Game Performance Suffers(Lag & frequent crashes) |
Liquid Enforcer |
Recently I had been experiencing problems with the game. I crashed alot where I would have to restart my computer to recover. I was also having problems with extreme lag situations on the world map as well as other places.
With the help of a buddy(EJ) I changed some settings and updated my software; since then the game has ran smoothly, world map has a very minimal lag effect, and I havnt had any nasty crashes. Here I will tell you what I did as well as some other things to improove performance. (DISCLAIMER: I have had good results, good enough that I am sharing them with you; I do not guarentee however that you will have a 100% lagg free/crash free/bug free environment)
Tips:
-First thing it was suggested I do after I sent EJ my DxDiag file was to turn color depth down from 32 bit to 16 bit. I noticed no change in color quality.
-It is also suggested you run windows update and get any Service Packs and updates, as well as any dirvers they have for you to download.
-Another good idea is to get the latest drivers for your chipset from the manufacturers site.
-Something suggested by Martian and others that have had success is turning down the ammount of sound channels used in the Audio config in game. It usually helps a great deal with lag and crashes(especially with alot of weapons firing).
-MS DirectX 9 is the latest version of DirectX, if you have older versions it is reccommended you upgrade.
-Something that will help with overall system performance is defragmenting your harddrive and running disk tools such as scandisk.
Hope you find this useful and that it helps. If you have anything to add email me at LiquidEnforcer@charter.net OR send me a private message on the VBCNetwork forums.
Good Luck! |
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