Ridiculous lag making this unplayable

[Fixxel]

I´ve played ton of this game past few years, last time I think I played that much of this was about half year or year ago... Now I wanted to return to this game since I noticed today that this game has had huge updates overall and new content to endgame.

It seems though that servers are crappy nowadays or something, since its simply just impossible to play once I log in to place where I left my main; memory alpha.

For few seconds everything runs quite smoothly, until the game starts to load the world and characters in it, and by the time it has loaded locations of players surrounding me, the lag is just horrible, it´s not even frames per seconds anymore, its more like seconds untill next frame.

Nothing works, I tried to put the settings slider from quality to speed, but doesn´t do a thing. I´ve also tried to wait it out, but no, in time it just simply freezes completely and crashes.

So, something has gone horribly wrong with this game, or am I the only one?

[Malikius_1959]

No, I am having lag too. And the rubber banding is irritating too. Maybe we should start to ♥♥♥♥♥ to the GM's

[Fixxel]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Malikius1959:

No, I am having lag too. And the rubber banding is irritating too. Maybe we should start to ♥♥♥♥♥ to the GM's

"rubber banding"?

[Sandormen]

'Rubber-banding' is a term where your character and ship moves forward, just to be pulled back, again and again and again. Just like playing with an actual rubber-band. fyi.

[Imperius Rex]

yea I have the same problem. I dont remember it bein this annoying years ago when i played. The added content maybe pushed this old engine into the red zone. I lag often on ground, cutscenes dont sync up and then look like a benny hill skit with everything goin super fast. It seems take longer to load zones as well.

[Fixxel]

Sandormen; oh, ok. Thanks!

and yeah, just FYI guys, I am not just talking about inconvenient lag, d-sync or this rubber-banding, It´s always been illness of Cryptic games, at least Champions Online and STO, I am talking about and experiencing lag that is so high you can´t function since it takes 20 seconds to even open your inventory bag, and walking is impossible because screen doesn´t refresh! It´s unplayable!

good for you guys, sounds like you guys at least get to PLAY it :P

[Leo]

If it's a lag issue
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=225155
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If it's a Graphics issue
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In the game folder> localdata >GamePrefs.pref
== Delete GamePrefs
This can get bugged over time through patches.
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Adjust your graphics settings. Try starting in safe mode to minimize, and reset your graphics.
then restart, and adjust you graphics.
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You might try verifying the integrity of the files as well. to make sure everything is in order.
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There has been some recent bugs, and issues with the way graphics processing is being changed in the game due to the size of stuff now.
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[Oberon]

Is now a good time to brag about how I never have issues with lag?

[Leo]

Another thing you can check is, did you use Steam to download/install the game, or did you use a direct downloader. Perfect World uses Pando Media Booster, which is a torrent app, and will share your game download with other players downloading the game.

you can uninstall Pando Media Booster or shut it down (PMB.exe in Windows Task Manager) if you start getting unusual lag spikes, system resource problems, bandwidth issues, or other network issues.

[Numenorean]

No lag here; be sure that you don't have other steam games that are updating

[Hykudo]

Too much rubber-banding! If you're going to advertise the game, make sure it works!!! IDIOTS

[Oberon]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Hykudoru:

Too much rubber-banding! If you're going to advertise the game, make sure it works!!! IDIOTS

Works fine for me. Is that really all you necrobumped this thread for?

[LTDominator]

the massive lag is located in every STF since delta rising, don't say "there is no lag". it's out there, cryptic know it and posted a statement on reddit. the problem is the server and software. they promised to fix it the next months...

[Caz]

I lag and get 4-10 fps besides when I'm in warpspace and I get 20 fps. Also, I never get rubberband problems. And when I turn my graphic settings all the way down I get the same FPS as all the way up, so I just play with them up. Anyone actually know how to boost FPS?

[Fixxel]

Resurrecting almost 2 years old dead thread here, are we? :P I have not even played STO since then... lag was so crippling I vaguely remember. Well, it's funny because it shows that Cryptic has not done a thing to fix it, it seems, or then they screwed something up again.