vmontice Posted October 5, 2004 Posted October 5, 2004 Hi, I bought SWG and I love it but when I am in a big city the game is really choppy. I turned down the graphics and everything like that. I even updated my graphics card. But when I am in major cities the game is really choppy. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I just re-formated my pc and SWG is the only game on the pc. My System Specs: Intel Pentium 4 1.2 or 1.5 GHz(not sure which) GeForce2 Mx 400 40 GB HD 256mb RAM Thanks in advance, Vmontice
Sounds Risky Posted October 5, 2004 Posted October 5, 2004 Well you need a new video card, but it wouldn't really help since the game uses a horrible, junky engine.
vmontice Posted October 5, 2004 Author Posted October 5, 2004 Any ideas on how to improve game preformance?
Trahern Valley Posted October 5, 2004 Posted October 5, 2004 A lot of players suffer the same in non-player cities, especially the busy ones. I doubt I can offer more advice than the standard: better internet connection, new graphics card, more RAM.
vmontice Posted October 5, 2004 Author Posted October 5, 2004 I have broadband internet. I was told that if I bought 512mb RAM it would greatly improve the gameplay preformance. I wanted to confirm the theory of RAM I dont want to go out and buy 512mb RAM if it wont help gameplay. Is the RAM theory true? Thanks in advance, Vmontice
Sounds Risky Posted October 5, 2004 Posted October 5, 2004 It probably won't help Galaxies all that much but you're probably going to want at least 512 anyway as I think most games recommend at least that much nowadays.
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 Galaxies has a problem with lag. It doesnt matter about your connection, your graphics card as I have experienced lag on all types of graphic cards. Yes, a better card increases performance but the game suffers from lag. Your best bet is to get onto a server thats closer to you. Although this doesnt always work either. I used to be on Eclipse, signed up to a European server and the lag was alot worse! DMUK
Jan Gaarni Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 I play on Starsider, an Eastcoast server. I live in Norway, and I don't get much lag, except in very crowded areas or for a few seconds when entering large buildings with alot of **** in it.
Trahern Valley Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 I've tried European servers every now and then, too. Sometimes I think it's worse because the signal is bounced to the US and back, heh.
vmontice Posted October 6, 2004 Author Posted October 6, 2004 So if I updated to 512mb RAM it would greatly improve game preformance?
FCMan Posted October 9, 2004 Posted October 9, 2004 go to a gig. I used to have slow load times and big lag. Then I bought a 250 buck ATI card video card and 1 gig of RAM and it now loads in less than 20-30 seconds ALWAYS. Try that it definitely works.
Wraith 8 Posted October 11, 2004 Posted October 11, 2004 ram with Ghz is best to go againt lag. xanadu (a friend of mine) has like a 3.0 ghz with 1 gig of ram... her comp runs flawlesly... she only gets a tiny bit of lag when entering coronet. myself i have a 2.0 Ghz and 512 ram... but coronet lags as HELL for me... i never ever ever ever go to coronet unless i REALLLLLLYYYY have to theed and bestine lags a bit around the time a lot of the US people come online.. other then that im fairly ok with the lag issue. Corzip
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