Laggyness

[Coachman]

I just upgraded my computer to match LadyC's. In the process, I decided to go up a step to the Barton chipset. Well, to make a long story short...I ended up needing new memory(which my motherboard will only support 1 of this correct type memory). I actually had 768 before and after went to 512. Now, with the upgrade my system is laggier/slower in Planetside than before.

So much for my new system.
Went from
AMD 1500XP with 768 of Generic 2100 DDR Ram
to the slower :lol:
AMD 2500XP with 512 of Kingston 3200 DDR Ram

[Malthus]

I have 1.5 gig DDR2100... with planetside and teamspeak running together in a tweaked XP Pro install (all non essential services diabled, etc) I use between 700-800 meg.

A gig is damn near a requirement to play this game well. Of course, the servers are laggy anyway (I don't remember it being like this in beta) so it might just be that Coach. :)

[Spinning Hat]

Yeah, the Retail servers have been SUPER laggy. I think mrkov crashed tonite, at least I know Hossin did. :lol:

[SlayerZero]

By sometime tomorrow I should have a AMD 2800 with 1gig of PC3200 ram running and I can let you know how that does. I get it back from the shop after it going in and out for a week now with other problems before I just said screw it and did a major upgrade. If all the re-installs on the new OS (XP pro) go ok then I should be able to at least try the game sometime tomorrow, though from all I have heard if you run XP and PS you need a minimum of over 700+megs of ram, 200+ for XP and 500+ for the game to run smooth(er).

[Malthus]

If you tweak XP, you can get it down to about 60-75 meg :) Just gotta turn off a lot of the pretty stuff, and some services that most gaming machines don't need.

With a gig of ram, there isn't much reason to tweak it other then the experience, you'll have plenty.

[Spinning Hat]

Yeah, you don't need 200Mb RAM for XP. When I boot, I use about 96Mb, but 1GB RAM is a min. for PS.. I had 512, ran poorly, went to 1Gb, super silky smooth... MMMmmmm!

[Mass]

Anyone ballz enough to list some of those non critical programs running that us gamers don't need?

[SlayerZero]

or how to make them not run...good Idea there Mass, didnt think about that while reading this...lol.

Please list for XP Pro.

[Malthus]

Go here: http://www.blackviper.com/index.html

He has a wealth of info about what services do what and which you can disable and stuff like that. :)

[Coachman]

Thought I was going to be smart said...

The Barton is only 5 dollars more than the 2400.

Didn't count on needing new memory....plus to get above 512, I have to buy a whole new motherboard---mine only supports 1 stick of DDR at 3200 vs 3 sticks at 2100.

[Stang]

I have only 512 and the game runs great for me. Until this last past week with all the lag crap they have been having on the servers.

[Gryphon]

Yeah, her comp has 512 2700 and runs all details maxed on 1152 res. No chaching proplems or anything.

[SlayerZero]

I am now running a AMD 2800, 1024meg PC3200 ram and a SB Audigy Plat and GF4 4400 4x agp....this is my new set up after upgrades and DAMN what a diff from before, lag...whats that :)

I had a AMD 1.0ghz with 512 PC2100 ram and the same sound and video with my DSL..was jittery then.