Horrible Lag and I Meet the Recommended Requirements

[nightmarcus]

When I leave Hydlaa and try to head for the next town, through the woods and across the grassy valley, it gets extremely laggy when I enter the grassy vally.  I mean it's "playable" but my framerate has to be at like 10 fps.  A guy there said it was laggy for him too.  I posted this here because since I meet the recommended specs I thought maybe it is an issue with those textures being rendered or something.  Here's my system specs:

Operating System: Fedora Core 5 Linux
Kernel: 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 i686
Memory: 1 GB Dual Channel DDR1 SDRAM
Processor: 2.2 Ghz Intel Celeron
Video Card: 256 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5500(not overclocked)

[Suno_Regin]

My system isn't anything like yours, but I get just about equal lag. After about 2 hours playing, I'll start freezing on loading sectors. After about 3 hours, I freeze just walking normally or when opening my invintory. At this time I have to restart my computer, and then it starts back at simple lag spiking for 2 or 3 seconds. Either way, it gets a little annoying. I used to be able to play the game with no flaws, what happened? =X

[Falcon_Amanatay]

I noticed everytime I walk over those ugly specks of green grass(Like the ones situated in front of Laanx temple) I lag a bit. Not unbearably, but still, it is a bit odd. That grass is what you're talking about, right? Hmm...wonder why. Maybe because there are so many! Or maybe not.

~Amanatay

[ThomPhoenix]

You could try to go to options in-game and set the adaptive distance a bit lower.

[Nilrem]

You could try to go to options in-game and set the adaptive distance a bit lower.

Another option would be relax the target fps to achieve (it's set on default to 62 I think)
You can try lowering it, there have been good reports of it when it's 20 fps, I personally I'm running it at 30 fps right now.

[drekhar]

- everything lags for me - when i click on a command it takes 2 - 3 seconds for the function to happen - same w/ walking - ive reduced the adaptive distance to 75 and the fps to 22 the lag stoopped for a minute and then same lag set in again -

[Karyuu]

Have you checked that you meet the minimum requirements as well, and your graphics card drivers are updated?

Can you please post your system specs?

[Alphi]

I have noticed it too especially outside the Laanx temple...

I have a WINXP SP2 Semperon 3100+ with a Geforce 6200

If I play for a few hours. I end up getting a message from the Windows OS saying my page file has run out of space..
(I know the maps load dynamically as you move from section to section and I have it set to keep the maps in memory so I expect the memory usage to increase as I move around to different areas, however this page file issue seems to be related to the length of time you spend in the game not the amount of areas you visit)

I have 512 MB of ram..

I suspect theres a memory leak somewhere..

oh and I forgot to mention Restarting the Game doesnt help.. you need a full reboot in order to bring the game back to smoothe stability.

good ole windows memory management at its finest

[Karyuu]

I'm wondering whether there are still problems with the sound system - do you experience such "leaks" as well with sound disabled?

[Alphi]

I haven't turned it completely off.. would you like me to do that and play the game for a bit ?

I'll also try the game on my laptop which has a Radion 9000 IGP and see if that makes a difference..

[Karyuu]

I would say give it a try :}

[Alphi]

ok I tried PlaneShift using a 2.8 GHZ Celeron laptop with a Radeon 9000 IGP..

and to my surprise the game was completely unplayable in the open grassy areas... down to about 2 frames a second

I turned down all the graphics features to as low as possible 800x600 then going into Catalyst Control Centre and turning all the enhanced freatures off..

the game was still unplayable...

now my laptop isnt the fastest machine around.. (on other 3D games it runs at about half the frame rate of my Geforerce 6200 system)
but it seems that there must be a feature thats being used in the 3D outdoor terrain thats causing the older Graphics cards to really struggle

I ran into the cave entrance of the wilderness area and as soon as the Renderer didnt have to draw the Lanscape the graphics card sped up dramatically.. then as I turned around to look out at the grassy hills the card shuddered down to snail pace..

I can only conclude from this that there must be an enhanced efffect being used in either the sky or the grass that causes the CS engine to Render those effects in Software mode on older cards(due to no hardware based support for that technique)..

it would be nice if we could turn some of those features off for older machines..

2.8 GHZ celeron with a radeon 9000 is hardly what I would call outdated.. it sitll manages to run ROME TOTAL WAR OK (not spectacurlarly but its playable)

[Kymizer]

my laptop has radeon 9000 and its perfectly fine everywhere for me

[Imshi]

The major lag problems assosiated with the Laanx Temple area are mostly flame effect induced.The fire pits there affect the whole Plaza area because of memory leakage.Try just standing still there for half an hour then move.The grassy clumps do slow you but I think that the effect would be unnoticeable if the fire pits were disabled.

[sardit]

I run planeshift on Fedora 5 newest kernel, i have an asus tbird 1400 mhz and a nvidia geforce mx 400 ( 64 mb ) with 512 ddr ram. I dont have your problems, the only glitch i get is when i walk out of the arena and turn to face Hydlaa plazaa or when i'm at the spawn point and try to walk away, that lasts about 10 seconds and after that its all fine for me. I do not use adaptive distance at all ( its disabled )

I run PS in windowed mode with a 1024/786 window. I have all sounds turned off, the vertex buffer is set to OFF and i have the keep maps loaded option enabled.

Next to that i have xmms open and playing usually a mail client an irc or msn client and a browserwindow or 5.

I DO have all the chat stuff that comes in from the battles that others wage turned to filter, nothing of that shows ( only the report that they killed someone ) with these options set to normal ( eg all enabled instead of all disabled ) i lag a lot aswell. Try disabeling some stuff there i bet you will get better improvements. If my hardware can support this game then the stuff you guys are using sure as hell should be able to run it smoothely.