Step lag on laptop

[Winterson]

Hi all,

I'm playing on an i5 laptop with inegrated graphics. 8gb of ram (but lets be honest, I used to run this game on a 200mhz pc)

What is causing this bug? My connection is 80meg. Any idea?

/Winterson

 

[Samuel]

Hi all,

I'm playing on an i5 laptop with inegrated graphics. 8gb of ram (but lets be honest, I used to run this game on a 200mhz pc)

What is causing this bug? My connection is 80meg. Any idea?

/Winterson

What version of windows?

Sam

 

[Winterson]

7 Home Premium

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7 Home Premium

 

[ILovePie:D]

This game runs **** on integrated graphics on a laptop.

 

[Babyhack]

This game runs **** on integrated graphics on a laptop.

Runs fine on my Mac with integrated graphics

BH

 

[Samuel]

Yeah, it runs fine on my laptop with integrated graphics as well...

There was something about a theme causing issues on windows 7, I think Koriban knows more... Kori can you find the post? I can't seem to find it.

Sam

 

[Koriban]

http://www.lomcn.org/forum/showthread.php?84407-Slow-in-game-Read&p=935525#post935525

Runs fine, and running at the speed cap permanently, are 2 very different things mind.

 

[Ardbeg]

Laptop and integrated graphics on Win 7 is fine for Mir.

Check your power settings for things like turning off / standby of the hard drive etc..
If the drive keeps going into a power save mode, it'll be causing a lag effect as it needs waking up every time you do something.

Background tasks like windows update can also cause problems, especially with Win 7 as some take forever to finish and, if interrupted, can even hang the computer.

My bet is on the drive continually going into standby mode.

 

[Razarus]

Laptop and integrated graphics on Win 7 is fine for Mir.
.

Mir or Mir Chronicles?
These files are far more demanding than your average mir.

 

[Winterson]

Laptop and integrated graphics on Win 7 is fine for Mir.

Check your power settings for things like turning off / standby of the hard drive etc..
If the drive keeps going into a power save mode, it'll be causing a lag effect as it needs waking up every time you do something.

Background tasks like windows update can also cause problems, especially with Win 7 as some take forever to finish and, if interrupted, can even hang the computer.

My bet is on the drive continually going into standby mode.

Power settings are set to High Performance (I dont like the problems that the others bring, as suggested)

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Mir or Mir Chronicles?
These files are far more demanding than your average mir.

How so?

 

[Razarus]

How so?

I don't know how or why, its just far more demanding than any other mir I've played.
I was using my old PC for other mir games and although I was never the fastest I could keep up. On here having more than 5 people on the screen at once caused my fps to drop from 50 to 16..
no longer a problem with my current pc but chronicles was far more demanding than i expected.

 

[Winterson]

I don't know how or why, its just far more demanding than any other mir I've played.
I was using my old PC for other mir games and although I was never the fastest I could keep up. On here having more than 5 people on the screen at once caused my fps to drop from 50 to 16..
no longer a problem with my current pc but chronicles was far more demanding than i expected.

Well, theres a difference between being optimized and demanding. This is a game I used to run on a 200mhz processor and 56k modem without any significant issues beyond having to re log every 2 hours because of 56k limits.

The only reason a faster pc would make this game play better would be by brute forcing bad optimization.

 

[Lilcooldoode]

These files will send more data to and through from server (would never work on 56k now)

Newer version of directx than other mirs which will be more demanding to build and render textures. Also higher bitdepth images.

More advanced lighting system (admittedly not coded very well for performance)

All of the above (plus more) especially the lighting system make these files are real pig on alot of systems - mine included and although you might not always run at 60fps it should still be playable

 

[MiloFoxburr]

These files will send more data to and through from server (would never work on 56k now)

Newer version of directx than other mirs which will be more demanding to build and render textures. Also higher bitdepth images.

More advanced lighting system (admittedly not coded very well for performance)

All of the above (plus more) especially the lighting system make these files are real pig on alot of systems - mine included and although you might not always run at 60fps it should still be playable

I don't think it's entirely the lighting systems fault for the big performance drops. I played Chronicles over the weekend and with Lighting and a 16bit Map (Bichon to be exact) my FPS was ~40FPS. Walked into Oma Cave (Which is old 8bit) and Lighting and I had a rock solid 60FPS. The bitdepth of the maps seemed to have a much bigger hit than the Lighting system

 

[Samuel]

At the end of the day Mir loads the current scene of images from the wils/wzls into memory, they then stay in memory until the scene removes them or their life expectancy runs out.

32bit maps use a lot more memory per scene, and increased resolution means there is far more of the map to be seen at once which also increases the amount of memory required to display a scene... This plus, lighting, hums, hum effects, map animations etc etc all counts toward the client being far more memory hungry than original/older versions of Mir.

Integrated graphics generally come with really low memory, so the issue might not be the fact that it is integrated graphics, but that your graphics card (integrated or not) does not have enough memory to to load the scenes/remove the cached images fast enough (imagine a 1 in 1 out scenario).

Sam

 

[Ardbeg]

Mir or Mir Chronicles?
These files are far more demanding than your average mir.

Granted, I was referring to older styles and not the more demanding Chronicles format.