2012-03-07, 10:41 PM
KajitiSouls Wrote: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, they 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.
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'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.
Yeah, I've kinda accepted that my computer sucks.
It's only a year and a half old, but I've put some wear and tear on t.
It says that my HD still has 144gb/211gb free, but I don't know how much difference that makes. I already had gamebooster but I haven't been using it. I guess that stuff might help, I dunno. I've been trying to get a new computer for a while now, aiming to get it at the end of this schoolyear. Oh well.