Any ETA on fixing these ridiculous AMD FPS drops? (e: Nvidia cards affected as well!)

I start to suspect that AMD is dominating the market nowadays and that's why it looks like it's a Radeon problem - some Nvidia users have the exact same fps spikes as we do.
I think the engine just has a serious problem with a majority of PC configurations - Most likely it was optimzied for Krips PC^^

Wish I hadn't spent 50$ in the first day of the open beta :(

And no, the game is not perfect - when you have soooooo maaaaany people complaining about the same single issue it means that, lo behold!, there actually IS a problem.

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Chris wrote:

That's correct - we'd love help tracking it down. If you have a Radeon card that exhibits problems that don't occur on Nvidia cards and it does it on a fresh copy of windows, please mail me at chris@grindinggear.com with details of the card so that we can investigate. Thanks!

While Im not going to go and format/reinstal windows, sorry value my (in)sanity too much. I think Ive found an issue.

I read in the patch thread where you said..

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Chris wrote:

Every Radeon user that we have investigated has eventually turned out to have weird settings set in their overall control panel. We don't know what other games are setting these, but it's not something we can control.

So I went to my CCC and tried to make a custom profile for PoE (was going to put everything on application controlled). However.. When I link the client.exe I get a pop-up with :

"An AMD pre-defined application profile already exists for the selected application. do you want to override the pre-defined profile?"

Well, I clicked no, then went hunting for it, but I cannot find it..so maybe these weird settings are being set by AMD themselves?

I will probably go ahead later this evening and try making a custom PoE profile. See if that changes anything.

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Chris wrote:

That's correct - we'd love help tracking it down. If you have a Radeon card that exhibits problems that don't occur on Nvidia cards and it does it on a fresh copy of windows, please mail me at chris@grindinggear.com with details of the card so that we can investigate. Thanks!

Can you please elaborate on the weird settings you previously investigated? I am happy to adjust my settings, although they are the default CCC settings. As far as I know there hasn't been an official post about proper CCC settings or settings that may conflict with the game. Love the game and I want to play but this is becoming very frustrating!

I have little to no issues. I have a Sapphire radeon HD 6850.


Loading times can be long and when new things are spawned (like summon skeletons) I get spikes but i think it's because of my HDD not my GPU.

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Xenthian wrote:

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Chris wrote:

That's correct - we'd love help tracking it down. If you have a Radeon card that exhibits problems that don't occur on Nvidia cards and it does it on a fresh copy of windows, please mail me at chris@grindinggear.com with details of the card so that we can investigate. Thanks!

While Im not going to go and format/reinstal windows, sorry value my (in)sanity too much. I think Ive found an issue.

I read in the patch thread where you said..

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Chris wrote:

Every Radeon user that we have investigated has eventually turned out to have weird settings set in their overall control panel. We don't know what other games are setting these, but it's not something we can control.

So I went to my CCC and tried to make a custom profile for PoE (was going to put everything on application controlled). However.. When I link the client.exe I get a pop-up with :

"An AMD pre-defined application profile already exists for the selected application. do you want to override the pre-defined profile?"

Well, I clicked no, then went hunting for it, but I cannot find it..so maybe these weird settings are being set by AMD themselves?

I will probably go ahead later this evening and try making a custom PoE profile. See if that changes anything.

I would assume this is just the same story as the nvidia cards.
nvidia has a profile of dozens of games stored, so when I look in the nvidia control panel poe comes up as a 'dragons: mmo' game, or something like that, because the poe executable is named client.exe -- same as the dragons mmo.

for anybody with nvidia cards -- you could try the geforce sli profile tool linked in this thread and see if that helps any.
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php?t=591166

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EomMage wrote:

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Xenthian wrote:

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Chris wrote:

That's correct - we'd love help tracking it down. If you have a Radeon card that exhibits problems that don't occur on Nvidia cards and it does it on a fresh copy of windows, please mail me at chris@grindinggear.com with details of the card so that we can investigate. Thanks!

While Im not going to go and format/reinstal windows, sorry value my (in)sanity too much. I think Ive found an issue.

I read in the patch thread where you said..

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Chris wrote:

Every Radeon user that we have investigated has eventually turned out to have weird settings set in their overall control panel. We don't know what other games are setting these, but it's not something we can control.

So I went to my CCC and tried to make a custom profile for PoE (was going to put everything on application controlled). However.. When I link the client.exe I get a pop-up with :

"An AMD pre-defined application profile already exists for the selected application. do you want to override the pre-defined profile?"

Well, I clicked no, then went hunting for it, but I cannot find it..so maybe these weird settings are being set by AMD themselves?

I will probably go ahead later this evening and try making a custom PoE profile. See if that changes anything.

I would assume this is just the same story as the nvidia cards.
nvidia has a profile of dozens of games stored, so when I look in the nvidia control panel poe comes up as a 'dragons: mmo' game, or something like that, because the poe executable is named client.exe -- same as the dragons mmo.

for anybody with nvidia cards -- you could try the geforce sli profile tool linked in this thread and see if that helps any.
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php?t=591166

It's possibly the case for some users, where multiple games have been installed, however, on a clean system install, with only PoE and no ATI presets/caps and CCC settings on default, I still see the instant frame drops. I would also say, for me at least, this is mostly apparent in Act 3.

Personally, I have my doubts about this being a GPU issue, as the problem seems to be apparent on a very wide range of cards, from both ATI and Nvidia.

I'm not suggesting it's simply a gpu issue, just looking for anything that might make play smoother.

it doesn't have anything to do with previous game installs --- we have never had the dragons game on our machines, it's a preloaded profile.

I managed to solve my constant FPS drops by removing and re-installing the game.

Perharps something went corrupted in the patching process. (Although I did run the Packcheck several times).