Running [FRAPS] Fixes the Warzone FPS Issue

The problem isn't the game. I'm part of a company that provides gaming hardware for conventions, parties, etc. (deadstatedesign.com) We have 16 PCs (soon to be 32), all with *identical* hardware. Same motherboards, same RAM, same video hardware, etc.

2 of them, for whatever reason, have bad performance in SWTOR. We were puzzled as to why...

then it occured to me:

the owner uses them as his personal gaming/home use machines - one of the perqs - and thereby they have a TON of third party software installed that aren't on the bare rental machines.

If you knew ANYTHING about how an application requests resources/uses the hardware on the computer, you would know that it could be something simple, some 3rd party process that is interfering with a GPU, CPU, networking, et al, call that SWTOR uses and causing a performance degredation on a machine that is otherwise far above spec.

So i yanked the drive from one of the machines, and put in the drive from one of the machines that didn't have the problems. Guess what?

No problems. Game runs flawlessly. Identical hardware, identical install of the game (as they were just propagated across all machines with cybercafe software)... but a performance difference. Because the user installed something that was causing a conflict with SWTOR and degrading performance. (I love my boss, who is great at selling his product and providing one hell of a game room but is nearly computer illiterate).

If it was the game itself, it would run poorly universally, not mysteriously work fine for lots of people (some of whom dont even have high end machines) and then poorly for others.

As to why FRAPS might stabilize or clear up the problem entirely? FRAPS might be intercepting the DirectX calls before they go to the video card, and therefore before they can conflict with whatever is actually causing the problem, and when it retransmits them to the GPU, it might avoid the conflict. That's just ONE possibility.

I mean, if it was truly the game, i wouldnt get 120fps everywhere except fleet. And honestly, in fleet, even when they fix the bug causing the known framerate drop there - you're never going to get amazing performance. At that point, with 200+ people onboard, you're CPU bottlenecked no matter how powerful your machine is.

or, the TLR version.

You mention Sherlock Holmes and how you dont have to be him to "know' that the problem couldnt possibly be you or your hardware or software, but is, in fact the game. Well, since you mention him.. Mr. Holmes was very fond of Occam's Razor.

I suggest you investigate.

FYI you get the same performance increase by running windows media player in the background (doing nothing) while playing swtor.

I remember wow had the same thing a while back, until they 'integrated' whatever OS settings these apps were doing in the background into the wow client and then you didn't have to run them to get the higher fps.

i posted earlier this helps and now i think i know why - FRAPS disables CPU throttling

my brand new laptop was throttling my CPU at temps as low as 77c!

i used Throttlestop to monitor it and everytime i had a stutter it coincided with a drop in CPU modulation for a few seconds

Throttlestop allows you to force 100% modulation and after doing so i played SWTOR fleet and warzones (even Alderaan) WITHOUT FRAPS and it was silky smooth

LAPTOP USERS THE STUTTERING YOU ARE EXPERIENCING IS CPU THROTTLING. Desktop users may also be experiencing the same thing please monitor your CPU modulation

Urt Oroth escribió:A Atrok le subía dos puntos de FPS.

Urt Oroth escribió:Upadting: ayer el fraps me subió los FPS hasta 70 - 75 de media. Sin él no paso de 40.

Dorian Destine escribió:
Pues nada, link al fraps y que hay que hacer para ejecutarlo ^_^