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Title: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Abnaxus on December 02, 2010, 01:04 PM
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Hi everybody.

I don't know if it has been posted yet, but there are so much threads to find it out. <.<

Well,
I just installed W:A on Windows 7, and the problem is the game is hardly (totally ?) lagging (in game though, even offline).

So can someone please help me ?  :-X

Thanks,
xDragonfirex.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Maciej on December 02, 2010, 07:18 PM
well it lags me too, but not that much and often... Weird, 12-year-old game (or don't remember, cerrect me, but I guess it was 1998) and it lags on new computers :P
That's good that at home I still use win XP :)

EDIT: and it still lags as hell while skunk! ;o
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Wiz on December 02, 2010, 08:46 PM
I installed on Win7 and no issues. Have you got the latest patches?
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Wiz on December 02, 2010, 08:48 PM
In fact the only issue I had was constantly inverted colours due to the changing wallpapers. Fixed by ticking just 1 wallpaper so it doesn't change.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Abnaxus on December 02, 2010, 09:26 PM
Yeah last patch.

The thing is it's hardly lagging, not like if it was 1 little lag every 10sec.

I don't know Windows 7 at all, so I have no idea on how to correct it...
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: MonkeyIsland on December 02, 2010, 09:39 PM
Is it a raw windows now or you have some programs running on background? Some programs like Fraps can cause insanely screen lags.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: chakkman on December 02, 2010, 09:59 PM
I also had lags on Windows Vista but they somehow sorted out themselves fortunately without me doing anything... but that won't help you much i guess. :) You can try to run w:a on higher priority by opening the task manager when you started w:a, right click on wa.exe and setting priority to higher than normal or high. I wouldn't set it to realtime as it may slow down your computer then i think.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: nino on December 02, 2010, 10:13 PM
i had legs problems when playing too, but cos of the chair, was f@#!ed , oh porra my english sucks i think i got it wrong sorry.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Abnaxus on December 02, 2010, 10:56 PM
Is it a raw windows now or you have some programs running on background? Some programs like Fraps can cause insanely screen lags.
I'm afraid there is nothing at all. <.<
Or at least, only the ones needed for my computer to work well.

Anyway, I have 4Go memory.
Can't be the problem. :/
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: chakkman on December 03, 2010, 12:21 AM
i had legs problems when playing too, but cos of the chair, was f@#!ed , oh porra my english sucks i think i got it wrong sorry.
Hahahah.

Abnaxus, you tried my tip? I remember i downloaded some script also that kills explorer.exe process when starting w:a. As i said i can't tell though why at some point the lags were gone... it seemed like Vista somehow recognized that w:a was actually a process that requires some processing power, so maybe setting the priority might work for you. :)
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Rok on December 03, 2010, 12:07 PM
Turn off the background.
Title: Re: Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Abnaxus on December 03, 2010, 02:07 PM
Seems like it worked Chakkman, thanks very much !
Title: Re: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: chakkman on December 03, 2010, 02:11 PM
Nice. :D
Title: Re: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Csongi on December 03, 2010, 02:13 PM
weeeeee  :-*
Title: Re: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7.
Post by: Abnaxus on December 03, 2010, 02:23 PM
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Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: nino on December 03, 2010, 02:57 PM
whats ur hardware btw man? bit old or new one?

download the tool process explorer and take a look at the I/O graphic when playing it, if possible post it here, check the use of CPU b4 play and playing it, memory isnot a problem, WA doesnot alocate much anyway.

post the results here and maybe the king can help you.
Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Abnaxus on December 03, 2010, 03:14 PM
About hardware:
- SAPPHIRE HD5850-1024 VaporX ( 11162-03-40R ).
- INTEL i3 560 3.33GHz DMI 4Mo cache socket 1156 Integrated Video.
- ASUS P7H55-M - Chipset Intel H55 Express.
- KINGSTON Hyper X Blu - 4Go (2x 2 Go) - PC12800 (1600 MHz) - KHX1600C9D3B1K2/4GX.

download the tool process explorer and take a look at the I/O graphic when playing it, if possible post it here, check the use of CPU b4 play and playing it, memory isnot a problem, WA doesnot alocate much anyway.
Gne ? It's like chineese for me. xD
How to do so ?
Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: nino on December 03, 2010, 03:59 PM
download this tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

then take a look at graphic of CPU usage, and I/O.  in and out data. take some print screen of all process for me , minimize the game and take other print, your computer might be running something weird and when u run the game, the processor cant handle both and game lags. 
Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Abnaxus on December 04, 2010, 12:51 PM
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Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: nino on December 04, 2010, 01:42 PM
have you tryed downgrade your graphic card driver? have u tryed creat another user on windows and run it at this new user?
did u install with a image or original cd?
Title: Re: [Unsolved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Abnaxus on December 05, 2010, 02:03 PM
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Title: Re: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Wiz on December 05, 2010, 05:47 PM
What max resolution can your monitor handle?
Title: Re: [Solved] Lag problems on W:A with Windows 7..
Post by: Abnaxus on December 05, 2010, 11:21 PM
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