Severe PC lag in game

tiamat

So yesterday I could play fine, no problems. Today, I'm lagging so hard (even on the lowest graphics settings) that I cannot play. You can also hear the lag in the audio (small clipping). I've run all my virus software, nothing. All drivers (and windows) have no updates. Did they change the spec requirements today? I'm at a loss. I've also defragged/ccleaner/etc restarted, nothing is helping.

Running Windows 10 Intel Pentium 2020M 2.4GHz, 2MB L3 cache (Intel HD graphics), 4GB DDR3 Mem, 500GB HDD


Any advice would be appreciated.

Mystra of the Shadow (Evolvent)

kalina311

dont expect miracles with a hamster on board intel video card and a 10 year old computer ..:P

buy a real video card even the cheapest one will improve your game (any game) experience ..

that onboard intel card is barely supported by the game and barely works with direct X

rosh

Same trouble here as well
My Laptop is gaming one with GTX970M so it can run game perfectly

The game suddenly does a server not responding, with packet loss and connection drops

I thought it was my connection but i asked people in my alliance and more than 1 person had the same issue from different countries, so it is cryptic that needs to look at its server configuration something is wacky

plasticbat

Windows 10 and 4GB ram probably is not enough.

NW 'Gameclient' alone takes 1.6GB for doing nothing (sitting on select character screen) in my WIndows 10.

I suspect your computer ran out of memory and start doing swapping. When that happens, everything slows down and that including networking. NW client expects getting packet from the server within certain amount of time (may be few seconds) but the PC is working hard swapping. When NW client does not get what it wants within few seconds, it reports "server not responding".

I personally do not have the experience you mentioned yesterday.

Another possibility is there was some kind of Windows Update activities running. I remember my hard disk was running in full speed for a while in computer yesterday (I was not playing the game but the game client stayed on select character screen). Since that did not affect what I was doing, I did not go to investigate (last few times I did investigate, I found it was some kind of Windows update activity).

tiamat

i've run the game for years on this pc (though its old) with no problems, found out it was indeed Windows 10 updates (which I had to finally after 2 days of trying to "fix" do an entire system restore) and since reverted back to windows 7. PC runs much faster. now having problems with game crashing at loadup lol (reinstalled the game, etc)

hadestemplar

tiamat#7532 said:

So yesterday I could play fine, no problems. Today, I'm lagging so hard (even on the lowest graphics settings) that I cannot play. You can also hear the lag in the audio (small clipping). I've run all my virus software, nothing. All drivers (and windows) have no updates. Did they change the spec requirements today? I'm at a loss. I've also defragged/ccleaner/etc restarted, nothing is helping.

Running Windows 10 Intel Pentium 2020M 2.4GHz, 2MB L3 cache (Intel HD graphics), 4GB DDR3 Mem, 500GB HDD


Any advice would be appreciated.

Mystra of the Shadow (Evolvent)

Hi.

First of all your are actually lucky that you can run this game.

I assume you are using laptop, cuz it have mobile version CPU.


Now, we can't remove lag problem, but we can only try reduce it, how much I don't know.


In game graphics go ultra low, all settings goes down.

Next, disabled all non needed windows 10 services and apps, who may run in background. I mean not just exit/quit, but actually disabled.

Third thing is to clean up your windows 10 from temp files, broken shortcuts, and clean up registry..

Then defragment hard drive.


Now very importnat thing to let you know, even if you go this way,, if you get in more crowded area either by player or enemies, you will have lag spikes.



You are unsing intel iGPU ( integrated graphics processing unit) is not only old, but also it was never intended to run such games in first place.

Other thing, though CPU an iGPU are in same chip, system view them as sperated components and both share same memory pool ( RAM), or should I say they compete for extra memory.


You mentioned that you updated drivers, to be fair I doubt any specific drivers are remained for your iGPU.
Maybe some over all CPU/GPU security realated firmawre patches.


Other thing, you are using x2 core cpu, your windows 10 consume big part of it by default. I can bet that when you run chrome browser, your reach your CPU and ram usage to 100%.

You need very strong optimization, if you want to keep your laptop run smoothly. And I mean not only about game but in general..

hotfrostworm

tiamat#7532 said:

i've run the game for years on this pc (though its old) with no problems, found out it was indeed Windows 10 updates (which I had to finally after 2 days of trying to "fix" do an entire system restore) and since reverted back to windows 7. PC runs much faster. now having problems with game crashing at loadup lol (reinstalled the game, etc)

I am glad to read you migrated back to Windows 7. About the only other way I can get an old PC to run this game is using Linux Crossover. I know that might sound absurd, running a non standard OS and overlay, but I get pretty decent results from the old machines. With the proper settings the game will operate on just about any system assuming quality isn't an issue.