Building a desktop for Tera. Need some questions to be answered. ☺

canikizu · July 2016

You should use WIndow 7 or Window 8 if you want to play smooth Tera too, don't go for Window 10. I've never seen anybody that have good experience with window10 playing Tera. Even when they have decent fps with Window10, switching back to window7 gives them excellent fps.

Michii · July 2016

Nopi wrote: »

Did you put your whole tera folder in you anti virus exceptions section? Also make sure Lurid display and Aerial are at 1, not at 2.

I literally do the 1 preset and set PC Limit to 20 people and PC View distance to max (6). Everything else is minimum/off. No clue why it isn't working.

Any other suggestions? I put an exception in Windows Defender. No luck.

Nopi · July 2016

Michii wrote: »

Nopi wrote: »

Did you put your whole tera folder in you anti virus exceptions section? Also make sure Lurid display and Aerial are at 1, not at 2.

I literally do the 1 preset and set PC Limit to 20 people and PC View distance to max (6). Everything else is minimum/off. No clue why it isn't working. Any other suggestions? I put an exception in Windows Defender. No luck.

I have pc limit to 10 and pc view to near max. Not max. Not sure what could be causing your slow PC rendering but I've seen other people reporting this as well.

Michii · July 2016

Nopi wrote: »

Michii wrote: »

Nopi wrote: »

Did you put your whole tera folder in you anti virus exceptions section? Also make sure Lurid display and Aerial are at 1, not at 2.

I literally do the 1 preset and set PC Limit to 20 people and PC View distance to max (6). Everything else is minimum/off. No clue why it isn't working. Any other suggestions? I put an exception in Windows Defender. No luck.

I have pc limit to 10 and pc view to near max. Not max. Not sure what could be causing your slow PC rendering but I've seen other people reporting this as well.

Do you think the nVidia settings affect this? Do you mind sharing yours (if you do have one).

Thanks!

Nopi · July 2016

Michii wrote: »

Nopi wrote: »

Michii wrote: »

Nopi wrote: »

Did you put your whole tera folder in you anti virus exceptions section? Also make sure Lurid display and Aerial are at 1, not at 2.

I literally do the 1 preset and set PC Limit to 20 people and PC View distance to max (6). Everything else is minimum/off. No clue why it isn't working. Any other suggestions? I put an exception in Windows Defender. No luck.

I have pc limit to 10 and pc view to near max. Not max. Not sure what could be causing your slow PC rendering but I've seen other people reporting this as well.

Do you think the nVidia settings affect this? Do you mind sharing yours (if you do have one).

Thanks!

If you mean anything related to nvidia control panel, I actually have FXAA from there instead of the game's own anti alias. i have nothing else enabled there. Though, if you have all your other settings at 0, then you are not even using the game's anti alias. I also don't have geforce experience. That stuff is pure cancer.

Kawaguchi3 · July 2016

Catorii wrote: »

Kawaguchi3 wrote: »

I wish I had seen all this earlier... I got an AMD FX 6300 and just upgraded my video card to radeon R9 380. The game runs better than before but definitely not the same as my old alienware laptop. In crowded areas like highwatch, velika and battlegrounds, the characters take time to load and enemies sometime stay still when they're actually not there anymore... I wonder if its worth just buying another motherboard/CPU at this point...

It's well-known that AMD is inferior for gaming in general. It just so happens that it's really, really bad for TERA. I can manage 40-60 FPS in other games on medium to high settings with an FX-6300, but in TERA I'm lucky to get 20 on low settings. And that's out of combat. Sure, TERA's not optimized at all, but it's pretty sad seeing people with really awful GPUs and low tier Intel CPUs getting twice my FPS on medium to high settings.

Fact of the matter is, Intel CPUs that are much lower tier than AMD CPUs will outperform the AMD CPUs in games. Even the most breakthrough games coming out still aren't able to utilize multiple cores well, if at all, which leaves the extra cores AMDs have completely and utterly useless. Until AMD can come out with a CPU that has strong single core threading, it's never going to be as good for gaming.

If you can afford to change your CPU, do it. I plan on doing so when I have enough money saved up after other things, but I really regret going for AMD a few years back when I had my PC built. Sure, it's cheaper, but it's not worth having to completely replace parts down the line for something that doesn't run games like crap. No matter how good your GPU is, it's going to get bottlenecked by that FX-6300, especially in TERA.

Ok... I just want to confirm. This is a description of the issue I am having in game and that switching CPU/MB will fix this?

It becomes most apparent in battle grounds where there's lot of players around. I see many of them as greyed out characters with no polygons loaded. Whenever I see them their movements are not accurate. Sometimes they stand still when I know for a fact they're not just standing there like idiots. Or my ROA is right on them but it doesn't hit because the character is not actually there even though that's what i see on my screen. So the only way I can play these BG's is by setting traps and watching for it to go off or by looking at the dmg tickers and knowing the players are right below the dmg display. This becomes really bad when a pact of scrub ninjas and reapers come in. I don't see any of the AoEs except a bunch of staggers coming from a outline of a reaper standing there lol.

Yamazuki · July 2016

canikizu wrote: »

You should use WIndow 7 or Window 8 if you want to play smooth Tera too, don't go for Window 10. I've never seen anybody that have good experience with window10 playing Tera. Even when they have decent fps with Window10, switching back to window7 gives them excellent fps.

As with most things, that all depends on setup. I've had no issues with Windows 10, and other people I know saw similar performance after going from W7 to W10. Then others on old forum said they had slight performance increases. You just won't know about those that had neutral or positive changes because people are only vocal about negative changes. Which is why forums for anything will generally contain mostly complaints with little praise.

Catatonic · July 2016

canikizu wrote: »

You should use WIndow 7 or Window 8 if you want to play smooth Tera too, don't go for Window 10. I've never seen anybody that have good experience with window10 playing Tera. Even when they have decent fps with Window10, switching back to window7 gives them excellent fps.

Hi, I have a perfectly fine experience playing TERA on Windows 10, and have so since it was released.

That being said: If you want a build a computer that wont choke on TERA get the best processor you can afford.

Michii · July 2016

I managed to make the render time of the Grey Characters significantly faster (from 4-5 seconds per character to 0-1 seconds) by following the "Tera Short Optimization Guide" which you can google, and by disabling the automatic optimization from GeForce Experience.

Mobius1 · July 2016

The majority of lag people experience in Tera is due to their CPU.

Even with a max overclocked i7 Skylake, you will drop to 20-30 FPS at certain times.

KingMorwen · July 2016

Put it this way, do some research into the best single core performance CPU, find a motherboard with good overclocking capabilities, and get an All in one CPU liquid cooler. You need to squeeze every ounce of power you can out of your cpu for this game to be functional in any situation. This game has fantastic GPU support, It pegs both My Fury X cards at 100% load for crying out loud, most games can't even do that, but the game relies too much on the CPU and has horrible CPU optimization to back up it's need for that CPU power and it suffers greatly. But I would not build your computer around this game. In my opinion it seems like a waste, especially since a lot of new games will be using DX12 and the Vulcan API. They can use all cores in CPU's even from Intel's 6950X Extreme CPU, which is a 10 core behemoth. You're better off putting in a Good GPU, getting a decent Intel CPU, and following the Tera Optimization guides, because you'll get much better results from doing that.

Example, I have one of the fastest computers you can build, everything from a PCIe SSD, to a Multi GPU setup, to an Overclocked Core i7 CPU at 4.7Ghz. All of that and Tera runs like I have 8 year old hardware in my computer even with all the optimizations. That's why I say don't build your computer around this game, it's like building a racecar around some cheap all season tires.

Building a desktop for Tera. Need some questions to be answered. ☺

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