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Looks like my settings are a little more aggressive then yours. Each to their own. Here's to looking forward to OGL 4.6/dx 12 being implemented. Mostly for the improvements to render speed. I get if wishes were fishes the world would be a much smellier place. Like converting x32 to x64 a whole lot easier said then done. Oh Well.

Pretty nice.

What are your graphics settings? I'm running 3840*2160 and not getting anything close to that.

I've heard about the pow exec location, what does it do? Can I set a bind/macro to drop Tornado for example on a mob w/o dealing with the ground targeting rhetorical?

Just to double check, you are not attacking mobs under your level?

My performance degraded some too though not so drastically. The experimental cell shader triples fps for me -- at a loss of some details. Can go though the settings and start lowered textures, shadows and the like. What GPU and CPU are you using? What resolution do you play at?

Lightning storm cost 31.2 end. Well worth it too. I wonder if any other power caps that?

There are a few units - like Rickti Probes, that can see my Stalker when close.

Storm is perfectly viable as is. IMO /Storm is just different then the other sets requiring a more subtle touch at times. Every power in Storm has its backers - except perhaps O2 Boost. I have seen /Storm defenders Tank with Hurricane. Storm is late blooming so most ppl give up before really seeing it shine. In a KB friendly team or solo Storm is very powerful and with newer IO sets the KB can be adapted to most teams. I really need to level up my Storm defender again. We will all, of course, have different view points. With the top end powers in Storm being so good I dont see making O2 a pboa viable - it would make the set too good. Maybe if it had a really small radius on a Target? Even then..... Seems like people either think Gale Blows or it is Awesome. It is fun in Crey's Folly blowing all those Warhulks and friends off the tops of building,

I have, like many, 2 monitors. Even when in full screen mode the cursor freely moves off the edge of my monitor onto the other one. Just moving around Paragon no big deal. In Combat, specially on a team, this is a deal! Maybe even a big deal, get excited, slam the mouse to the left and oops cant find the cursor and nothing is working.

It is awesome and miraculous that patches continue to come out and improve our beloved world. **THANK YOU**

Nothing like getting a bunch of men together to talk about how big their hard disks are. Myself included of course. What ya need, if your MOBO supports it is a good sized NVME drive. Doesnt help much with initial game load times - in game texture, level, teleports (wow style) and the like it really helps. I can run by the church in The Secret World with no stuttering on the NVME. Agartha almost none.

I scoff at your puny little MMO. Elder Scrolls Online is 78.4 GB. Any other 1-ups? 🙂

I believe this was covered/fixed in recent patch notes.

The Cel shader is taking my fps from 15ish to 45 ish too. Time to buy a 2080 ti? Or should I dig out my 580? It is better optimized for this level of OGL, I think.

I've reverted to nv driver 431.70 - no change. Checked Indomitable and Justin x64, x32, and safe on both. Safe performs slightly better on both. Justin slightly better then Indomitable. Two things help some - the experimental cel shader doesn't seem to stall/lag, and turning down world texture details. Task manager does show me hitting 80-100 on the GPU (1080 ti) so I am guessing 4k is pushing the engine to it's limits.

Is there a way to capture netgraph output to a text file? Thanks

Thank you!! I'll try that on the various server/client configs and post what I see. Not sure if it is a routing issue or maybe the client is stalling to sync with physics (just a guess) or some such. Happens more so in Zones like AP or SC less so in missions. I dont have anything to capture video but could use steam to stream it to an individual if anyone needed to see specifics.

I found HC w\o streaming. Pretty quick too. Almost fell out of my chair when I found servers available. What percent of ppl find HC by streams, I don't know. 25% maybe ?

I jumped on Justin and the 'safety' old code and the problem was significantly less obvious. Sitting here on x64 live I am watching pedestrians... step...step...freeze for a sec...setp. Kinda random how many steps they get. Could be a routing issue, driver, who knows. Even when your code is 100% not grey getting NV to fix something is, from what I have read, a pain. I may try a driver reversion. I forget does this game has a console command for a latency meter? Ping that sort of thing? F2 in POE.

Path of Exile is the model I would hope for. Free - as in complacently, totally, free to play, no restrictions. There are a lot of items in their store -- none of which affect game play. The closest it come is the ability to buy more bank space. POE Sells, and stays quite viable as a business, costumes, pets, auras, custom FX for powers, etc. I would buy micro transactions along those lines. This game is built around custom appearances. People keep saying NCSoft wont get anything out of this, a point I do not agree with. Having worked for (and currently) a number of large corporations (fortune 500 large) it isnt just about Profit. Even the most money grubbing and evil of all companies I worked for was also worried, a lot, about Brand and Image. NCSoft took a big hit to both closing COx and stands to gain a fair bit of goodwill back if they choose to work with HC or take a second hit if they do not. I know I have not purchased an NCSoft product since GW II (no xpacks) no matter how tempting it was. I doubt I am the only one with a personal embargo that could be lifted. Be nice to see more of the GW II world someday. There are ways HC can deliver a true free to play game, new billboard add software, as others have pointed out DATA (DATA is really big right now in the corporate world, or at least the parts I see) micro trans for costumes and other items that dont affect game play. It would be better if HC had $10 million to hand over (I have read that was the original asking price for COH) but if wishes were fishes...... Anyhow, my thoughts of the moment. I get a lot of people are venting frustrations, having access once again to our beloved game the talk of talks brings up a fair amount of anxiety.

Seeing other indications of lag in game -- maybe hosting? Routing? Issue is causing the stutters.

Dont have any image editing software at home making screen shots harder to post -- at 4k they dont really fit in a forum message. 1) Last 2 days or so the game has been stuttering. Walking, running, flying along the buildings and other not-my-character objects move in jerks (x64 and x32 - pointing finger at the server). This is behavior I would occasionally see on live or HC when the servers where under high load. 12:12am pdt right now so I am guessing not peak hours. 2) In working to resolve I reset my graphics settings. Big mistake, oh well. I had to revert to the x32 code to enable Advanced Shadows. Just says N/A in x64. Have disabled AA/AF previously 2x, 4x. No apparent improvement. I have always played with aggressive settings, may not be breaking any FPS records but generally had smooth game play. Other factors to keep in mind: New Win Update recently - enabled HDR for real this time, which my monitors support. New NVidia Driver with integer Scaling and all that other stuff possible mucking up the works. As you can see from my sig I have decent hardware backing the game. CPU/GPU are both well cooled and no apparent misbehaving in other apps. I am happy to provide any other information/data that may help. Thank you,

Um.... anyone else see the Flambeaux <=> Lockheart thing too?

Like with my master mind. On a Stalker with a 'fake' Flambeaux she, like the real, is an idiot. Running off and agroeing groups by herself. Sets me up to assassin strike nicely however waiting for her to heal sucks. I've run into the same problem with other classes and mission pets. Might even be nice to heal my Imps etc this way too. I guess I could see potential balance issues... Master Minds are built around pet damage (wait or is that my controller? Both?) What do people think?