Rifts: Planes of Telara MMO from Trion

Daagar · 2011-04-02T12:04:06.000Z

I don’t think 30 is really that bad. I loaded up the trial with a Phenom II x3 720 and a Radeon 6850, and get just over 30 on Ultra with Edge Smoothing. As I just got the 6850, I’m tickled with that kind of performance - I was scraping 25fps on medium (or less? I forget)/no smoothing with my 9600GT. The 32fps I’m getting now is also very smooth even though it is a mere 5-7fps more than before.

(Granted, I shouldn’t be playing on Ultra probably. When I choose more sane settings for my CPU/GPU, I hit 52 or so).

Mysterio · 2011-04-02T12:26:44.000Z

If it’s currently on, turning off V-sync in the game provides a noticeable improvement in frame rate.

rossm · 2011-04-02T13:40:36.000Z

Mysterio:

If it’s currently on, turning off V-sync in the game provides a noticeable improvement in frame rate.

At the cost of tearing…

JM1 · 2011-04-02T13:57:56.000Z

aphoristic gamer:

How is performance for most of you guys? I thought I could get 60 FPS, unfortunately when setting everything at max (except AA) it seems to be locked at 30. I have a Phenom II x4 955 and a GTX 570. Even at that, it looks like AA doesn’t work at all.

I think Aion looks better, although Rift has better textures.

I have a GTX570 on an e6850 and I’m getting excellent FPS with everything turned up (including AA which does seem to work). Rubbish CPU so…

RobotPants · 2011-04-02T14:32:54.000Z

aphoristic gamer:

How is performance for most of you guys? I thought I could get 60 FPS, unfortunately when setting everything at max (except AA) it seems to be locked at 30. I have a Phenom II x4 955 and a GTX 570. Even at that, it looks like AA doesn’t work at all.

I think Aion looks better, although Rift has better textures.

I have the same card, but a worse CPU and my performance is decent but not great at nearly max settings. Shadows remain off, though, because the impact on performance is huge. Turning down anything else doesn’t make much of a difference. My framerate during rifts or in Meridian is terrible, though.

Mysterio · 2011-04-02T14:50:46.000Z

rossm:

At the cost of tearing…

Of course, but, to me, it’s not as noticeable/distracting in this game as in others, and I never play games with it off.

rossm · 2011-04-02T16:34:52.000Z

Mysterio:

Of course, but, to me, it’s not as noticeable/distracting in this game as in others, and I never play games with it off.

It’s true, when I first turned it on my fps dipped quite a bit.

I’m playing the free weekend. Seems OK I guess. I’ve played rogue and mage to 10.

JM1 · 2011-04-02T16:40:17.000Z

As long as you realise that at 10 you’re not seeing any of what makes this game special :)

walTer · 2011-04-02T17:05:22.000Z

JM:

As long as you realise that at 10 you’re not seeing any of what makes this game special :)

Very true…once you get to the next area (20-30) or so, things really start to level out and pick up.

JM1 · 2011-04-02T17:08:26.000Z

Or even just participate in the major invasions in the 10-20 zone…

Dejin · 2011-04-02T17:15:24.000Z

JM:

I have a GTX570 on an e6850 and I’m getting excellent FPS with everything turned up (including AA which does seem to work). Rubbish CPU so…

I’ve got a GTX285 and it seems to do quite well when I’m doing PvE, even for major invasions with lots of players and mobs running about. But as soon as I try to do Warfront PvP the framerate just goes down the dumper. I’m not sure what the difference is, whether there’s more spell effects or just that I’m trying to move around a lot more and swinging the camera around a lot. But there is a huge difference between my PvE and PvP at least in terms of my perception of the frame rate (I haven’t checked the actual numbers).

James_Johnson · 2011-04-02T17:46:39.000Z

Unfortunately for RIFT, the game doesn’t really take off until 12-15. Fortunately this doesn’t take very long to get to, but til then, it’s pretty boring. The instanced tutorial places are especially bad.

rossm · 2011-04-02T17:56:44.000Z

You guys are preaching to the choir. I think leveling in MMOs is horrible; something you have to endure to get to the real game.

aphoristic_gamer · 2011-04-02T18:15:50.000Z

RobotPants:

I have the same card, but a worse CPU and my performance is decent but not great at nearly max settings. Shadows remain off, though, because the impact on performance is huge. Turning down anything else doesn’t make much of a difference. My framerate during rifts or in Meridian is terrible, though.

In the end I installed the new Beta Forceware drivers from NVidia and it seems to have improved the performance, maybe you guys can try that. I think I get 60 FPS in most occasions.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2702

I think the culprit is the GameBryo engine which doesn’t do so well with such a large world and so many characters on screen at once. But MMOs will pretty much always have older engines since their development cycles are so long.

Dejin · 2011-04-02T19:03:06.000Z

rossm:

You guys are preaching to the choir. I think leveling in MMOs is horrible; something you have to endure to get to the real game.

I’m the exact opposite. Once I hit level cap I typically get bored very quickly. The world and stories needs to be very compelling for me to get going once character advancement stops. Daily repeatable quests are usually insufficient. OTOH even if the questing isn’t all that exciting, if I can keep advancing my character I’m often still interested enough to keep going.

Piperfan · 2011-04-02T20:18:20.000Z

Back to Rift specifically rather than MMOs in general.

I have a lvl 12 cleric in Silverwood. I swear I have died more times in this game than any other MMO I have played, if you track death vs time in game. The whole place is filled with rifts and wandering bands all the time I have been playing over the last few days. I try to group up but if we happen to clear an area everyone quits and scatters to the winds. I don’t feel adequate to the task at all.

Normal?

woober · 2011-04-02T20:18:58.000Z

Anyone have any trial keys left?

RobotPants · 2011-04-02T20:35:28.000Z

Piperfan:

Back to Rift specifically rather than MMOs in general.

I have a lvl 12 cleric in Silverwood. I swear I have died more times in this game than any other MMO I have played, if you track death vs time in game. The whole place is filled with rifts and wandering bands all the time I have been playing over the last few days. I try to group up but if we happen to clear an area everyone quits and scatters to the winds. I don’t feel adequate to the task at all.

Normal?

Which part?

Piperfan · 2011-04-02T21:09:29.000Z

heh. The chain deaths part.

Never mind. I don’t want to blow it out of proportion. So far it has seemed abnormal to my previous MMO experiences and I wondered if I need adjust my expectations.

Charlatan · 2011-04-02T21:10:45.000Z

Piperfan:

Back to Rift specifically rather than MMOs in general.

I have a lvl 12 cleric in Silverwood. I swear I have died more times in this game than any other MMO I have played, if you track death vs time in game. The whole place is filled with rifts and wandering bands all the time I have been playing over the last few days. I try to group up but if we happen to clear an area everyone quits and scatters to the winds. I don’t feel adequate to the task at all.

Normal?

Usually when there’s tons of rifts you go from one to the next (or you kill invasions depending on whether you need to do one or the other). Level 12 is a hair low for most of the invasions (15 to 17 would be the sweet spot I would think).

And you learn quickly that during an invasion you keep off the roads (or keep pulling up the map to see where an invasion is happening).

But really, it’s not too farfetched to think as a level 12 in a big invasion you’ll die a fair bit, especially if you happen to run across some elites (the guys with the spikes around their portraits).