LAG PROBLEMS

[ShyGuy]

Hello, I am having some bad screen lag issues. It happens offline and online.  I have windows 7 and using Nvidia Geforce GT540M whatever that means.  I use a fantastic gaming laptop but for some reason i get these screen lags that will almost always insure that I will f@#! up on the rope, f@#! up a jump, or f@#! up powering a weapon... they come in waves and then will stop for a while and then come back. I tried setting WA to high priority but that didn't work. Who can help this poor man?

[Desetroyah]

pff, sucks man.

I had problems (almost permanent screen lags) when I installed PX and its modules for some reason. it was as if every few frames there were some missing, like seeing the film roll in a black and white movie  The minute I deleted PX this went away.

Probably not what you are looking for huh?

[ShyGuy]

I don't use PX so no

[Peja]

hm try connect with darkz, he also suffered on screenlags on a gaming laptop.

[ShyGuy]

darkz, please connect with me

[ShyGuy]

two people have suggested fiddling with the in game tweaks in the options menu but i dont even know what those options mean... who can tell me which options i can use for best performance?

[darKz]

Shy, I had the same issue and KRD helped me fix it.

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Go to NVIDIA Control Panel
3. Click the tab that says "Manage 3D Settings"
4. Click "Program Settings"
5. Select WA.exe from the list (if it's not there, click "Add")
6. Scroll down the bottom list until there's "Vertical Sync", set it to "off"

Lags should be fixed, it worked for me with a comparable notebook. The only problem which I still encounter is that my FPS drop to ~10 whenever a skunk's poison is released. But I can live with that. xD

[ShyGuy]

ok i did that and im going to try it.  Sounds like you know what you're talking about and i put much faith into your words

[ShyGuy]

it seems to have worked! I do not have skunk lag tho but i played a 6 minute game and everything was extremely smooth. very much thank you from ShyGuy!

[Hussar]

i have this problem too, got huge lags on my laptop with win7.

ill try it, hope that it will be well

[StepS]

disabling vertical sync can make the irritating texture flickerings when playing on a big map. this doesn't happen everywhere, but it can.
also, VSync can be turned off in PX.

[darKz]

Thanks for the information StepS, but I know perfectly well that ShyGuy wouldn't care about possible flickering on big maps as long as the screenlags are gone. And disabling VSync is the only possibility to get rid of them. The only one I know of, at least.

[ShyGuy]

yep, I don't play on big maps usually.  Thanks again , Darkz.  Eat many cake and have a great day!

[ShyGuy]

sad to say that I played a few more games and the lags are actually still there any other ideas? anything else I can do to the nvidia settings to make it run better?

[franz]

maybe install a different driver version? I've heard people having success with different drivers ;/ sucky solution, but just maybe it will work