Why is the game so laggy for me? - Pirates of the Caribbean Online Fansite & Forums

Captain_VMKHawk · #1 11-01-2007, 10:00 PM

Why is the game so very lagy for me. It literally took me 40 min. to make my character and idk if i wa sable to see all the options for character design hah. Any help?

Captain · #2 11-01-2007, 10:40 PM

Your computer might just stink. But the game has been a little laggy for the last while; all the new people coming in (like you, I see). But no big problems like yours, so it's entirely possible that your computer just stinks.

Capn Evelyn Blaine · #3 11-01-2007, 11:02 PM

Happens to me too. Try to just have only Pirates up or virus scan your computer

My computer onced lagged so bad from viruses that I can't do anything with my toon when I brought it up.

robaroo · #4 11-02-2007, 12:49 AM

Like this for most. Id exspect it to stay like this for the next week so. Give people time to settle in and spread out a bit

Peggo · #5 11-02-2007, 01:22 AM

The game sometimes lags for me, but it's so much better than it used to be. Of course I upgraded my computer lately so maybe that helped too.
The problem I have these days is the constant crashing out of the game, or them closing the district. So frustrating.
I'm talking about the Test Server by the way. The pay game I don't know about.

Luis · #6 11-02-2007, 02:09 AM

Yeah it lags for me as well. So, your not alone. I don't know if its the computer or the actual severs.

The world will never know

- Luis

Thenishall · #7 11-02-2007, 03:27 AM

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

Davy Redfish · #8 11-02-2007, 04:44 PM

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 · #9 11-02-2007, 05:38 PM

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 · #10 11-02-2007, 05:56 PM

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 · #11 11-02-2007, 06:02 PM

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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 · #12 11-02-2007, 07:44 PM

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 · #13 11-02-2007, 09:08 PM

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.

BlasterMaster555 · #14 11-03-2007, 01:32 PM

It's the dumb flash player ads that make the game run slower than molasses going uphill in a blizzard! I can tell because If I right-click the flash player ads and set their quality to Low the game speeds up significantly. I am running on an acer 9300 laptop with a 1.6 GHz Turion 64 X2 so I have the CPU power down pat.

Mitch · #15 11-03-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by BlasterMaster555

It's the dumb flash player ads that make the game run slower than molasses going uphill in a blizzard! I can tell because If I right-click the flash player ads and set their quality to Low the game speeds up significantly. I am running on an acer 9300 laptop with a 1.6 GHz Turion 64 X2 so I have the CPU power down pat.

This is 100% correct!
If u upgrade the game is VERY fast!
I am on a "ok" gaming computer and it works fine on unlimited,
they need the game by doing what they did with toon town 3 days free not all features.
The ads ruin the game from what I remember from (Phase 1)
They will probably fix this...
*waves*
Mitch