Game Runs Abysmally

Hello

I am trying once again to get into this game but the performance is so bad. Even on low settings if I look up to the horizon my FPS absolutely tanks. Combat is extremely clunky and doesn't seem synced up.

My stats: Intel i-7 3.8 ghz 8-core CPU; Nvidia RTX 2070 Super 8gb GPU; 16 GB RAM

Is this not sufficient? Any tips to make this game run smooth? Thank you for your time.

 

That should be plenty ......
What else might you be running ?
Is this a Windows system ?

 

I am running Windows 10. That is it. I tried fresh restart, stopped any unnecessary programs, and booted up Shroud of the Avatar to no avail.

 

What driver version of the Nvidia RTX 2070 Super are you using?

 

Hi. What level of Intel i-7 do you have? I like i7-9750H.

 

What ever CPU it is, the rig is still better than what Elden ring requires.
Sota is not the best performant game out there, but it should definitely run ok, atleast in adventuring zones
I had way worse and it still ran ok, with lower settings.

What other games have you played? Did those run ok?

 

20xx series cards can be finicky, but you might want to try running Shroud with Vulkan over DirextX:

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f.../windows-and-vulkan-a-how-to-for-sota.171223/

It seems to have been a great improvement for most who have tried it.

 

It was not an improvement for me at all running vulcan gave me all sorts of problems and corrupt textures. (windows 11) specifically does not work with it well either... but never know. my understanding is Vulcan was for ATI cards primarily with some compatibility with some Nvidia chips and intel but primarily for Ati cards. So depending on your card it maybe one that is compatible. IMO I would wait for the fix. they narrowed it down last release to the bloom/HDR stuff they separated them and turned one off all the slow issues and crashes stopped but it affected a lot of graphical fx's so they turned it back on until they could get the fx bugs with it off working. thats my understanding

 

He may be running the Intel® Core™ i7-3820 Processor that was introduced in 2012, not the Intel® Core™ i7-10700K Processor from 2020.... Both run at 3.8 GHz. LOL

 

Probably about half the people I've talked to about it were running 20xx or 30xx cards on Windows 10, and since that matches closely with the OP it's mostly what I'm referencing. I've gotten good results personally on a 1660S on Windows 10, and have heard of at least one other person having trouble using Vulkan with Windows 11.

Hmm, the i7-3820 was a 4c8t though, OP specifies 8 cores. I think it would have to be 9th gen or newer to be both 3.8GHz base clock and 8 core.

 

i would consider myself having a lesser setup than the OP and really only have trouble in a few spots so wanted to post my graphics settings in case it can help. granted my view into the SotA world is not amazing at these settings but the game is very playable for me. also it has been said by Atos many times that SSDs play a key role in performance with SotA so hopefully you are rocking SSD drives.

OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz (4) System RAM: 16295
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU RAM: 1977

 

For the first few years of the game I used a spinning hard drive to play. It was painful. I ran with a low end video card and started with 8 gigs of ram. It was a low end desktop basically.

What made a big improvement for me was upgrading to 16 gigs ram and replacing the disk with an SSD. Especially the SSD made the game more enjoyable. I don't recommend spinning disks period. Especially these days. They are cheap enough where a WD 1TB can be purchased for about $100 USD. WD has deals where you can get them even cheaper.

Today I have a Ryzen 5 3600. 32 gigs ram, 1TB SSD (of course) and my low end video card is the Nvidia 1650 GTX Super. Game works great.

Hope this helps.

 

Yeah having a SSD drive really should be listed in the minimum requirement because let’s be honest here, it really is a basic requirement.

 

I agree about the SSD. I have a smaller one only a 500gb and Sota is definitely on it.

 

I love it when people doubt what I write.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...-10m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz/specifications.html

CPU Specifications
Total Cores
4
Total Threads
8
Max Turbo Frequency
3.80 GHz
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency‡
3.80 GHz
Processor Base Frequency
3.60 GHz

 

SSD as a minimum requirement is a sad state of affairs. I can easily load and smoothly run Cyberpunk 2077 from a HDD. That is, incidentally, a 62GB game, unpacked.

It's not unreasonable to expect that a 12GB MMO that looks like it came straight out of the early 2010s shouldn't need ultra high-end systems to run.

 

What about your Upload/Download internet speeds ?

 

Thats because Cyberpunk uses RedEngine 4 which is super optimized vs Unity...

 

It’s because Cyberpunk is not a Dynamic Object heavy game. It mostly consists of Static Objects which are much easier to render.

 

Again, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest 3.8GHz i7 with 8 cores is from the 9xxx series.

Beyond the 3280 having 4 cores and not 8, the base frequency of the i7-3820 is, according to your own link, 3.6GHz. 3.8GHz is the max Turbo clock. The i7-10700K you compare it to is, according to the same site (intel's very own), a 3.8GHz base clock and 5.1GHz turbo clock CPU. So it's either a 3.6GHz Base 3820 vs a 3.8GHz Base 10700 or it's a 3.8GHz Turbo 3280 vs a 5.1GHz Turbo 10700. You're trying to compare apples to oranges.

I may be wrong, maybe there's a pre-9xxx i7 with 8 cores at a 3.8GHz base clock that I've forgotten or never knew, but you are most certainly wrong about it being a 3820.

Now, can we get back to something that might help OP?