Hey,

I'm getting weird lag issue, the game will run clear for 5 seconds then lag for 13 seconds (red square on the right circle)

I'm running,

Windows Vista home premium
Asus mx2n-se plus motherboard
NVIDIA geforce gt 520 1gb ddr3 graphics card
2gb 1066mhz ddr2 RAM
My CPU is a Amd x64 dual core 3.0ghz

There is nothing else installed on the pc apart from windows and daoc.

Can anyone help plz

right circle is your machine, your losing cpu to something. make sure windows isnt trying to update, turn that off. make sure nothing is trying to update.

 

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Curious, do you know what the left and center buttons represent?

Thanks

The meter shows packet loss, latency and frame rate.


Packet loss: this is lost information between your computer and the server. DAoC does not like, does not deal well, with any packet loss.


Latency: is the lag between your computer and the game server. (this is the time it takes for comunication to travel from your computer to the server . . .or back) Quicker/less time (smaller number) is better.


Frame rate: How well your graphics card/computer is keeping up with visual changes. Higher frame rate is better.


green circles = good, good, good

yellow triangle = Some packet loss, some problems, lower frame rate

red square = poor/disconnect, poor/disconnect, terrible frame rate


Edit:

The OPs computer could need a good cleaning. Get some canned air, open up the case and blow out the dust.

 

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Also, the OP could do with a bit more ram. Adding at least 2GBs would make it seem almost like a new computer. Having only 2GBs with a dual core 64 bit processor is spreading the ram a bit thin.

 

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Great info! Tyvm!

I have satellite internet - I have never seen the latency one green. Most of the time its yellow.

Thx for the replys.

I do have another 2gb of RAM on the way, will see what happens when that arrives.

Just abit odd, I basically closed everything down I could that was running but still made no difference, is there anything else that may cause this?

Games generate a great deal of heat in the GPU and the CPU. Even a small amount of dust, just enough to barely see, can reduce heat sink/fan efficiency by as much as 20% to 25%. More dust causes even more of a reduction.


I first suspected heat/dust being the cause because your OS indicates your system was purchased/built a while ago which means you could have been slowly building dust for a long time now.


The GPU and CPU temperatures can rise 10 degrees in just a few seconds of heavy use. In 5 seconds a GPU or CPU with obstructed cooling can go from normal temps to egg cooking temps.


When heat starts to build beyond the ability of the heat sink to dissipate the heat, the computer will throttle down the CPU’s/GPU’s speed which reduces heat production but the computer will seem to slow to a crawl (or frame rates go in the toilet), which can seem like lag. As things cool down a bit the computer throttles back up and things get back to normal for a short time until the heat builds back up again, then the cycle keeps repeating.


With the age of your system (vista) and the symptoms, heat is almost always the cause of the problem. Not always, but almost always. You could have a virus/keylogger/mailware that is hogging system resources. Heat is usually the easiest to check for and clear up so it is usually the first I suggest a person with your symptoms check for.


Dust will hide in the tight and hard to see/inspect areas and sometimes in side/under the cowling that covers a heat sink. Most of the time a good blast of canned air will clean things out enough to get things back to normal.


Pic of dust in a heatsink

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=107jksz&s=7

 

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Update,

Bought a can of compressed air and blew out the heatsink on the CPU and the fans, made the system speed up a lot however made little difference to the lag in game.

Nothing feels hot at all.
When i have daoc running and alt tab out, to check the speeds in the task manager it says, CPU usage 100% and its using 1.5gb of memory........does this mean anything to anyone??

Will another 2gb RAM make a difference, I personally think it would.

Again all help on this is much appreciated!

Your graphics card/ram/mobo are the issue. A new comp is needed imo or a nice upgrade

 

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