My old computer

[Marsden 1st MRB]

At my moms seems to havel ost the ability to run DoD:S. It takes forever to enter the server and then once it does it lags out so hard that it isn't even funny. for some reason or another i think that its my lerp dropping off so low that i can't even adjust it, when i whent into the pub last night my lerp was solid red and at 10.0 and then my net graph froze along with the rest of the game showing a black MOTD and donner stilled in the background. does anyone know how i could fix this? I am going to try and take out my autoexec file because it may be to low but idk for sure if thats the problem, if anyone else could let my know anything else i could try it would be appreciated.

[Janke 1st MRB]

When was the last time you ran DoD:S on this computer? I understand that they updated it to the EP2 engine some time ago, and that that engine takes much more resources to run than the EP1 engine it was previously on. This may be the problem, is that it may have ran fine on the EP1 engine, but that the computer can't handle the EP2 engine. I know this was the case for my old computer, it ran CS:S fine but TF2 was so laggy it was unplayable.

[Marsden 1st MRB]

idk that might be it, the last time i ran dod on it was in july before i moved to sacramento. the weird thing is that it will run on my grampa's computer fine but not this one even though my grampa's comp is worse than this one.

ill just blame vista.

[Janke 1st MRB]

If it's shitty, old, and running Vista then don't expect it to do anything. Vista is a horrible RAM hog and if you don't have at least a 2.0Ghz dual-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 256MB graphics card you won't be able to run shit on Vista.

[Marsden 1st MRB]

lol sorry but ur wrong there buddy, iv been runnin dod:S for the last 2 years on this thing and it has none of those except the graphics card, which is onboard so doesn't count. and i just had to take out my auto exec for it to run again on here. it also will run KF, Battle Grounds 2 and other such mods, albeit crapilly but i still manage to play.

[Janke 1st MRB]

But can it run them well? By run I mean playably, as in ~40 FPS. If it's like 15 FPS then that doesn't really count, and I've seen shitty computer with Vista that, while they "run" the game it's not really playable.

[Marsden 1st MRB]

lol well i havent really ever played on anything higher than 25 fps reguarly so ya, 8-22 fps is my comfort zone

[Janke 1st MRB]

I remember those days, ever since Oct 2008 I can't play anything less than like 60FPS.