Well havent posted in a long time but I just recently bought Star Wars Galaxies and im finding that when im traveling through the game on something fast, everything around me is showing up slowly i mean like everything is loading slow, textures and everything, now i have a gig of ram and a amd 2800+ at 2.2ghz

the question is, what would cause my game to run more smoothly, i mean i have a nice vid card(radeon 9800 pro 256mb) so i know im set with that but would getting another gig or ram help or would a better processor make the game load everything smoother?

Thx,
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You can sacrifice your video quality to run faster; such as turning down AA and AF, resolution, etc.

What's the rest of your hardware?

Another option is to disable all of your "automatic updates" on various programs. For example, when I play "City of Heroes", I get some pretty extreme lag because either my Windows XP Pro OS or my Norton Anti-Virus program is automatically downloading updates. I had turned those off, but then Sun Microsystems Java kicked in so go through your list and make sure you catch all of them.

Rob

Quote: Originally Posted by Rob Another option is to disable all of your "automatic updates" on various programs. For example, when I play "City of Heroes", I get some pretty extreme lag because either my Windows XP Pro OS or my Norton Anti-Virus program is automatically downloading updates. I had turned those off, but then Sun Microsystems Java kicked in so go through your list and make sure you catch all of them. Rob

While this may help, SWG is a ram hog. I know. It's impossible to play with 512MB and only moderatly playable with 1GB. I would recommend more RAM as your video card is more than adequate. I got around this problem by rarely using my speeder bike, which worked out as it was poorly crafted and needed repairs every hour.

I haven't played this game but most newer games nowadays get bottlenecked with a CPU running slower than a 3.0GHz Intel or 2.0GHz AMD64 (i'm not a AMD expert so that figure could be off a little). I did have 4 or 5 AMD XP machines and they just don't have the memory bandwidth that Intel or the new AMD64's have. So I'd say that is a problem. And while the ATi 9800 Pro is a good card it's going to get choppy at higher resolutions, it's no X800XT or 6800 Ultra.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rob Another option is to disable all of your "automatic updates" on various programs. For example, when I play "City of Heroes", I get some pretty extreme lag because either my Windows XP Pro OS or my Norton Anti-Virus program is automatically downloading updates. I had turned those off, but then Sun Microsystems Java kicked in so go through your list and make sure you catch all of them. Rob

I with Rob....I turn off everything when I play any game.

Yeah, Turn off alot of junk that runs in the background. Or get a nice little program like "End It All".

And man, XP is such a hog whore. LOL

I find that the Athlon XP can get bogged down trying to do physics. The 2.8c P4 seems to rape my computer in a loaded cs source server. But in a server with about 12 people my 2.4GHz T-Bred rapes it. So it might be the processor holding you back.

What's the settings on your card? I have basically the same setup (even the 2.2 oc) and don't have problems with mine (my 9800 Pro is 128mb version).

But, then again, I have some of my services shut-off, some registry tweaks, I use Fresh UI for other XP tweaks......

The way you described your problem doesn't sound like a video card problem specifically, it sounds more or less like a hard drive problem....with these kinds of games just the basics of the level and your surrounding characters are loaded when you start it up, when you encounter things that your computer hasn't loaded it will go ahead and load it. The speed of your ram could be a problem but most often it is the seek time on your hard drive and not having your hard drive fragmented properly. Also most of the games produced by Sony have the option to decrease loading times while loading the ENTIRETY of the zone and files into memory by creating a cached version of different places on the hard drive...that allows the hard drive to store lots of RAM type information in large files on your hard dirve that are easy and quick to access because they are all in "one" place.

My suggestion is a defrag, and a serious look at your hardware settings within the game! If you have the newer versions of your video drivers from either Nvidia or ATI you can also turn on features like instancing and compressed textures to free up memory on your video card to reduce that "lag".

Another suggestion is devoting more of your ram to your agp or PCI express video card for it to store information and transfer stuff between your hard drive and itself easier, for instance if you increase your AGP aperature in your motherboard's bios from 64mb to 256mb to match your graphics card you will be better off especially if you have a gig of ram to throw around.