Poor FPS in raids

[Shax84]

How can you have 5GB of ram? 3x1GB+1x2GB? 2x2GB+1GB?

E8400 is a dual channel ram processor and you should definitely have pairs of the same type of ram installed. I suspect you have a typo there though and you mean 8GB (4x2GB) which was normal to have in a computer built around the time when E8400 was new.

I have the same system as you except a Radeon HD7950. It does get laggy from time to time for me as well, but disabling the ingame anti aliasing and using Sweet FX antialiasing helped a lot for increasing my frames per second. Also, it felt a lot smoother when I put the game on my SSD rather than where it was first, on a 7200rpm HDD.

As Kalston pointed out in some other thread, you can make a HDD much faster at reading data if you short-stroke it. Some info about this right here.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthr...=183372&page=8

[LunaticAsylumLA]

Shax, I think they can run in the single-channel mode as well, inasmuch as Hewlett-Packard is selling 5GB machines with that CPU. My other machine is E7200, and I am sure that I can run it with only one stick of memory (but I have 2x2GB there instead).

[kalston]

Yeah you can have 1gb, 3gb or 5gb etc but then you lose the dual channel performance boost (doubled bandwidth). Not that RAM performance makes a big difference but it's still not a good idea In fact going for a dual channel setup would very probably give you a bit more fps, hadn't noticed that in the OP.

[Evitq]

Regardless of technical specs and ability to raid with full particles.. I like to see what I'm doing which is made impossible when there's 8 spellweaving casters full particles around me

[Malvoleus]

Agree with Hersch, my rig can easily handle full particles in raid but my eyes! argh they're burning

But on a serious note, dropping particle settings will improve raid fps and getting your memory running on dual channel will also help.