Lag caused by windows XP

Erwin Rommel · 02-28-2002, 07:00 AM

First of all here is my specs for my comp.

AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz
1024 Mb DDR ram
2 40 Gig 7200 rpm fujitsu harddrives
ATI RADEON 8500 64 MB DDR
and so on.
Now I only am using one hard drive right now and it has 36 gigs free. I have the latest patches for MOHAA and I even have the latest updates for WINDOWS XP Pro.
Now I say that Xp causes the lag cause 2 weeks ago I had it on Windows 2000 Pro. Now I had to switch because 2000 seems to want half of my hard drive space free for some reasons. How do I fix the lag?

CO791 · 02-28-2002, 07:17 AM

good Lord...

What is your connection?
What do you have the Rate set at in the server?
Do you have downloads enabled>
Are you hosting? Are you a client?
What programs do you run in the background that you may be mistaking for lag?

Erwin Rommel · 02-28-2002, 08:10 AM

Man, my comp is a freaking BEAST! It hauls

but, in this case I am only a client. I have Cable also.Tell me what the rate part of your stement means. I usually get 90 fps. Most servers I connect to display me as having between 40-100 ping. The most I play on is 150 ping.

ChronicBrownie · 03-01-2002, 12:38 AM

I run on XP just fine. Mostly it is background programs running but you have 90fps and 50 ping. Where do you experience lag?

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Erwin Rommel · 03-01-2002, 05:17 AM

I experience lag while trying to render movement imn MP. I also experience lag on the net (loading issues) and sometimes my programs begin not to respond. What should I do? I have reinstalled, and defragged as well as fixed my registry.

114th.Raiders_KisSes · 03-01-2002, 05:19 AM

I run on XP 2 and i have a ping of 40 at max.

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Jus10 · 03-01-2002, 05:31 AM

A lot of you are saying "I have XP and it works fine" ....XP home and XP pro are two different things. You should probably make sure you have the newest drivers for your video card that are compatible with the OS.

[WTF]DrDuKeS · 03-01-2002, 06:14 AM

XP reserves 10% of your bandwidth, go into your network setting and disable it.

If you need help try running a search.

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Bazooka_Joe · 03-01-2002, 06:39 AM

Yes, what dukes said, heh. I never read up on it, but XP keeps your network connection on standby, I believe it's so it's always able to dload free updates, dunno. heh

~FOG|Bazooka_Joe

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CO791 · 03-01-2002, 06:41 AM

its 20 percent by default.

[.CF.]Savior[.HC.] · 03-01-2002, 07:39 AM

dude ur comp scares me to hell and back. =) It's too fats for me, id cream myself if i had your computer.

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03-01-2002, 08:19 AM

I have XP and dont have any problems with lag because of it. You system resources might be the problem.

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Fetal IceCream · 03-01-2002, 11:05 AM

XP causes lag .... ROFL

Ahgharion · 03-02-2002, 01:37 AM

Im experiencing the same problem, but on all games, single player too.

CrispybunkerRPG · 03-02-2002, 03:37 AM

I am having trouble with my Roomates Xp and I need some help. I have win 2000 myself,but anyways He wants win 2000 but when we run the cd from boot It does'nt work it just loads up the regular Xp OS.