Graal 4 Video lagg?

[Admins]

Drawing tiles means creating/updating textures in video memory, should be quite fast though in normal circumstances.

[spydrct02]

An option for tile caching sounds like it'd benefit people with more modern cards; otherwise maybe an option to limit tile loading to only how big your screen is. It seems like Graal loads levels (or at least parts of levels) that aren't even on your screen. Isn't that kind of unnecessary loading? When you're on a GMAP with 4 levels around you at all times, that could be 250+ updating tiles that you can't see because they aren't on the screen.

[Jaquet]

Originally Posted by OasaTor_PK

World of Warcraft
Ventrilo
Winamp - Playing a video

12% computer usage?

Graal runs me about 60-70.

Yeah im usually at 64% usage when using graal and when im not on graal it goes down to about 10%, any other game only takes up 5-10% but graal takes about 50%

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Listen, I remember Graal4.exe running at 5% CPU useage, this is in windowed mode, and for the records fullscreen does the same thing.

I do not know why its eating up over 50% of my Opteron's power, there is literally no reason at all that it should come even close to 20% really. I play World of Warcraft before with 2-3 windows up and running at the same time with very minimal lagg (I never noticed lagg really).

Now if you think you can sit there and say my PC is lagging on graal, theres either another problem that I do not know about, or that last graal4.exe update messed up something it shouldnt have.

** My screen litereally flickers huge black ugly lines when I move on the outside levels on GK. There is also alot of video lagg (screen jerking) that is in effect when I move. This seems to kill the quality of GK much more then I could have imagined.

** NVIDIA settings state that the application controls anti aliasing, anistopic filtering and the vertical sync. This is set so because programs like "the sims" and other games such as battlefield and first person shooters require to control those settings in game.

[Admins]

You can still try to (temporary) set those options manually in the nvidia panel and check if it's helping?
Graal should not take a lot of CPU power. Does it always take a lot of cpu power or only when you move? Have you tried to disable sounds?

[KuJi]

Eeh.. mine runs from 00 - 07.. is that good :o?

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Antialiasing on/off has no effect (On is application controled)
Anisotropic filtering also no effect on or off
Verticle sync application controled or off makes no difference either


Tried Various screen timing methods, no affect on problem either.

Anymore ideas??

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Wish someone could atleast explain to me why Graal4 has been running poorly enough to cause lagg and other bits and pieces of the program to run incorrectly (editor).

See attached, screencapture when I was actaully moving, watching the Graal4 process spike the CPU useage.

[ReBorn_Spirit]

Still having a ton of video problems, and with your last update I had to completely uninstall and then delete the entire directory where graal 4 was installed. And now it just reset all my setting to the default ones.

Dude, if this keeps up, I'd rather be playing on V2, atleast that was stable.