I\'ve got a 56k modem, and I notice both lag and low framerates.  Lag is obvious when you\'re following another player around, and that player\'s position jumps whenever they change direction or speed.  And no, this isn\'t low framerate -- it happens even in places where I\'m getting 60+ FPS.

Originally posted by Cyonamie
u people really burn me, rune scape is the same way, it was meant to be free, but when the greedy bastard gower figured out that people would pay to play the game, he starting charging after they finished \"beta\".

The reason that they started charging for Runescape is that it got too big to be maintained for free.  It costs around a million dollars a year to run Runescape at its current size.  Back when I started playing, there were maybe 3000 players, so the Gowers could afford to pay for the server out of their own savings, and could moderate the game themselves.  But now, there are at least 250,000 regular players, there are fourteen world servers, plus the web server and at least one backend server, and the game is big enough that it needs full-time, paid moderators to try to keep a lid on the problems.

Originally posted by lalaland
LOL anyone with pentiim 3 under  900 mhz  and 128 ram will still problems...and thats if u have a really really really good connection...if ya got 56k.....well....runescape will be just fine for you.

How odd.  I had no noticable lag with a 28.8 connection.  Admittedly, my computer is somewhat faster than average, but if the connection were the problem, that wouldn\'t matter.

It takes me a fairly consistent 4 minutes to \"recieve world\".  I\'ve got a 400Mhz K6-II and a 56k modem connection.