Why does this game lag so much and how do I fix it?

[SNeeeeeeed]

It's stuttering like hell. Also how do I see chat? Nobody seems to talk and when I write I can't see my own ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[LadyLightning]

Are you running it on integrated Intel graphics?

[SNeeeeeeed]

Originally posted by LadyLightning:

Are you running it on integrated Intel graphics?

probably dunno

[Ackerlight]

No fix available
Game Engine is 32 Bit, optimized for Win XP and will never face an update.
Runs like s*h*i*t on modern 64 bit HighEnd PC´s with massive framedrops and memory leaks.

Deal with it or uninstall

[Natty La Ridge]

I have a modern 64-bit PC with a decent Nvidia graphics card. Agartha has always been laggy as hell, it's just the nature of that zone.

But the other zones do perform pretty well for me. If you're running with integrated graphics, try reducing the screen size, running in a window and turning down all the quality settings (esp. texture and shadows) to reduce memory and CPU overhead.

[truePaltrax]

Originally posted by Full Thortle:

I have a modern 64-bit PC with a decent Nvidia graphics card. Agartha has always been laggy as hell, it's just the nature of that zone.

But the other zones do perform pretty well for me. If you're running with integrated graphics, try reducing the screen size, running in a window and turning down all the quality settings (esp. texture and shadows) to reduce memory and CPU overhead.

its no good for me either putting it on low does not even do it strangly it ran fine just a while ago

[☠ Asasin ☠]

It would really help to know your computer specs. Traditionally a couple quick possible fixes are...

1 - Play for a couple of hours. With a full install this tends to fix framerate drops (they sort themselves out, I think it has to do with the game decompressing data for the first time).
2 - Lower the Effects setting to anything less than max (in-game graphical settings).
3 - Change DirectX rendering mode (launcher settings).
4 - The classic, update your graphics card drivers.
5 - Move or install the game to an SSD if one is available. This won't specifically help with continuing framerate drops but it does vastly improve load times and there are invisible load walls in each zone that can cause a framerate hiccough for a few seconds on an HDD when you cross them.

For the Chat issue, please post a screenshot after sending a few messages so we can see what's going on there. Bear in mind there is no Global chat by default, all chats are zone constrained, which means Agartha will be the busiest chat but the other zones may or may not have activity depending in how many players are in there and depending on how chatty they are. I recommend joining Sanctuary - /chat join Sanctuary - as it is a global social chat for helping each other out and just chatting in general.

One final note that the game server is located in the US so if you live overseas it might be hard to achieve a playable latency.

[SoreLoser]

Originally posted by Hengstenberg:

No fix available
Game Engine is 32 Bit, optimized for Win XP and will never face an update.
Runs like s*h*i*t on modern 64 bit HighEnd PC´s with massive framedrops and memory leaks.

Deal with it or uninstall

im on a 64bit high end machine and get noframe drops since I downloaded the full game. Kekeri was just asking for help...not "tough love".

Kekeri make sure that you have the full game downloaded, when I first started playing I was having terrible lag issues but it was because of that, also the comments above by "Asasin" gives some great help and good ideas on getting better performance for this, and other games. Another item on the check-list could be adding a specific profile for each game that you often play intsead of using your graphics cards "global settings" if that is a possibility. GL, hope you get the issue fixed TSW is a pretty awesome game with some great visuals and an interesting story

[truePaltrax]

Originally posted by Cpt. Harlock:

Originally posted by Hengstenberg:

No fix available
Game Engine is 32 Bit, optimized for Win XP and will never face an update.
Runs like s*h*i*t on modern 64 bit HighEnd PC´s with massive framedrops and memory leaks.

Deal with it or uninstall

im on a 64bit high end machine and get noframe drops since I downloaded the full game. Kekeri was just asking for help...not "tough love".

Kekeri make sure that you have the full game downloaded, when I first started playing I was having terrible lag issues but it was because of that, also the comments above by "Asasin" gives some great help and good ideas on getting better performance for this, and other games. Another item on the check-list could be adding a specific profile for each game that you often play intsead of using your graphics cards "global settings" if that is a possibility. GL, hope you get the issue fixed TSW is a pretty awesome game with some great visuals and an interesting story

i know i got the box checked but still when i enter some areas the game still loads in more when i go trough it

[Funkster]

the game never used to be laggy for me unti it went free to play. now its so bad i dont even bother playing. well done for ruining this game devs.