2013-05-16, 07:53 AM
It's not a RAM problem. I have conclusively eliminated that. I maxed the RAM on all my machines that lagged in town (the staggering, game ending lag..) and there was no effect. The lag did not lessen.
It's also not necessarily a video card problem. I've taken my best video card and put it into my worst PC and nothing changed.
The best I can figure is that there is a minimum processor power needed to avoid it, or more likely, a minimum chipset efficiency required.
All my 32 bit machines have 4G of RAM, so here is my processor lsit
LAGS -
Pentium4 HT WinXP
Pentium4 HT Win7
Pentium D WinXP
Lags, but remains playable enough to get through town -
Pentium Dual (Vista)
No Lag (other than normal extraction lag) -
Core 2 Duo (Xp, Win7 32, Win7 64)
i3 (Win7 64)
i5 (Win8 64)
All of them were tested as above with both the onboard Intel HD graphics and a Radeon HD 67xx. The video card made no difference whatsoever.
It's also not necessarily a video card problem. I've taken my best video card and put it into my worst PC and nothing changed.
The best I can figure is that there is a minimum processor power needed to avoid it, or more likely, a minimum chipset efficiency required.
All my 32 bit machines have 4G of RAM, so here is my processor lsit
LAGS -
Pentium4 HT WinXP
Pentium4 HT Win7
Pentium D WinXP
Lags, but remains playable enough to get through town -
Pentium Dual (Vista)
No Lag (other than normal extraction lag) -
Core 2 Duo (Xp, Win7 32, Win7 64)
i3 (Win7 64)
i5 (Win8 64)
All of them were tested as above with both the onboard Intel HD graphics and a Radeon HD 67xx. The video card made no difference whatsoever.