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Your frames per second (FPS) is solely regulated by your computer, not the internet connection or ping to the severs.
That said, I take it your i7 computer is new, so I'm guessing Window 10?
If so, Windows 10 monitors everything for malware/virus by default, so while running the game it is also scanning and re-scanning all of the files that make up the game. This will drag down the over all performance of the computer, so the game will suffer performance wise. ie..drop in FPS.
As others suggested above, add your entire Tera install folder to the AV exclusion in Defender or whatever extra AV/Malware scanner you have installed.
New computers, if purchased from a computer manufacturer or box store are normally loaded to the gills with what is called "bloatware". These are mostly useless programs that are set to run all of the time and do tons of useless stuff in the background, this causes a drop and performance and a hit on FPS.
Shut down and uninstall all non-essential programs.
When you set up the new computer, did you install the game client fresh or copy over your game client fro the old computer?
If copied over, while it does save time and bandwidth, it also brings of a version of the game that was tweaked to run best on the old hardware. There may be some settings that are not compatibly with the new hardware. You may have better results starting fresh on the new computer.
You mentioned the new computer has 32gb and is gaming, but what kinda of computer is it (like Laptop, Desktop, or Tower) and what kinda of video system does it have?
As in, most Laptop and Desktop computer have built in video "cards" made onto the mother board. While it does save space and costs less, they are generally very poor performance parts.
What "video card" and what type of computer do you have?
Pretty much this. I've seen a change in the market for more cores, less power, because of all this green energy saving stuff. I've played Tera with 4 i7s already and in none of the cases Tera was slow.
ALSO, could be the generation of your i7. I don't remember too well, but Tera came at a time i7s when around their second generation or something like that. I don't even know what generation is i7 right now, but thing is, lately is common to see cpus that are 6 cores but are not faster than 2.2ghz. And for a game that needs more per-core speed than actual cores, that's bad.
>I have a gaming computer
>I have 32GBs and a i7
>This is my PC
GPU? Hello?
Jesus Christ guys.
Based on the fact that OP thinks being close or far from the server affects your FPS, it's easy to deduce he's playing with a [filtered] integrated and that he doesn't really know about PCs. (No offense ofc)
Anyway, the ball is in OP's court. What's your video card?
Intel i7 5775c overclocked to 4.3GHz
32gb ddr3
960gb ssd (tera and other stuff)
120gb ssd (windows)
gtx 980 ti overclocked to 1520/2000 with a custom bios flash that i've modified so that once in a 3d program the clocks go full speed instead of letting gpu boost do its thing
60/6 internet
windows 10 with most of the windows 10 issues fixed/disabled
the thing i notice is that while cpu usage stays at about 25-35% of my 8 threads (i've also set affinity myself to only use cores 0,2,4,6)
during areas of high load like velkia plaza or in a battleground that the gpu usage % drops in line with the fps. its almost like instead of the game asking for more power, the game gets confused and stops trying.
i have a modified ini file (actually i have 3 that i keep updated - one for low quality higher fps - one for screenshot mode with all the pretty enabled - one that is stock that i generate after every patch)
the numbers i get as fps are not the issue here, i mainly want to focus on the behavior of the game during said drops.
If I had to guess (and this is a tech idiot's perspective here), the problem is either with Windows 10 (Windows Defender issue) or the whole core/speed issue. I mean my computer is a total POS and yet it runs TERA at an at least playable rate.. Windows 8.1, CPU at 3.4 GHz, and Intel HD graphics (yes, crappy integrated graphics)... I only drop down to 1-3 fps when there is way too much crap going on (too many people, too much boss mechanics, etc.). This game is somewhat playable on a potato, there is absolutely no good reason why it should be unplayable on an actual gaming PC.
I think it does, is a G1 gigabte sniper B7
It is my first pc building I upgraded to play other games (and those work very fine!), and thought Tera would work when I did have a gaming pc with less specs and Tera didn't work anyway.
Gc is a Geforce 750 Ti and use Windows 7 btw.
Also, since I don't think you mentioned it, open the options menu in game and make sure the sliders are at middle or lower. They shouldn't be on high because a 750 is not capable of such. As an example, I have a 2.3ghz i7 laptop with a gtx 460M and 8 gigs of ram. A gtx 460M, which means, mobile, is more or less the equivalent of a desktop gtx 450, in other words, rather weak for Tera. I went to the Tera options window in game and pressed the auto detect key and the game tried to give me better visuals than the computer could handle, so I lowered everything to mid or less.
You can access the options screen from the character select screen, so if you don't have too many characters, you can work from there. Also note that, speaking about the character select screen, the more characters you have the lower fps you get in that screen, but when you actually start the game you will get better FPS, unless you go into too crowded places. Something about hat screen makes it very slow and heavy. I assume it's because all characters are rendered with max details and textures, since all count as your character and in game your character is the last to get detail nerfs.
The general CPU > GPU rule only applies if you have a decent GPU, by the way. The 750ti is NOT a decent GPU.
And all that aside, TERA's floundering excuse for optimization will forever have your fps in the gutter.
Also, the character select screen will have absolutely NO indication on your ingame performance, because scaleform isn't being applied to its beautiful FPS-murdering extent on the character select screen. Scaleform is normally a decent enough system to implement a UI, but BHS has implemented it in possibly the most terrible way possible.
And if you aren't willing to change some basic values in notepad by using ctrl+f, I don't see how you expect to find any form of solution, tbh.
tl;dr welcome to 20fps online. enjoy your interactive slideshow experience :^)
At least you can get somewhat decent fps when youre alone in the wilderness, right guys?
The problem with OP is not that he's getting 20 fps. His problem is he's getting 1 fps. As I stated, he shouldn't try to go above mid settings, and maybe even low settings. His 750ti is, or should be better than my 460m, and I'm getting up to 40 fps on my laptop. As for character select, I stated it slows down based on my own experience. I just said I can get up to 40 fps on my laptop. Well, in character select, with 8 characters, it drops to less than 10, and stays there, while in normal play, with more than 8 characters, I get more fps than that, and that was when I didn't use the optimization guide. just some common sense on the video options.
Check the 3d setting and see if it use b7 instead of gtx 750 for Tera
Pretty much this. While the mobo is supposed to switch to whatever you have slotted as a video card instead of it's on board, we all know it's usually not the case and we are forced into doing things manually. If the on board video card can be disabled in bios, you'd get a smoother run with settings. If not, somewhere in the jumbled jigsaw that is Windows, there should be an option to select a 'Primary Display Driver'. The nvidia control panel, I think, can also allow you to select which card to set as primary.
The Motherboard does have integrated graphics, so make sure you are not connecting your monitor to the HDMI or DVI risers on the motherboard.
The 750ti is more than enough to run the game.
Make sure you have the latest nVidia drivers for the card, the monitor is connected to the card, and the on board display drivers are not conflicting.
Run the game with minimal eye-candy turned on, see how it performs, then start tweaking up to find a happy medium.