Well, I just got around to updating my game. I haven't played for around... half a year? 5 months perhaps? Wondering just how new some of these... surprises I've gotten are.
First I logged in to only to see my name colored in white. I used to pride myself in my ironically blue colored name, thanks for that OOO. If I'm not asking too much of you guys, could you print my name with a pale bone color, in silian braille?
Then I tried to see where my mist bar went. Took a while to find. Thanks for not always keeping my money on the screen.
Anyway, that's not the worst of my problems. After what felt like a somewhat long time loading, I popped up in haven and decided to walk around. It was like I had drunk goggles. I'd press my mouse button, nothing happens.... nothing happens.... nothiii- Oh! I'm on the opposite side of town square. That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but in all honesty this is unbearable. I used to run the game smooth as can be on low graphics, and could still manage to run it better than I am now on all options. Now I get these frequent screen freezes that last nearly whole seconds. Menus like the auction browser used to expand smoothly, now I just hear the "cli-click!" noise, get this half expanded window, then eventually the actual auction menu. Plus there's LD. You wouldn't even imagine how much fire I've ran into. Furthermore, you wouldn't even imagine how many people I've seen run into fire. I mean the lag is so bad, I'll be walking towards a base, then freeze, then suddenly have completely passed it. The funniest part is that recons activating or deactivating their cloak seems to make my game freeze up sometimes as well. I mean I'm really trying to be as rational as possible but I really do find the game as a whole is unplayable for me in these conditions. There's the possibility that the patches put my graphics back to default, and that lowering them might make it borderline possible to play, but this is still pretty bad.
So anyway, I said before I hadn't played in a good half year or so. I'm wondering when all this came about. Has SK been getting more lag patch after patch, or did something like the UI just slow the game down? Or were all those other fire huggers a mere coincidence and is this actually all just me?
weird, I function exactly the same, even with the new UI update, and my computer can't run anything except SK and Age of Empires 2 and Ace of Spades classic