During the first few days of release perpetuum was using a lot of bandwidth, if you were running 3 or 4+ clients on a DSL connection then you were pretty much maxing out your connection. This caused massive lag and basically made the game unplayable. The problem is made massively worse the more players around you.

Within a week a patch came out and the problem went away, completely fixed.

Within the last day or two they released a patch and the problem is now back. Once again the game is unplayable if you're into using multiple clients. I'll be closing most of my extra accounts if the problem isn't fixed, because there's no point in having them if each client is transfering stupidly huge amounts of data and causing everything to lag for me.

It's not like i'm on dialup or anything, this kind of problem isn't to be expected for someone who is using a DSL connection (8mb). My bandwidth jumps to 300-400 download and 100 upload when i'm moving around in perpetuum. My ping goes from a stable 50 to N/A, sometimes lowering to about 12,000 for a second or so.

I've also ran line tests on my line, I achieve 8000+ throughput, that means that my ISP is giving me exceptionally good quality service.

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Would swap for a tyrannos or kain.

Would accept the prototype cost in mined resources required to build an artemis (no need to pay the nic or fragments)

Would accept 17.5m million NIC.

My pc can run 4 clients brilliantly, even on full settings I don't get any fps problems, though I play on min settings anyway.

There's a problem though, about about once per 1 or 2 days my games will start to run really slow, massive fps drops, sudden freezeups (that it recovers from a second or 2 later) during these freeze ups the sound will go all weird, it's the same sound it makes when a computer sometimes just locks up completely and requires a reboot to fix.

After around 5 minutes of this freezing and unfreezing the computer will completely lock up, and require a reboot to fix. The computer feels boiling hot to the touch.

This tends to happen mostly when I have a few accounts logged in next to a teleport, and maybe another character docked in a terminal. I wonder if these places are badly optimized.

It seems like it could be a problem with overheating. Sometimes the freezeup results in a blue screen crash. The blue screen message is "an expected clock interrupt on a secondary processor, in a multi-processor system, was not received within the allocated interval."

According to whocrashed, this is usually either a software driver bug, or a thermal issue.

I might mention that my partner has experienced the exact same thing on her PC and also under the same circumstances.

I did a full format of my PC and the problem still occurs. I've tried switching my RAM around to see if a paticular stick it broken but the problem still happens. Perhaps overheating in those areas is to blame?

Might be worth someone on tbe team looking into the terminal and teleport areas to see if they are causing this to happen somehow.