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yes and every other one where we get that explosion, I am in slow motion until after the boss drops.
Yeah same here. The EM after said "what explosion?" which did make me LOL.
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That's not a PC that's a Workstation!
Haven't found a program yet to load it down LOL and its fast as all hell too. Got one hell of a deal on it too.
Yea. Plus throwers and basically all CC users, who don't crash/hangup on this particular effect. There is pretty much nothing you can do about it, except for telling Mesanna or your EM to not use mobs with those effects because they are severely unfair for EC users.Good luck with that though, from personal experience they will just act like they never heard about it.
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Every EM event I have attended in the past few months my screen just constantly flashes white and the game freezes, it's just an hour or so of thinking 'Am I dead again?' 'Yay, I'm alive, oh wait, now I'm dead' It doesn't stop me from going, it's just a bit of an exercise in frustration....My PC plays plenty of recent games with no trouble, it's just UO that's a problem.
This.
You can try to get the Devs to fix it
There is plenty of lag and crashes for folks in the CC as well.
I run an I7 with 16g ram and 4g video and freeze for 3-5 seconds on the death of every event boss in CC.
Right. Next you'll be asking them to fix the Earthquake effect. Let's be realistic here.You can try to get the Devs to fix it
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This is another game breaking EC bug @Bleak . Any mob that uses either the screen-covering FX of an explosion or the waves of flamestrikes tends to bring the EC to its knees, even on beefy PCs. Please tighten this code somehow so these mobs (which EMs LOVE) aren't so hellishly annoying.
The screen whiteout effect is almost just as bad...
Yeah it absolutely kills the EC. The big explosions from Corgul and Juo'nar are similar but not as bad as the EM event ones, well it seems that way. I will record the next event and hopefully get a good example on video. The last two Drachs events have used it and I've totally locked up until the boss died.
Another problem is with opening the corpses when they go public. They are still spawning with HUNDREDS of items inside and this also totally kills the EC when you open the corpse.
I am using the default client, not Pinco.
Re: full Mob packs. This can be solved simply by limiting the number of loot items generated. Give EM mobs a greater property budget, but a hard cap on the number of items. The corpse doesn't need to be stuffed full of lag/lockup-causing things nobody is going to bother to loot.
I've complained about this till my fingers nearly bleed... I've personally met with Kyronix and he talked to Bleak about the problem with looting corpses... they just IMO DO NOT GET IT. They say that it's Pinco's but it isn't.
I've told them over and over ... I tried helping them but they DO NOT GET IT.
They just don't realize what's going on and they REFUSE to do what I suggested... which was to attend a GL's FINAL EM Boss event and try opening the corpse themselves in the EC from their home PC not the server side PCs ...... Just like any player... on player characters... and tell me that NOTHING is wrong. Because it's an out and out LIE.
The problem isn't actually the number of items per se, its their properties. 125+ items * 3-8 lines of properties is a lot of data to parse, this is where the client chokes. Pinco's gags a little more because it tries to gauge the imbuing weight for unraveling every item loaded.
A proper test for this issue would need 50-70 players beating on an EM-style mob on TC1 and let the devs whisk the corpse away to poke and prod once it went public (using both UIs).
Might I suggest an impromptu event on a Winterland shard for such a test?
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A proper test for this issue would need 50-70 players beating on an EM-style mob on TC1 and let the devs whisk the corpse away to poke and prod once it went public (using both UIs).
Might I suggest an impromptu event on a Winterland shard for such a test?
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And have them add all the big explosions that they can. Can deal with two problems at once that way!
I would also suggest everyone sends a link to this thread to [email protected] and hope they look into it.
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I read that and it just seemed so hilarious to me that a 19 year old game requires a bigger GPU and more RAM....
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Doesn't have much anything to do with the game itself, at least server side, more to do with the client. The CC's sprite based graphics have a tendency to be more CPU heavy, since new PC's typically come with newer more powerful CPU's than those used in 20 years ago, it's no wonder the CC holds up better than the EC in some areas with RAM being a bigger factor. The more GPU driven EC though yea, I can see it needing a beefier Graphics Card as you've got the reverse scenario, though RAM is still important since the CPU is where the particles are still spawned initially by the CPU then handed off to the GPU.
When I'm looking at building a new PC on a budget I always look for a balance, the best GPU in the world won't compensate for a low end CPU, and vice versa, they'll just act as choke points for one or the other.
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It is in a way, but what shocks me more are there are people who only play UO these days. With the cornucopia of Free to Play spilling forth an abundant bounty of games, it's surprising to me that some folks haven't even considered exploring the vast number of games out there.Oh I know it's not as simple as 'old game, any crappy PC can run it!' It just struck me as funny having to upgrade a PC to play UO! My husband is a software engineer, no doubt he will now lecture me on my ignorance...
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To an extent, there are a lot of good games out there. I'm honestly surprised when I hear that some folks don't at the least check some of them out. I get the whole thing about people not liking change etc. but you know, what happens in a year, 5 years, or when ever it will inevitably occur that UO is no more? Does gaming become a closed chapter in your life, do you take your experience to the emulation arena, do you start looking for a new game then?
I like to keep my options open, for just MMO's besides UO I think I have all of these installed, I'm not at my desktop so I'm sure I'm missing a couple.
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In your settings, try changing the particle detail to low. That helped tremendously for me when I would lag out due to a massive explosion. Corgul and Juo'nar used to be the worst, but now I have no problem there.
And as others pointed out, if this is only happening at EM events... that could also be the issue.
And as others pointed out, if this is only happening at EM events... that could also be the issue.
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Interesting thought, though I wouldn't do it as a poll here on the site, instead I'd use something like Survey Monkey.
From my understanding most of it is just caused by the old APIs the clients use. For example DirectDraw, which was deprecated with DirectX8 and is fully emulated on newer PCs/DirectX versions. You just don't get the benefit out of those beefy cards when you can't speak to them in the right format. It's not like the computing power can't handle it. I can play games with better graphics in my web browser nowadays
Unfortunately, it is certainly not feasible for the small team to redo one of the clients to use the APIs modern graphic cards expect. Plus for the EC they use GameBryo so I guess they had to update that whole thing *cough*