Why is the game so laggy for me?

[Thenishall]

Yesterday it was pretty bad. But today it seems fine.

[Davy Redfish]

I have the same problem, Braodband connection, 64meg video card and 1 gig memory on my laptop, and a 128meg video card with 512 ram on my desktop.

The game is basically unplayable for me on both of my machines, and this is even with all graphics an display settings set to there minimum (which I should not have to do given my machine's hardware).

I have waited a over Year for this release, and now I can't play. Load screens take over a minute to load, running and sailing are next to impossible, and battles forget about it.

I know this has only gone live this week and that there will be hiccups along the way but I am very frustrated at this point.

I have even tried to log in in the middile of the night (less people online all oceans quite) and it makes no difference.

Don't get me wrong I love the game and think that it will be a game for the ages, but I have been itching to play for so long I was hoping for more.

Sorry for the rant I am just very frustrated.

[The_Farmer]

Keep in mind this is a newer game, and would often have a hard time on older computers. It's graphics are some of the latest, and it takes an awful lot from your computer. Your computer may just have to adjust to this game and get used to this hard-core stuff on your computer.

I'd check your computer for most of the newest updates, clear my cookies, and make sure I have alot of Megabytes.

[Plunderin Mom]

Yep, laggy for me, too, even on our good gaming PC. I have to restart every couple of hours or it gets so bad I can't even run a straight line through town. It's even worse on the other PC and impossible to gun on that one. Like someone previously mentioned, it doesnt even matter whether you're in an ocean thats quiet, with few or no other players. Its still lags.

I didnt have the problems with lag on test that I do on open, and a friend of mine can do little more than play poker, now, whereas he played all aspects of the game with little trouble on test. Not sure what the POTC people can do, and I dont know anything that relates to computers technically, but if we didnt have this much lag on test, then there must be something they can do, and its not just a graphics issue, I wouldnt think.

[The_Farmer]

Originally Posted by Plunderin Mom

I didnt have the problems with lag on test that I do on open,

The test servers have less people, therefore less of a lag. I'd play on test if I were you for now.

There is a possibility that Disney hasn't updated it yet to fix the bugs and lags that you guys are experiancing. Of course, that's unlike Disney, but, they may want to keep it open for the newcomers without shutting it down like they do to Toontown.

[Davy Redfish]

Well given the responses it seems as I am not alone. I do Play Toontown and it has lag now and then and requires a reboot every couple of hours, but nothing like this.

I will try and be patiant and hopefully after the masses migrate into the game they will be able to do something about it.

I Chatted with tech support about it yesterday and the person I was speaking with examined my bug report and said that from what he could see it was not on my end.

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[Cannon Mad Dan]

Well, my PC is good too (I used to run higher end games like Oblivion no problem, with settings that I was comfortable with) and I still get lag. It's half game, half machine. The game SAYS it requires 800mhz processors; I have a 3ghz processor and it says the game takes up 100% of my CPU processing power. So, it is the game, something about it really eats up your machine. Give it time, I think Disney may find a fix for it. Make sure your PC is updated, try to end some processes that you aren't using in the Task Manager, and that may help. If it doesn't, well, I'm sorry. That's all I've got.