For those of you without lag...

[Enitharmon]

Norwegian player, (K)ubuntu Hardy 64bit, NVidia GeForce 8500 GT, Core2Duo 3Ghz, 4Gb RAM

Graphics settings on high in a 1280x1024 window, FPS drops to 10-20 FPS sometimes during large fort wars, but for a MMO I think that's not too bad.
Tried lowering graphics but got no noticeable improvement on something which is to me a minor issue, so I kept'em high to enjoy a prettier game .

When low-mid action server ping is stable at 60-<100 ms. (very good)
When lots of things happen, sometimes drops to 300-1000 ms. (also acceptable for the most part)
Completely unrelated to what I'm doing, spikes at 1- >9 sec. (could be without, but most probably happens to everybody at once, so... )

This was not originally meant to be a gaming machine, so that's why I got a mediocre gfx card but tons of ram... wondering whether that might be the reason why i'm having less issues than most with RO.

[smattiuz]

i chose european with ubuntu hardy and ati or slower, just because i have an Intel Integrated R945GM Express

[Plover]

NVidea 8600M GT in my Macbook Pro (running win XP SP2) , on US west coast, and I hardly ever have lag. There are some days when I get random motion bugs, and others where the grass is an issue for FPS, but on a normal day I can turn everything up on its highest setting and get 60+ FPS at 1920x1200 (perhaps around 20-30 in a big fort war).

I voted in the "non-European player, Windows 2000 / XP, Nvidia GeForce 6xxx or faster", but I'm not sure if the 8600M GT is actually faster since it's the mobile version for a laptop.

[trash]

Well, interesting to see my exact situation got the most votes thus far...

European player, K/X/ubuntu (Gutsy/Hardy), Nvidia GeForce 6xxx or faster


Though I have an occupational background in IT, I am no expert on the subject of MMORPG performance. I approached this thread with the objective of collecting varied information that could possibly contribute to why some players seem to have more than acceptable performance. A systems graphics card has nothing to do with lag, clearly. That's just graphics performance. I find it telling how 32 out of 53 voters use a Nvidia GeForce 6xxx or faster. It's probably difficult to gather a proportional estimate of those who claim to suffer lag, and those who suffer poor graphics performance because their settings are turned up to high.

Anyway. Looks like I've gone and broken my silence again, hmmmm.

I'll try to think of an approach to interacting here that doesn't depress me or start pointless arguments, I'm sure there must be a way of starting something encouraging or useful on this forum.

Well, I tell a lie, I seriously doubt it. But I'll give it another go when I think of a worthy idea and I've saved up enough carefree attitude to shrug the quite likely disappointment off...

Oh, thanks for the patch devs, all seems splendid, I *adore* the new horses. And though I may be shouted at for suggesting such a notion, my performance seems to have gone up a few more notches. Keep up the good work and best of luck!

[Jedi-x]

My recent upgrade has proven very sucessful in the lag department.

Non-european player, Windows 2000, Amd dual core 5000, 2G DDR2 800
On-board nVidia 8200 256m (9800 GTX 512 ... be here in 2 days)

I have experienced NO lag issues, other than the small lag spikes i get when large groups pass by, or fort wars where i experience some minor lag.
It seems as if you might have stumbled onto something here with the PC being apart of the lag issues, or at least contributing to slower / weaker performance.
Old system: Windows 2000, P4 2.8 , 2G DDR 400, nVidia 6800 GT 256 .... experienced lag all the time, especially during fort wars where I could barely move.

Very imformative thread here ...........

[Ulmanyar]

European player, K/X/ubuntu (Gutsy/Hardy), Nvidia GeForce 6xxx or faster
Generally I'm having "acceptable" performance. When I'm off-fort fighting/grinding (that is: less than 10 players, or so) I can have anything in between 25 and 100 FPS. Mostly between 35-55, suddenly dropping to 15-25 for a while for no apparent reason and then back up. If I turn on post-processing and/or multitexturing and all the other goodies, it only affects the temperature of my GPU, not that much the FPS.

At bigger fort-fights it's totally unacceptable, with FPS < 5 quite often.

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, 512MB
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 @ 1.8GHz
Mem: 2GB, DDR2, PC5300
OS: *buntu Gutsy, running Openbox without composition (also have been running Ion3, Xfce, KDE and some Gnome).

The game feels a lot smoother on my P4 3.4GHz with a NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx-something, which makes me actually believe that my CPU is the bottleneck (when will multicore/threading be supported?).

[Rockwolf_]

I did not vote, but my cathegory is "European player, Other linux distro, Nvidia GeForce 6xxx or faster"

I use Gentoo Linux, and I have 512 MB of RAM.
After some playing I always get lag, but the game still has memory leaks. They eventually cause the whole system to lag, which does not say much about the game itself.
I think it's mainly around the cities (I only play in Alsius, both on RA and Horus).
Being there for a while makes my swap usage go off the charts.

Solution I use until it gets fixed one day:

Monitor RAM and swap usage on my external monitor (I play on a laptop) and restart the game when swap usage gets too high.

Other than that, the game runs fine as far as I can tell.