Hey guys,

Just to say, my girlfriend is trying to play Dark Age, she has a Sony Vaio with 2 GB of ram but a fairly weak gfx card. She is running Windows Vista (i know). I set Dark Age onto the simplest settings for highest framerate, and the game is unplayable because of how jittery the screen is.

I defragged the computer thoroughly, have enabled faster data caching, made sure she has all the updated graphics and memory drivers, and its still awful.

What can i do? Surely 2 GB of Ram is enough to run the game, even if the gfx is like 64-128 mb...

Thanks for anyone who can give us some advice!

Tigris

Vista eats most of that away, so ur left with very little, and that gfx isnt a standalone is it ?
Basicly, get rid of vista, try under XP.

win7 is much better than vista and it eats less resources than vista.

There's a bunch of vista stuff that can be turned off. Look up turn-off-able stuff for vista and try that as well.

Thanks guys... Guess its just Vista that sucks then...

Cheers for the feedback.

Tigris

Hi guys, updated the system to windows 7 and tried altering the LargeCache on regedit from 0 to 1. Still no luck with framerate. Any other tips ? Plenty of HD memory and RAM, just terrible performance.

Thanks guys

Have you tried using classic skins in the DAoC client? that apparently makes a difference.

Yeah, I tried setting the characters to the oldschool look with 'Highest Framerate' setting enabled in the options menu, its very choppy when she logs in

you'll probably find that the gfx card doesn't have the right pixel shader version or some other thing you can do nothing about.

I used to have problems with micro stuttering that was down to the firewall software/AV software aggressively scanning every packet.

Do you have any of those running?

actually windows 7 requires 1 gb ram to run, vista requires less :$