32 bit / 64 bit Lag

[countryboy]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but my pc is 64 bit and Spintires is 32 bit, is this why I have a serious lag problem?

[tango777]

Running windows 7 64bit and is as smooth as glass. I had some issues with the game at first, then reinstalled it. Works much better.

[countryboy]

Same here Windows 7 64 bit. The game just chunks along for me Maybe I need to reinstall it also. What did you do just uninstall then reinstall. Did you arrange it with steam first?

[countryboy]

Oh I forgot...in the suggestions they said to check where I was pulling my server from. it was pulling fom out of state, so I changed it to one the is in m state.

I'm not the one who plays the game so I have no idea how to check if its better.

[countryboy]

*my*

[Cochise]

im 64 bit and i have zero probs...

[GabeTeuton]

Windows 7 64 bit with no issues whatsoever... just one, little frame drop while dawn or dusk in any map, solved it by disabling the grass... that's all!

[Partybooper]

First question: Do you mean lag (a network problem) or low framerates/stuttering (which is not "lag", it's bad performance)?
http://www.howtogeek.com/142193/htg-explains-why-lag-and-low-fps-arent-the-same-thing/

Second question (because I assume you are not experiencing lag, but low framerates): What's your CPU, your GPU and how much RAM do you have?

[GabeTeuton]

Personally i do know that it's not the same to be laggy due to bad internet connection than the "running" of the game to be lagged by the performance of your specs... And i believe most of us know the difference, even the one who made the question... it's just that it's easier to say it's lagged... imo

[Partybooper]

Originally posted by GabeTeuton:

it's just that it's easier to say it's lagged... imo

Technically it's wrong though, and trust me, people who happen to work in support centres can get really annoyed of people who are reporting X or Y is lagging, even though they mean something completely different which has nothing to do with lag. :)

That's why I wanted him to clarify if he is really experiencing lag or if he means low performance. I assume he means the latter though, lots of young people mix this up and cause confusion this way. If it's the latter, then we need to know more about his hardware components. I just hope it's not another case of a notebook with no dedicated graphics chip, but built in GPU. That's usually the case with 95% of all threads here on Steam sadly which are about bad performance in a couple of games.

[countryboy]

Hey, I'm sorry to have described it wrong, this is all new.....I really appreciate all the comments.

After going to How To Geek I believe its low framerate and Not lag.

Its just like described, like watching a movie frame by frame...its quite annoying actually, because of that the vehicles move slow and get stuck in the mud rut and cant' get out.

As far a my:

CPU, GPU and RAM:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66 GHz 2.66GHz
Ram 4:GB 3:84GB usable

What is GPU...Graphics Processing Unit or Graphics card. How do I find that, my search comes up with nothing.....I would have to have one of those right?

So now what do I do??

[countryboy]

I found my Intel Graphics Media Control Center and maybe this is what you wanted to know.

Minimum graphics memory 32 MB
Maximum 1695 MB
Graphics memory in use 75 MB

??

[countryboy]

I found My Graphics and Media Control Center:

Intel Graphics Memory in use 75 MB
Max 1695 MB
Minimum 32 MB
Physical Mem 3931 MB

Does this help??

[Mubalzich69]

You're going to struggle to run this game at good frame rates with your Intel integrated graphics. Your cpu is on the low end as well. You will want to upgrade to a dedicated graphics card for gaming.

[ACiiL]

Absolutly not. The bits represent the memory space and how wide the data bus on the motherboard transfers at a system cycle. This does not mean more data is moving, only that that instead of the largest value possible of 64bit is 2^64, instead of 32bit's 2^32 on the hardware side of things.

If you had used a 32bit OS you would have less memory space avaible for programs. Not above 4gbs (actually this is the entire OS ram space, so a program would get 2gbs or less... And the more video ram your card has, you get even less for programs). If your program needed more ram than 2gbs, it would slow down just to swap memory all the time for a 32bit system.

You fps issue is your video card. I does not even quality as a gpu for games. Also 75MB ram for it is useless for games.

[countryboy]

Ok so you all are saying that I need to upgrade to a dedicated graphics card for gaming then?

We have never played games on line like this before so, its all a learning experiance.