Playerlist lag?
 

Well i was posting about lag problems, and someone told me it was my playerlist, it is. I open and close it as soon as i lag, and its fine for a few seconds 0_o

Why is the playerlist lagging me...?

I was the one who said it ;)

And I have no idea why, actually come to think of it, it only lags me on one of my accounts. I believe he has something to do with the new ignore feature.

In-game playerlist or default?

erm, the normal one.

It is possibly the playerlist refreshing (redrawing local players, getting the latest global players from the guilds/servers) section, but it is unusual for it to cause any noticeable delay.

yea, unusual, But im not the only one >.> And its mostly some vista users.

Whenever I send a mass message on my gold account, within a minute I can barely walk because of how bad the lag is. Would take me about 2 days to walk from the top of Era to the bottom, and the map isnt even that big.

Is it happening when you use the in-game playerlist instead? (Options at the bottom of the playerlist)

it happens sometime with me also, but only when im on an older pc

This is really ticking me off. It's not the computer, its Graal. It shifts from acc to acc, and I cant even sell stuff on era because I lag like crazy on my p2p whenever I send a mass. Stefan, fix this bug. I think the players deserve to have a decent game, and not one that lags you whenever you send a mass.

I have tested it several times and don't get any lag or memory leak, so I need more information: OS, which server etc.

I noticed on servers, like UN, the playerlist is barely accessible due to the updates of players but it doesn't seem to slow my comp down much.

It happens on Era. It seems to travel from account to account. I have no clue why. Sometimes I can send 10+ mass messages without receiving any lag, other times I send 1 mass message and I can barely walk.

Hmmm May be some heads of other players are bugged and make the redrawing of the icons slow or so?

That wouldnt explain why it never happened to some people though. I never had any problems with the playerlist. Doesnt lag at all.

Not entirely sure, but that may just be the problem. It seems to be instant lag, so I cant do much afterwards. It must just be a small glitch or bug in my computer, because it doesnt seem to affect many people.

cant play graal at all with it like this...

It will change if you can get enough people to complain.

Before Graal had a problem with Nvidia drivers (was loading levels slightly slower) and a group of us complained. Stefan fixed it the same week I believe.

:)

It's not about complaining, it's about finding the reason why its lagging for some people, still haven't a real clue, when I go on Era the playerlist is not lagging for me. I will try to test it on more machines though.

its any servers, only thing i can tell you is that its something to do with the playerlist.

if it starts lagging, i open and close the playerlist and its fine for a little, maybe 15 seconds? then it starts again.

Is your Graal folder large or small?

4,183 files, 177 foldrs 34.1 MB

i never experienced this problem http://graalonline.biz/images/smilies/1.gif

Once again: Is it happening when you use the in-game playerlist instead? (Options at the bottom of the playerlist)

yea, exactly the same problem. Just tested.

When you use the external playerlist and disable loading of player heads does it still lag the same?

How do i disable the loading of playerheads?

In the options, general tab, or the player list options panel I think

What about when you resize the window (rather then open the playerlist), does that give a temporary fix like opening the playerlist does?

Yea, it does fix it for a little while when i resize the window. Also, disabling the heads did'nt make a difference :(

Weird @ heads
Resizing the window is reinitializing DirectX, I will check if there is some leak or so with the DirectX textures.
This problem didn't happen with v4, or just not that much ?

well this is a new computer with vista, and v4 didnt work with this system full stop lol

Hm my Graal is working fine suddenly :D


Update from that, started again :(

Yeah, that's why I asked that ;)

Hmmm to verify again, this only happens after sending a Mass PM ?

For me, yes.
At times, I can send mass messages and not lag at all. Other times, I send a mass message and I get instant lag. Sometimes, I can send a mass message, and the lag doesn't come until a minute or two later.

Ok it seems the problem really has to do with the "Your messages are ignored" PM bouncing between people. So it only happens when you mass-pm and the message is received by someone who is ignoring you and you are ignoring the other player. I will add a check in the server to prevent that, and also fix it in the next Graal client version.

Update: restarted Era and Graal Kingdoms, please check if it's fixed now.

I think the old method was alot better. Having the player name go red is less annoying then a pm saying they don't care about you :whatever:

That will be fixed with the next Graal version

Hope that means next update and not V6. :cool: