Locked frames - no longer smooth! - Page 3

Izmael · #1 09-11-2019, 09:04 AM

Logged in today for the first time and indeed it immediately felt unsmooth, running around.

It definitely doesn't feel like 60 fps. More like 30. Maybe something about the software FPS capping not being "in sync" with the monitor frames, and sometimes the monitor displays 1 frame while the game counted 2 ? Something like that.

Maybe it can be capped at somethinkg like 99 FPS? It will still achieve the same goal of avoiding framerate cheats, but hopefully will feel smoother? (99 and not 100 because at 100 mouse-looking starts to become buggy).

BoneyBoney · #2 09-11-2019, 01:21 PM

So I signed up to EQ Live to confirm and its smooth as butter. Whatever this server enforced 60fps cap is, its directly conflicting with the local system and so far, after hours to troubleshooting it, I cannot solve the problem.

knucklehairs · #3 09-14-2019, 10:48 PM

Any fix to this problem yet I'm having the same problem on desktop ever other time I turn it stutters so bad I lose track of which direction I'm going

ReadOnly · #4 09-15-2019, 12:20 AM

You guys need to install Fraps or use the Nvidia game recorder and turn on the FPS display so you can see if you are in fact running at 60 FPS.

Kiwix · #5 10-08-2019, 05:49 AM

Update to my situation:

I gave up and re-started with a new installation of EQ. This worked! And im totally lag free just like in the good old days. However, I was still puzzled about the cause that had triggered this.

Today I talked with a friend, at he said the same thing had happend to him not long ago. He had, just like me, unzipped the patch files directly in to the EQ folder. Somehow that method doesnt proporly replaces some of the files when they land into the folder from the zip file. Insted the files should be unzipped in a different folder and then copied in to the EQ folder. Im not too technical about this, because I simply dont know better. Maybe others can elaborate.

Anyways, this might be a thing to test for others in my situation.

Hoppkins_Wytchfinder · #6 10-08-2019, 06:05 AM

Unzipping directly and unzipping into a folder and copying should theorectically be the same. I would expect if there were any issues unzipping and overwriting winzip (or 7z whatever you use) would tell you if there were any violations etc.

Very odd. Not saying you're wrong but i cant think of a reason for it.

Anyway as it happens I always extract a new release in a seperate hotfix folder anyway. Always seems the safest way to me.