Question about lag on POTCO....

[The Skirata Clan]

I had massive lag, what I did was set the game settings to the lowest or to a combination of medium and low. That has helped a lot... I have been privateering without a problem on the ideal servers. I run it on a Mac.

And lag will never go away... it is the newest POTCO enemy! That is going to be the new Chapter Quest: The Lag Attack. sorry.

[Poison elf]

Your connection may have a lot to do with how much lag you get.
How many back ground system programs running. Such as potc launcher itself, as well as windows explorer, uses a good amount.

Graphics is where the lag mainly comes into play. Early games with dial-up, you could set things on the ground. When someone came through a door and got all those items, they would lag for a long time, or even crash.

This is a similar effect you get at maybe a GM event with lots of players to look at.

There are things you can do to cut lag, and cleaning some of the system up would likely help a lot. I would get a professional to do this, there are things you do need and can't just remove.

Or some of the other things mentioned above may help dependant on each personal computer set up.

If you run the game with a lot of windows up, or on task bar, that is a easy thing to stop doing.

On my system I don't run hardware acceleration in xp, and found some couldn't even play until they did that in the past.