live patch 10/17

[oluviel]

The following changes have been made to Live Shards on October 17th, 2005:

General: Horizons will use minimal CPU and memory resources when minimized.

General: Rendering optimizations have been made to improve performance. Sooo what exactly does this mean? has anyone noticed any difference in lag?

[Levity]

Well, I had two transport error crashes in relatively quick succession, but since the second one was my Comcast internet having a local outage for over an hour (between 2 and 3 eastern), I won't blame HZ [:D]

Right around the first transport error, I was having serious lag issues with the sandstone golems. But once I got service back, everything seemed fine.

-Levity

[Landowyn]

I don't know what they did, but I was porting pretty fast and recovering memory and FPS quickly after this patch.

[BKBanzai]

hmnn...I notice no improvements. Just recalled into Bristugo and I'm at 0.7 fps. Now after 45 seconds I'm at 0.3 fps....Took about 1 min and still frozen but at 12.2 fps. Moving around the landing area I am fluctuating madly between 12 and 22 fps.

Seems no different.

[Landowyn]

The only time I get a really big hit these days in in Aughundell .... do get some stuttering in Bristugo because of all the porting, but not often. But never anything as bad a 0.7 fps or 0.3 fps on *any* of my machines.

[Leviathan]

Well, I had two transport error crashes in relatively quick succession, but since the second one was my Comcast internet having a local outage for over an hour (between 2 and 3 eastern), I won't blame HZ [img]/Web//emoticons/emotion-2.gif[/img]

Right around the first transport error, I was having serious lag issues with the sandstone golems. But once I got service back, everything seemed fine.

-Levity

My cable was out at that time too! You have comcast in Macomb Township? lol

[Levity]

My cable was out at that time too! You have comcast in Macomb Township? lol

Heh, no, DC area, and Comcast told me it was just a few streets in my neighborhood. Of course, that was after they had me go through the whole "unplug the modem for 60 seconds" thing. Which I had done /before/ calling them. So who knows?

Anyway, I just spent the evening quarrying sandstone and porting from Parsinia to Aiya with blocks on a disk, and had zero problems. Didn't take time to note my fps much, but it seemed to be mid-teens like always.

-Levity

[R`aven_Sky`Dash]

ive noticed some improvement in overall fps stability..particularly in combat with a few group members. puter doesnt seem to be workin quite as hard to get things on the screen comin out of a port...even after several ports. runnin up to 55-60fps in places flyin the dragon, brist was around the 30 mark pendin which way i faced, and even dali was towards the mid 20's after 8-10 ports today. all that after a hunting session in WD for an hr or so too.

looked good to me.

[Fireclaw]

I just downloaded the patch and am now unable to connect to the game at all. After login, the game starts to load then crashes to desktop with a message saying the connection has changed. This happened 3 times in a row.

[R`aven_Sky`Dash]

=( yuk Fireclaw...usin both site and standalone?

[Fireclaw]

Yeah I tried both the standalone patcher and the website login. Got the same result both times.

[Doombreak]

Has this patch made it to unity yet or are we behind like normal?

[Fireclaw]

I just downloaded the patch and am now unable to connect to the game at all. After login, the game starts to load then crashes to desktop with a message saying the connection has changed. This happened 3 times in a row.

Ok after a bit of testing I discovered that the problem only seemed to occur with my main character. I was able to get in on an alt on Order shard. After deleting my clientprefs main file I was able to login with my main so my problem with logging in appears to be solved. Probably some tweak I made in that file at some time to try to get better performance caused a problem with the patch.

Regarding the new patch, I saw no noticeable change in performance other than porting from Dralk to Chiconis seemed to occur quicker. General framerate is still lousy.