GWX laggs

[birdy]

hi all,

when i play silent hunter with GWX, i am very lagging. even when i play without the High setting, im still laggy when i am under attack and stuff. also the loading times are very long, when i start a mission or my campaign the loading takes over 7 mins!
but when i had GW and stock sh3 i had no laggs, and i think my system is also good enough ( i have a 512 videocard, pentium 4 and 1024 mb memory).
does any1 know how to solve the laggs?
thx

ow and another question: what is anti-aliasing and how does it work??

[bigboywooly]

Better system than mine and not only lags near convoys

Try shutting down other programs running in the background
Usually helps

[AVGWarhawk]

My card is slower than yours but I do not have anywhere near 7 min load time. Do a disc clean up and defrag. Sounds to me like the hard drive is hunting for files all over the place. See it that helps. It usually helps me.

[java`s revenge]

Before you go out of base minimize the game to desktop.
crtl/alt/delete and then give sh3 a high priority!!

[birdy]

My card is slower than yours but I do not have anywhere near 7 min load time. Do a disc clean up and defrag. Sounds to me like the hard drive is hunting for files all over the place. See it that helps. It usually helps me.

yesterday i defragt my pc so that isnt the problem. and i have the downloaded sh3 version so it will be hard to clean my cd:p .

do you have any other ideas??

thx

[Jimbuna]

Try this :up: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/

[danlisa]

My card is slower than yours but I do not have anywhere near 7 min load time. Do a disc clean up and defrag. Sounds to me like the hard drive is hunting for files all over the place. See it that helps. It usually helps me.

yesterday i defragt my pc so that isnt the problem. and i have the downloaded sh3 version so it will be hard to clean my cd:p .

do you have any other ideas??

thx

What program do you use to defrag?

If it's the native XP version then this only moves files to occupy the minimum amount of HDD space.

You need a program which actually moves/arranges the files by name, accessed date or modified date. Ideally defrag by way of name.

Norton System Works or O&O Defrag will accomplish this.

[fredbass]

Try this :up: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/

Good Idea. I use it myself as well. :yep: :up: And it's free.

And of course I keep the spyware out with "Spybot-Search & Destroy" and "Ad-Aware SE Personal" (both free).

I purchased "Diskeeper 10 Professional" for my defragging which is much better than the defragger that comes with most computers.

[STEED]

I get the odd short lock up and the loading is a bit slow. All this will be sorted out latter this year or next when I buy SH4 and hopefully the mod guys turn it into something better like GWX has done for SH3. :up:

[leeclose]

Also do this i find it works really well hit alt-ctrl-delete till windows taks manager comes up then go to the tab called proccess. Then find the sh3 exe its usually the one thats usuing the most memory right click on it and you will be presented with a drop down menu go to set priority and put it at either high or real time and as soem one else suggested make sure all else in the back ground is shut down.
Also get a program called tune up utilities 2006 i find that it helps whats running in windows very well including what launches at start up. Hope that helps and happy hunting:up:

[Schultzy]

@Leeclose.

GREAT Signature. :rotfl:

Torplexed has done it again!! (Least that looks like his handiwork, apologies if it isn't.)

[leeclose]

Its his all right and i'm pleased as punch with it:up:

[Sailor Steve]

As well you should be; it's awesome!:rock:

[P_Funk]

Also do this i find it works really well hit alt-ctrl-delete till windows taks manager comes up then go to the tab called proccess. Then find the sh3 exe its usually the one thats usuing the most memory right click on it and you will be presented with a drop down menu go to set priority and put it at either high or real time and as soem one else suggested make sure all else in the back ground is shut down.
Also get a program called tune up utilities 2006 i find that it helps whats running in windows very well including what launches at start up. Hope that helps and happy hunting:up:
Good lord. I've made the mistake of accidentally hitting the windows key that opens the start menu and it minimized SH3 and... it took nearly as long to get back into SH3 as it did to load it.:doh: I wish there were a way to set the priority permanently. Windows is sssssssssllllllllllllooooooowwwwww, especially with SH3.

But in addition to the prioity thing definitely eliminate as many background programs and processes. Its amazing the crap that windows runs by default that you don't need. You can disable most of it through "run/msconfig" and there you can change your startup progs and the processes that run. Though I wouldn't touch the processes til you can find a guide that explains them. I once disabled someting that made my ATI Catalyst Control Centre stop functioning and I couldn't figure how to fix it. Be careful, Windows is like a bitchy mistress thats having her period 24/7.

[fredbass]

Good lord. I've made the mistake of accidentally hitting the windows key that opens the start menu and it minimized SH3 and... it took nearly as long to get back into SH3 as it did to load it.:doh:

That's odd. I always use the windows key to minimize. It maximizes back into the game instantly when I click the minimized window in the taskbar. Very simple and no problem here.:yep: :know:

[leeclose]

I prefer using ALT-Tab combo seems to make it a lot easier:yep:

[P_Funk]

Good lord. I've made the mistake of accidentally hitting the windows key that opens the start menu and it minimized SH3 and... it took nearly as long to get back into SH3 as it did to load it.:doh:
That's odd. I always use the windows key to minimize. It maximizes back into the game instantly when I click the minimized window in the taskbar. Very simple and no problem here.:yep: :know:
Then you should go make love to your girlfriend, party with your friends and say goodbye to your parents because I'm coming over to kill you and take your computer!:arrgh!:

I'm overdue for a ram increase so I think thats why mine is so slow. But once I'm in game the only thing thats laggy is the TC and even then thats over 512.

[Deep-Six]

Also if you have convoy w/ alot of ships or raiding a harbor like I am now (NY) your system will slow down real fast.:yep:

Take a look at my thread New York, New York and scroll down and you will see a screenie that I took before entering the harbour.

[P_Funk]

Also if you have convoy w/ alot of ships or raiding a harbor like I am now (NY) your system will slow down real fast.:yep:
Bingo. Thats what makes the beginning of my patrols slow too. I have to take 2 minutes to go into free cam mode and just basically look at everything so that the textures and what not are loaded into the buffer. Makes it alot faster.