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Barkingbantha
Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:58 am
#1
For the last couple of weeks, SWG has been acting really weird. It seems jerky as hell and my framerate wobbles around between 3 and 30 fps, this is both in space and on the ground.
When in space, and turning my ship it runs smooth for about 2 seconds, seems to pause for half a second and then smooth for two, pause etc etc.
I've got the latest drivers for my vid card - that didn't help. I turned down all the game graphics options to the absolute minimum (including the launchpad options) and the thing is still the same. I've also defragged my hard disk and wiped any spyware that might have been lurking around. No effect.
I'm beginning to think that this is persistant lag rather than my machine which can usually handle WAY more than this with no effort at all.
Any clues please guys?
When in space, and turning my ship it runs smooth for about 2 seconds, seems to pause for half a second and then smooth for two, pause etc etc.
I've got the latest drivers for my vid card - that didn't help. I turned down all the game graphics options to the absolute minimum (including the launchpad options) and the thing is still the same. I've also defragged my hard disk and wiped any spyware that might have been lurking around. No effect.
I'm beginning to think that this is persistant lag rather than my machine which can usually handle WAY more than this with no effort at all.
Any clues please guys?
CoderX_Ceci
Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:20 am
#2
What are the stats on your machine. I can not tell anything till i have that.
I have no probs with the game.
2.8 gig amd
2 gig ram
ATI x800 xt
cable internet
Barkingbantha
Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:33 am
#3
CoderX_Ceci wrote:
What are the stats on your machine. I can not tell anything till i have that.
I have no probs with the game.
2.8 gig amd
2 gig ram
ATI x800 xt
cable internet
2.4 Ghz Athlon
KT4 Ultra MB
1 Gig RAM
Gforce FX 5600 Ti 256 Mb card.
512K ADSL (soon to be 1 Meg)
This thing ran sweet as a nut until a couple of weeks ago.
Cheers 
ArianSix
Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:52 am
#5
I'm having the same problem here.
My loadout:
2x (dual) Pentium 4 Xeon 3.2 Ghz
1024 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MBDDR2
On the ground, my problem is the area around starport (especially Theed) where there are 10 zillion people in the area.
In space, it gets jerky some time even when there isn't a lot on the screen. I was looking at the bandwidth being sucked up and I'm wonder if that's the cause.
The devs said JtL would use less bandwidth since space is simpler, but I think they're wrong.
On the ground I use between 0.4 to 1.1 mb/s with most of my time spent in the lower range. In space, I'm sucking up between 1.1 and 2.4 mb/s with most of my time hovering around 1.6 mb/s and most of my combat around 2.1 mb/s.
My guess, is that it's not hardware but severe ineffeciency on the part of the software.
-- A6
Message Edited by ArianSix on 11-07-2004 08:53 AM
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