Hi,
So I was pondering about returning to ao, this time I have a different system as last time. I am encountering really really low fps ~15-22 when people are present, idle sometimes jumps to 100.
Specs:
Integrated Intel HD 4000 graphs ( as far as I know, this should run AO smoothly without problems )
Radeon HD 8750m
Intel Core i5 3230m cpu
8GB RAM
Random 1TB SSD
Win 7 64bit
I already know AO does not support dGPU from intel with ATI support, meaning I can't force the HD8750m card to run as primary, because disabling the integrated card renders both useless, so that is out of question. ( can't do that from catalyst, nor bios ). Now the real question is, as far as I know, AO should run perfectly fine on the integrated graphics, it definately should not produce 15-22 fps when people are present.
As far as options in the settings menu go:
Primary Display Driver - RGB
Primary Display Driver - D3D HAL
Intel HD graphs 4000 - RGB
Intel HD graphs 4000 - D3D HAL
I remember there used to be a 3rd option D3D T&L HAL, but that option isn't present. So I thought, maybe this integrated thingie doesn't have Dx7 support, tried downgrading the drivers, nothing works. Tried running it in window borderless mode, tried every option I could think of, with no real fps changes.
Now the funny part is, I actually get 60+ in shops, but immediately I see someone the fps drops to ~15-22, sometimes 30.
This kind of makes the game unplayable for me, I am getting clueless and frustrated about it and to be honest if I can't solve this in any way, I am definately not returning.. pvping and doing stuff while fps lagging is not really fun.
Maybe it aint fps lags, I don't know, if you guys have any ideas what could I do, throw it out! Thanks!