Great Scott! Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Hey, when I used to play this game, I actually quit only due to huge lag in cities. My graphics card is great (Radeon 9200) and hasn't caused similar problems in any other games, but for some reason it used to just due this on SWG. But now that I'm thinking of resubscribing, and that I've heard the game was completely revamped, I wanna know if this lag problem is still there (assuming anyone else has had the same problem or read about it in an update log or something). Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cercueil Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I havnt had any problems or very few problems due to lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Well I used to have that problem when I played, I bought 512mb of ram, and I never got lag again, so that might do the trick. Just out of curiosity, how much ram do you currently have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Scott! Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 512 MB... =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 yeah that's what I had. I bought another 512 for only about $50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Scott! Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 Oh, I see, sorry. Well I will if I resubscribe and continue having the problem. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzie22 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 i've got 2 gig of ram and even with that i lagged.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu7 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I know alot of people had lag issues with the game, and I'm almost positive there was a fix or some way to help reduce the lag, you might want to check the Official SWG forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Alot depends on the distance youare to the server as well. Everyone knows that the servers that run Galaxies are powered by Hamsters (we've all seen the pics!) and since NGE lag increased. I've 2 gig ram and it was still bad - even out of cities. The best thing to do, is try the starter kit get yourself off the space station and have a look around before throwing any money at this game. DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUGOMAND Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I think SWG lags very much because of all the options you have for character creation. Nobody looks alike in SWG, and that takes alot of RAM and connection. In WoW, you can only choose a face, some hair, and a beard (if you're male lol, sorry to all you hairy ladies out there), but there's no lag at all. I think that's one of the main reasons for lag, but of course it cannot only be that. Their servers do suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Lag wasnt really an issue until the dark times, until they brought in player cities and decay. I used to play on Eclipse server from teh UK and our regular 70v70+ pvp battles didnt generate much lag to be honest. Since players cities and now NGE, lag has become a nightmare. I would open my inventory and you couldnt even see the items displayed like you used to. DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I find it intersting how before (pre-CU) I would experience very little lag. After the CU took effect I started noticing small increases of lag, but once the NGE hit the lag really got bad. It has gotten better, but still at times it is just annoying. Walking through Mos Entha and hitting a lag spike (with no one else around) is just weird. During the hologrind phase I didn't experience these kinds of slow downs. Unsure what the problems is, but I think a big help would be to eliminate alot of structures that no one uses anymore. Going through player cities and seeing structures with tags like "So-and-So's personal storage #1." Half of these structures are probably from people that quit the game, I say after X amount of months they should be deleted. No use in keeping structures that no one is using. Might make some people upset, but if you know you are leaving the game put the items you know you want to keep in a safety deposit box, or put it on your toon in a backpack or something. A friend of mine said the lag has gotten worse with each patch they have done, I tend to agree, although with the game being almost barren at times lag really shouldn't be that big of an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediConsularAD Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 my computer has under 1 gig of ram, a nvidia geforce fx 5600 gc an 1.7 ghz processor, and i get no lag, i turned down most of my external graphic options and that obviously got rid of the dodgy framerate but still i havent had much lag at all, maby once or twwice but it was worse for me pre-nge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUGOMAND Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Justus, I agree with you 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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