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[Kandine]

I played yesterday, and I noticed that the game is choppy even with two clients, which is very unusual. I usually have at least 3 windows open and now I cant even open a third window for me to play because with two clients, the game is already bad as it is.

 

I only have a browser with 3-5 tabs open while playing RO, and I also did not change any hardware or settings the day before yesterday.

 

When I am monitoring my computer with Task Manager and other Monitoring Programs. Everything seems to look fine though. CPU cores staying below 20%, while the GPU does not do anything at all (lol, no joke). Not sure about memory, as it is eating about 2GB of it. I have 16GB of RAM though. Although I think the RAM usage is also normal as well.

 

Tried changing pagefile maybe it might get fixed but it doesn't. Although I should not need to change anything because the problem only started yesterday. Ever since I started playing November 2013, until the day before yesterday, there were no problems whatsoever and I did not change anything on my computer.

 

Although there are some times that the game runs smooth with 2 clients running, for only 5-10 seconds and it chops again lol

 

Any suggestions? Might try it again later to see if it will cause the same problem or not.

[DrAzzy]

Have you checked that it's not overheating? Overheating laptops will usually behave that way (choppy, unbearably slow performance, but no sign of what's wrong from task manager/etc) - hit the vents with air duster, and see if that fixes it :-P 

[Kandine]

I doubt it is overheating because the processor and graphics card does not even go above 20% load except on 1-2 cores on the processor. the graphics card usually is staying at the lowest clock rate when playing RO. I can safely say that the temps are normal.

 

i think something from nvidia control panel is splitting or limiting the frame rate of each of the clients. because when i close any client, it immediately brings the fps back to normal. this is just a rough guess though. also not sure why it started doing it since I did not change anything inside my system.

 

although i do have some instances that it does not chop at all, example if the other client is in Geffen Town, or at Eden Kitchen. But when i start to go to dungeons, even an empty dungeon, it chops back again.

 

i thought maybe some virus got infected my computer but i still highly doubt that it is, so i scanned for viruses last night and i also did not find any.

 

i had this problem before but i just usually close both clients and run them again, and the chopiness will be gone, but now, it seems that it does not want to

 

ill play around with it again later and update this thread

[Sapphic]

Is your power settings set to high performance?

 

Some people used to tell me they couldn't have mouse freedom on with their laptop cause it would kill dual clienting o:

[Kandine]

I think it is set to high performance, since all CPU cores are running at turbo even if the PC is idle. But I will double check it later.

[DrAzzy]

Mmm... Try changing the graphics mode in setup (be sure to run as admin if on Vista and later)

[Kandine]

What graphics mode? xD

[Hireme]

when you open the Ragnarok Setup you can select different graphic settings like

 

Direct3D HAL

Direct3D T&L HAL

<Insert your Graphic card here>

....

 

 

Try something different there. I think that is what azzy meant.

[Kandine]

Thanks. I changed it earlier and still no good. But I think I got it now *knocks on wood*. I'll report back later!

[Kandine]

I give up 

 

I thought I got it working properly by toning down NVIDIA settings because I got to play without any chop at all for a few hours. I even tried running 4 accounts on top of that and still no problems. I restarted the computer to see if it is fixed and the issue went back 

Edited by Kandine, 25 April 2014 - 04:44 AM.

[DrAzzy]

It sounds like you're close - maybe some of the settings you changed aren't being saved correctly across reboot?

[ilovemilk]

I give up 

 

I thought I got it working properly by toning down NVIDIA settings because I got to play without any chop at all for a few hours. I even tried running 4 accounts on top of that and still no problems. I restarted the computer to see if it is fixed and the issue went back 

Completely uninstall your NVIDIA driver and re-install it with the latest version.

Also re-install DirectX. Just do a google search for DirectX download.

[Hireme]

Completely uninstall your NVIDIA driver and re-install it with the latest version.

Also re-install DirectX. Just do a google search for DirectX download.

 

 

How does a computer technician fix a flat tire? He turns the car off, gets out, opens all doors, closes them, gets back in the car and starts the motor.

 

If cars were like computer, the flat tire would most likely be repaired.     

Edited by Hireme, 25 April 2014 - 06:53 PM.

[Kandine]

Completely uninstall your NVIDIA driver and re-install it with the latest version.

Also re-install DirectX. Just do a google search for DirectX download.

 

Already did that, many times xD