Why do I keep getting lag?

[Sclera]

My computer is way above the recommended system requirements, yet the game is still laggy.
It lags when you click things, when you walk, when you use signs. I tried closing everything that runs in the background but no improvement?

[Toto]

Check your in game settings, and also put on CPU priority, I found that it helps in most cases when you are "lagging" it helps truly.
Anyways, if you would care to put your specs and operating system I could try help you more in depth.

[Sclera]

Originally posted by ciri xm:

Check your in game settings, and also put on CPU priority, I found that it helps in most cases when you are "lagging" it helps truly.
Anyways, if you would care to put your specs and operating system I could try help you more in depth.

How do I 'put on CPU priority'?

[Sclera]

Originally posted by Sclera:

Originally posted by ciri xm:

Check your in game settings, and also put on CPU priority, I found that it helps in most cases when you are "lagging" it helps truly.
Anyways, if you would care to put your specs and operating system I could try help you more in depth.

How do I 'put on CPU priority'?

OK googled that. Do you also give priority to Steam stuff, other than the game itself?

[Sclera]

Actually I have few more questions :
Is closing the programs that run in the background a good idea at all?
Does running the Task Manafer as Administrator matter?

Here's my specs:
Lenovo Y510P Laptop
General
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language
Central Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
User Name Abdurrahman
Graphics
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M
Video Memory 0 Byte
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Storage
Total Memory 7.95 GB
Free Memory 6.37 GB
Total Hard disk 915.09 GB
Free Hard disk 796.28 GB
I/O
Mouse Microsoft USB Dual Receiver Wireless Mouse (Mouse and Keyboard Center)
Keyboard USB Input Device (Logitech Download Assistant)



Thanks in advance!

[Sclera]

I would really appreciate being able to talking more on the issue with you.

[Sclera]

Actually I just realize my spec doesn't even meet the recommended specs, how careless of me... if I'm not wrong they do meet the recommended specs of The Witcher 2 though :/

But it was laggy even with settings like 1280x720 resolution and 'Medium' visual settings... My specs are not by far inadequate after all...

[AltheaWolf]

Runs fine for me with all graphics on highest on a 2.4Ghz CPU, but I have 8GB Graphics and 32GB RAM, which may make a bit of difference. I am also on a Win 7 machine, which seems to be more stable for gaming than my OH's much higher specification Win10 one

[Sclera]

Originally posted by AltheaWolf:

Runs fine for me with all graphics on highest on a 2.4Ghz CPU, but I have 8GB Graphics and 32GB RAM, which may make a bit of difference. I am also on a Win 7 machine, which seems to be more stable for gaming than my OH's much higher specification Win10 one

That certainly does difference... What does OH mean?

[AltheaWolf]

Sorry - OH means 'other half' - my partner (who got me into half the games I play now,) and still steals my compluter - (and even sometimes my account) to play some games because they work better on my 'old' machine than his super-powered gaming rig!

My machine is also a laptop, rather than desktop, so it can play well on them.

Might be worth trying to play Witcher 'offline' - stop the cloud save feature (that caused my game to hang and crash all the time) and disconnect from the internet - means you're using less resources on other things and more on the game.

There are several games I find work better offline - I like turning graphics up as high as possible!

[Sclera]

Originally posted by AltheaWolf:

Might be worth trying to play Witcher 'offline' - stop the cloud save feature (that caused my game to hang and crash all the time) and disconnect from the internet - means you're using less resources on other things and more on the game.

There are several games I find work better offline - I like turning graphics up as high as possible!

But does it give you the achievements or cards that way? Or does it record your play time?

[Sclera]

Originally posted by AltheaWolf:

Sorry - OH means 'other half' - my partner (who got me into half the games I play now,) and still steals my compluter - (and even sometimes my account) to play some games because they work better on my 'old' machine than his super-powered gaming rig!

BTW if I know right, he should not need to steal your account at all. There should be a way to authorize up to 5 users and 10 devices. You two might find it useful.

[AltheaWolf]

Achievements - if you mean steam achievements, not sure the game has any - W2 and 3 do, definitely, but I wanted to play them in order and have only recently finished WI, so don't know whether they would credit you with achievements when offline.

In-game/play time - it seems to keep track - I don't know how accurate the record is though. It's not something I pay much attention to (other than making me realise sometimes that I spend waaay too much time gaming!
Cards - steam trading cards? Don't think there are any for W1

I don't play offline for W1 - don't need to as I have never had any real issues once I disabled the cloud save feature - that would definitely be the first thing I did if your game is laggy - mine hung all the time before I got rid of cloud save, and it's hardly a necessary - or even particularly useful feature given that you have tons of HDD space and the save files aren't that big. If disabling cloud save solves the problem - great - if not, then experiment with offline mode.

Re my account - oh, he doesn't NEED to steal my account, he just chooses to!
However, I am not particularly bothered as long as he doesn't do anything to my game saves, and there are a couple of games that we are trying competing strategies on, and it can be quite fun to look at each other's progress without logging out of my account and on to his.