I cant see any creature i can make out the landscape and the characters are clipping throught the screen anyone have the same problem or what?

what with all the lag (spikes every few seconds or the game just dragging me around making my movement/actions erratic and useless) i've been suffering i've been looking around the forums here and far as i can tell, said lag issues are by far nothing new at all. that said, i also have another issue, see title.

Ever since i logged in as a guest, I can't log into my actual account because whenever I open SK, it automatically logs me into guest.

I was in the middle of a FSC run placing down a statue (if it matters), with my screen was suddenly filled with vertical alternating black and yellow stripes. My computer was working fine (HDD activity was normal), but I couldn't Alt+F4, Alt + Tab, Ctrl + Alt + Del, or anything. Restarted my computer and tried running SK again, and same thing happened when I got to title screen - blue and black stripes. I restarted again and left Task Manager open while SK was starting, and I caught a Windows Alert: "The graphics driver crashed, and recovered".

I have observed that with the last patch, SK's memory leaking habits have gotten worse. After around 5-6 floors, the game will freeze every 5-10 seconds, making gameplay excruciatingly frustrating. I know some friends are also observing this, and people in my public parties have been experiencing severe lag problems much more often.

I want to put this thread out there so OOO is aware, and so that anybody affected can speak out.

Okay. So anyone who hasn't heard about the tortodrones is living under a rock, and anyone who didn't know about the countless performance and gameplay issues hasn't actually fought them yet.

Yesterday these things were pretty grievously powerful (And star rating exclusive, poor lowers.) and are, like all too many patches here in SK, met with an early-on tendency to destabilize the game with the patch. I thought to myself, "you know, OOO will probably pull out an emergency patch tomorrow and maybe even debuff these guys slightly as an apology."

I am a Steam user, and I want to buy Energy via my Steam funds. However, I am unsure if I will get an Ancient Prize Box for this. The Promotion page only mentions that buying the DLC on Steam does not count, and the Billing FAQ mentions "converted Steam Accounts".

Several people, including me, have reported that performance drops are happening every 5-8 seconds. I opened task manager and found out that the game is using up over 750,000 K of memory and half of my CPU.

I'm using Windows 7 64 Bit. Not sure about anyone else, but this needs to be addressed quickly before someone's game crashes because of the performance drop.

Edit: It's been fixed! Thanks Helios!

I've got a pretty high end computer and since the patch I've been getting half second screen freezes every 5-8 seconds, even with the graphics turned all the way down. Is anyone else having this problem?

After a few lag spikes, I got booted from the server. I rejoined and everything seems fine now. Note that my computer runs SK perfectly and my internet is going strong. Is this a case of server-overload?