Age of Conan uses 80-85% of my CPU, and in fights with loads of players / npcs it gets really laggy. You are correct about GPU though.. At least, the upgrade from HD4870 1GB to HD7950 3GB was marginally noticeable in game. I could however run DX10 at much better framerate than with the old one.
The game is poorly written. I know that, and thats partly the meaning of this thread, to try and find which CPUs that perform best for AoC.
Got now
Asus sabertooth z87
i7 4770k
installed.
Computer works super fast, but...
It freezes sometimes suddenly (even in bios) with low temps. Sometimes some USB devices are not working, this is random. It does not detect always my SSD or HDD
Did update bios, few times installed fresh Windows 7 64 bit
Did memory test, no problems
All were fine with old motherboard + cpu, but now these problems appeared
Bios crash/freeze is not good thing, i might have got faulty motherboard
Ye, triple checked everything. Been full rage mode here
I read that sudden strange freezes, even in BIOS might be because of faulty CPU.
Gonna RMA them anyway
You know what makes a difference in AoC? Raw CPU clock speed. OC your CPU and you'll notice a big difference in raids (especially at 4ghz+), pvp etc (with maxed settings and all particles on) even with an old CPU & GPU. For example my old e8400 @ 4ghz ran AoC super well in 1080p maxed settings with my old gtx 275 (and 8800 GTS before it). To illustrate : from 3.3ghz to 4ghz on my i5 2500k my fps is simply DOUBLED in raids & massive pvp.
That being said even with a super fast CPU the GPU usage remains pretty low, even with my i5 2500k @ 4.8ghz my GPU (GTX 670) usage is like 20-30% in intensive situations. And yeah the game is more or less single threaded (which is why CPU clock makes such a difference) but it uses a bit more CPU than truly single threaded programs... so it's like it uses 1,25 cores or something. Also when loading areas CPU usage rises a lot more than usual, so the game is not 100% single threaded. Just really poor and outdated coding.
Last edited by kalston; 15th June 2013 at 11:58.
Expert Shield of the Risen opener.
Yes, I really notice a huge difference on mine as well. I have an older CPU now, the Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz. When I overclock it to 4,2Ghz the FPS increase by at least 50%. 4770K should do the trick, but if anyone has experiences with 3930K I Would appreciate that as well if those perform better due to the extra memory bandwith.