Additionally mob positions are determined by the server so it only needs to be:
Server --> You
But if you’re talking about other players then:
Other player --> Server --> You
If each connection has an x% chance of dropped packets, then you’ve doubled your chance for a failure.
Sorry to ask this of you two, but could one of you try setting “DrawActorPersent=” to 0 or 1 in your user.xml?
It should be located in a similar path as:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TreeOfSavior\release
This will cause no other players to be drawn, but I hypothesize that if you enter into a crowded city, your FPS will not drop.
I’d do this myself, but I am at work haha.
Thank you so much!!!
I gave it a try.
Game automatically resets the value.
Made the file write protected.
But the game still showed other characters and caused low framerates for me in town on a full channel.
uh does this game engine have a memory management like JVM or .NET Frameworks? It can cause problems with frame rate.
Doesn’t even have to be JVM or .net maybe a custom memory management.
What evidence have you seen that makes you think the ToS FPS drops are due to memory issues?
No, the game isn’t sandboxed like in the JVM or .NET.
JVM and .NETFx aren’t “memory management” tools, but sandboxes necessary for their frameworks to work. If you’re not using anything like this, sandboxing your software is stupid unless you want to protect the data that’s in the memory, which isn’t necessary to a game.
I will do so when I have time. Tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest.
@Fuzzy already tried it out and they couldn’t do it because the game automatically resets the value. It prevents “DrawActorPersent=0” or “DrawActorPersent=1” 
Pretty obvious: it starts at 1.1-1.3 Gb memory usage and starts to lag after some play time when it reaches 2.1 Gb of RAM used. And ToS being 32-bit application have a memory limit it can use (2Gb). The more mobs you fight and the more maps you visit - the faster you’ll reach that limit.
Didn’t try setting it to 1.
But right now I’m doing dungeons. Would have to pass that on to someone else or I’ll do it after.
Before the arrival of all the players and when he/she dies in that video and comes to a new place it goes back to 30fps. That means it prob cleaned everything but as you are playing it also start cleaning up randomly causing slow down because it has to search what to delete and what to not delete and if it’s in a loop and doing a new all the time then the Garbage collector will be working hard.
The problem you’re describing may be true (especially in a long play session)… but starting the client fresh and being in a crowded city results in massive frame drops even when the memory usage isn’t near 2 GB.
The game has been running for 12 hours on my end, visiting various maps with two different characters, and memory use is at 1.1GB.
Besides, lack of RAM would crash the process, not make it run slowly.
There are some registry keys that one can add to disable TCP ‘nagling’ and increase AckFrequency. WoW players know it as “Leatrix latency fix” - in some cases in can halve latency to the game servers but usually effect is lesser but still noticeable.
Lack of RAM would force application to abuse the hell out of page file. But when client exceeds maximum available virtual memory - it does crash with some error (“something out of bounds, memory cannot be read” or similar, havent got it recently)
Technically speaking imagine a list of names. I’ll give it unrealistic proportions for this example.
each name takes 1kb of memory.
you have a function to check if a name Starts with an “A”
Say you have 100 names => 100kb, no problem to call this function.
But when you get to 10mb of names, 10240 ones. Good luck running that smooth.
So memory can be a hint on perf problems
I’m running PC3-14900 RAM modules in dual channel; my RAM read speeds go close to 30GB/s (and I’m pretty sure everyone here has at least PC3-12800 single-channel, which is about 12.5GB/s read).
I’m pretty sure RAM R/W speeds aren’t a bottleneck here. Processing this data could be… if the game was taking up more of my CPU.
Pagefile is only used when your RAM is full. As you yourself said, Client_tos.exe has an addressable memory limit of 2 GB (most likely). I personally have 16 GB of RAM. If I only run ToS, there will be no way I could ever hit the pagefile. If Client_tos.exe goes over the 2 GB limit, then it will just crash as @Maavy pointed out.
I don’t mean RAM speed, I mean what has to be calculated on the CPU is stored on the RAM.
And what variables / Lists etc the game uses and runs through is only known by the devs.
And how this memory is cleared to reduce the amount of stuff the cpu has to cycle through.
Slightly bigger amounts of RAM allocations can lead to a bigger impact than it might seem on the first look.
a 100kb RAM using exe can run 100 times worse than a 2gb one.
To me it seems like this game has no active garbage collection running and only clears stuff on loading screens (Changing maps / channel).
But thinking about it that would go towards a somewhat another direction of lag than “why does it lag especially when there are many players on screen - and what can be done”