How come when I play on my own servers w/ only me, it's super laggy and when play ANY game it's still super laggy?
HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Aug 22 2003, 11:49 am
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If it happens to you when you're playing solo on your own computer, then there are two likely possibilities:
1) The games you are running are coded poorly, and have very processing-intensive systems (many large loops is a big culprit of this) -or- 2) Your computer doesn't have enough available RAM to operate the program... This can be from either having a poor computer, or from having too many programs running at once... The more things you run, the more RAM is used up, and the less Dream Seeker has available to run the game...which causes it to slow down... My guess is number 2... Since it sounds like this happens with multiple games you've tried, and they can't all be that badly designed... Free up some RAM by closing unused programs while playing BYOND games, and the problem should clear up... Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the active programs/close programs dialogue to see a list of all of the currently running programs on your computer... Close what you don't need... | |
SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote:
My guess is number 2... Since it sounds like this happens with multiple games you've tried, and they can't all be that badly designed... Hmm. | |
Well, alright, so they can all be that bad, but I find it highly unlikely that he hasn't tried at least one decently designed game...lol
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Well what kind of procesor are you running? BYOND uses winGUI commands like BitBlt to draw graphics to the screen, so even if you have a ATI RADEON? 9800 PRO with "Eight parallel rendering pipelines" and "Four parallel geometry engines", none of that is being put to use. If you are using a computer an old 800mhz computer or something, nevermind your graphics card, you mind find that the newer games on BYOND run rather slow. Maby you could try to speed it up by closing some processor-extensive background apps.
Also, like they said, a nice fat ram upgrade wouldn't hurt either. [Edit] Well, it sounds like I'm dogging byond once again.. I don't mean to, its just those bitblt functions that eat my cheese because of the money I've spent on graphics acceleration ;) Byond itself is a great tool for RAD (rapid application development) net games. Maby if they start charging and I become a big spender of byond, they shall take priority of my complaint ^_^. | |
I don't think Snowboarder by Nadrew is coded badly. I also don't think ShapeShifter by Airmapster is coded badly. :)
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You realize 800mhz is still reletively fast. I run a pentium3 450 mhz(the slowest possible pentium 3 speed for those of you that didn't know), and I have no problem at all for almost any game on byond. I can even host 15+ people on murder mansion with reletively low lag.
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Hey, Jot...my modem's down on my computer and my moms computer doesn't have MSN (she doesn't want me downloading stuff). Any other way to reach ya? :-D
And, to stay on topic...I don't think ones processor has TOO much to do with the quality of games that they can play, it's more dependant on RAM. Like, for instance, Jot has like what, 1 GB of RAM? | |
If it's laggy on your own computer, it's bad programming.