It's a bit more complex than that, in xp the indoor lag is reduced to a single spike as you go through the doors of many buildings, once inside things are fine........ that is with the exception of certain buildings, the easiest example is the bar directly ahead of the Appolyon NW HL, unplayably laggy inside that room yet I can go to Centre Park club Janus (a notoriously laggy room) and have no problems.... maybe certain objects are to blame, the pool tables always catch my eyes....
Problem with that is the game's graphics become entirely corrupted when Alt-Tabbing to the desktop and back. This happens on XP and Vista.
So I'd try alt-tabbing. Same thing for that Mech Liaison on Recursion. Try looking for answers in places other than the MxO forums and they might reveal themselves.
Corrupted graphics after 'alt-tab'ing is a game issue. When you alt-tab out windows loads into memory, if the game doesn't expressly detect losing and gaining focus then it can't reload the textures. I suspect that with Vista's Aero interface using the 3d card quite heavily that this effect would only be magnified under Vista.
Basically, when you alt-tab out to Windows the game loses exclusive control of the video-memory. If the game doesn't re-load the textures it needs when you alt-tab back then there is no guarantee what will be in memory.
Phi, that wasn't what I was asking about. :p As I quoted, it was recommended that the lag problem could be resolved by alt-tabbing out of the game and then back in again. I'm on Vista right now and don't want to reinstall XP to test this out, so if anyone with an 8800 can try it and see if it does indeed work, it would be most appreciated.
Here is an update on my situation. I run windows xp pro with dual 8800 GTX Cards and have this same problem, exactly as described above. (with the lag clearing up immediately after exiting the building)
I have tried alt-tabbing, swapping between windowed mode and fullscreen, swapping between sli mode/single, turning off/on every ingame graphic setting, and tried the past 4 released drivers (including the most current xp beta driver).
None of these have any effect for me.
Very frustrating for a new user. The game seems great but if this stays the way it is I won't be able to justify playing/continiung my subscription.
I have no performance problems with any other game and I have played just about every PC game you can think of on this box flawlessly.
Anyone who finds a temporary fix or the exact nature of the problem shout out so we can get this resolved!
Here is an update on my situation. I run windows xp pro with dual 8800 GTX Cards and have this same problem, exactly as described above. (with the lag clearing up immediately after exiting the building) I have tried alt-tabbing, swapping between windowed mode and fullscreen, swapping between sli mode/single, turning off/on every ingame graphic setting, and tried the past 4 released drivers (including the most current xp beta driver). None of these have any effect for me. Very frustrating for a new user. The game seems great but if this stays the way it is I won't be able to justify playing/continiung my subscription. I have no performance problems with any other game and I have played just about every PC game you can think of on this box flawlessly. Anyone who finds a temporary fix or the exact nature of the problem shout out so we can get this resolved!
Another update! I installed Vista on a separate hard drive and the indoor lag all goes away. Of course then I get new graphical bugs to replace the lag. I give up
doctor_tiki wrote: Here is an update on my situation. I run windows xp pro with dual 8800 GTX Cards and have this same problem, exactly as described above. (with the lag clearing up immediately after exiting the building) I have tried alt-tabbing, swapping between windowed mode and fullscreen, swapping between sli mode/single, turning off/on every ingame graphic setting, and tried the past 4 released drivers (including the most current xp beta driver). None of these have any effect for me. Very frustrating for a new user. The game seems great but if this stays the way it is I won't be able to justify playing/continiung my subscription. I have no performance problems with any other game and I have played just about every PC game you can think of on this box flawlessly. Anyone who finds a temporary fix or the exact nature of the problem shout out so we can get this resolved! Another update! I installed Vista on a separate hard drive and the indoor lag all goes away. Of course then I get new graphical bugs to replace the lag. I give up
Nvidia released new drivers today. ForceWare 162.18 for Windows XP 32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_162.18.html ForceWare 162.22 for Windows Vista 32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvis...x86_162.22.html Please download and test these new drivers and report if anything has changed/improved/worsened.
