extremly bad lag in buildings - MXO Forum Archive

#36300122079 12/16/2006 18:37:31 extremly bad lag in buildings

extremly bad lag in buildings but zero lag outside of them?? anyone else have this problem on the new nvidia 8800 gts

#36300122087 12/16/2006 18:49:34 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Which area are you having this bad lag?

#36300122090 12/16/2006 18:55:32 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

it dosent matter. any district any time any were i lag as soon as i go into a buildings wether people aroud or not

#36300122243 12/17/2006 04:33:56 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

This should not be happening with an 8800gts, unless your processor is the bottleneck.

Can you post some more details on your system specs.Also there have been some hiccups with the 8800 drivers in general.

Did you use driver cleaner before installing the new drivers on your graphics card, and are you using the latest drivers?

Remember to post your ram specs and stuff whenyou post, also your hard drive specs, and did the problem occur with your old graphics hardware?

We will be able to solve this problem as the 8800 series cards run this game beautifully.

#36300122730 12/17/2006 18:17:41 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

I've just had a look at your files Deus...

756MB RAM is just not enough. I don't care what the specs say anywhere on this game... 1.5 to 2GB of RAM is a MUST for lag free play. Most lag is either from delays caused by loading stuff to RAM, or the GPU overheating. In your case you need more RAM. MxO uses about 756MB RAM on default maximum settings.

With 756MB ram and 756MB MxO every other program must be shunted off to virtual memory... Heck windows XP needs 256MB RAM on it's own (data access from the HDD is about 7,000 times slowwer than from RAM) so every little thing the computer has to do it ends up spending most of the time swapping data from the HDD.

for the time being turn your viewing distances and caching down, and reduce your texture quality to bicubic at best.

#36300122750 12/17/2006 19:13:44 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

thanks phi but its cool got it sorted out its the ram is the issue but not in the fact that it is 1 gig. the ram just happened to be faulty and was producing errors. for the mem issue yeah 1 gig is to small but my laptop that has a 1 gig and a celeron 1.6 ran the game smoother then this system did. but thanks for the help new set of 3 gigs of nvidia sli epp memory on the way :p

#36300122793 12/17/2006 21:50:58 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

I was going to suggfest a defrag... but given your job I figured you'd have tried that too SMILEY

Glad you've ordered new ram. Check the heat of your GPU and CPU as well... I had a long-standing lag issue that turned out to be a failed weld on my laptop CPU heatblock, under extreme heat-stress (read "MxO" SMILEY the weld separated and the oil pipes lost contact with the CPU. Also do all the usual maintenance; check the fans are running, make sure all case vents aren't blocked, check for dust on fans and heatsinks.

#36300122794 12/17/2006 21:53:13 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

An after thought:

Make your system's swap file a fixxed size (twice the size of your RAM) after defragging your drive. That saves on the time the system needs to resize the file undr heavy system loads.

#36300126715 12/23/2006 09:49:12 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

hi there

got the same problem, lagg in buildings but not outside. i also have a 8800gtx, and a brand new computer ( 2GB ram, 150GB raptor HD, 3.4mhz duo core).

could it be an issue with the dirextX?

#36300126725 12/23/2006 10:02:04 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

i think it might have something to do with the forceware version, i am going to install an older version, give that a go, and post up what happens SMILEY

#36300126905 12/23/2006 16:39:23 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

sorry no joy

anyone help!!!!!!!!!

#36300127226 12/24/2006 10:59:16 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

i have the exact same problem. laggy in buildings and not outside.

Also i'm getting a weird corrupted display when over-bright is enabled?

Anyone else getting this?

I got: 8800 gtx, 3.2P4 & 2gig of ram

Btw, MxO ran sweet on my 7800 no lag and over-bright wasn't a problem either. All other games run very nice, so it's either nVidia's software or SOE need to work in a patch.

#36300128245 12/27/2006 04:44:14 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Sounds like a driver problem. All I can suggest is wait for a patch or turn your GFX down.

#36300128707 12/27/2006 17:01:07 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

yeah tried that, and even tried an older version of forceware

#36300128717 12/27/2006 18:03:31 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

coupld probably be related to the way the new 8800 series handels some of its processing.(vertex shading and the other on are done together now rather than sepretley)

#36300145942 01/20/2007 12:03:18 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Any news on this issue?

I contacted SOE's support and they stated this card hasn't been tested yet.

I have also noticed that the smaller the room is, the worse the lagg gets.

Message to SOE: Test this card!!!

#36300161363 02/08/2007 11:52:34 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Hello Turo,

Not to discount coding issues that may need to be done, but have you tried making sure that there is nothing running in the background that may be using some of your system resources?

First disable background programs:

Select the START button.
2. Select RUN.
3. Type in "msconfig" (without the "
4. Press OK
5. Select the STARTUP tab.
6. Click on disable all. (If you are using Windows 98 or ME you will need to uncheck every thing but scan registry and systray)
7. Hit apply and then OK. Restart the computer

After you restart:

Select the Start Button
2. Select Run.
3. Type in services.msc.
4. Press OK
5. In the Services window look for the line Internet Connection Firewall/ Internet Connection Sharing or Windows Internet Connection Firewall/ Internet Connection Sharing; right click and select stop if it is available.
6. Repeat for any Firewall or Antivirus Programs that you have installed.

Please note, I am not suggesting that you play MXO with your system unprotected rather these steps are offered in order to help troubleshoot.

#36300161364 02/08/2007 11:57:05 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Hello Folks,

I just noticed some other threads, is anyone with this issue not running a flavor of the 8800?

#36300161856 02/08/2007 18:24:20 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

This is a confirmed issue with with the 8800 drivers, and is most likely a side effect with the new GPU processing structure. Looks like I was lucky sticking with my 7950 GX2.

Now we play the waiting game for a new driver release.

phiAU - The Kings of Never - noblesse oblige

#36300161894 02/08/2007 18:51:23 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Hello phi,

I would have to agree, unfortunately, of course if I get an update on this issue I will be sure to let you all know.

#36300175875 02/27/2007 15:57:38 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Yeah, Im getting exactly the same results with my Geforce 8800 GTS, brand new computer running Windows XP.

Hopefully they'll come up with a solution for this soon.

#36300175878 02/27/2007 16:01:53 Re:extremly bad lag in buildings

Hello mur02004 ,

Thanks for the confirmation.

I'd have to say that we and a lot of other people are waiting to see what happens when nvidia comes out with new drivers.