Curse

SincorpDeath · Mar 28, 2006, 05:39 PM // 17:39

Hey guys. Often times i may need to alt tab out of GW for various reasons, usually to check something on GURU, and when i alt tab back, everything works fine. But sometimes- when i alt tab back, the game starts jumping around like Crazy! It's not the rubberband effect, everything still plays fine- members in my group are having no problems, but it's like my fps jumps down to 1. This also sometimes happens just from zoning.

also, i've had it do like a halfway screwup before- where i zoned, and i could tell that GW was having a hard time running, like the fps was reduced to half. Everytime this has happened, if i zone into an area, the fps/jumpiness is completely screwed, so i have to restart gw.

any ideas on how to fix/prevent this? It's just a minor annoyance.

Str0b0 · Mar 28, 2006, 05:45 PM // 17:45

try minimizing the window instead of alt+tab. GW is set up so you can play in windowed mode or minimixe or close the game window just like you would any other window open on your machine.

Zhou Feng · Mar 28, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12

How much actual ram your machine has? How much processor speed are we talking about?

Numa Pompilius · Mar 28, 2006, 06:22 PM // 18:22

Like Zhou Feng I suspect the reason you get "lag" is that you've run out of RAM, and your computer is swapping memory to disk. Close all non-essential programs to free up RAM, and you'll see that the choppiness disappears pretty quickly.

english storm · Mar 28, 2006, 09:26 PM // 21:26

nope i dont think thats the case the exact same thing has started to happen with me. Its like the fps goes down to 1

I have tried changing all video settings and sound settings right down and turned off but it still wont fix this problem when it happens. I have to restart GW and its all fine again.

I have 1.50 GB of ram with a p4 3.2 Ghz. Have made sure all my drivers are upto date and sometimes its still goes funny. I dont have a great graphics card just a geforce fx 5700, but its been great for a few months which makes me thing it was an update to GW thats caused this....

grrrrr the quick reply here never works for me either lol

edit: yeah i know all about the FX bug thing but i don't have any missing terrain or any of the other problems just this weird lag type issue when i sometimes alt+tab or zone.

Zhou Feng · Mar 28, 2006, 10:31 PM // 22:31

Hmm might be some updates might be acting funny with the graphics. Well its hard to determine these issues. Maybe you should set up your graphic with the auto detect. I used to have a similar problem whenever I opened up the inventory it will glitch up a bit then reset to normal. Never found out what did it or how it got fixed. Might also be the mother boards video cards configurations.

Ghozer · Mar 29, 2006, 01:34 AM // 01:34

If your FPS is fine, and people are 'Jumping' around (warping) zone out and back in, or change districts... GW 'pauses' when you ALT+TAB and it causes a delay on the rendering of where people are...

i promise you, re-zoning, or changing districts will fix this

stumpy · Mar 29, 2006, 08:49 PM // 20:49

This just started happening to me too around thursday or friday I can't remember ... but Cantha was not exactly friendly to travel in like this...

specs are

6600GT
p4 3.0
1.25 GB memory
broadband highspeed

no other apps running ... I think it has to do, for me at least, the new terrains and textures being loaded into my memory. But its so bad I just have to reload GW ... some other guildies almost considered not getting chapter 2 because sometimes it was just unplayable. But I assured them it's likely the loading of the textures into their memory.

I guess I will have to take a chance and hope it eventually goes away. Funny thing isit was completely random where it would happen. Sometimes even to already loaded areas.

Raptox · Mar 30, 2006, 02:41 PM // 14:41

I had this happen to me for the first time last night. I was in Granite Citadel, used Alt-Tab, checked GuildWiki, came back, and suddenly I was mad choppy. I restarted GW and the problem was gone.

Not sure how to fix it, not sure why it would happen, as I have been Alt-Tabbing all over the place since I got the game.

Blade Rez · Mar 30, 2006, 02:59 PM // 14:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghozer

If your FPS is fine, and people are 'Jumping' around (warping) zone out and back in, or change districts... GW 'pauses' when you ALT+TAB and it causes a delay on the rendering of where people are...

i promise you, re-zoning, or changing districts will fix this

This is not a problem with PC performance, just how GW runs. I run into this problem sometimes. I run GW 60fps 1280x1024 4xaa, with my system, and it still happens.

Ghozer is correct.