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Framerate drops while using weapon enchantment

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Submitted by blablabla on Fri, 2012-06-15 11:20

Hi!

When I play my Blood Assassin, she autocasts Mana Shot (or similiar weapon enchantment) which makes the game a bit less fluent (-10fps).
The matter is worse when I use zoom to watch my character closely. Then these flying red skulls make framerate drop by 30-40 fps.
Do you know any solution to this problem?

Paul

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Submitted by bare_elf on Fri, 2012-06-15 18:28

What operating system you are using, and your system specs. including processor type and speed, amount of physical memory, size of paging file, type of video card and its details.

Elf
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Submitted by blablabla on Mon, 2012-06-18 14:41

bare_elf wrote:
What operating system you are using, and your system specs. including processor type and speed, amount of physical memory, size of paging file, type of video card and its details.

Elf

System: Windows 7 32bit
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T9400 (6M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) link
RAM: 4,00 GB (3,49 usable)
Size of paging file: 3571 MB
Video card: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M link
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Submitted by bare_elf on Wed, 2012-06-20 02:35

Paul, I can not see any problems with your system configuration. Your video card should be able to handle the blood assassin's mana shot without problems. I would not expect to see any lag at all. Run Windows XP on my game system because I have several old games that Windows 7 dislikes. However I know several people that are playing all versions of Dungeon Siege from the First Dungeon Siege to Broken World and have not reported this issue. It might be do to the screen resolution you are using, I would suggest not going larger than 1024x768. I will pass this problem on to some of my friends to see if they might have any suggestions.

Elf
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Submitted by blablabla on Wed, 2012-06-20 06:31

I checked how framerate depends on various conditions:

1024x768....enchantment off.....enchantment on
no zoom..................60fps........................60fps
max zoom...............60fps........................14fps

1920x1080....enchantment off.....enchantment on
no zoom..................60fps........................30fps
max zoom...............30fps........................12fps

I don't have to lower the resolution because the game doesn't run smoothly enough only when enchantment is on and the view is zoomed.
I rarely zoom the view so it's not a huge problem.

An interesting thing here is that when I play dualclassed warrior/nature mage and use Fist of Stone weapon enchantments these bad framerates above are higher.
Maybe it's because there are 3 red skulls flying in BA enchantment and just 2 pieces of rock in FoS enchantment?

Anyway, I'm really thankful for your attention. Writing my first message, I wanted to find out whether this problem had not been a well-know solvable bug. It seems it's rare.
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Submitted by bare_elf on Wed, 2012-06-20 07:05

Paul you are quite welcome. I just wish there was a fix that I was aware of. Maybe someone else has seen this and has a solution.

Elf
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Submitted by PhoeniX on Wed, 2012-06-20 15:19

If you play with Hotfix or Aranna Legacy, you can set the buff_effect_duration in the .ini file.

I keep mine set for 30 seconds.
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Submitted by blablabla on Thu, 2012-06-21 13:13

Thanks, it works. I've set it to 0.
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