Freelancer lags

[kingvaillant]

Alright! here is my build!

Pentium DUO 3.40 Ghz (5 years old)
2X 1 GB DDR2 Ram 667 (5 years old/4 months old)
ATI Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 w/ Hypertreading 1GB (1 year old) Driver is 11.5b
WD 120 GB harddrive used for system files and fraps (5 years old)
WD 500 GB harddrive used for games (4 months old)
Win XP 32 Bit
Cable connection that is giving me a ping of 115 ms with verrrrrryyyyyyy little lag or fluctuation.


Now my problem is that when I play Freelancer, I get an unstable game performance. A one moment I lag as if I was getting a 10 FPS frame rate from the video card. Then a few moments later, I run at 60 fps (maximum allowed by FL) only to go back at 10 fps a few seconds later and on and on and on.

The odd part is that such issue only happens with Freelancer. My other games such as Crysis 1 & 2, Far Cry 2, Civilization, Dirt 2, etc are stable and get good framerates.

Now here's the twist, if I try to record a FRAPS video while playing FL all my lag goes away instantaneously, and that is even when I record at the highest FPS the recorder allows. Once the recording stops (after 30 seconds) the lag comes back.

Anyone knows what might be causing this?

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[Korny]

Overheating, perhaps ? Checked your temperatures while playing ?

Edit: Misread the line that it only happens with Freelancer. Disregard...

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[Werss™]

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[kingvaillant]

Your friend http://download.cnet.com/Everest-Ultimate-...4-10499291.html
Edit: ups!

And what am I supposed to do with this program?

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Director of the Liberty Security Force: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity

The Amundsen Zone-21 Restrictions

[AeternusDoleo]

Try an older driver in the 9.xx series. This is most likely a driver issue.

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[Switchback]

hrm...not used to ATI cards, but I would say check the video drivers settings for anything related to freelancer.exe

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[VoluptaBox]

Just drop freelancer and come play world of tanks with us

[Camtheman]

Yeap, I have an ATI card with roughly the same problem.

every 2 +/- seconds there's FPS lag as if someone was entering your view zone (14k away)

Even when noone is there...

Terrible.

I'm pretty sure its the ATI cards.

They just plain fail.

[Jansen]

Do you know if something causes these lags? For example NPCs spawning?

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[ulfsarkhuskarl]

The spec should not be a problem, it over-passed the requirments by a -LOT- more.
You should be able to play the game on the Highest and beyond... still, I remember a friend of mind that had a somewhat same issue.
Whenever he started FL his anti-virus started scanning making it impossible for him to play.
Deletion of that anti-virus fixed the entire problem. And FL FPS can go over 60, I dunno how, mine it just does or that is what Fraps tells me.

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