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Lag problem

Post by Obi-Wan Kenobi »

Hey GT,
I have a problem, and is has been occurring for over a month now. The game will lag for exactly 3 seconds, then play for 1 second. As you can imagine this has been annoying and I have been trying various ways to get rid of the problem. I have changed the Resolution on the computer itself, The screen size to 800x600, and other ways.

My specs are these:
iMac 21in. with Windows XP boot camp running parallels 5.
I bought the game on amazon (english), about a year ago.
My processor is 2.66Ghz
I'll provide more specs later

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks :)
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Re: Lag problem

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I don't know what you mean by "play for 1 second'. But does this cause your game to crash?
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Tell us what your settings are set to in the video tab for SWBF2.
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Okay my settings are these:
View distance: 20
LOD distance: 20
Resolution: 800x600
Antialaising: off
Texture detail: Low
Water Quality: Low
Shadows: Off
Lighting Quality: Low
Light Bloom: Off
Brightness: 50
Contrast: 50

@Lozza: No it doesn't crash.
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Re: Lag problem

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Ok, I am familiar with this, so let me take a shot at it!

A. Your computer is old/aging and its wee parts weren't as fast as they used to be

B. You need to wait a bit for the computer to catch up before you start using a program like battlefront II that will lag it to bits if the computer hasn't had enough time to boot up (I typically wait a good 17 minutes before my computer is fast enough)

C. Your computer hates you very much. Solution: Kick it nice and hard (Don't actually kick it, I'm just kidding)

So yeah. I ordered them from most likely to least. See if I am right.
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okay ontopic time, have you tryed giving your computer an ole' nice cleanup/defragment
that usually helps me :thumbs:
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Re: Lag problem

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acryptozoo wrote:
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okay ontopic time, have you tryed giving your computer an ole' nice cleanup/defragment
that usually helps me :thumbs:
nice. I like that pic to emphasize your point acryptozoo. I still think he should try my little points before yours as they would save him lots of time if it only is a small thing. But still yeah, acryptozoo, you are right though. Clean up time!
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Re: Lag problem

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Nice pic :wink:

My mac is from 2007 and I usually wait a little until I play, but I will try to use disk utility to see what is wrong.

EDIT Okay, the problem was in the disk permissions.
Thanks it is beginning to be better.
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My Mac is from 2007 to, maybe its just Macintosh itself thats stuffing it up.
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If nothing ends up working for you uninstall the game, turn your comp off and leave it off for a good 30 seconds, reboot, wait bout 20 minutes, re-install.
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letting a computer cool down doesnt help tosolve software problems...
anyway, did you upadte any driver that could now cause the crash?
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Maybe darthDUCK is right, Mac tends to have an update every 5 minutes, maybe it could've changed the BIOs. (this happened to me, I bought gears of war and it required a bios update and every other game that I had crashed after the bios change but gears of war, so I uninstalled it )
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