Problems with lag and low frame rate

Yuuka · Post by **Yuuka** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:46 am

When I play SRO it feels like it takes a long time to start the client, login, and get past the loading screen. My frame rate goes down whenever I'm moving in high-density places in town or monster areas. If I click somewhere to run, it'll happen right away (usually), but the movement of my character and the scenery isn't smooth.

If I die and have to respawn, or use a scroll to get back to town, the loading screen takes a little bit longer to finish compared to the first startup, and the lag seems to get worse each time I have to do that. I end up just restarting my whole computer rather than having to deal with that.

Are these problems caused by my hardware, internet connection, or both? Is there any further way that I can minimize or get rid of these problems?

I'm playing with the lowest possible game settings at 1152x864 resolution. I don't know what type of internet connection I have, but the ISP is Shaw, and the connection I'm using is "5x faster than dialup". I have a router that links to my sister's computer; would that affect the game too?

My computer is a Pentium 4 2.40GHz, Windows XP. System properties says... "2.39 GHz, 240MB of ram". I think my graphics card is Intel 82865G, whatever that is. o_o; (Does this info help? I'm not an expert with computers.

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bakaro · Post by **bakaro** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:06 am

it's your graphic card you have a integrate video card in the mobo (mother board) and low RAM it does seems that you need more ram and a better graphic card to play correctly

VincentD · Post by **VincentD** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:06 am

2.4Ghz with 240MB RAM?! Who the hell sold you that PC?! with a processor this fast you should get at least 1Ghz of RAM.

Yuuka · Post by **Yuuka** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:29 am

VincentD wrote:2.4Ghz with 240MB RAM?! Who the hell sold you that PC?!

Hell if I know. My computer-illiterate dad bought the new computer without telling me when he would get it. :banghead:

I wasn't playing online games back then, so I never questioned how good the hardware was.

240MB and 1GHz...? Is that a really big difference? I know RAM is important, but what is it exactly, and what does it do?

VincentD · Post by **VincentD** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:49 am

Oh my god yes that's a huge difference! You'll see it will load much faster since the application doesn't have to go search data in the virtual memory(hard drive) everytime something needs to be loaded.

Also like the other guy said, you need to buy a nwe graphic card, an on-board graphic card is really not good.

Yuuka · Post by **Yuuka** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:16 am

How much would a new graphic card cost? And would updating my graphics driver help much if I can't buy one?

VincentD · Post by **VincentD** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:24 am

Yuuka wrote:How much would a new graphic card cost? And would updating my graphics driver help much if I can't buy one?

I'm not too sure but I think you can get a pretty good one for around 100$. As for the drivers, it will always help to update them for every components in your PC.

Yuuka · Post by **Yuuka** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:58 pm

Thanks for the help. I guess I'll buy a new graphic card once I have the chance. In the meantime, I updated my current graphics driver and it improved the game by a lot. @_@

bakaro · Post by **bakaro** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:35 pm

first check the kind of video card socket you have i think it's most likely a AGP but well anyway check it with this program it will tell you what kind of ram you have as well

http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-135.zip