Guys i tought my Computer was doing well running TERA till i've reach lvl 60 and had to go Nexus o.0 , whats the specs needed to play Tera (nexus) without beeing like a slideshow?

PS: srry for my english

AMD Phenom II x4 3,4
8GB ram
HD 6870 1gb

It's not your computer. It's a problem on EME's end. Not much you can do.

Quote: Leiloni on 06/19/2012, 10:47 PM - view

Hmm, maybe too much ppl to handle? This made me feel better.

Yea it bogs the whole server down. Had a friend running around in 30s zone during a high population nexus and he was experiencing lag spikes from it. Once all was said and done, everything went back to normal on his end.

The other thing not helping is the fact that the game doesn't make full use of hardware. I am damn proud of my PC yet TERA doesn't seem to give a crap as never it actually uses the power offered by it.

Quote: blackghost7 on 06/19/2012, 11:06 PM - view
^^this

first and foremost I want to be able to increase draw distance as my system can obviously handle way more than any of the available settings.

Quote: blackghost7 on 06/19/2012, 11:06 PM - view

It's not LAg spikes (internet), its FPS drop. :/

There's a video of a guy who has a 4000$ computer and gets less than 5 fps during nexus. I think he went down to .2 fps or something like that.

Funny, there are also people with 3.8ghz OCed 920 i7's, 6gb of ram and a single 580 GTX running the nexus pretty smooth on preset 4.

$$$$ does not = quality. Yes, good parts can cost some cash, but the game is not unplayable, even at nexus. (Network/server lag is not the same as FPS lag, and they don't have anything to do with each other, *Yes the servers are lagging with the nexus*, but that's not the cause of the FPS dips)

In any case, people need to learn that Ghz and cores do not equate directly to performance.

For example, my wife was running an old 775 socket core2quad and a recently bought 580 GTX and was getting terrible FPS on Ktera. So I switched her out to a 920 i7 and OCed it to 4.0ghz and she runs the game on max settings, no slow downs at all.

The problem with your build is your AMD cpu isn't fast enough to handle all the load of the nexus. Even the best bulldozer CPUs get smoked in performance by intel 920s (over 3 years old now), 2500k, and 3570ks. Clock for clock the i7/i5 cpus are far superior to AMD's best clock for clock.

Also, your 6870 isn't even as fast as a 560ti (A very inexpensive card). Though I doubt that this is an issue as Tera is very light on the GPU requirements, it certainly isn't helping, especially if you're trying to push 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Just a quick comparison, a 2500k clocked at 3.3Ghz is about 40% faster than a 3.6ghz Bulldozer in gaming. And Bulldozer is slightly faster clock for clock than the Phenoms....

Some games you wouldn't really see any issues because the bottleneck would be on the GPU end, Crysis 2 with HD/DX11 packs, BF3, etc, the strain in on the GPU and there for you don't notice the poor performance of the AMD chips as much.

However, MMOs in General are notoriously CPU bound, and Tera is no exception.

To perfom on par with a 3.3ghz 2500k or 920 or 3570k Ivybridge, you'd need to have that phenom clocked somewhere between 5 and 6ghz.

Also note that most people able to play the Nexus at a decent FPS have their i5/i7 CPU OCed to ~4.0ghz, some even higher.

So if that's what it takes to run it well, you're looking at needing to clock that CPU at ~7ghz lol.

Btw I used to be a huge AMD fan... needless to say, I wouldn't go anywhere near their chips atm.

Quote: Gallus on 06/20/2012, 12:57 AM - view

As long as I leave CCC-forced anti-aliasing off, my several year old ATI Radeon HD 5870 handles 2560 x 1600 (Dell U3011 30" UltraSharp) fairly well during nexus in preset 6 (20 FPS). I have an i7 2600K at stock clock, which is always 3.8 GHz thanks to Turbo mode (again, stock). CPU usage is rarely over 20%.

I have also managed to have 2 separate instances of TERA open at the same time with 30-40 FPS in each in preset 6 while trying to deal with an issue with En Masse's web store (purchased items going to the wrong account). CPU usage was at about 30% to 35%. (This was of course not related to nexus at all.)

2560 x 1600 is an insane amount of pixels (4,096,000 pixels vs 1080p's pathetic 2,073,600 pixels), which makes it clear to me that CPU is most critical for achieving decent performance at nexus.

Overclocking isn't necessary. A crazy high end PC isn't necessary either; this computer was less than $1000.

^ These two know their stuff. I learned my lesson in the Athlon days. AMD works hard, Intel works smart.

BTW this game runs great on my Core2Duo 8400, 4GB ram, and GTX260 OC.

I get about 25fps in the nexus zerg on preset 2. That could be better, but im not quite ready to toss this video card yet.