2012-05-06, 03:40 PM
Exidous Wrote:Try to do some more testing to see if it's the towns themselves, or simply the gathering of other players that are triggering the lag/crashing.
MS doesn't inherently require a lot of ram, its issue is memory leaks. It will consume all your system's ram given enough time/leak encounters, then become unstable and crash. More ram can make this take longer, for some problems.
I still experience crippling mount lag usually, and I have 4GB of ram.
If it is the towns themselves, I wouldn't be surprised if some of your content broke, possibly due to wz corruption. That stupid giant TV they put in every town seems like a prime source for problems. If your wz files are corrupted, reinstalling MS should fix the problem.
It's every town except for Ardent Mill. Also most of the maps run slower than normal, but are at least somewhat playable. I think you might be onto something with the memory leak, because when I first logged on after I d/led the game, towns like Henesys would lag but became progressively worse after a while to the point that entering them means either resetting or trying to navigate a window that refreshes once a minute.
Has corrupted .wz files been an issue in the past? I'd hate to reinstall again, given it took nearly 2 hours to install last time.