The REAL ToA system requirements?

[SeeN]

I have the following system atm:

Pentium4 2.4ghz CPU
Radeon 9600Pro Gfx running 8xAGP card with newest ATI driver
512 MB DDR Ram

so I clearly meet the Official System requirements.

BUT! My ToA lags like hell! Its not constant lag, more like loads of lagspikes especially when zoning, entering areas with lots of mobs or diving.

Its the last of the three lag markers (Frame Rate) that turn yellow (even red some times) so to the best of my knowledge this has nothing to do with connection (have a 1024 ADSL connection anyway)

So, my question is: If you can run ToA free of lag, what is your system spec?

Where is the problem in my system?

 

[Haruh]

DAoC lags, DAoC IS lag.

but to be honest, with that computer you should be able to run more or less lagfree if you lower all settings.

with my 1.7Ghz 512SDRAM and Radeon 9600XT128mb (on 4x AGP board) I lag quite alot, but then I want all eye candy, and have everything except shadows on which imo is quite pointless. I never run in more than 1024*768 though, as I always use window mode and have desktop in 1280*1024.

 

[SeeN]

I run in 1024x768 non-window with all the gfx details on.

ToA gfx is nice, not gonna turn it off!

 

[Labbe]

I have a p4 3.2 Ghz and a radeon 9800 XT , 512 ram.

It works good for me.

 

[meerclar]

i have an athlon xp2000 with 512 ram and a gf4200ti and am running ToA at 1024 res and all the good stuff turned on and have no lag except when i run into a zerg.
thats on win98se.
on winXPpro it runs badly with the same settings.

 

[Sinned]

might be winxp then, eating up your ram


damn Im about to get toa, have winxp and only 512 ram

 

[Shagrat]

athlon xp2000 with 1024mb DDR Ram and a Radeon 9000pro gfx card. Runs fine (1024x768 windowed mode) on Win xp.

 

[Wiebe]

9700pro, 1 gig ram, 2,6ghz

I run 2 accounts and i got the same problem, if i click my bb acc it goes pretty slow

 

[Eroa]

might be winxp then, eating up your ram


damn Im about to get toa, have winxp and only 512 ram

Buy more ram then? its not like its expensive compared to the time most people spend infront of the computor.

 

[Baldanah]

i'm running an AMD 2200 xp , 1 gig ddr 400 , ATi Radeon 9600 pro 128 , Winxp , 2* 120 gig hd SATA.
Have all gfx settings on max , shadows nearest 10 , water update often .
I only lag when i run through housing zone or into big zergs , apart form the occasional lag spike its pretty smooth .

 

[Khalen]

Aye similar experience here as Baldanah. Try using precaching or get 512 Mb RAM more as RAM helps a lot with daoc.

 

[Cyradix]

ToA runs pretty lag free on a laptop with a mobile 9600 (P4 1.4M with 512mb RAM) so it has to be something on your system.

Try disabling your virusscanner and other software while running ToA

 

[Breon]

Im runninh on a p3 700 380m ram and a geforce 2 mx
Runs ok. Slow to zone ect and the occasional lag spike but still playable.
I suppose the big test will come with the zergs

 

[old.Whoodoo]

AMD 2.6, GF4 4200 and 1028Mb DDR3200 all fine with 1 x SI and 1 x TOA clients running (getting 2nd copy soon!)

There was a thread on BW about tuning XP better for gaming, dunno if its on here or not, and in the techy section (where this should be) theres a lot of talk about virtual memory in XP, so worth looking there too.

 

[Blondy]

With my downstairs PC i'm running ToA with 262SDR Ram (dont ask) AMD Duron 1600mhz gforce 2 and i can run ToA good in SI/Classic zones but zone slow and in ToA i lag when entering main towns. I still use it for my buffbott even when im in ToA.

 

[Quinlan]

I have the following system atm:

Pentium4 2.4ghz CPU
Radeon 9600Pro Gfx running 8xAGP card with newest ATI driver
512 MB DDR Ram

so I clearly meet the Official System requirements.

BUT! My ToA lags like hell! Its not constant lag, more like loads of lagspikes especially when zoning, entering areas with lots of mobs or diving.

Its the last of the three lag markers (Frame Rate) that turn yellow (even red some times) so to the best of my knowledge this has nothing to do with connection (have a 1024 ADSL connection anyway)

So, my question is: If you can run ToA free of lag, what is your system spec?

Where is the problem in my system?

I had the same problem with my 512 DDR and WinXP pro. I went out and bought and additional 1GB mem and that did the trick

 

[Xplo]

win xp takes about 128 ram alone so you'll need to upgrade to 1 gig like me

 

[Korax]

1gb ram, AMD 2600+ and radeom 9800pro runs smooooth xDDD

Running at 1280x1024, ToA water, often reflection update, precashe all, all shadows, etc :touch:

 

[Graknak]

P4 2.4Ghz, 1024mb ram, Gf FX 5600(256mb), WinXP Pro, pagefiling set to 512mb min - 1536mb max(suggested settings).

Turned off shadows, precaching and water set to low fg and seldom update.
Windowed 1024-786 on a 1280-1024 desktop.

Runs crap, after about an hour of playing WinXp has munched up all the pagefile mem and is gonna spam a msg saying he needs more food.
The the game refuses to do anything and hangs, shortly after explorer crashes with everything and restarts. Only a clean reboot does the trick again.

Am running a personal firewall and a Virusscanner tho, but nowadays thats a must unless yer willing to /format c: each week thanks to happy haxx0rz.

Also considering ditching the crappy GF Fx and get something better altho i'm not sure if thats gonna sort the problem.

And it seems i'm loosing connection to my router quite often, just like p00f about once every 2 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less, still need to figure out what thats supposed to mean...

 

[meerclar]

www.tweakxp.com

this site has all the settings you want to adjust to make your gaming experience better while using windows xp.

 

[Kherny]

Since TOA:
1st pc 1.7ghz Duron, 512 DDR 2700 ram, GF4 Ti 4200 128mb runs sweet at 1280 1024 or something like that. No lag , just strange latency everyone seems to be getting. BT 1/2 meg connection.

2nd pc 1.3 Duron, 1gb PC100 SDRAM, Gf4 mx 440 64mb (agp 8X) (£50 odd quid ) runs even smoother than the first , no lag , zones faster, sweet as a nut. running at 1024 res.

Before TOA for SI they were:

1st 800mhz Duron 512mb pc100 sdram,GF4 Ti 4200 128mb worked fine didnt lag hardly zoned fine. 1024 res.

2nd 800mhz Duron 512mb pc100 sdram, Gf4 mx 440 64mb little slow due to v old HD accessing. 800 600 res.

 

[Graknak]

www.tweakxp.com

this site has all the settings you want to adjust to make your gaming experience better while using windows xp.

tried multiple times and did bugger all

 

[Sharma]

Check your page file, increase the size of it if you have enoughs pace as it helps for me, tweak your gfx card settings rather than the DAoC settings, if you have everything on your card whacked up to full normally that doesnt help much, better on most occasions to keep an even balance between quality of the picture and performance, mines a GF FX 5600;

The quality of the visuals my card can produce are fine enough as it is so i can lower the quality that my card produces for a performance boost.

If you are running xp you may was to disable some of the special effects that xp has such as the fade on the menus etc, also make sure than when gaming you have as little other programs running as possible that includes system tray ones, most of the time i only have DAoC, irc and winamp running.

I still get heavy lag in some areas mind i have everything on my DAoC settings full blast so i lag quite a bit hoever i cant be bothered toning them down, mind from what ive seen i guess ill have to.

Hope that helps.

 

[Graknak]

seems i overlooked the option to enable double pagefiling with 2 or more hdd's, according to several ppl this will do wonders, heck if i must i'd get an extra hdd for 120gb of extra pagefiling, that'll teach ehm.... i hope ^^

 

[Sharma]

I got a lovely 5GB page file on my second HDD, helps a bit.

 

[Jeros]

1 GHZ Celeron , 352 MB of ram, 128 MB GeForce FX 5200 and 2 old hds, one 2 GB and one 3 GB that prob have slow read times

and TOA runs smooth underwater (with options down) and running around most areas, towns are laggy tho and it somtimes goes so laggy i go ld, but its sorta like one big lag spike then it goes smooth just somtimes the spike lasts long enuf to ld.

i use the original client for rvr :worthy:


:EDIT: i run in 800x600 res

 

[Aldrian]

5GB pagefile ? thats insane imo I got 900megs of ram and starting size 384 (set to meet the maximum usage) and max bout 1024 so it wont page that much.

Anyways, got 1,4 athlon, 900 megs of ram and radeon 8500 and runs very smooth. 1152x864 windowed

 

[Sharma]

160GB hdd with about 100 GB used on it, may as well have a stupidly large pagefile while i have the space really.


//Edit: Correction, its set to the maximum value possible which is 4GB.

 

[Hansa]

Running smoothly on my athlon xp 2800+ 1,3g ram, ati 9600 pro 256 in 1280x1024. Running win xp.

 

[Kicks]

xp2800 1gb ddr ram, radeon 9700, win xp and can run 2 accounts at 1024x768 max clip, shadows etc with only the smallest amount of lag

though oddly a get yellow triangle with just one account up in Cetus pit (ML1.10). :touch: