Very low FPS while playing archeage

[royeoren]

Hey,
my FPS while playing Archeage is very low (1-10 most of the time) even when i set the lowest quallity
all of my drivers are up to date, i've tried to reinstall the game, the drivers and DX9-11.
i even used nvidia inspector to delete Archeage settings and reset them myself to the maximum.

My specs are:
Intel core i5-2310
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1028Mb
12Gb ram.

im stuck :S
Thanks!

edit: i ran a 3DMark loop to check my stats and everything is pretty good, which means my computer is fine to run this game
and yet, this game is unplayable for me right now

 

[nukemaster]

I would guess the video card is holding you back.

It is not quite a gaming card and more aimed at media playback.

Can you please try the game at a lower resolution with the lower settings.

This review will show you general performance of 520 based cards. This is why reducing the resolution will be best.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GT_520/6.html

 

[royeoren]

I would guess the video card is holding you back.

It is not quite a gaming card and more aimed at media playback.

Can you please try the game at a lower resolution with the lower settings.

This review will show you general performance of 520 based cards. This is why reducing the resolution will be best.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GT_520/6.html

first of all, thanks for your reply!
i've tried at a lower resolution with the lowest settings, fps was higher, but not that much.
1024x768 = 6fps stable.
while
1920X1080= 4fps +-

i review the link, seems like i have a pretty bad card nowadays.
but yet, it ten times better than minimum requierments.

 

[nukemaster]

The card is not 10x the requirements. While it is a newer generation it is still on the low end.

For instance in the review for the card I linked the 5770(own this) card is about the same as a 4870(and this) card.

Now saying the 4000 series is a bit of a bad way of listing it because cards like the 4350(own one of these too) will not even stand a chance. I would say they are talking 46xx(4830 would be a MINIMUM for even less demanding modern games) and up at least and 8800gt and up.

On the plus side today's mid level cards like the GTX 750(overclocked and TI version in this review) or 750ti(this thing is great when you think of the low power consumption)

Tom's has a chart to compare average performance of video cards to compare across generations. Some cards will still be noticeably faster if one is the low end and one is the high end of the same tier, but it gives a good idea of how things stack up.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

 

[royeoren]

So your suggestion is to buy a new card such as GTX 750 or 750ti?
im pretty sure the problem is not a card failure since the game is not reacting to the resulotion change.

 

[nukemaster]

I do not think the card is failing. I think it is just slow for this use.

What card you get depends on what you can afford and what power supply you have(higher end cards require more power.).

If you look at this page below you will see at 1920 x 1080 even mid level cards struggle at high settings. MMO games can get VERY cpu heavy in large areas as well.
http://www.futilez.com/forum/m/25182157/viewthread/14285938-archeage-cpugpu-benchmarks

Systems are about balance. So you have a decent cpu lots of memory and a much lower end video card than such a system would normally have for gaming. This is the reason I recommend looking at a new video card.

A quick google even shows similar results at and even higher 2560 x 1600 resolution(as expected).

The game is more demanding than it looks. If it means anything my girlfriend was playing on an i7 920(most likely slower than what you have in this game even when overclocked) and a 5870 video card. Does it run perfect? no, but it sure is not unplayable.

I do not have a GT 520 to test on her system and the 4350 would just die(performance wise.) trying.

 

[Kelzad]

I don't exactly have a resolution for you, but I will say that my 650GTX ti and 6830AMD 3.8GHz has issues with fps on this game as well. Except for I hardly ever get below 20 fps but mine will jump up and down from 20fps-156fps makes 0 sense. ArcheAge doesn't have the best programming and is very CPU intensive. Your i5 should be fine. My laptop has a GT330m and i7 1st gen and runs 60+fps with no drops yet my gaming pc like I said has spikes and plummets.

One thing I noticed improves both the FPS's was first of all setting it to DirectX9 instead of the BS DX11. Also putting it in windowed mode gave me 15 more fps on average on both though I have yet to fix my fluctuating fps on gaming desktop.