Monsterous lag on just a single toon?


Frostbiter

 

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Hey guys... I've been having this problem for a few months now. I partially solved it by shelving the toon for the past few months, but now I wanna start playing it again, lol. So I need to see if someone can help me with this issue.

Basically, whenever I play my Fire/Kin I have extreme lag issues the moment I start a fight. The second I hit Fire Cages my FPS goes down to next to nothing. I'm lucky if I catch 2 or 3 frames of the entire fight before I see myself dead on the ground. I can't activate any powers, nor I can do pop and inspirations or do anything at all, rendering that character completely unplayable. I tried using unloadgfx and sync and reloadgfx and a bunch of other stuff. No help at all.
Weirdest thing is, that problem is completely exclusive to my Fire/Kin. I have absolutely no issues playing my other toons. Including my my other Fire controller (Fire/Rad). Hell, I've been on an All controller STF before where we had 3 Ill controllers (5 pets per), 2 Fire controllers (3 pets per, plus hot feet and choking cloud) and 2 Earth controllers (massive graphics) on the team and I"ve had absolutely no lag issues at all. So I know the problem isn't my graphics card (a built in intel graphics card, BTW).

Also, I think it's worthy of mention that this problem started out of no where a few months back. I used to be able to play my Fire/Kin normally with no lag issues at all.

Anyone has any ideas why is this happening? It's been annoying me so much I"m considering just deleting the toon all together...but I really enjoy playing my Fire/Kin. Not just because he's my farmer toon, but playing him is actually fun on missions/TFs as well. So, any kind of suggestions or help would be really helpful.

Thanks a lot


@Sparky Jenkins || Freedom Server | Union Server
Main Hero: Inferno Sparky - Fire/Fire Blaster
Main Villain: Kerry Astrid - Fire/Cold Corruptor

 

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You're best bet is to ask in the technical issues forum. The experts there will hopefully be able to help you. That sounds like a really strange issue.


 

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Originally Posted by Frostbiter View Post
You're best bet is to ask in the technical issues forum. The experts there will hopefully be able to help you. That sounds like a really strange issue.
Agreed.

Though...

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a built in intel graphics card, BTW
... I'll bet will be your problem. Intel doesn't make graphics cards. They have "graphics accelerators," and they're really just not up to snuff. Some of the recent GR settings have beaten on them, as well (though I want to say they've been tweaked in a recent patch. Don't quote me on that.) There were many complaints by Intel integrated graphics owners. You may just have to lower your settings quite a bit for that to work. (Though I want to say it's normally fulcrum shift that causes issues.)

If you can get a "real" graphics card - which will depend on the system - do so.


 

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Alrighty..thanks.


@Sparky Jenkins || Freedom Server | Union Server
Main Hero: Inferno Sparky - Fire/Fire Blaster
Main Villain: Kerry Astrid - Fire/Cold Corruptor