For those of you without lag...

[Mikan]

Originally Posted by Inkster

Ok depending on the OS i use i either have lag or not

If i use linux i have hardly any lag but i crash 3-5 times in a session
If however i use windows xp i have random lag spikes at inappropriate times (ie fort wars) but no crashes

I use windows as id rather lag then crash i tend to keep away from fort wars if its too laggy

Lag was always much worse for me under Windows as well. From what I can tell, the Windows client runs better, but seems to have an unexplained lag that causes the game to "chug" alot whereas the Linux client doesn't.

I know it's not graphics lag because of the 40-60 FPS even in wars.

Unfortunately I cannot vote, as I have always had poor performance and lag on machines that I have tested. In cases where the performance was good (usually Windows), I still get those unexplained lag locks, which is quite confusing.

I think it is something to do with DirectX, because if I remember correctly using the OpenGL renderer dropped the frame rate to abysmal levels but also made the hidden lag spikes go away. Maybe it is even NVIDIA-specific.

For reference to NGD, I'm on a 3 Mbps cable connection with 512 kbps upload rate. Ping is consistently 100-200ms.

Tested machines

AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz
512MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Linux

Problems encountered:
Poor performance, overbearing memory usage - frequent stalls due to paging

AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz
384MB RAM
S3 ProSavageDDR (Unsupported))
Linux

Problems encountered:
Poor performance, overbearing memory usage - frequent stalls due to paging

AMD Sempron 1.67GHz
512MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX
Linux & Windows

Problems encountered:
Linux: Poor performance, overbearing memory usage - frequent stalls due to paging
Windows: Moderate performance, frequent lag locks

AMD Sempron 1.67GHz
768MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Linux & Windows

Problems encountered:
Linux: Poor performance, slight memory usage issues - most problems come from very low FPS
Windows: Moderate performance, frequent lag locks

AMD Athlon 800MHz
640MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX
Windows

Problems encountered:
Slight memory usage issues, frequent lag locks

Intel Core 2 Duo (1.9GHz x 2)
2GB RAM
Intel onboard graphics(unknown chipset) (Unsupported?)
Windows

Problems encountered:
Excellent performance, but very frequent lag locks
Very high latency on the controls, controlling my character to fine degrees is almost impossible

Again I have made this post out of legitimate concern for the performance of Regnum, not to flame NGD.

Regards.