Horrible lag..unable to play

Exano · 2003-09-12, 09:31 PM

I was playing this morning fine, at my normal 160 fps/normal when im alone..around 50 when im in a big fight, after this last patch though.. man, alone i have 10 fps, in big fights i have a whopping .3, literally i cannot move or talk without typeing either a one thousand times or takeing a gazzilion steps forward...HELP!!!!!

WildEagle · 2003-09-12, 09:34 PM

man I bet that bites.

SecondRaven · 2003-09-12, 09:49 PM

WildEagle your a man of many words......

Javenn · 2003-09-12, 10:00 PM

is this happenning to anyone else cause i run on 56k and i didnt play 4 a little bit and i want to know if its still playable?

WildEagle · 2003-09-12, 10:05 PM

56kers usually have problems with lag.

Indecisive · 2003-09-12, 10:33 PM

No its their

"Optimizations" It suck fat hairy ass. I lost fucking 30fps with this patch. Bah.

MilitantB0B · 2003-09-12, 10:34 PM

Originally posted by Gohan_VA
No its their

"Optimizations" It suck fat hairy ass. I lost fucking 30fps with this patch. Bah.

Really? I noticed marked improvement. Thats weird, maybe I stole your bandwidth...

MuNsTeR · 2003-09-13, 03:35 AM

change ur graphics to low it helps

User58 · 2003-09-13, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by WildEagle
56kers usually have problems with lag.

Ya think?

Exano · 2003-09-13, 10:13 AM

"change ur graphics to low it helps"

Thing was, i cvould have ALL the fluff/graphics/whatsoever on, and hit 30 FPS in big fights, not even a bad lag...

Now, with all the settings off, im lucky to hit 2 FPS

Just happend this patch

Veteran · 2003-09-13, 10:33 AM

I've seen no change in FPS whatsoever, so it's not a global problem.

Acaila · 2003-09-13, 11:17 AM

Mine have gone up substantially. They only went below 20 once since the patch, and I sit on 100+ during low activity.

RoboBlade · 2003-09-13, 11:38 AM

Someone on the PS tech board gave the explanation that the new patch increased FPS, but at the same time uses ~300mb more RAM.

"If you have less than 512mb of RAM PS has to use system pagefile. If it has to do this the game of course falls apart - every turned corner leaves the disk churning and any busy areas are unplayable."

I don't know if this is true, but it does sound very logical. That would explain why some people experience "lag" and some are getting much better FPS.

My suggestion is to shut off all progs other than PS and if you are running a voice prog, it shouldn't take up too much RAM. That includes all the crap that is in the startup (look in the lower right hand corner). If you have less than 512mb RAM, you really should think about upgrading. 512mb of RAM is now becoming the "lower" standard...and in a few months, 1024mb RAM will be standard.

Madcow · 2003-09-15, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by Javenn
is this happenning to anyone else cause i run on 56k and i didnt play 4 a little bit and i want to know if its still playable?

I never had huge problems on 56k before, played for an hour after the new patch and it's unplayable.

gonnagetyou · 2003-09-15, 04:54 PM

If the game is using more RAM, then that's why I'm suddenly getting stutters and major lag.

Before the patch I was able to play with low video settings and not have a single problem all night. Now I generally have sporatic stutters and long periods of lag.

If things get worse I'm going to have to go back to board games.