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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 8:23pm

Lag Issues: CPU, RoM, or Internet connection?

[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]I recently bought a new laptop for college. It is the Samsung Chronus series 7. I bought it mainly for college so it does not have the greatest gaming specs but they also aren't terrible. I also just recently moved and the Internet connection here is a bit weird. The laptop connection also isn't the best. When I run the game I have lag issues in main cities or hefty combat(yes, hefty :P). Even running in low detail(which I believe I shouldn't have to do).

My laptops specs, I believe(at work atm), are..
2nd gen intel i7 at 2.2GHz(is it the low GHz?) I'll get further details when I get home as it is still new and I don't remember exactly.
8gigs of ram(can't be that)
AMD Radeon HD GPU & Intel HD GPU

Im not sure if it is lag from my fault Internet connections/not so good laptop connection. If it is this ill be buying the netgear wireless adapter to boost my connection a bunch. (300+300mbps@2.0&5.0)

Or is it the low CPU GHz? Not much I could do there other than overclock, highest I would want to go is 3.0GHz(don't want kill my new laptop :P)

Or is it just RoM itself? I've seen videos on YouTube of people running a lot smoother than me in higher detail.

Also I play on both full an slime client, same issue.[/FONT]
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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 9:06pm

I7 at 2.2GHz is anything but slow and overclocking laptop is very highly NOT recommended.

What is recommended is trying to isolate the problem. Type Ctrl-X and watch as the lag happens if you get Low FPS indicating graphics issues or high ping indicating connection issues, or neither or both. Once you figure out what is the source of the issue, you can narrow it down more, but this is first step.

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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 9:34pm

Thank you very much for the help, much appreciated! I just got home and will be testing ping/fps and posting with a DxDiag in technical support.
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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 9:54pm

I have seen lots of comments on min req for the game...i'll post my stuff:
Core2Duo E8400
6 Gbs RAM
250 Gb sata1 HD
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 750MB
23" main 19" side monitors
4 clients...no lag
64 bit Win 7 ultimate
Average 60-90 fps
And that is with Skype/Yahoo msg/Magic Jack/Raidcall all running in background.
Oh and ping 45ms
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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 10:29pm

Quoted from "audiogamersr;513701"

I have seen lots of comments on min req for the game...i'll post my stuff:
Core2Duo E8400
6 Gbs RAM
250 Gb sata1 HD
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 750MB
23" main 19" side monitors
4 clients...no lag
64 bit Win 7 ultimate
Average 60-90 fps
And that is with Skype/Yahoo msg/Magic Jack/Raidcall all running in background.
Oh and ping 45ms


My ping was at 31, then bounced and stables around 45-47.
My FPS however is at 10.(OUCH)

I have switchable graphics.

AMD Radeon HD 6400M = High performance
Mobile Intel HD = Power saver

I can not run the game with my high performance setting, it shows the mouse but no screen. Does this mean my AMD GPU is busted? Maybe that is the fault?
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Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 10:38pm

I would try downloading the newest drivers first....if that does not work then yes the video card might be borked.
Laptops can be "reflowed" sometimes to fix but it is still only a temp fix. 2-3 months and same problems again.
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Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 1:31am

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I would try downloading the newest drivers first....if that does not work then yes the video card might be borked.


Everything is all up to date. It runs fine in windowed, I'm in windowed mode on high performance. Still the lag issue exists.

Clueless on what to do..
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Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 1:38am

Try the slim client...hard to tell the difference but the comp will !
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Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 1:43am

I'm on the slim client right now :P
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