When in raid you have to do /effects none to remove some of the clutters and the fps issues, however on a high end machine you shouldnt have issues.
Usually you have to check:
- If you run DAoC in windowed - your cpu and gpu have to work on both the game and the background things (internet/second screen/etc...)
- I usually always manually set my paging file in advanced performance options you need:
____min 1.5*16*1024= 24576
___max 3*24576=73728
- You can also set your windows option to adjust for best performance.
- You have to check that your computer is not overheating, in which case everything is throttled, for a laptop its usually recommended to have increased airflow/fans below.
- You gotta check that Nvidia shadowplay is not always running, also the xboxlive shadowplay feature, which records your gameplay. They might be siphoning your performance.
- Check that your battery settings are always set to performance mode when plugged in. Play while plugged in.
- You can also set DAoC as high priority in task manager.
- Finally you have to check that you don't have malware, a good software for that is process explorer from microsoft (run in admin mode).
- 16GB of RAM is sometimes not enough for hardcore gamers, the music, the internet, the chat, the twitch video, the youtube video, the discord, etc... they take a lot of memory when all ran together.
- Also might be an issue of storage drive: NVMe M.2 > Sata m.2 > Sata SSD > HDD nobody should use HDD anymore
If the problem is only in DAoC and not in other games it could also be in issue with the difference between your native screen resolution and the resolution at which you run DAoC.
I am not working in IT, I just give you my personal experience fixes.