Aion Riftshade

Lately, I have started to face mouse stuttering on Aion. This issue is a game side that does not support mouse frequencies higher than 500Mhz. Even I did lower my mouse frequencies to 250Mhz has the same issue. I do not face this issue with other games. This tells me the game is outdated regarding this aspect.

Spec:

CPU

Socket 1 ID = 0

Number of cores 8 (max

Number of threads 16 (max 16)

Manufacturer GenuineIntel

Name Intel Core i9 9900KF

Codename Coffee Lake

Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz

Package (platform ID) Socket 1151 LGA (0x1)

CPUID 6.E.D

Extended CPUID 6.9E

Core Stepping R0

Technology 14 nm

TDP Limit 95.0 Watts

Tjmax 100.0 °C

Core Speed 4698.9 MHz

Multiplier x Bus Speed 47.0 x 100.0 MHz

Base frequency (cores) 100.0 MHz

Base frequency (ext.) 100.0 MHz

Stock frequency 3600 MHz

Max frequency 0 MHz

Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, TSX

Microcode Revision 0xDE

L1 Data cache 8 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L1 Instruction cache 8 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L2 cache 8 x 256 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L3 cache 16 MBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Max CPUID level 00000016h

Max CPUID ext. level 80000008h

Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 32 KB, 2 thread(s)

Cache descriptor Level 1, I, 32 KB, 2 thread(s)

Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 256 KB, 2 thread(s)

Cache descriptor Level 3, U, 16 MB, 16 thread(s)

FID/VID Control yes

Turbo Mode supported, enabled

Max non-turbo ratio 36x

Max turbo ratio 50x

Max efficiency ratio 8x

Speedshift Autonomous

O/C bins unlimited

Ratio 1 core 50x

Ratio 2 cores 50x

Ratio 3 cores 49x

Ratio 4 cores 48x

Ratio 5 cores 48x

Ratio 6 cores 47x

Ratio 7 cores 47x

Ratio 8 cores 47x

IA Voltage Mode PCU adaptive

IA Voltage Offset 0 mV

GT Voltage Mode PCU adaptive

GT Voltage Offset 0 mV

LLC/Ring Voltage Mode PCU adaptive

LLC/Ring Voltage Offset 0 mV

Agent Voltage Mode PCU adaptive

Agent Voltage Offset 0 mV

TDP Level 95.0 W @ 36x

Temperature 0 46 degC (114 degF) (Package)

Temperature 1 46 degC (114 degF) (Core #0)

Temperature 2 48 degC (118 degF) (Core #1)

Temperature 3 44 degC (111 degF) (Core #2)

Temperature 4 46 degC (114 degF) (Core #3)

Temperature 5 37 degC (98 degF) (Core #4)

Temperature 6 45 degC (113 degF) (Core #5)

Temperature 7 38 degC (100 degF) (Core #6)

Temperature 8 35 degC (95 degF) (Core #7)

Voltage 0 1.26 Volts (VID)

Voltage 1 +0.00 Volts (IA Offset)

Voltage 2 +0.00 Volts (GT Offset)

Voltage 3 +0.00 Volts (LLC/Ring Offset)

Voltage 4 +0.00 Volts (System Agent Offset)

Power 00 43.61 W (Package)

Power 01 41.49 W (IA Cores)

Power 02 n.a. (GT)

Power 03 2.12 W (Uncore)

Power 04 n.a. (DRAM)

Clock Speed 0 4698.87 MHz (Core #0)

Clock Speed 1 4698.87 MHz (Core #1)

Clock Speed 2 4698.87 MHz (Core #2)

Clock Speed 3 4698.87 MHz (Core #3)

Clock Speed 4 4698.87 MHz (Core #4)

Clock Speed 5 4698.87 MHz (Core #5)

Clock Speed 6 4698.87 MHz (Core #6)

Clock Speed 7 4698.87 MHz (Core #7)

Core 0 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 1 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 2 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 3 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 4 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 5 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 6 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Core 7 max ratio 50.0 (effective 48.0)

Chipset

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Northbridge Intel Coffee Lake rev. 0D

Southbridge Intel Z390 rev. 10

Graphic Interface PCI-Express

PCI-E Link Width x16

PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory Type DDR4

Memory Size 64 GBytes

Channels Dual

Memory Frequency 1050.3 MHz (1:21)

CAS# latency (CL) 16.0

RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 18

RAS# Precharge (tRP) 18

Cycle Time (tRAS) 38

Row Refresh Cycle Time (tRFC) 526

Command Rate (CR) 2T

Uncore Frequency 4299.0 MHz

Host Bridge 0x3E30

Display Adapters

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Display adapter 0

ID 0x10A0102

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Board Manufacturer NVIDIA Corporation

Revision A1

Codename TU102-300

Core family 0x162 (TU102)

Technology 12 nm

Memory size 11 GB

Memory type GDDR6

Memory vendor Samsung

PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)

Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x10DE)

Model ID 0x1E04 (0x1E04)

Revision ID 0xA1

Performance Level 0

Core clock 1275.0 MHz

Memory clock 7000.0 MHz

Mouse:

Redragon M607 Griffin 7200 DPI RGB Gaming Mouse 500Mhz

Its an Nvidia graphic cards driver problem. You need to downgrade your graphic drivers to version 457.51

I had the same problem and figured out that it works fine with it.

Hey

What is the version of your Nvidia driver?

Had this problem until very recently (457.51 was the latest version where I had no problem, and until version 461.92 (16.03.21), couldn't update it or I had mouse flickering and game freezing after 30min of playing)

Quote from Pinkiepie

Its an Nvidia graphic cards driver problem. You need to downgrade your graphic drivers to version 457.51

I had the same problem and figured out that it works fine with it.

Try the latest version, there was a fix in it, maybe it'll work for you too.

If downgrading your driver is not an option simply force close the NVidia Container via taskmanager. That fixes it temporarily.

I will update to 461.92 and let you know the resaults

Same issue with 461.92. I did downgrade to 457.51. I will let you know the results.

Played for the last 1h with version 457.51 and seems to be ok.

Thank you for your feedback.

My question is if also is not a client issue being outdated and not keeping with the new drivers. I do not have this issue on other games and this tells me that might be an issue also on the client-side.

The problem is "Aion is an old game" and it's not the first time nvidia driver & the client seemed to be in conflict.

The drivers are mostly made for the newest games, and issue like this one (since november!) takes more time to be fixed than for a new game.

I read somewhere on a French website about Nvidia driver changelog that new updates resolving this flickering should be there soon.

Try regurlarly new driver update 'til you have one working correctly. (but keep version 457.51 somewhere on your computer)

For now soft fix is to set mouse polling rate lowest possible like 125 or lower ( the fps are still lost but much less than before), for fix it 100% : Start > mouse setting > click on additional mouse options > navigate to the pointer options tab > here enable show pointer trails and adjust it to short. You can enable and disable only when play.

You should use alternate method like this instead of downgrading your driver. Vulnerability has been discover on driver < 461.09.

Quote from Zeldt

If downgrading your driver is not an option simply force close the NVidia Container via taskmanager. That fixes it temporarily.