Okay, I'm getting annoyed. These performance problems are getting quite intolerable. In Single Player I am getting 60 FPS, multiplayer is different, much different. I've lowered the FPS to 30 to increase frames to 20 now. /aa 0 and slash particle 0 have no effect. Same frame rates with soft shadows on or off and the other options on or off. I've tweaked my pc to raise original frames on multi from 5 to 20. HOWEVER... when some players enter the server, the framerate drops by 10 to 15 frames, my mouse inputs don't register immediately, and I seem to not be able to save myself from DQ with these "HAX" as I call them. I've fought as hard as I can with these, usually I succeed but it gives me a headache.

I've tried other computers as well. The slower, limited public computers at the libraries seem to give me higher framerates, but the same things happen when these players enter the room. I would really like to play at home.

Are there any performance tweaks that I can apply with a HEX editor or TXT editor? Any help with this would be strongly appreciated.




System:
Pentium 4 - 2.8GHz 512k L2 cache with a 533MHz bus speed.
512MB of DDR at 400MHz 4:3 bus ratio
Integrated GPU - using CPU for GPU calculations
80 GB Hard Drive, IDE 133
Dimension 3000 XD