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5 minute load up times is unacceptable
2-3 minutes of black screen
Another minute of blue tunnel to character selection
2 minutes of load up screen time counting down the %
UNACCEPTABLE
**edit**....and now I get inside and start playing... the game keeps freezing up to 0 fps for periods of 20 seconds, then unfreezing for 5 seconds
I can't even move hardly
Another minute of blue tunnel to character selection
2 minutes of load up screen time counting down the %
UNACCEPTABLE
**edit**....and now I get inside and start playing... the game keeps freezing up to 0 fps for periods of 20 seconds, then unfreezing for 5 seconds
I can't even move hardly
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I may have jumped the gun on this post. I soweeee
Glad you fixed, though.
So if anybody reads this: Do not play Tera on a laptop if possible. Every desktop potato PC performs better than my $1100 business laptop (price because Dell full service, docking station, metal case, rubber insulation against water, etc. blabla).
There was a change in market. Laptops used to be a similar rig to PC., but now they are very underpowered and focus on having more using time. If you buy any regular laptop it will have the "U" letter in de end of processor name what means the processor is a low power dual core no mater if it is a i3, i5, or i7.
To get a quad core processor focusing on performance you have to buy a laptop made specifically to game or to design works like Asus ROG or Avell.
For the new Intels, you also want to avoid the T suffix processors for gaming. They are downclocked from 4 GHz base clock on the i7-6700K to 2.8 GHz base clock on the i7-6700T, for example. I know T is technically a desktop CPU designation, however there are some laptops that do use it.
Why the fukc is this even needed?
Edit writing this on a table so had to fix few worlds.
Same thing is happening to me with my laptop, but I have no choice until I fix my PC.. and it's almost ready
And that's what I do, I make some coffee or look for something to eat until I see the character selection screen
P.S.. Excuse my poor english
Your laptop has a 2 GHz CPU, i7-2630QM to be exact. If you look at the comparison, it actually has a worse single thread rating than an AMD FX-4300. The loading is probably choking on the CPU.
Are you using AMD for graphics too? I had an issue last week where the latest WHQL AMD Crimson drivers were not installing properly (and also did not uninstall properly), and it definitely was impacting the load times in Tera. I had to download the driver cleaner from AMD and do a fresh install. Now it takes about 1 minute to sign in and load up Tera. Here's my system specs:
AMD FX-8350 oc'd @ 4.6 GHz
Sapphire Radeon HD R9 280X
8 GB ram @ 1866 MHz
SSD
I heard that korean players can even die while playing a computer game. This might also be why we have these annonying messages "You are now playing for 1 hour"
Your laptop is good. Have you already made a cleaning of dust in its cpu cooler?
I do clean it but do not open it. I use the under HDD compartment method I saw online. Monitoring the temperatures, the method seems to work so long as I do it in more regular cycles. I don't open the laptop fully because we all know the pain it is to open and put them back together. And I'm more of a desktop guy. I don't use the laptop for gaming that much. My Tera sessions on the laptop can be as infrequent as 30 minutes once in a week or two. My gaming time is not much higher on my desktop recently either. Maybe an hour or two, once every few days at most (with life as it is, gaming is at a very low priority to me nowadays.
As Draqsko said, the CPU is a bottleneck. Now, after a few tweaks and running with many settings on low, I could get it to a steady 30 FPS in most places (because I throttled it to max at 30 fps anyway). I still get to play with bloom, max character distance and the neat shaders (no actual shadows though but for Tera, shadows have always acted flunky at most anyway)