Apologies for the thread hijak butI was planning to start another myself I'm looking to upgrade my shitty AMD x1300 for somthing with a budget of £120.
It's nothing vital as I'm not massivly missing the graphics being on anything other than low and tbh 25-30ish average dropping to 15fps very rarely in averlon last night wasn't so terrible. I would however like the option to hit Full effects for solo or smaller WB/Partying, Gunbad for instance.
AMD Athlon x2 4200+ 2.2 Ghz
4gig Ram
ATI x1300 256mb
XP - 34
is what I'm currently playing with and I was looking at a Radeon HD 4850 as an upgrade.
should I, shouldn't I for £120? and if I should what are my options. While I probably could go higher than that I'm not entirely sure I want to.
Any advice on the matter would be much appreciated.
I'm a fan of the Ati 38xx and 48xx line cards. I run 2x 3870s and I've never had anything but perfect framerate in all situations. Looks like the card is your bottleneck there, so it should make quite a difference for you.
With regard to the rest of the thread. I've said it before and I'll say it again, to anyone that experiences performance issues (specifically hitching, which is where your game freezes for a split second every 2-3 seconds) in PvP situations, you need
BuffThrottle. Apologies if I'm preaching to the converted here but I just want to make sure everyone's covered.
Personally I notice my hitching start to come back in intense situations / large warbands where there's a lot of debuffs flying around. I think upping the buff delay on BuffThrottle may be the answer, it's just a scale issue, but the FPS is not affected (it's important to recognise the difference between low FPS, and hitching). You can set the buff delay by using /script BuffRefreshDelay = numSeconds (0.5 is the default) and check the number of throttle events by using /script BuffThrottle.Verify() (if this is very high you may want to up the delay).
The issue is that Mythic need to fix the UI performance so that BuffThrottle is not necessary. It's issue #1 that'll lose em customers imo. If I never knew about BuffThrottle I don't think I'd still be playing, because it's really that bad. We need to rely on a 3rd party mod to make the game not run like sh*t? That's not good mojo.
