LAG in Single Player mode

[whisperinghill]

When I play in single player, depending upon the number of cars and sometimes the complexty of the car, I'll have terrible lag when i am near them. Like if playing the 250GTR cars until I seperate myself from them, I lag. Or if I play with 10 AI of the smaller cars I lag, put when near any one or two I don't lag.

What can i do for settings?

I have a 18. P4 DFI motherboard with hyperthreading with 756mb of PC800 Ram with a measly NVIDIA 64mb TI card. Yes I know this is an issue, but I have played many games and opnly have minimal graphic iussues. This is pretty bad.

What can i do for settings?

Thanks

[XCNuse]

lower all of your LOD lol its not "lag" lag is only through the internet; its the FPS your getting (frames per second) by default its that number in the upper left hand corner; 25ish is what the eye sees (about; you can distinguish difference between 25 to 40, and more different from 40 to 50).. but anyways, majority of your settings in options/graphics should be lowered; and there are also some in Misc options

[whisperinghill]

I'll attempt to lower graphic quality and such

Thanks

[Cue-Ball]

Try performing the benchmark tests. That should tell you what you can expect at highest and lowest quality. If you're having problems with frame rate (and with a 64MB vid card, it's no wonder) you might be best off using the "min" benchmark settings, then working your way up instead of turning things off until it gets playable.

[whisperinghill]

Where do I find the "min" benchmark settings?

[Cue-Ball]

It's under the "Links" section on the Live for Speed web site.

direct link: http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org/

[iST19]

dunno whats wrong, i play maxed out @ 1024x768x32 on my second pc (amd 1500 mhz, radeon 9200, 512 mb dual ch ddr, abit nf7)

[Woz]

Try performing the benchmark tests. That should tell you what you can expect at highest and lowest quality. If you're having problems with frame rate (and with a 64MB vid card, it's no wonder) you might be best off using the "min" benchmark settings, then working your way up instead of turning things off until it gets playable.

64Mb is not an issue for the GFX card in LFS. I play LFS on my laptop which has a 64Mb card and have no issues on speed.

What speed is the CPU? LFS is a real CPU hog.

[XCNuse]

not anymore; its mainly gfx card ever since patch F (or G.. cant remember) in S1
(and i have proof of that :p ; in RSC, someone had a slower computer than me, but a 256 mb video card, while i had my 32 :D.. and he got like 60 something fps at full.. and i got a good 30 with most things on low)

[Gunn]

lol its not "lag" lag is only through the internet...
There are two kinds of lag: Network lag and hardware lag. Hardware lag occurs when your hardware cannot perform to the level that the software is asking it too. This is what he is experiencing. Reducing graphics settings in the game or via your graphics driver software should help here, reducing the amount of AI cars will also help, your PC can't keep up with what you are demanding of it with your current settings.
Also check that you have no background programs running, you want all of your PCs resources available for your gaming.

Network lag is usually caused when the "speed" of the connection is inadequate to send and recieve data packets quickly enough to maintain smooth gameplay. Network lag can occur with slow connections (56k for example) and over large distances (more server hops means a slower response time).

[bryanviper]

When I play in single player, depending upon the number of cars and sometimes the complexty of the car, I'll have terrible lag when i am near them. Like if playing the 250GTR cars until I seperate myself from them, I lag. Or if I play with 10 AI of the smaller cars I lag, put when near any one or two I don't lag.

What can i do for settings?

I have a 18. P4 DFI motherboard with hyperthreading with 756mb of PC800 Ram with a measly NVIDIA 64mb TI card. Yes I know this is an issue, but I have played many games and opnly have minimal graphic iussues. This is pretty bad.

What can i do for settings?

Thanks

Your problem is your Video Card, if you want the lag to stop you need to buy a new video card. I suggest something like the 6600GT video card or better if you can afford it.

There you go thats ur answer and solution :)

Ciao

[AndroidXP]

Well, it depends. Back in the old days, the CPU was what you needed the most, but since some graphics improvements the GFX card became more important in one special case: HVS.

If your GFX card doesn't support Hardware Vertex Shading then you're going to have a very laggy experience, but as you state that you have a TI card it propably does support HVS anyways (AFAIK the "newest" card which doesn't support HVS is a GF4 MX 440).

Now on the CPU issue it looks as follows:

More MHz > less MHz
AMD > Intel
Normal > Hyperthreading

The first one is obvious and the second one is just as it has been since forever - AMD is just better for games.

But the third one is special and IIRC LFS is quite slower with HT enabled. Unfortunately this is an BIOS setting so switching it on/off is not that fast & easy, but it's worth a try.

So in conclusion: try disabling Hyperthreading.