Battle lag

**Wittman** · October 17, 2010, 11:07 PM

Anyone else have this problem?

**rockman4417** · October 17, 2010, 11:11 PM

Depends. I'll get some choppiness when it gets close to 10,000 troops in the field. All those calculations and orders going on for every unit slows down the one processor core the game is aloud to use.

**Wittman** · October 17, 2010, 11:14 PM

Hmm...i can play Third Age on highest settings,but when i try to play battle in stainless it lags and stutters so much its crazy?just for comparison i tried a battle in vanilla mtw2 with the same settings and it runs perfectly...now im confused

**Ishan** · October 17, 2010, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Wittman

Anyone else have this problem?

Buy a new PC having multiple GPU's and Super OCed CPU or lower ur graphical settings and Unit scale to normal.

**Wittman** · October 17, 2010, 11:43 PM

I play all the new games on high settings,it doesnt lag because my pc is weak.
A minute ago i tried a custom battle just 1vs1 unit and i have the same ressult as if i have 3000 or more units on screen?

Q6600 3.9 GHz
- ATI HD4870 1GB Gainward GS
- 6GB RAM DDR2
specs

**Ishan** · October 18, 2010, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Wittman

I play all the new games on high settings,it doesnt lag because my pc is weak.
A minute ago i tried a custom battle just 1vs1 unit and i have the same ressult as if i have 3000 or more units on screen?

Q6600 3.9 GHz
- ATI HD4870 1GB Gainward GS
- 6GB RAM DDR2
specs

First Q6600 is by default at 2.4 GHz so are u a stock cooler for that?
The max stable i have seen on this one is 3.6 on Aircooling with a dedicated Air cooler from Thermalright.
If u really are Ocing it at 3.9 Ghz then i would like to see it's info for the CPU in the Bios settings and the frequency and latency of the RAM u are using.

Is this specifically happening in SS or even in vanilla or kingdoms as u have mentioned 1VS1 unit.

What about your Catalyst drivers are they updated? And about the DX9.0c drivers are they updates as well?

**Wittman** · October 18, 2010, 02:18 AM

Il try to record it with fraps,basiclly when i zoom in all goes smoothly,but when i try to move up and down the map i get choppines? :/

**Ishan** · October 18, 2010, 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by Wittman

Il try to record it with fraps,basiclly when i zoom in all goes smoothly,but when i try to move up and down the map i get choppines? :/

Recording a game doesn't helps in this case answer the questions i asked in the previous post.

Also at what resolution u are running battles ?

**SirRobin** · October 18, 2010, 12:34 PM

There's some problem with Stainless Steel 6.3 that makes the game lag enough to be unplayable, even though 6.2 (and Vanilla) runs fine on my computer. Blaming the machine is not logical valid when it's able to run the core game well.

Did you try SS 6.2?

**Ishan** · October 18, 2010, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by SirRobin

There's some problem with Stainless Steel 6.3 that makes the game lag enough to be unplayable, even though 6.2 (and Vanilla) runs fine on my computer. Blaming the machine is not logical valid when it's able to run the core game well.

Did you try SS 6.2?

6.3 has many graphical enhancements(for eg Permanent arrows) so that's why it's heavy and it runs fine on my rig as it is a overkill for this 8 year old game.

**Wittman** · October 18, 2010, 12:52 PM

EXACTLY sir Robin my point,i dont know what is cause of this lag,but its really strange i can play vanilla and third age without ani lag on highest settings and this lags even when i have 1vs1 unit for testing?

**FastHeinz** · October 18, 2010, 07:39 PM

yea I have battle lag during a city battle after installing the new Meneth's 3.0 fix. I have no lag during field battle it only happened in city battle so far (while I am defending and sallying out). It got to the point that it crashed once, saying my graphics settings are too high. I have the same setting before the 3.0 fix playing 6.3 campaign halfway through, this issue just came up.

I am currently running a core-i7 930 2.8G, 6 gigs of CL6 Mushkin DDR3 ram and GTX 470 with 1G ddr5 ram. And I am running windows 7 Ultimate in 64-bit. Just saying I have the same problem too.

**WelshDragon** · October 18, 2010, 07:51 PM

I have also noticed this with 6.3, even with PA turned off, and my machine is pretty fast and less than a year old. Not sure why, but I still love playing 6.3

**FastHeinz** · October 18, 2010, 08:43 PM

I just got my first error in a field battle too. I have already turned down a few thing already. This is like almost 70 turns and had no error ever with all max settings turned on. Certaintly I have been playing the plain 6.3 with no error in any battle or campaign map ever. Something might not be right. Thought unlikely, it could be the lastest Nividia driver I got today or could be recent patches.