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Hi all--

 

I find that I often lag in 3DX. For those you who know such things, is this a function of 1)my video card (NVIDIA GT 730 that came with my system), 2)my DSL connection, 3)3DX itself or 4)something else? I thought of upgrading my vid card but maybe asking the experts on here might be a good idea first.  :P 

 

Thanks!

 

Jazz

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Hey Jazzy,

 

When you say lagging in rooms, do you mean the public locations that are available? Like the beach, fresco club, love island etc..?

 

If so, it may be your card, as your card is a pretty old card. As the public rooms are the most optimized rooms of the rooms. But if you are referring to player rooms, ones that players have made. The majority of them are jam packed with tons of props which can even lag out the most powerful of hardware. Which is unavoidable unfortunately. But also it could be other factors that could relate to the other pieces of hardware in your computer system. But it can also be too many people showing up on the screen at once, could be lagging you out. As they are all high quality models in terms of body and mesh.

 

But if it is the public rooms that were made by the developers themselves then it may be related to your hardware. Although a GT 730 should still be sufficient to play the game albeit on low settings though.

 

You could try a driver update if there is any, that may help out a bit better

 

Here is the most up to date Driver Update provided by Nvidia for your card: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/83080  Try updating to that to see if it helps your performance if you haven't already updated to it. If not, then there is not much else you can do if you're playing on the most minimal of settings.

 

But as Athena posted above, posting your System Specs will help much better. :)

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Hey Jazz,

 

I'd have to agree with Ash. Your Gpu is an older one 1-2 gb card so it will be pushed to run this on high settings. Any busy or heavy rooms will lag and your fps will drop a lot. But honestly it could be more than just that. Possibly Cpu performance playing a factor or could be slow internet connection?

As for 3dx itself, my game runs smoothly with no lag at all, so I don't believe thats the issue unfortunately.

 

It's always best to post your system specifications when you got a tech question it helps people give you a more accurate answer.

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#ususallynolagsbut

depends on room "layout" - amount of ppl and if really big public loction or "room" event or not - funny, people inhere have mo mo moooonster rigs - could play ANY game(s) ect blah - majority has super fast high speed connections and yes i know whipers: yes, ik, we got a new server they say last year or when - anyway, ill tell ya after a bigger public location event ill visit - cause that actually just freakn reminds me now of this vomitnovel of my last sucky occasion inhere bumbping into: "the lagjoker deamon of 3dx"  :ph34r: 

 

zinx.gif

 

... on my way out of the stuttery, wet and sluttery, Long, aeh, Love Island ["Set urself free | Event"] ..... much, much earlier as expected, i even

 

LI| Love Island Lag-Fest 2014|2015 *police line do not cross*

 


#yesiknow3.0 - 1st world problems ... good luck - off to couch 2 watch assassins creed movie 

 

 

  • i5 @ 4 something 
  • 16 gig ram
  • nvidia gtx 760ti
  • 50.000 dsl
  • win 8.1 (schzzzzzzzzzzzz, #ik4.0 - just like vista - its my job - i just had too :angry:  :P 
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I don't lag at all in 3DX...

Desktop System

Nvidia Gforce 640 with 2GB Video RAM

Intel Core I-5 (Quad Core) 4440 3.10 GHZ

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

16GB RAM

100Mbps Fibre Internet Connection

 

list your info like above

Desktop

Intel Quad Core i7-6700 3.4 GHz 

NV GT 730 2GB DDR3 Vid Ram

Win 10 Home 64-bit

8 G RAM

18 Mbps DSL

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Hey Jazzy,

 

When you say lagging in rooms, do you mean the public locations that are available? Like the beach, fresco club, love island etc..?

 

If so, it may be your card, as your card is a pretty old card. As the public rooms are the most optimized rooms of the rooms. But if you are referring to player rooms, ones that players have made. The majority of them are jam packed with tons of props which can even lag out the most powerful of hardware. Which is unavoidable unfortunately. But also it could be other factors that could relate to the other pieces of hardware in your computer system. But it can also be too many people showing up on the screen at once, could be lagging you out. As they are all high quality models in terms of body and mesh.

 

But if it is the public rooms that were made by the developers themselves then it may be related to your hardware. Although a GT 730 should still be sufficient to play the game albeit on low settings though.

 

You could try a driver update if there is any, that may help out a bit better

 

Here is the most up to date Driver Update provided by Nvidia for your card: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/83080  Try updating to that to see if it helps your performance if you haven't already updated to it. If not, then there is not much else you can do if you're playing on the most minimal of settings.

 

But as Athena posted above, posting your System Specs will help much better. :)

Hi Ash-

I think it's more the private rooms, with all the mods. 

Thank you so much for the driver info. I think I updated a couple months ago, but Ill do so again. 

 

Thanks!

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Hi Ash-

I think it's more the private rooms, with all the mods. 

Thank you so much for the driver info. I think I updated a couple months ago, but Ill do so again. 

 

Thanks!

 

Down the road if you have some extra cash i would suggest getting 8gb extra ram, 8gb isn't a lot for windows 10 i find personally. You could try lowering shadows and put on simple water in settings if you have not. Shadings take up a lot of memory usually same with advanced water features, hope you get your problem solved :)

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Asus Laptop

Intel i7

2.4 GHz

Nvidia GeForce GTX 770m

Windows 10

installed ram 16gb

64 bit operating system

 

I wish lag was my issue, I have all the latest drivers installed yet since updating to 3DX 2.5 I cant get past my apartment without crashing the laptop. I have the game on the lowest settings yet still as soon as I click on a location it crashes.

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Asus Laptop

Intel i7

2.4 GHz

Nvidia GeForce GTX 770m

Windows 10

installed ram 16gb

64 bit operating system

 

I wish lag was my issue, I have all the latest drivers installed yet since updating to 3DX 2.5 I cant get past my apartment without crashing the laptop. I have the game on the lowest settings yet still as soon as I click on a location it crashes.

 

Have you checked if it uses your Nvidia graphic card, some intel also have some integrated graphics that sometimes sideline Nvidia card had that issue with my Lenovo graphic card. There a link below that explain how you force laptop to use the Nvidia card instead

 

https://superuser.com/questions/525041/can-i-force-my-laptop-to-use-nvidia-instead-of-intel

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Guest Mulan

Even with my system (yeah, I like to show off :P ):

 

Desktop System

Intel Core i7 Six Core Processor i7-6800K (3.4GHz) 15MB Cache

ASUS X99-A II: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s, RGB Ready

32GB HyperX SAVAGE DDR4 3000MHz

8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080

1.2TB INTEL 750 SERIES PCIe SSD (up to 2400MB/sR | 1200MB/sW)

CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES MODULAR 80 PLUS®GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Corsair H100i V2 Hydro Series High-Performance CPU Cooler

Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit

ASUS PG27AQ 27" 4K IPS G-Sync ROG Swift

I also run Antergos (Linux) on a separate partition.

 

Internet speed should not make a huge difference, as long as you have 10+ Mbps down.

 

I still have issues with lag sometimes in the large user rooms. It is not necessarily the sheer size of the room but what you put in the room. If you have a lot of light sources, then I think the room with lag. Whether or not you lag more with the DLL, I haven't tested. The DLL shows all the light sources, without the DLL you will see only seven lights. When you have a high-end gaming machine that can play the latest Tomb Raider and GTA V in 4K close to 60fps on Ultra, then you expect 3DX with some quite basic Unity graphics to work in Ultra.

 

First I would ask room creators to be more mindful that not everyone has high-end machines, and for those who do have high-end machines, we don't expect to have to turn down the quality.

 

Second, the developers need to optimise their code better. I remember when large rooms would take up to a minute or longer to load. Alex suggested one small change, and now room loading is much quicker (unloading is still slow for large rooms, and occasionally people will hang on the loading screen if a room owner closes a large room).

 

Lastly, if you are going to update your system which is mainly used for gaming then there is no need to get more than 16GB of RAM, and there is no reason to get an i7, an i5 will be okay. More cores and more RAM only really becomes useful in tasks like video editing and running Virtual Machines, an i7 and more than 16GB of RAM will make zero difference to gaming performance. The most significant changes you can make are the graphics card and an SSD if you still have a standard spinning disk.

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I got a crappy computer, player made rooms with over with constant overlaps of items like the black table with the blue lights will create lag. When building a room I set it to a high setting so other computers are able to function inside what are considered really big fucking rooms. 

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Guest Mulan

Well, yes. There are some large user rooms, if designed well, do not lag that much. If room creators can find a balance of creating a big room that is also efficient and lag free then by all means go for it.

 

On the other hand. If I enter a room with a high-end gaming PC and I drop to 1 FPS (exaggerating), then I am not sticking around. The only way these massive resource intensive rooms are going to stop, is if people don't visit them.

 

I have seen a few popular rooms with no DLL mods (myself included, not to blow my own trumpet). There is more to it than a room. A good host, good music, good people in local chat - all of these help to make an enjoyable evening. I even get complimented that it is nice to see a "normal" room again.

 

Even with the limited options, it is still possible to look and be unique, without building a massive creation made from coffee tables.

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Before i had a bad PC, and i was also one there was lagging easy. I was on medium settings all the time there. And when i went to private rooms, i often went on low.

The problem with custom rooms is as some says, you need to find the balance in the room. 

Its not only big rooms you can lag in, its also some small rooms. It all depends of how many objects and what kind of objects you have in the area you are in with your Avatar.
Often it helps if you go to one of the edge in the room, there are less objects to have in HD for your PC. 

If some build rooms, its always a good idea to ask some they know have a "bad" PC to test the room for lag before have a party.

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