Lag issues on DC

[vertigo]

ok not sure why but wen playing DC and i get into a point were theres interaction with other players or movable objects i have massive lag. im thinking if i add more ram this will stop...

comp specs:

HP PAVILION a320n
2.08 GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor
512MB ram (64 MD shared to Video Card)
120 GB hard drive with 80 GB free space
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX video card
Cable connection

...i want to add another stick of 512 ram. im hoping this will kill most of the lag, if not all of it.

let me know what u guys think

thanks

~Pyle

[ignus]

first off, your ram isnt shared w/ ur vid card. the card has its own ram.

and adding the extra 512 ram should clear up most any issues you're having. worked for me, pup, and several others. game says 256 req'd. HA! less than a gig is unbearable!

[Crazy Hobbit]

Howdy Pyle!

I've played DC since very early on and it does have a certain amount of "lag" (unrelated to internet connection) or choppiness because the game is in beta stages and probably not entirely optimized.

I have 768 MB of RAM and I have to say I load in and play the game fairly well but there is always occasional lag and choppiness just because its Desert Combat. Regular Battlefield 1942 runs like butter for me.

An extra bit of memory will probably help out a little bit more so getting it wouldn't harm and would do more to help.

[LilPuppy]

Like Ignus said worked like a charm for me.. :D ..I got an intel celeron 1.7 g.force 4 , high speed conn. and at 512 ram I got feed up and wouldn't play..ram upgrade and and vid. driver set at 5.3 works like a charm (some lag at times but sooo smooth mostly) Vanilla WoW really nice...and map loads at twice the speed... 8O sweet......yeah pyle highly recommend doubling your ram and enjoy fantastic DC goodness.. :D

[SauerKraut]

Howdy Pyle!

I've played DC since very early on and it does have a certain amount of "lag" (unrelated to internet connection) or choppiness because the game is in beta stages and probably not entirely optimized.

I have 768 MB of RAM and I have to say I load in and play the game fairly well but there is always occasional lag and choppiness just because its Desert Combat. Regular Battlefield 1942 runs like butter for me.

An extra bit of memory will probably help out a little bit more so getting it wouldn't harm and would do more to help.


exactly what he said.

512 more definately can't hurt. I did the same, added a stick. Also, I just noticed today, but after i upgraded my video card driver, it went a lot smoother. Though, you'll always have some places in maps where the fighting is concentrated in one area with lots of aircraft where you'll just slide show into a building.

quote from my video driver update:


Significant issues resolved in driver version 53.03 are listed below:

<snip>

GeForce4 Ti 4600, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash during Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.

<snip>

GeForce4 Ti 4600, Windows XP: Rendering corruption in Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.

GeForce4 Ti 4600, Windows XP: Degraded anisotropic filtering quality in Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.

GeForce FX 5900; GeForce4 Ti 4600, Windows XP: Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat returns to a corrupted desktop with antialiasing enabled.

<snip>

GeForce FX 5900; GeForce4 Ti 4600: Known OpenGL Errors resolved in Quake engine gameplay. Quake engine gameplay does not truncate the OpenGL extensions string to the length of the buffer, thereby writing past the end of the buffer. The data lost in this process eventually causes the application to crash.

On a system with Windows 98 Second Edition and a TNT2 installed, running Quake III Arena in a loop results in a malloc() failed error after several hours. This was caused by a memory leak in Quake III Arena. It has been fixed in version 1.16m of Quake III and NVIDIA driver version 53.03.




There you have it. Sometimes your drivers can help a boat load too. Even in ET and Quake.

[SpongeBob]

first off, your ram isn't shared w/ ur vid card. the card has its own ram.

and adding the extra 512 ram should clear up most any issues you're having. worked for me, pup, and several others. game says 256 req'd. HA! less than a gig is unbearable!
256 to 512 is pretty reasonable for this game, if you're only playing vanilla. The DC team ought to release their own recommendations, cause standing on the street corner of Urban Siege with 3 helos, 2 tanks, a shilka and whatnot is far more than anything you'd find in vanilla and all its variants.

[Iron Sauron]

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comp specs:

HP PAVILION a320n
2.08 GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor
512MB ram (64 MD shared to Video Card)
120 GB hard drive with 80 GB free space
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX video card
Cable connection





holy smokes! you have the same computer I do, if you have put more RAM in once, then I have 512 too. been trying to figure some of this crap out for a while.

[AnalogKid]

ok not sure why but wen playing DC and i get into a point were theres interaction with other players or movable objects i have massive lag. im thinking if i add more ram this will stop...

comp specs:

HP PAVILION a320n
2.08 GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor
512MB ram (64 MD shared to Video Card)
120 GB hard drive with 80 GB free space
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX video card
Cable connection

...i want to add another stick of 512 ram. im hoping this will kill most of the lag, if not all of it.

let me know what u guys think

thanks

~Pyle

512MB of RAM isn't going to cut it. You need at least 768MB, and should go to 1 GB of RAM. I had a system with only 512MB of RAM and it lagged like crazy.

Also, the shared video RAM worries me too. Never a good option. You should consider a new video card at some point.

[Chalybos]

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comp specs:

HP PAVILION a320n
2.08 GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor
512MB ram (64 MD shared to Video Card)
120 GB hard drive with 80 GB free space
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX video card
Cable connection





holy smokes! you have the same computer I do, if you have put more RAM in once, then I have 512 too. been trying to figure some of this crap out for a while.
Need more RAM. Definitely go for a gig. Or a gig and a half. :D Seriously, that's probably your biggest issue. After that, any other issues would be the video card. And if you need to check to see how much RAM you've got, just right click on 'My Computer' and look at the 'General' tab.

[LionRampant]

It's 3:15am and I'm not reading through the whole thread again.

I don't remember seeing a mention of which OS you have. If it's Win98 then I'm pretty sure that it's unstable above 512, but with XP go as far as you like. :D