West District: The Lag Pit Of Doooom

i personally have no problem with the "west dist lag" b:pleased

Lol yeah i know what you mean now that is just contributing to the lag for people who actually do suffer.

I personally find north or south district the best place too sell in archo. May not be as populated but people can see my shop. b:surrender

west lag cause of thousand catshop around i go in here only for daily quest
i was using south adc but nowaday people also started to make lot catshop around banker so now i go mainly north only

DrazoThePsy - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Graphics card, RAM (memory), CPU, in that order. Other factors can that come into play such as hard drive performance too. Running less non-essential programs and having updated drivers really helps too.

But West Arch is indeed highly populated and causes problems for many players.

bull. GPU, CPU, THEN RAM. maxed out my GPU is not struggling, my CPU is. and my ram's fine too

From playing FFXI for 8 years now, i could've sworn lag like the KIND described here comes from the fact there's so many PEOPLE in one spot the GAME'S servers can't send all that information fast enough.

I built my pc I use now back a year afer starting FFXI just cause my old pc couldnt' handle it. lol In both THIS game and that one... I NEVER lag (even in places people always complain about "lag", if they even know what TYPE they're talking about), except in places like west arch, where there's 32423845873456346 people in one spot. IF any of u play FFXI, the only time i lag in that is.... in campaign. And i turn on the effect filters for everything but what's done to me. This pc's good enough to handle Tomb Raider Underwold on MAX settings, and if anyone has THAT..... you'll know why i mention it.

Point being, if you skip and jump and go in slow mo all the time.... it's time to upgrade the pc. IF it JUST happens in West arch.... turn on best perrformance like i do while your'e there (the big button over your health bar or hit CTRL F9, it doesn't crash the game anymore and neither does alt-tabbing out to explorer as of about a month ago) since there's nothing you can do about it. The server's just can't send that much info that fast. My friend just built a NEW pc, 4Ghz QUAD core hpyer threading, 8 gigs of ram, Vid card with 1 Gid Ram... blah blah blah... he's on the new FIOS internet too (freaking INSANE speeds), and HE LAGS in West Arch.

btw i'm on the fastest DSL Bellsouth has.

erm MY card's only a couple years old, or maybe even one, can't remember when the last one got fried lol... But this is a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS... and with 512 ram. And like i said i can play TR: Underworld on MAX settings and not lag and that's a hell of a feat, especialy in the begging level with all the fire in the burning estate.
I have CoD 4: Modern Warfare, all the C&C games, I have NEVER seen a game need more power then TR Underworld (My friend tried it on his older pc that was CLOSE to mine in specs and lagged/skipped like hell on max).

O ya, i didn't say i lag ALOT in west arch, actually it's bearable. Come to think of it i barely lag. lol But i do, just the simple fact there's too many people in one spot/section (sector), nothing you can do about that. This TYPE of lag isn't because of pc specs, like i said. Granted you'll see less the more powerful your pc is, and like i said b4 my friend built a new one that's insane, but he still gets hiccups of lag. ON FIOS internet..

So slow? Did you miss the part i said i barely lag at all? That i can play one of the most graphic intensive games i've seen on max w/o problems? You all dont' seem to get that half of THIS TYPE of lag problems (when ALOT of people are in one section) in online games like this is due to the fact the servers cant' keep updating that much data to everyone fast enough. hell my pc still blows alot of other pc's on the shelves outta the water, adn my friend just built one that's like 4x faster. AND he's on FIOS, he can DL 9 gig a sec i think it was on the speed test. and he STILL gets lag in west arch.

Like i said before if your pc's too slow to handle games like TR: Underworld (OFFLINE), then it's time to upgrade. Other then that there's nothing you can do about this except to use CTRL F9 while you're in West Arch.

hehe b:laugh

2.4Ghz Core2Duo processor
4 GB ram (sharing 1GB to video)
Nvidia 8800GT 512MB video (1.5MB because of shared ram)
Windows 7 64-bit
1680x1050 screen rez
minimal graphical lag in west arch
all graphics settings are cranked up except shadows. I get a little lag in west if I turn shadows on.

SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »

2.4Ghz Core2Duo processor
4 GB ram (sharing 1GB to video)
Nvidia 8800GT 512MB video (1.5MB because of shared ram)
Windows 7 64-bit
1680x1050 screen rez
minimal graphical lag in west arch
all graphics settings are cranked up except shadows. I get a little lag in west if I turn shadows on.

That's awesome....it seems the memory and 64-bit system really helps. b:victory

I agree with what the poster of this topic is saying. why the hell does everyone have to cram up in the west district? i try to avoid it at all costs.
basically sayign, if those catshops where mroe spread out, it would be a hell of a load easier to walk arond wihout your computer freezing all the time



(when a computer overheats it freezes, how ironic)

Santacruz - Heavens Tear wrote: »

wrong, its all network choke that causes the lag not graphical

Network problems don't cause framerate issues.

wow so many dumb people.
they buy $1000 worth Cash items instead of getting a computer that isnt ****. I never evah had problems with lag (<3 computer)

Alasen - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The server's just can't send that much info that fast. My friend just built a NEW pc, 4Ghz QUAD core hpyer threading, 8 gigs of ram, Vid card with 1 Gid Ram... blah blah blah... he's on the new FIOS internet too (freaking INSANE speeds), and HE LAGS in West Arch.

My junky little P4 laptop with 1 Gig RAM and on-board Intel graphics doesn't lag in West Arch.

However, there does seem to be a problem with the game client's graphics engine. The longer you play, the laggier the game becomes until it starts becoming a slide-show. Being in West Archo speeds up how quickly this happens, and once it does happen being is West Archo becomes almost impossible. I'm fairly certain it's a lack of garbage collection for old textures, meaning the game just keeps loading more and more textures and never frees them to make room for others until you exit the game. Once you do exit and restart the client, though, it goes right back to full speed.

Oddly, the on-board Intel graphics chips of my junky laptops don't have this problem, but the dedicated Nvidia and ATI graphic cards of my desktops do.