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Fang
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 03:08 PM |
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Graphical animations still choppy and load times slow.
I bought the game 2 days ago, and despite the fact that the game is quite stable so far, meaning I haven't experienced any crashes, the game is tremendously slow and the animations are still choppy.
I have a high end computer with a good graphics card and lots of RAM. More than the minimum requirements to play this game. Does anyone else experience choppiness and long load times and if so are they going to release patches to optimize this problem?
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SKPRIMUS
Promising
Supreme Hero
The One and the Prime
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posted October 13, 2011 03:25 PM |
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if you mean mouse cursor is flickering all the time, then yes.
Long start-up time, maybe...but these things don't bother me
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Fang
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 03:32 PM |
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if you mean mouse cursor is flickering all the time, then yes.
Long start-up time, maybe...but these things don't bother me
Actually the cursor flickering doesn't bother me, what's more distracting is the combat animations withing the battlegrounds and also on the adventure map that's choppy.
The whole game seems to be choppy, I mean it's still playable but not as smooth as previous games like H3.
In fact ever since H5, the animations have been choppy and load times slow.
We deserve a smooth game don't you think?
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Nocturnal
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 03:35 PM |
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I bought the game 2 days ago, and despite the fact that the game is quite stable so far, meaning I haven't experienced any crashes, the game is tremendously slow and the animations are still choppy.
I have a high end computer with a good graphics card and lots of RAM. More than the minimum requirements to play this game. Does anyone else experience choppiness and long load times and if so are they going to release patches to optimize this problem?
I also have a good PC and I don't experience those. On the contrary all the animations are very smooth, and town windows load instantly (as I heard some people complain about their being slow).
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 13, 2011 03:42 PM |
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Was ok for me and my pc is several years old. Strange..
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The_Polyglot
Promising
Supreme Hero
Nuttier than squirrel poo
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posted October 13, 2011 03:45 PM |
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@Fang:
Have You tried increasing the speed of the animations in options?
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Fang
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 03:57 PM |
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@Fang:
Have You tried increasing the speed of the animations in options?
There is no specific option for that?
Do you mean unit movement speed? yes i have.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 13, 2011 04:07 PM |
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I have set animation speed around 25%. Felt pretty slow by default.
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Yskonyn
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 04:26 PM |
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These are my specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.6Ghz
8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX285 with 1GB
SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro soundcard
Standard Western Digital 1TB harddisk
Windows 7 64-bit
I experience no choppyness whatsoever. The cursor does flicker sometimes, but that does not bother me a bit.
Animations and gamespeed are smooth as silk.
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Fang
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 04:45 PM |
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Edited by Fang at 16:51, 13 Oct 2011.
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System
Intel core(TM)2 cpu 6400 @ 2.14 ghz 2.13 ghz
RAM = 5 GB
Operating system = Windows 7 64 bit
Graphics card = NVIDIA GTS 450 with 1GB of memory
Maybe I should increase the RAM?
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e3772014
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 04:55 PM |
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Intel core(TM)2 cpu 6400 @ 2.14 ghz 2.13 ghz
RAM = 5 GB
Operating system = Windows 7 64 bit
Graphics card = NVIDIA GTS 450 with 1GB of memory
Maybe I should increase the RAM?
RAM is definitely not the issue here. 4GB is usually enough for any computer unless you have a hundred programs running in the background when playing heroes or something... It may have to do with the 64 bit system, though. I've heard some issues with that. Tone down the graphics and see if the problems are still there. If the problems persist, then it means it has nothing to do with your hardware.
If toning down the graphics makes the game smooth, then try to close your background programs (go to taskmanager to see which ones are taking up your system resources, especially CPU percentage). If that still doesn't help, you probably need a new graphics card, even though what you have now should be enough...
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Fang
Hired Hero
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posted October 13, 2011 07:18 PM |
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Quote:
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Intel core(TM)2 cpu 6400 @ 2.14 ghz 2.13 ghz
RAM = 5 GB
Operating system = Windows 7 64 bit
Graphics card = NVIDIA GTS 450 with 1GB of memory
Maybe I should increase the RAM?
RAM is definitely not the issue here. 4GB is usually enough for any computer unless you have a hundred programs running in the background when playing heroes or something... It may have to do with the 64 bit system, though. I've heard some issues with that. Tone down the graphics and see if the problems are still there. If the problems persist, then it means it has nothing to do with your hardware.
If toning down the graphics makes the game smooth, then try to close your background programs (go to taskmanager to see which ones are taking up your system resources, especially CPU percentage). If that still doesn't help, you probably need a new graphics card, even though what you have now should be enough...
For some reason the game doesn't want to launch anymore, I'm hearing from others who are having same problems and saying it's a network issue from their part.
Anyways, the issue at hand, my graphics card is updated and it's not giving me problems, cause I can play other games that require even more juice than H6. Besides, the game never crashed on me while playing and I never recieved the imfamous blue screen saying that my graphics card failed or something. The game just needs some patching to reduce the framerate and chopiness. I don't run any other programs in the background while playing games since I don't have a habit to do that anyways.
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Kunio
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 13, 2011 10:00 PM |
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I have this bug,I have 90 fps but when I start to move my cursor I have low fps under 60 fps,and when I move the mouse faster on the screen my fps drops to 5-10 fps.
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bluecamel
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2011 04:09 AM |
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Vista
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2 CPUs), 2.3 GHz
3 GB RAM
DirectX 10
ATI Radeon 5700 Series (have latest driver)
Am actively looking for a solution right now, but for me the game is semi-unplayable atm. W/ those system specs I'm not hitting anything out of the park but I can run pretty much any game - H6 shouldn't be any diff.
For me the problem is background textures ALL OVER THE PLACE are popping back and forth/flickering in front of foreground textures. This makes it hard to tell where the path is on the adventure map (you have to use the cursor to tell), not to mention just ruins the experience. Game is also fairly laggy, but from what I've heard it's that way for almost everyone.
This problem mostly occurs on the adventure map and bigtime in cutscenes (unwatchable), but some sieges are affected as well (vs. inferno on the first campaign map, for instance).
I'm thinking it's more of an ATI problem and less of an nvidia prob, just like Rage was worse on ATIs than nvidias when it came out and was a fiasco (on PC anyway). But that's just speculation. More likely that Ubi failed and didn't check compatibility very well before releasing. Any help would be appreciated.
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bluecamel
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 14, 2011 04:43 AM |
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Solution - http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=5861060878&m=7191024359&r=4991026359#4991026359
Worked for me. Hopefully helps anyone else w/ this prob.
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kcwong
Hired Hero
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posted October 16, 2011 09:38 AM |
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Edited by kcwong at 09:39, 16 Oct 2011.
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I set every settings to max and everything are smooth, except one battle map - on the coastlines where you have beaches on all sides. On that particular map things slow down, but once the battle is over it returns to normal.
When loading a save things appear slowly over time... you'd have invisible heroes, creatures and buildings on the adventure map. But I guess that's how the game's written, it's like that in the demo too.
Win7 Ultimate 64bit SP1
NVidia GeForce GTX 460 (280.26)
4GB RAM
DirectX 11.0
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kainc
Famous Hero
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posted October 16, 2011 11:19 AM |
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Hmmm... my cursor only flickered if I had enabled Vsync from menu, so maybe U want to check that if not already done so?
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ewe
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 17, 2011 06:40 PM |
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Hi, I skimmed through this thread and I did not see it mentioned, but if you are experiencing choppiness on a machine that is above min requirements on windows 7 here's something that helped me:
In your advanced system settings, you will find something called "virtual memory". By default it is set to system managed, on the drive your installed the game on, try switching it off system managed and bump it up. I put mine somewhere around 8GB. This solved all the problems for me.
Also, while this should seem obvious, the game takes a major performance dive if your are performing hard disk maintenance tasks such as system backup, virus scans, file indexing, etc. So make sure none of that is scheduled during the times you play.
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