Have the system requirements changed?

I'm not noticing the overheating issue as much, but the game sure seems to be... laggier?... That's really the best description that I can give. I've got a pretty average laptop, I keep it clean (file-wise and physically), and I've never once had issues with lag outside of towns. Today, however, it couldn't escape it. Everywhere, turning the camera angle, moving, attacking, the whole deal was super jumpy/laggy. The only thing I could figure as the possible issue is server lag due to the increased graphical stress of the thousands of new glowbugs circling everybody.

Has anyone else run into this or have other possible suggestions about causes?

I know if i have my laptop directly on the bed, it heats up much faster but if i have it on my legs it takes longer to heat up. So yeah..idk

The game has become heavier due to everyone having a genie, it will take more power to calculate all this stuff for the gcpu/cpu.

Also, the view distance slider is not working, players in a far range with a genie are stil shown on my computer even though I put the slider all the way to minimal. Players with no genie at all do not show. This could be a bug on my side, I don't know if anyone else have the same issue as me.

Alt-tabbing takes about 10x longer for me since last patch (the one before genies).

im not getting any overheating or lag issues.

The game definitely now consumes more memory than it ever has and the longer it runs the more memory it uses even if you don't do much and stay in the same area. As for processing and graphics I can't really say other that they too would be affected due to the increasing number of online players around.

Literature - Harshlands wrote: »

I dunno but the game looks better quality to me. Looks like they did some minor tweaks on the graphics. I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it or not though. ;o

Yeah, I think there were some refinements/enhancements done recently, though probably a couple patches back I noticed that things look a little nicer.

Yeah I agree,sounds like a memory leak.
I can't fight for 2 minutes without my character
**** up now.
Macro stops working.
I hear the running sound and I'm not running.
Character acts like it is trying to run in all directions
at once when standing still.
When fighting in the air,after a kill,character freezes
until I move it with the keyboard.
Character freezes when trying to pick up loot
until I move it with the keyboard.
Game crashes to the desktop with a bug report window.

I have a 2 year old laptop and no new issues have come up with me. Game still runs fine

Flowelam - Sanctuary wrote: »

everything used to run just fine on my (not exactly new) laptop and all over sudden i have major lag and crashes

in my case it crashes rather quickly without actually maxing out the memory before it does...

I'm pretty sure there's a memory leak. I popped open task manager after about 5 hours playing last night and saw my total memory usage at 3.4 GB. I only have 4 GB, and only about 3.5 GB is available due to it being a 32-bit version of Windows. I killed the client and restarted, and total memory use dropped to 1.6 GB.

Windows uses free memory for disk cache, so when your apps start to use all available memory, the disk cache suffers first. As you run around the game, the client has to read data files off the disk to load new objects. With a good cache, this doesn't affect the game animation. With little cache, the game will stutter and lag as it waits for data off your drive. (Vista's disk cache is much better than XP's, so you may not notice this as much with Vista.)

Also, when I exited the game in the above case, elementclient.exe stayed in the task manager eating up ~50% of the CPU time even though it had disappeared from my main screen. I let it sit for a minute and it didn't seem to be closing on its own, so I killed it manually. I suspect there's also another bug that's causing a thread in the game to get stuck in an endless loop, driving up CPU use.

To solve the overheating problem, always use a lapdesk or other flat surface toput your laptop on. As lappie get more and more compact, they have smaller clearances for their vent. Resting it on a leg or a bed can obstruct the airflow.

Yeh my game has been freezing when I put my catshop on and leave it overnight. I havn't been selling much (I sell herbs at a good price, they normally go like hotcakes), which suggests it happens pretty quickly after I set it up.

This is just since the last update, and I've sent in a couple of error reports from the screen that pops up after it freezes.