
Go to the Advanced Tab.
Disable shadows completely.
If you are on a laptop, scroll down to the system texture cache bar and maximize it.
Click Apply, then OK.


There is a bug that causes low settings to actually produce worse FPS than high settings. With the shadows disabled, you can actually play better on high settings than low.

-_-

So in my own instance during a quest my FPS went from 30-80! The world i'm usually at 30-50 which on low I ran 25-30. Weird!!!

When your FPS drops, make sure it's not the shader bug where it reverts to 3.0 from 2.0.

This worked wonders for me.

[musejasong]

WoW, Your my hero. I was playing on low setting with ok FPS, now I'm on high with great fps. Game looks amazing. Shame I wasted 45 levels looking at crap.

Bump for a great find.

[murdomb]

all i can say is...

0.o

[Anakh]

You are a ****ing champion.

[Leyrock]

Hmmmm very interesting.. My g/fs laptop was having some OS problems, couldnt click on start menu or use the taskbar, couldnt System restore or even install Vista Sp1, but when i did canyourunit.com or w/e, it was halfway between required and recommended.

ANyways, I went to play the game, and I put it all of low, disbaled shadows, put shaders on 2.0, lowered EVERYTHING!!!!

It was a damned slideshow. I was like wtf.

ANyways, so i just reinstalled the OS and im definetly going to try this when I finsh getting updates and reinstalling AoC.

so what about the shaders... leave it 3.0? I have it set to 2.0 or the screen is black and flashing

[Taihaku]

who'd of thought the fix to FPS issues was turning your settings on High

[darkthvamp]

im playing with my agp x1950pro ati dual core opteron and 2gig ram windows xp service pack 3 fresh install, i did that trick , and game is running 34 fps at 1280 x 1024 looks beautiful my bear shaman thanks.......... i think funcom should fix this problem asap on the next patch

[mwbidwell]

well, hell, i was skeptical at first, but now that i've seen some successful attempts, i think i might just have to try it as well.

[maelstorm2]

Originally Posted by xCarnageV1 Press ESC *or F10*. Go to Video Options. Click "High". I don't care if your computer sucks. Click it and shut up. Go to the Advanced Tab. Disable shadows completely. If you are on a laptop, scroll down to the system texture cache bar and maximize it. Click Apply, then OK. There is a bug that causes low settings to actually produce worse FPS than high settings. With the shadows disabled, you can actually play better on high settings than low. -_- So in my own instance during a quest my FPS went from 30-80! The world i'm usually at 30-50 which on low I ran 25-30. Weird!!! When your FPS drops, make sure it's not the shader bug where it reverts to 3.0 from 2.0. This worked wonders for me.

Doesn't work for me .. infact i still get exactly same fps as before. Now not only is it a slideshow but it looks better.

[mwbidwell]

Originally Posted by maelstorm2 Doesn't work for me .. infact i still get exactly same fps as before. Now not only is it a slideshow but it looks better.

hahah. well, look at the bright side. at least now you can enjoy a slideshow that looks GOOD.