Thinking about buying, but having a problem.

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So I have been playing MMOs since 2002, and up until about summer 2011, I always had one that I always played when I had free time. It was my go to game, and I didn't worry about anything else. I played 3 MMOs mainly from 2002-2004, 2004-2006, and then 2006-2011. I won't throw their names around for hopes that I won't be flamed, but they made me content for a time, but after a while their content became not to me liking.

From summer 2011, to now I have played 34 MMOs in hopes of finding one to stick to. However none of them stuck because I couldn't stand the f2p Model, or didn't feel like it was worth a sub.

I just got my acceptance letter a few days ago for college, and I am excited, but my first thought was... "I can't be constantly trying games out, I need one that I can call home. To play when I have down time." I want to find one before I move into the dorms, so I have all the grinding down, and can just play when I get the chance.

That's what brought me to Tera, I have read a dozen or so reviews, and watched tons of videos, and decided I really want to give this game a chance, and hopefully make it my home. The only problem is for some reason I can't run the game on anything other than Lowest. This is strange for me because I haven't had to do this in a while. The only game I really have had to mess with the settings on at all was Rift, and I had to make it medium high. I was wondering if I couldn't run it any better, or if there was something I could do without paying (Money is tight with college around the corner.) to increase my fps.

Specs are...

8 Gb DDR3

2.9 Ghz Dual core

Nvidia GT 520

I'm used to getting 30-40 FPS, yet I get lower than that on this game on the lowest settings, so I just really don't understand. I don't have any processes, or anything up besides the game/launcher, and I even tried turning off itunes (Usually listen to podcasts while gaming) hoping the little bit of memory that was taking up could help, but nothing seems to be doing it.
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Hello,

I just give my idea... I'm maybe wrong...

I think it can come from an incompability with Microsoft's Windows. It happens sometimes (often) and my thought is around microsoft's updates...

Let check the last update of your video card. At worst, uninstall your driver to install the new one.

After, if you can, try TERA on another computer... Because your specs are more than enough to play that game

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Honest Truth about buying:
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-Enmasse Customer Support: C-
Reason:They'll say no to everything and put all the blame on you and not there game mechanics / game design.

-End Game Content: D
Reason: No Battlegrounds, Nexus Gameplay Mechanics Bad, Temple of Temrity (RNG/60 runs), BT/FOK Nerfed so bad players have a chance at killing the boss by "20%"

-Feedback taken to Account: C
Reason: Not all feedback is noted and there patching for the most part remove or destroy current content in game. Also they ninja patch.
Edited by: Aliasse 11 months ago
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kinsayan on 06/17/2012, 10:11 AM - view
Hello,

I just give my idea... I'm maybe wrong...

I think it can come from an incompability with Microsoft's Windows. It happens sometimes (often) and my thought is around microsoft's updates...

Let check the last update of your video card. At worst, uninstall your driver to install the new one.

After, if you can, try TERA on another computer... Because your specs are more than enough to play that game



I am using Nvidia driver 301.42 for the 500 series, and I tried uninstalling, and using a fresh install, that helped a bit, and it got me to about 16-19 fps maxed out, but it still doesn't change much between maxed out, and bare minimum I got it to 41 fps bare minimum. I just tried running Rift, and I get about the same with everything maxed out besides shadows, and ground clutter.

The thing that really boggles my mind is that I am having such a hard time with it. DCUO which uses the same engine is one of the easiest games my pc has ever had to run. I guess I will just try playing bare minimum for now until I find a fix.
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Alesiana on 06/17/2012, 11:40 AM - view
Honest Truth about buying:
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-Enmasse Customer Support: C-
Reason:They'll say no to everything and put all the blame on you and not there game mechanics / game design.

-End Game Content: D
Reason: No Battlegrounds, Nexus Gameplay Mechanics Bad, Temple of Temrity (RNG/60 runs), BT/FOK Nerfed so bad players have a chance at killing the boss by "20%"

-Feedback taken to Account: C
Reason: Not all feedback is noted and there patching for the most part remove or destroy current content in game. Also they ninja patch.


I've heard a lot of this in the reviews, and videos I've seen, however I am a patient person who can usually wait out the few months of the initial launch storm, which is where most problems, and complaints occur.
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Alesiana on 06/17/2012, 11:40 AM - view
Honest Truth about buying:
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-Enmasse Customer Support: C-
Reason:They'll say no to everything and put all the blame on you and not there game mechanics / game design.

-End Game Content: D
Reason: No Battlegrounds, Nexus Gameplay Mechanics Bad, Temple of Temrity (RNG/60 runs), BT/FOK Nerfed so bad players have a chance at killing the boss by "20%"

-Feedback taken to Account: C
Reason: Not all feedback is noted and there patching for the most part remove or destroy current content in game. Also they ninja patch.


You seem to be posting the same copy-past message on every thread on this forum. I can tell that you are impatient, unreasonable, and ignorant to what is actually going on in development. That's not meant to be a personal attack, by the way; I'm just saying that if those are your reasons for disliking the game, you're very misinformed.

-EnMasse Customer Support: I'm not going to go out of my way to praise this, but neither is it what Alesiana is trying to make it seem like. They will always try to help you and solve your > IN-GAME < or account related issues. Reason I highlighted that was because they know next to nothing about the forums, development, or many account-related issues. However, if they can help you they will. You just have to go into it with the understanding that they're just hired CSRs and not game developers.

-End Game: Battlegrounds will be released end of summer; this was announced way before the game was even released. There were significant issues with exploitation and they took them down to remodel and generally fix them. Additionally, Balder's Temple and Fane of Kaprima (if you actually run them on Hard Mode) are entertaining and challenging. The normal modes have always been easy and just a means to get gear; the Hard Modes are the challenges worth completing and farming to get the gear for Queen of Argon part 2. ToT and Nexus are admittedly boring and, as far as the latter is concerned, just a lagfest for PvP gear. It's more a server infrastructure issue.

-Feedback: If you actually have a finger on the pulse of the TERA community, you'll know the Devs are actually paying attention to what the community is looking for. And there's never been a "ninja patch" except to hotfix major problems. It would be irresponsible NOT to do that.


So anyway, don't judge the game based on one disgruntled player that doesn't know what they're talking about. Some aspects need a bit more polishing, and I was told by a GM that the developers are looking into larger-scale PvE (such as raids) for the future. But overall TERA's a fun game with a new look at combat and cooperative game play.

Have a good one.
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Gornam on 06/17/2012, 08:42 AM - view
So I have been playing MMOs since 2002, and up until about summer 2011, I always had one that I always played when I had free time. It was my go to game, and I didn't worry about anything else. I played 3 MMOs mainly from 2002-2004, 2004-2006, and then 2006-2011. I won't throw their names around for hopes that I won't be flamed, but they made me content for a time, but after a while their content became not to me liking.

From summer 2011, to now I have played 34 MMOs in hopes of finding one to stick to. However none of them stuck because I couldn't stand the f2p Model, or didn't feel like it was worth a sub.

I just got my acceptance letter a few days ago for college, and I am excited, but my first thought was... "I can't be constantly trying games out, I need one that I can call home. To play when I have down time." I want to find one before I move into the dorms, so I have all the grinding down, and can just play when I get the chance.

That's what brought me to Tera, I have read a dozen or so reviews, and watched tons of videos, and decided I really want to give this game a chance, and hopefully make it my home. The only problem is for some reason I can't run the game on anything other than Lowest. This is strange for me because I haven't had to do this in a while. The only game I really have had to mess with the settings on at all was Rift, and I had to make it medium high. I was wondering if I couldn't run it any better, or if there was something I could do without paying (Money is tight with college around the corner.) to increase my fps.

Specs are...

8 Gb DDR3

2.9 Ghz Dual core

Nvidia GT 520

I'm used to getting 30-40 FPS, yet I get lower than that on this game on the lowest settings, so I just really don't understand. I don't have any processes, or anything up besides the game/launcher, and I even tried turning off itunes (Usually listen to podcasts while gaming) hoping the little bit of memory that was taking up could help, but nothing seems to be doing it.


Hi Gornam, congrats on your acceptance letter, and welcome to the forums!

From my observations, the game is very CPU intensive; my GPU gets approximately 50-60% utilization, where I'm used to seeing closer to 100% in other games. There's also an issue with the UI causing large FPS loss for a lot of people (myself included), EME is currently investigating. The first thing I would try if I were you, would be to disable the UI (Ctrl-Z) and run around a bit and see what kind of difference it makes for you. This is a quick and easy thing to check. I get a 10-15 fps difference from this on my system, so I'm playing on video preset 2 (I'm auto-detected at preset 5), and this gives me around 30-40 fps in areas with other players; more if I'm out in the wild.

My system specs for comparison:

Q6600 Core2Quad oc'd to 3.0GHz
8Gb PC2-8500
nVidia Gefore GTX480

Just like you, I've played many MMO's over the years, going back to the days of Ultima Online. As a long time WoW player, this is the first one that's captured my interest in a while, and feels like they're doing some things different. It's still rough around the edges, being a new release and all, but I think it's got a lot of potential.

Hope this helps!
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TERA is quite a bit processor heavy compared to other MMOs. The best guess I could give is to google (your processor) TERA and see what performance others are getting with it on the game. At least you'll have a comparison.
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Just an additional note...if you are running Windows Vista 64 or earlier, the game does have some wonky side effects to it (varies by computer build) that could be lowering your FPS.

Windows 7 x64 seems to play it just fine...

Windows 8 is struggling to be brought back online for those players (Windows new security model meets traumatized game engine = failure to launch program)
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Gornam on 06/17/2012, 08:42 AM - view
2.9 Ghz Dual core


Is that an AMD or Intel processor?