30-40 FPS in Well; Powerful PC

[Augment 0]

Hi all,

Recently, I bought a new motherboard to overclock my Xeon e5-1650 from 3.2GHz to 4.0GHz in hopes that increasing my single core performance would increase my HoN performance. It seems to have led to a decent increase in performance allowing me to maintain 50-60 FPS around most of the game at ultra settings, however it goes to 30-40 FPS when I am near the well in base. Has anyone had a similar issue, and if so, how did you resolve it?

Specs:
Motherboard: Sabertooth x79
GPU: RX 480
CPU: Xeon e5-1650
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind, I was able to fix it by switching to the 32-bit client.

EDIT2: It is still lowering to 30-40 randomly in lane skirmishes  on 32-bit client.

Edited December 30, 2020 by Augment

[Augment 0]

Nevermind, I was able to fix it by switching to the 32-bit client.

[Augment 0]

It is still lowering to 30-40 randomly in lane skirmishes  on 32-bit client.

[MerryHONmas 68]

wasnt aware those specs qualify as "powerful" o_O

[Augment 0]

Thank you for the helpful response! After a clean reinstall of Windows 10 and stabilizing my overclock to 4.2GHz, I've been running this 11 year old game on ultra settings at 100+ FPS. Guess I should have recognized earlier that my PC was not powerful with respect to this game and resigned myself to my deserved 30 fps.

Edited December 31, 2020 by Augment

[Tsuzoi 6]

Disable Shadows and turn off Reflections.
Those two settings hits the CPU the hardest, you should see a nice performance increase if you disable them.
The Xeon E5-1650 is a server processor from 2012 and doesn't have the best single-core performance, so that's what's limiting your FPS.