I think TERA is slowly killing my rig.

RKC · July 2016

I just got the asus g752 with a GTX970 all my games get around 60-70 FPS stable at max setting, except for TERA where in large towns like velika and highwatch I get around 20-30 FPS and on dungeons 18-20 FPS.

I dont know why this is happening. I also love tera but man it makes awesome laptops and great builds look like 100$ garbage.

Tandria · July 2016

Tera definitely doesn't hit the rig as hard as those distributed computing apps like [email protected], Seti/Bing and the like. My computer is relatively quiet but when I wake it up to run Tera there's a definite down-tic on the fans and CPU liquid cooling.

My specs are nearly identical to the OP's. I only turned on FPS display since seeing this thread. It's all over the place but generally mid-40s through 70 with one blip so far in the 30s in a furball. If it goes down appreciably in a dungeon (don't know yet) I'll drop the res. or lower effects to 4 and see what gives.

The only obvious difference in the specs is that my monitor is running at 60Hz but that shouldn't be a big deal. My resolution is 3440x1440 and that could be reduced without troubling me. But there's no reason to do so thus far.

I think it was running slower when (again I can't see the connection) when I was using USB 3.0 peripherals but I'm loath to reconnect them running Tera because it wasn't only glitchy, it would inevitably crash. Sometimes after 5 seconds, sometimes after 5 minutes but a crash was guaranteed. Hasn't happened since moving stuff to 2.0. There was some ancient post about Tera with 3.0 having intermittent problems so I can't claim the mysterious "USB connection" was mine.

Pocah · July 2016

I agree with one post back there that says that the more power you throw at Tera the worse it becomes, because you are effectively wasting your time running the CPU and GPU much faster without actually achieving anything. If you do have a more powerful computer then you should limit your frame rate to something that is realistic given your monitor and your connection. My PC never gets above 50% loading either with the CPU or the GPU. Generally they are both sat at about 35%. And my computer is not as good as yours.

Moonvixen · July 2016

Zarathiel wrote: »

dont force the game to use Direct X 10 -11-12 it likes directx 9.

installed windows 10 once. but i needed to install win 7 back because 70% of my software doesn't works there, and there is no chance to update that sofware, even games from 2013<.

i hope that helps you.

This game runs beautifully in directx 11 and 12. As far as software they make comparability mode, and drivers you can disable driver signing and have disk to install any driver. Hell you can run realtek ac 97 on windows 10 if you had to. I personally had an issue with tera on windows 10 because AMD stopped updating their legacy graphic card drivers. My computers a little bit old, but I still play tera at 60+ fps, stream in 720p, run adobe audition for better mic, as well as a few things.

Moonvixen · July 2016

Tandria wrote: »

One really oddball thing I noticed is that Tera would routinely crash until I removed Razer Synapse from startup.

Try the standalone legacy driver and do not update.

Tandria · July 2016

I'm a little hazy on rendering when in a furrball or just a crowded marketplace. Some portion of that overhead must be server-side and no amount of juice can make up for a bad ping.

I haven't made any effort to reduce the resources for the game but it absorbs considerably less than something like [email protected] which bangs directly on the nvidia CUDA cores. My computer thinks it's on vacation when it's running Tera rather than folding.

Moonvixen · July 2016

RKC wrote: »

I just got the asus g752 with a GTX970 all my games get around 60-70 FPS stable at max setting, except for TERA where in large towns like velika and highwatch I get around 20-30 FPS and on dungeons 18-20 FPS.

I dont know why this is happening. I also love tera but man it makes awesome laptops and great builds look like 100$ garbage.

All real action combat games, not just tera, have issues with hyperthreading. I have a friend who limits tera to two threads and runs just fine. I ended up installing a fan made bios to disable hyperthreading myself. Could this be a problem?

Deleted User · July 2016

SageWindu wrote: »

A long time ago, whenever a warrior did Traverse Cut, the framerate went completely to s**t. Oh, and don't get me started on the random PC crashes (yes, my entire rig crashes) that seem to occur only when TERA is running...

I like this game, I really do. But why does it seem that with each patch that drops, something else in the game (usually unrelated) breaks? It's getting pretty frustrating that I have to worry about whether or not my PC is going to choke on itself while I'm in the middle of running a dungeon.

Anyone else having some similar issues? Did you manage to find a fix for anything?

What you are saying is all true. I've played this game since 2012 and am very familiar with its problems. Despite it only using around 2-3 threads or so, it will stress the cpu extremely hard and if there is anything wrong with the CPU, it will bluescreen. This game is actually a pretty decent way to help test stability on your cpu, I can pass hours of Prime95 but this game will bluescreen me if i lack just the right amount of volts on my CPU overclock. I found i had to increase voltage on my cpu to prevent bluescreens, and after doing so i haven't had a single bluescreen in TERA since (for the last 1 year since I did this and 100% stable)

So if you are running an overclocked CPU, look into putting the voltage up a notch or two and see if that helps. If its not overclocked, perhaps check your RAM with memtest86 to make sure non of its faulty... bad memory can bluescreen games also, but more often just causes them to crash.

My FPS is all over the place in this game, in a normal area with no players, my FPS will be max'd out at 80fps, and when i unlock the fps, it will go over 120fps. However, when i'm in a crowded place like Highwatch channel 1, my fps will get as low as 20-25 fps.

My PC is a 4770k @ 4.4ghz, 970gtx, 32gb of 2400mhz DDR3, 4 SSD's in RAID 0 x 4

My GPU is rarely above 50% at 1080p in this game. This games problem is always the CPU, it bottlenecks horribly when you get a few too many players in an area. And the UI does add a bit of fps drop also, this has been a known problem for many people since the games release. But even with my GPU barely getting much work in this game, this is the only game i have that will actually cause my nvidia driver to stop responding sometimes, even when the GPU usage is barely 30%... it shows it must be sending some garbage code to my graphics card that it doesn't like and caused it to crash... luckily the game doesnt crash and it does recover after a few seconds... this is quite a rare thing though that only happens once every fifty to hundred or so hours.

I think TERA is slowly killing my rig.

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