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Hi fellow frustrated pirates, I just wanted everyone to know that I was able to get the game working again after installing a new graphics card. I have an HP XP desktop and I put in a faster (256MB DDR2 PCI) card and now I can play the game again. I'm just a basic computer user, but I was able to follow the simple instructions and open up the computer and install the card following the instructions that came with the graphics card. good luck to everyone and hope to see you soon.

glad you are able to get back on but if they are trying to appeal to "the masses" - even lower level computers, we should not have to get a new graphics card. I was doing fine until their maintinence of May 18 and I don't think I should have to go update my almost brand new laptop (only 3 months old and purchased specifically for playing games so has super good graphics card already) just to play the game - they need to fix stuff on their end... but glad you are able to get on - hope what you have done doesn't end up being the ultimate answer but IF it is, thanks for sharing so we know

one thing to do, is make sure your graphics card drivers is updated to the most recent driver.

did that - but thanks anyway

welcome back piratesahoy, just curious what was your previous graphics card? I have been playing with a 256MB graphics card all along so may not have seen this issue, only issue I had recently was the error 12 when logging in I could not log into the game for a week, but that has been resolved also...

I'm not sure what it was, but it was definitely not 256MB and I think that was the problem. I have noticed a huge difference in the gameplay. No lagging at all, the graphics are great and my chat typing is so much faster. Everything is much improved.

Wish I could say the same. I have a NVDIA G-Force-6800, 256 mb graphics card and the lag is just killing me; litterally. However, I beleive it is the network, not my PC, that is the issue. I've set the game graphics at rock bottom, then as high as it would go, and it made no difference.

The lag has been awful today. Took forever, and many crashes, before we could sail on any person's ship. Only 2 seas open. Did the other 2 go to the 10,000 codes they gave out? And, maybe, they are just for the testers that have been there awhile.:(