Graphical Lag Question

Planet_Guardian · Post by **Planet_Guardian** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:35 am

I was just wondering if all you who are posting/reading in the Titan Quest Forum, do any of you experience bad lag while playing the campaign in single-player?

The lag is really ticking me off. My PC meets the minimum specs as what were prescribed. Is anyone finding a way around this. I've turned off programs running in the background, I've lowered all high performance features on my PC to allow the best performance level...but, I still get bad lag.

I get the most lag around towns and near pyres (places with fires burning). Is this normal of everyone else? I like the diablo-esque features of this game, but the lag is really pissing me off.

(Do you have to have the top of the line PC's and PC accessories to have TQ at its best?)
-Is my Intel Celeron D (3.33GHz)...(1012MB Physical RAM)...ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Video Card (newest drivers)...and Virtual Memory of 2000MB...all not enough?

Planet_Guardian

xidioos · Post by **xidioos** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:57 am

you dont have minimum dude.. i've got much much less power in my pc and the game flys smood all the time =\ i had a lag problem so i changed my graphic card to a radeon x1600 and then added mor ram untill i had 1012mb like yours, i've got less ghz and much less virtual, maybe, your problem isnt the requierments~

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:48 pm

>>>>you dont have minimum dude..

Umm, yes he does. Minimum is ATI Radeon 8500, ATI X200 is better than 8500. The recommended speed is 3.0, he has 3.33, the recommended ram is 1 gig and he has 1 gig, he nearly meets the recommended requirements.

xidioos · Post by **xidioos** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:06 am

i have 2.4 and my card is not that zomgpowerfull.
my stats are lower then his and i have no probs.. try concidering than

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:17 am

xidioos wrote:i have 2.4 and my card is not that zomgpowerfull.
my stats are lower then his and i have no probs.. try concidering than

Try considering what? That your computer runs titan quest better than his does because you have lower graphics and specs? It doesn't work that way. I've seen video games make no difference in how well they perform according to specifications, and I've seen video games perform better off of better systems, but a game does not get better with a worse system, it simply does not work that way.

He could possibly have a few viruses, or need to defragment/clear space off of his machine and that'd fix it right up.

xidioos · Post by **xidioos** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:19 am

i didnt say that "a game gets better on a worse system" what kind of sense is that? you said that the guy's stuts are minimum and i said that mine are even worse, though the game is working in my system and i then mentioned that maybe it isnt a requirements problem~
again: were stating the same idea, AND i was giving my system stuts to prove a fact that the requierments of the game are lower then what mentioned on the game's box

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:06 pm

Umm, I didn't say his were minimum. If you had read my post, I said his were near recommended.

If he has better specifications than you, and his is running just fine, then as I also suggested in my post above, he could defragment and clear space off of his machine, as well as do a virus check.

Xounette · Post by **Xounette** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:32 pm

Yep, you should try some defrag/viruses check.

I'm just above the min requirements, I defrag and check for virus often and TQ works well, unless I have some auto update going off in the middle of the game.

But I must admit that sometimes, I have some lag near towns and burning houses.

Hope you'll get this fixed!

Planet_Guardian · Post by **Planet_Guardian** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:13 am

Is there some code that I can enter into the Default.txt found in TQ's Settings Folder?

Can I turn off the night vs day mode and make it always day?
-Because it seems like I get more lag at the night time setting.

Can I turn off the flames that burn in the background?

I can barely move in the Pharoah's Room where those four Pharoah's Guard statues attack you.

Is there anything I can do in the Default.txt file that could help me?

Information will be most appreciated.
Thanks.

Planet_Guardian

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:02 am

Did you even try to defrag or clear space? Try that first.

Planet_Guardian · Post by **Planet_Guardian** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:10 am

I clear out my compressed files everyday as well as temp files everyday to have better performance.

I'll try Defragg'n...even though I know I just did this about 2-3 months ago. I hope your right...but, I have a feeling it won't help. But, I'll try. Thanks.

Planet_Guardian

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:41 am

Defrags should be done way more often than 2 to 3 months. I do it everytime I put 5 gigs on my PC, so basically about every new game I put on my PC, I defrag immediately.

Planet_Guardian · Post by **Planet_Guardian** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:04 am

Siberys wrote:Defrags should be done way more often than 2 to 3 months. I do it everytime I put 5 gigs on my PC, so basically about every new game I put on my PC, I defrag immediately.

Defragg'n did nothing for TQ. It's still the same as it was before I defragged.

I even found out putting in source code into the default.txt
shadows = false
dayNightCycle = false
tripleBuffer = true
details = false),
...and that didn't even seem to help. I even created an options.txt file and inputed these variables (as was explained in the patch update text). These seemed to help a little, but I'm still experiencing major lag around battle encampments, major towns/cities, and fire textures. Its kind of ticking me off...as I would love to get the full potential out of this game. This is why I don't like putting points into those PA skills that are active for only 8seconds to 1 minute. If there is too much lag, I don't know what's going on. Sometimes I can't tell whether an enemy has stunned/disrupted me or whether it's just plain 'ole lag.

If someone knows some source code to enter into the default.txt file (found in TQ's Settings Folder), I surely would appreciate the knowledge. Thanks.

Planet_Guardian

hunterkiller · Post by **hunterkiller** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:28 pm

your specs do meet the minimum requirements but they are no where near the recommended. a 3.33ghz celeron is worse than a 3.0ghz pentium 4 and an ATI x200 is a lot worse than geforce 6800. Your ram should be ok for most parts of the game. Maybe that's why you're lagging a lot, because you don't meet the recommended specs.

Also, I heard this game has an efficient graphics engine, so people who are above the recommended specs still lag in certain areas of the game.

jamiecarter12 · Post by **jamiecarter12** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:48 am

to be brutally honest, yor graphics card is not up to the job of a modern game, the card you've got now is meant for office apllications and dvd copying watching, if you want to play modern games with good FPS then you need a nvidia 6800 and higher or a ati x1600 higher