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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: helpless on November 03, 2004, 05:54:29 am

Title: Lag and lag.
Post by: helpless on November 03, 2004, 05:54:29 am

Ok, I think that the lag problem on the game is normal since its starting out and stuff but is there anyway to bring the lagging level down?

Win: XP
Processor.: AMD Duron
946 MHz, 496 MB of RAM
Video: didnt know were to find it at.

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Post by: Boldstorm on November 03, 2004, 06:10:57 am

Lag is unavoidable and really diffrent for each person. I personallyhardly ever experience any lag and my main system I am running right now is a AMD 2000xp with 512mb of RAM and a GeForce 4 MX 440 video card.

Alot of it has to do with the current set of code in MB this should be much better with the new code in the next release, coming soon.

Title: any-idea
Post by: helpless on November 04, 2004, 02:23:07 am

do you have any idea when the new update with the stuff will come out? an estemated guess?

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Post by: ArcaneFalcon on November 04, 2004, 02:32:07 am

The best guess is soon.

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Post by: Boldstorm on November 04, 2004, 02:33:39 am

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Originally posted by helpless
do you have any idea when the new update with the stuff will come out? an estemated guess?

Like I said coming soon.

There are a ton of other posts discussing this please search and read before asking when.
Thank You

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Post by: Junibeater on November 25, 2004, 01:38:58 am

If you can, i suggest getting over 1 gigaherz speed.  Not just for the game, but it really would help your computer.

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Post by: Myrtl on November 25, 2004, 03:32:14 am

Try running in \"safe (slow) mode\"

It is ALOT less laggier for me anyways  :))

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Post by: fken on November 25, 2004, 08:21:32 pm

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Originally posted by Junibeater
If you can, i suggest getting over 1 gigaherz speed.  Not just for the game, but it really would help your computer.

I never heard anything like that... I\'m sure my Tbird 800Mhz works better than a P4 1Gh5 !!! And I never have the impression I must change my computer ! Just video games needs more power but the cpu isn\'t a problem for him... (or maybe the fact its a Duron... I dont like these cheap cpu...). In fact if the motherboard dont follow your cpu, dont believe your computer speed will hugely raise...

So the fact you dont know what\'s your video card makes me thinking you certainly have a lot of installed programs that are running while you re playing PS. These one uses the cpu and the RAM. Another solution : if you have a memory share between motherboard ram and video card... bad choice... please look how many Mb of memory is shared...

I just realize... 496 Mb !!! What\'s that ? How can somebody have 496Mb RAM on his computer ? just imagine :
1 SDRAM 256
1 SDRAM 128            total : 384
1 SDRAM 64              total : 448
1 SDRAM 32              total : 480
1 SDRAM 16              total : 496

amazing !!!

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Post by: Ghostslayer on November 26, 2004, 01:07:02 am

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Originally posted by fken
If you have a memory share between motherboard ram and video card... bad choice... please look how many Mb of memory is shared...

I just realize... 496 Mb !!! What\'s that ? How can somebody have 496Mb RAM on his computer ?

You just answered your own question... its 512 MB ram with 16MB shared video most likely.  Since the video memory is taken, it does not show up under the available memory on the windows info.

Anyway, that is most likely the problem, shared video memory generally gives pretty poor performance for any game (and it takes RAM away as well).

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Post by: thorur on November 29, 2004, 10:55:59 pm

so much dang lag i can barely even move here is my sys info;
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
       System Model: Dimension 2400              
               BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A05
          Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
             Memory: 1016MB RAM
          Page File: 199MB used, 1487MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
my video card is: Card name: RADEON 7500 SERIES  
     Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
        Chip type: RADEON 7500 (0x5157)
         DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
       Device Key: Enum\\PCI\\VEN_1002&DEV_5157&SUBSYS_2036148C&REV_00
   Display Memory: 64.0 MB
     Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
now how do i get rid of all this dang lag. i only have minimal programs running in background. 3 to be exact, i have killed them in start-up and using ctrl+alt+delete. so i know for a fact that i dont have that much running in the background. any ideas?

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Post by: Moogie on November 29, 2004, 11:43:15 pm

As it has been written in every possible corner of this forum, in every relevant thread and discussion, on every wall, floor, roof, scrap pieces of paper, on the back of people\'s heads, on toilet seats, tabletops, billboards, mailboxes and desktops... and even the sky... lag is a random problem for everyone.

Your system specs are almost the same as mine, yet I have trouble keeping my framerate low enough so the CPU doesn\'t overheat and freeze my whole system.

Lots of RAM helps- you have plenty. Thus my guess for you would come down to your Radeon card. PS seems temperamental with some of those.

*hugs her GeForce FX lovingly*