2012-03-07, 10:36 PM
Dark Link Wrote:How can it be a computer problem? doesn't "90% of the time, I'm last for Summoning" usually mean upload / download is slow?
No. It can also mean that your computer is slow.
Here's how it works in informal words. You have the client download package. This package usually contains all the graphics, sounds, and the code that lets the user/player interact with the server/other users/players. But like any good, convenient brolaf, the authors compress down the stuff so that you don't have to worry about file size. Uncompressed stuff takes up a LOT of room! For an extreme example, three LoL games recorded with Fraps on a 1690x1080 resolution easily takes up half a TB (1024 GB), because video recorded with Fraps is uncompressed. However, the compressed video files only take up 17 GB. I'm very sure that if everything were uncompressed, you'd quickly run out of hard drive space.
Unfortunately, since all the goodies are compressed, you can't exactly just look at it and retrieve the original information. The computer has to process it first with a "decoder ring", and then load it up in the RAM (or if you don't have enough RAM, your hard drive, but that's a last resort). Now that the information is in the RAM, your computer can easily access the information and use it to render the environment in real time. This is equivalent to you taking your ancient board games from your attic/storage, opening up the boxes, and placing them on a table with all pieces organized, just so that you can play the games.
MapleStory works in pretty much the same way. When loading up a map, it has to first decompress the images that will be used in the map you're entering, and then it reads an instruction set on how to construct the map using the images it just decompressed.
SolicShooter Wrote:I've this problem myself and after doing some digging in riot support threads I came up with this: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html . I don't notice a big difference myself but it might work for you. In the meantime ignore the wooden computer haters and start a long winded rant about poor children in Africa, if they dare you to waste your money on something as trivial as better FPS (whatever is associated with good computers, I don't know I'm not a tech savvy)
Edit: messed up quote, sue me.
Basically, you're doing the cheap solution I described, but at least you found a convenient tool for doing it.
And I'm not going to sugar-coat reality. If I were to continue playing LoL on my old laptop (I didn't have my budget gaming rig back then), I'm very damn sure that no amount of performance boosting or w/e is going to get it to play anymore simply because the hardware has degraded too much.