Lag...the great miracle, and the great mystery

Googi · #1 05-29-2005, 06:25 PM

Recently, I've been lagging worse than normal. A computer with the same specs lags less with light effects on than I do with light effects off, so something must be causing lag. If it's some kind of spyware, Ad-Aware couldn't find it. It might be because I only have, like, 400MB left on my hardrive.

Splke · #2 05-29-2005, 06:27 PM

Delete some pr0n.

Graal server's were lagging awhile back, but it seems to be good now. What client are you using and where at?

Googi · #3 05-29-2005, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Splke

Delete some pr0n.

If I had any, it would make choosing what to delete a lot easier

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Originally Posted by Splke

Graal server's were lagging awhile back, but it seems to be good now. What client are you using and where at?

I was using version 2.31 on Zone. I don't use v3 because it only works fullscreen.

Rick · #4 05-29-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Googi

I was using version 2.31 on Zone. I don't use v3 because it only works fullscreen.

Try switching to DirectX in options. In Graal3 that is.

Lack of file space on Windows can cause a great deal of problems if that amount actually fluctuates a lot. Try deleting FILENAMESCACHE.txt, or turning it off alltogether.

What kind of lag do you mean anyway? Graphic lag? Network lag?

Nitkizi · #5 05-29-2005, 06:30 PM

It may be a good idea to free some space up on your harddrive too..

Googi · #6 05-29-2005, 06:50 PM

I got Graalv3 to work in windowed mode, but it's way, way laggier than v2.31

Kaimetsu · #7 05-29-2005, 08:49 PM

Defragment, maybe? Although most of Graal's files are tiny anyway.

Does this affect any other games?

Googi · #8 05-29-2005, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

Does this affect any other games?

I don't know. It doesn't seem to effect video files though.

Kaimetsu · #9 05-30-2005, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Googi

I don't know. It doesn't seem to effect video files though.

Unfortunately, there are like a million things that could be responsible. Greedy processes, fragmented files, broken/old drivers, etc.

protagonist · #10 05-30-2005, 04:18 AM

GET MORE RAM!

AND ALSO.

Try deleting some files from your heads, shields, swords, and webgifs folder. If Graal is like most programs, it has to go through all the files to find the ones it is looking for, and it probably takes longer and sucks up system resources to look through thousands of files in order to load graphics.

Butz · #11 05-30-2005, 12:37 AM

It got horribly worse after today's NPCServer reset. I can't even go through doors. :-/

Crono · #12 05-30-2005, 05:29 PM

are you running @ 16bit colors? I know that 32 lags the **** out of my graal.

Splke · #13 05-31-2005, 05:15 AM

Somebody once suggested making a fat32 partition and sticking all of the useless junk from Graal into it to speed up the client, perhaps you could try? :0

Crono · #14 05-31-2005, 04:49 PM

Oh and turn up the volumes slighty, i.e the voice one. I heard there was a bug on that or so.

Googi · #15 06-01-2005, 12:59 AM

I deleted a bunch of head/sword/shield/body/etc GFX. It didn't do a thing.