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Post by blackegg on Mar 30, 2016 4:21:26 GMT -8
I have a GeForce GTX 650.
I restarted my computer this morning just to see if it would help. I have fewer webpages open, and just one text file at the moment. I'm still getting 42% memory usage. Possibly Windows 10 is just chewing up more than I'm used to. One other thing I noticed is that last night, the top entry was System and Compressed Memory at something like 700m. Now it's down to around 46m. I have no idea if that is related to Liberation Day at all or not.
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Post by blackegg on Mar 29, 2016 17:20:48 GMT -8
OK, so I updated the graphics driver (it didn't give me as many problems this time) and switched the graphics renderer to DirectX. The play lag is still pretty bad. It might be improved, but it's hard to tell without a longer play experience. One notable improvement is that the videos of the Vanguard are showing now...before all I got was a black screen while the audio track played.
So maybe that's actually better.
I also started watching the memory usage on Task Manager while I played, and the more RAM option might be something to explore. While running the game, I'm getting roughly 80% memory usage. Even now, with just some webpages and Steam open, I'm getting 66%. While running, Liberation Day was taking up somewhere between 300m and 570m, depending on what was on the screen. More normal numbers were 470-530.
If memory is really the problem, though, it makes me wonder why I didn't have problems before now. I play games that I assume would be substantially more aggressive in memory usage on a regular basis.
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Post by blackegg on Mar 29, 2016 16:26:18 GMT -8
Thank you for the responses. My graphics card is likely out of date. The last time I tried to update the driver, their web process just hung on me (multiple times) and I eventually gave up on it. I'm trying again.
The RAM issue... I built the computer myself and originally purchased twice as much. One of the RAM sticks was bad, however, and I never managed to get it replaced. It isn't much, but it's never become a huge hindrance that I've noted before.
If the graphics card driver update doesn't help, I'll try the shift-G trick next.
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Post by blackegg on Mar 28, 2016 15:44:35 GMT -8
The complaint really extends to all the versions of Liberation Day that I have played, although v2.03 is my current. The latency I get while playing the game is bad. During long or larger battles, the game can sometimes grind to a halt, where any orders I attempt to give simply don't occur. I managed to get through these events by saving the game and re-launching the application. Research and purchase screens were also very slow, sometimes to the point of being unusable. At times, my cursor would hover over one purchase option and the text would toggle between two other options for extended periods of time. I typically got by those events by switching from purchase to research and back again (a description of my problems in research would be similar). Scroll windows were very bad throughout the game. The dialogue screens were also quite slow to respond, although the problem was rarely severe.
I'm running the game on a Windows 10 machine. My processor is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 2.79 GHz and I have 4 GB of RAM.
Is there anything I can do?
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