Spiral Knights - Another potential lag issue

Another potential lag issue

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Sun, 10/24/2010 - 10:01

Tortie

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In game: depth 9; just entered out of the arcade from Moorcroft Manor.

Was fine until I entered the dungeon level- the client just completely bogged down-- the whole 3-5 second delay between commands and movement.

I turned the graphic quality all the way down, which seems to have helped it out- there's no more moving background, in addition to closing down all my other running programs (including a Terminal window-- the Java client was taking up 96 of my %CPU).

My system might just be outdated, however:

MacBook
Vers 10.6.4
1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
java version "1.6.0_20" -- I think there's a 22(?) I'll run some updates later, I guess.

Are these system requirements not enough? I was fine until the latest update/release.

I know I've had issues with Java & my Mac before, they just don't like each other very well, but I wanted to bring this to your attention as that it did occur.

Thanks in advance,
Tortie

Thu, 10/28/2010 - 23:07

airplane

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I am also on a mac, and have

I am also on a mac, and have been experiencing extreme lag spikes, any level, in towns, doesn't matter. My sprite animations will cease, and I'll fly all over the map, then resume walking, but at maybe 1/4 normal speed, fly around a bit more, and then be back to normal. During this time, I do not take or deal out any damage, but when the lag spike ends, my damage received and dealt all piles on top of one another, and I return to my "actual" position on the map, usually dead lol.

I am on a commercial broadband wireless connection (at&t), shared with 6 people. Unfortunately, I do not have the option to connect via cable, it's my landlord's internet, and on his floor of the building we share. I didn't think 6 people could exhaust commercial broadband to this degree, or am I wrong? No one was torrenting/playing online while I was playing, just standard browsing.

MacBook Pro
Ver. 10.6
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Not sure what version of Java I'm running, but I've updated it recently, so I think I'm okay...

I was told by several players the levels of lag really didn't seem normal, until then I had chalked it up to my connection, but I'm curious to see if there's something more going on.

Thu, 10/28/2010 - 23:12

not_shiro

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I doubt it's an issue with

I doubt it's an issue with the system being overtaxed. The Core 2 series is a heck of a lot better than my wimpy Athlon X2, and I've had no real bottleneck there.

Next time you're playing, try running a constant ping to a common site in a background terminal window and see if it gets disrupted too when you start experiencing lagbursts. It's what I've done when I was having considerable lag issues (seriously, ~700ms ping to Google, GOOGLE of all things is a pretty bad sign :<).

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 20:59

Sadiekate

Mac vs PC

I was playing next to my sister last weekend. She was on her mac, and I was on my pc laptop. We were both using the same wireless connection. I was running along fine, but every few minutes she would stop moving on my screen. On her screen, she continued to run though the level for about 5 seconds, and then her character would jump back to the location shown on my screen. This behavior never switched, she was always the one who got hit with the lag. The only other difference is that I was party leader.

For comparison, my husband and I have both played on the same wireless connection on our PC laptops and have not seen the issue.

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 08:35

vampje

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my macbook fan goes on high

my macbook fan goes on high when i open the app, and also i am very much slower than my friends playing. they can see me lag.

java version "1.6.0_22"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04-307-10M3261)
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
osx 10.6.4

i have my graphics details on low, sound turned off, and all other apps closed except vent.

i do not have this issue with an other application, just spiral knights.

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 12:49

BehindCurtai

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Graphics card?

Tue, 05/17/2011 - 00:14

viper901

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I also have severe issues

I also have severe issues running on my iMac. All graphics settings set to low, but any time I am rendering fire or fighting in an arena, or rendering ice or any sort of room with lots of baddies it just gets laggy all over. Try it on an old PC on the same connection and it's fine. Kind of lame that an operating system would matter this much in a browser game?

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 00:33

viper901

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Still having this same issue.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 02:45

Starlinvf

The game runs on Java, not a

The game runs on Java, not a browser. While the java code is platform independent, the VM it runs in still needs to be able to interface with the OS and device drivers to accomplish anything. Issues with the runtime (java install) on the machine, or problems with the drivers can cause failures even if there is nothing else wrong with the code itself.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 06:35

viper901

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Sorry Star that post was from

Sorry Star that post was from May and since then I have learned quite a bit about how the game works due to my investigating this problem and trying to see if I will ever get to actually play this great game or not (I mean past just running the odd green-pastures level or what not). The 'issue' I was refering to in my most recent post was the original posters discussion, discounting my add-on from May 17th. Also since then I have discovered that it happens to high-rig gaming PCs also in my locale (Finland) leading to my guess that this is a network code issue from the game side? rather than Java for mac. But of course I don't know anything about the coding side.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 10:32

#10

Ewbtes

I play on macbook with nvidia

I play on macbook with nvidia 9400m

settings:
fullscreen 1280x800
details - low
vertical sync - off
capability mode - off
render effects - off

when I play in OSX (10.6.8 with last java) - game work bad, in haven ~25fps, in clockwoks ~15fps
when I play in Win via bootcamp (XP SP2 with last java) - game work very good, average ~60fps

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