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CrazyMonkey
8th Aug 06, 2:27 PM
Been playing WA and DoW for about as long as they been out now. Just recently im experiencing a major drop in fps (3-4fps sometimes) and generally jerky and laggy movement when playing other people online (2v2, 3v3 4v4 etc.)

As stated this was something that happened overnight and my rig has always run these games very smoothly. If i play singleplayer or skirmish theres no problems at all and other games online work perfectly as well. (counterstrike, half life 2 etc. etc.)

The only thing that happened recently was when I installed the BETA of Company of heroes which uses the DoW engine. On CoH i have the exact same problem when playing online although i can easily play it at max detail in sp and against comps.

Ive got a ATI 1900XTX Sapphire, 3.6ghz intel, 2gb RAM and plenty of free hd space. Ive got Directx 9.0c

I dont see how it could be related to my vid card an such seeing as ive always been able to play DoW on max settings without any lag.


The lagging seems to start after a little while when i log on to gamespy (10-20 secs) after this even when i try to type something the letters will start to be delayed before showing up and menus and buttons will be slow to respond.

The lag is really bad and makes it near impossible to control units so im basically stranded until I can find a fix for this. If anyone have any suggestions it would be appreciated.


Ive also uploaded the diag file if its any help.

Stormsong
8th Aug 06, 2:43 PM
The problem is probably due to the "lag bug" which has been causing problems since the 1.5 patch. See this thread (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=98595) for details.

CrazyMonkey
8th Aug 06, 2:56 PM
It's weird that the bug should appear NOW tho, seeing as ive played hundreds of games without this problem since the 1.5 patch came out.....

CrazyMonkey
11th Aug 06, 11:47 AM
It cant be the hardware because then it would lag when i played v 7 comps for example.

It cant be my connection because the other 15+ online games i have play just fine.

If its the lag bug why would it suddenly appear like this??

mailpup
11th Aug 06, 12:36 PM
Perhaps you have a program of which you are unaware that is running in the background and using up resources. Have you checked for this in the Task Manager? Could be a virus too.

CrazyMonkey
13th Aug 06, 4:04 PM
Perhaps you have a program of which you are unaware that is running in the background and using up resources. Have you checked for this in the Task Manager? Could be a virus too.



yeah I tried looking if there was any program interupting the game but I could see none in taskmanager, know of any third party programs which would list programs tasmanager wouldnt?