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Worms: Armageddon => Tech Support => Topic started by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 07:33 AM

Title: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 07:33 AM

Yesterday I was telling rUN and rU` about my screen lag problem in WA, randomly, at any time, my screen/computer will just seem to pause and skip part of a second, this means for the duration of that time, nothing works or responds, it happens quite a lot and the problem seems to very slowly be getting worse, if this happens during a critical time of a game, like in Darts at the very moment of trying to activate drill, or in a Roper when scrolling or making a drop etc, it can ruin an entire game.

Anyway, these guys told me to open task manager and set worms to "High priority" which I did, and I can't say it's solved the problem indefinitely, however I didn't seem to get that lag even once for the rest of the night (I played for like another 2 hours).

I realized everytime I run WA(every time I join/host a game) I need to set this priority to high, does anyone know of any way to set this to high priority permanently because chances are I will forget about this a lot...

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 08:25 AM

What is the date of installation of your OS?

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 09:16 AM

Quote from: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 08:25 AM

What is the date of installation of your OS?

How do I find that?

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: KinslayeR on April 16, 2015, 09:47 AM

I prefer wkantilag.dll

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 10:13 AM

С\Windows-->properties - creation date

But if you cant remember the date youself - may be it was some years ago so reinstall time has come. Old os tend to be full of shit.

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 10:23 AM

There is no such folder Xan.

I can go to Windows, right click and properties, but doesn't show "creation date".

I go to C\Windows and there is no folder or file called "creation date".

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 10:38 AM

First things first - what OS do you use?

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 11:42 AM

Windows 7

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 11:47 AM

https://answers.syr.edu/m/view-rendered-page.action?spaceKey=os&title=Check+OS+Installation+Dates

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 12:45 PM

07/08/2013

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 12:50 PM

Yea its about time. Also try not to install much software before testing WA.

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: TheKomodo on April 16, 2015, 01:01 PM

I don't want to reinstall, I may just buy another PC.

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: XanKriegor on April 16, 2015, 01:19 PM

Omg  :D

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: StepS on April 16, 2015, 02:04 PM

wkAntiLag.dll is a module that will do just that. Every time you run the game, wkAntiLag will set the priority of the process to high. I'm glad to know that someone else besides me (that was a long time ago though) has ever needed the module.
You can download it here: http://worms2d.info/WormKit
I'd like to note that even if you don't experience sporadic lags in-game on your system, it might still be a good idea to install wkAntiLag to avoid any occasional lagspikes (e.g., if a program in background suddenly required more resources)

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: KinslayeR on April 16, 2015, 02:08 PM

I am using this module since yesterday and I am gorilla now! rly

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: nino on April 16, 2015, 02:11 PM

A question for Steps, that issue isnot much more a disk issue than a priority of the SO? I mean he changes the disk to one SSD, will he avoid this problem?

Title: Re: High Priority?
Post by: StepS on April 16, 2015, 02:15 PM

Quote from: nino on April 16, 2015, 02:11 PM

A question for Steps, that issue isnot much more a disk issue than a priority of the SO? I mean he changes the disk to one SSD, will he avoid this problem?

It's something about how CPU resources are given to the game. I had the exact same problem a very long time ago (in 2010) on a Windows 7 system, and setting the priority to high helped eradicate the issue. However, I could never figure out the true reason (maybe there was some driver installed that I didn't need, or something else...), and the problem went away by itself after reinstalling the OS.