Problems with lag

Karlos · April 06, 2012, 06:30 PM

Hello

I decided return to worms but i have lag.
I installed my worms from a original cd. I have the 3.6.31.0 (I think this is the last)

This is the information about my pc.

Can somebody help me?

StepS · April 06, 2012, 07:32 PM

hm, windows xp x64... Interesting. Can you give more info about lag? Is it a slow-up lag, or you just notice some pauses/framedrops during gameplay? In particular, what's your graphic card (the screenshot didn't tell it)? Can you open the task manager at the cpu tab, where the chronology of the CPU usage is? Then play wa, reproduce the lags and then look at the graph if there are spikes.

darKz · April 06, 2012, 07:36 PM

I think some info about your graphics card would be helpful.

Karlos · April 07, 2012, 01:22 AM

I think my graphic card is ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics

and i just notice some pauses/framedrops during gameplay.

it is a picture about CPU Usage History when i play

DENnis · April 07, 2012, 02:19 AM

1st: The most important thing if u use snooper is, that u put the setting: Hide all Windows and automatic minimize to tray if a game starts. If the snooper isn't minimizes to tray while playing wa it causes several millisecs of lags. For non rope schemes it doesn't matter but if u play fast schemes like roperace it would be annoying.

2nd: Your hardware is much better than necessary, but u have too much software running in the background. Try to close all Internetsites and all chrome.exe (that stands for googlechrome I think). If an inernetexplorer is open while playing it could cause lags, too.

3rd: If u still get lags u could try an easy way - install and launch Game Booster (a programm which kills all unnecessary prozesses to improve the gameperformance).

Good luck.

StepS · April 07, 2012, 03:41 AM

try the methods DENnis said. if it didn't help, you may also try AntiLag

Lex · April 07, 2012, 10:01 AM

What happens if you disable "Use double buffering" in the advanced options menu?

To get to the advanced options menu, make sure you're running the latest version of WA (3.6.31.0), then from the 4-tile WA main menu, click the bottom-right button with question marks, then click "Advanced".

Doing this might introduce screen tearing while scrolling, but might also fix frame drops. Please try this and tell me the results. I am not sure exactly what your problem is, so I'm not sure if it'll work, but I think it's useful to try.

style · April 07, 2012, 11:36 AM

I've had the same problems. I got WA from an .iso, tho. Well, i reinstalled it and now it works fine for me.
Try it.

Karlos · April 07, 2012, 12:54 PM

I installed the program Game Booster 3, it didnt make any difference. After, i go to "configure" and mark all option and then it take off the screenlag. Or the screenlag is very small and is insignificant for me.

Thanks Dennis, steps, lex and style for help me

Lex · April 08, 2012, 09:21 AM

Your post is ambiguous. Do you mean you opened the WA advanced configuration menu and enabled all the options, or do you mean you opened the Game Booster 3 configuration menu and enabled all the options?

chakkman · April 08, 2012, 12:05 PM

I doubt that a program named "Game Booster" would have any affect on any game.

Karlos · April 08, 2012, 02:22 PM

Quote from: Lex on April 08, 2012, 09:21 AM
Your post is ambiguous. Do you mean you opened the WA advanced configuration menu and enabled all the options, or do you mean you opened the Game Booster 3 configuration menu and enabled all the options?

I mean i opened the game booster 3 configuration and enabled all the options.
Sorry for my bad english jeje