We aren't computer technicians. We just try to avoid anything that can harm our computer and figure out how to make it run smoother. x_X

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You don't have to be a computer technician to install a video card driver.

I know that.. Just where to go though? That's what I meant.
The thing is.. it's not our computer. I can go on another servers..and it be okay.. a bit slow but when we get on GK. Lag hell. x_x I mean if it was our computer we couldn't play other games.. And we can without problem. It's graal itself.

Yeah I wasn't trying to say it wasn't Graal's fault. You aren't the only one having problems. I was just saying you shouldn't rely on windows update for driver updates.

I tried the new client on my computer that I've never updated the drivers on and it still works. I don't think thats the problem, and usually everyone suggests that as the course of action.

Which `new version' is lagging everyone? 2.3 or the 3.1 client?

the 2.3 is lagging them

If it's 2.3, all I can say is to upgrade your vid. card drivers. If that does't help, use the 3.1 client.

They shouldn't be forced to use the 3.1 client. It isn't finished and is very buggy.

Why not wait for them to do as people have said? It will probably fix it.

The default gfx drivers for Windows 2000 and XP are quite ****, you are lucky if games and videos are working. Especially the drivers for Nvidia are quite bad, they crash the computer often.
We will probably add something to v3 to detect the gfx card manufacturer, the gfx card driver version and display a message if its too old or may be directly opening the web site for downloading the driver.

Stefan I get some sudden frame lags between levels on gmaps. These weren't there before the update. I have the latest ATI drivers and yes my computer can handle graal.

AMD Athlon 2700+ @ Athlon 2100+ (dont ask)
256DDR Original Apacer
ATI Radeon 9800pro
Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 200gb
Windows 2000 pro

:O

This is bugging me. Im not lagging at all, but still all my freinds are and I cant play with them. Graal isnt very fun when you dont have freinds to playt with. If this keeps up, youll have a lot of people quitting.

We have three computers in the house one wont work at all , one goes frame by frame and the other works the same as before...:/ And that one was the most laggy in the past and was the worst one for playing graal. Strange.The one that wont work at all we just got it this Christmas.Today is redownload day.:)

I would suggest:
1. Download new gfx driver and install it
2. Close programs that use a lot of cpu time
3. The only thing that I could imagine causing this is the new timing Graal uses to not block the cpu for 99% of the time even if it doesn't need it. If there are other programs running which take a lot of CPU time then those might lag Graal now, although I wouldn't think that the old version of Graal could run fine while those other programs are lagging the computer. It might be possible to add an option to Graal to use the old timing (trying to steal all CPU power without caring about other programs) or automatically do that when Graal is running slow. Will release a new version next week to test that.