How to run gunz smoothly..?

Xtrez · 10-22-2006, 03:33 PM

I have played gunzonline for over a year now, and since the first day I have had to play with graphics lag. The game runs slowly making k style moves go WAY slower than normal, rockets/massives sometimes freeze my game for like 2 seconds to sometimes minutes. So I have decided to try to upgrade my computer before NA Gunz comes out but I dont know what I need to buy. My computer was only like $450 and no Im not rich, $200 probably the most I will be able to spend. Im thinking of a graphics card should fix it, and maybe upgrade my RAM if I have enough money left (I have 256 ram right now). The graphics card I currently use is really bad, it came with the computer. So can someone recommen a graphics card to buy or.. recommend something, anything Im lost..

durundal · 10-22-2006, 03:39 PM

2 things, whats your graphics card right now
you should probly have around 512mb of ram if you want happy fun no lag time

bman · 10-22-2006, 05:26 PM

try unchecking lightmap off.

KyleDeath420 · 10-22-2006, 05:31 PM

Yeah... stock graphics card won't get it done, and 256 ram is enough to run gunz; but its always nice to have more.

~~destrucci?~~ · 10-22-2006, 05:35 PM

what kind of gpu slot do you have pci?

i recomend an ram upgrade before anything else.

~~Fuuja Houin~~ · 10-22-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Xtrez

I have played gunzonline for over a year now, and since the first day I have had to play with graphics lag. The game runs slowly making k style moves go WAY slower than normal, rockets/massives sometimes freeze my game for like 2 seconds to sometimes minutes. So I have decided to try to upgrade my computer before NA Gunz comes out but I dont know what I need to buy. My computer was only like $450 and no Im not rich, $200 probably the most I will be able to spend. Im thinking of a graphics card should fix it, and maybe upgrade my RAM if I have enough money left (I have 256 ram right now). The graphics card I currently use is really bad, it came with the computer. So can someone recommen a graphics card to buy or.. recommend something, anything Im lost..

What video card slots do you have?

PCI?PCI-express?AGP?

I say any gamer should have minimum 512 ram...

What PSU do you have? I dont want to tell you something to powerful.

TheComet · 10-22-2006, 06:42 PM

*contemplates making a "slow computer pride" movement, is shunned by many*

I run off a pretty crappy pc myself, the biggest thing to do is to lower your res to at low as it can get, (640X400 I believe is the size) and setting the textures to 16 bit. Light Map is the biggest cpu eating effect (although if the backgrounds just had the shading drawn into them that wouldn't be an issue to begin with...just the character shading would), I always have it off. all the others can be set to low except for effect, set that to normal or high so you can see the bullet impacts and bullet holes, it's hell to not be able to see those.
setting the color at 16 bit helps too, but I'm not sure how big of a difference 16 and 32 bit have though *colorblind*, so if you want to balance out performance and quality, you might want to consider it.

10-22-2006, 03:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Xtrez Gunzfactorian Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 169	How to run gunz smoothly..? I have played gunzonline for over a year now, and since the first day I have had to play with graphics lag. The game runs slowly making k style moves go WAY slower than normal, rockets/massives sometimes freeze my game for like 2 seconds to sometimes minutes. So I have decided to try to upgrade my computer before NA Gunz comes out but I dont know what I need to buy. My computer was only like $450 and no Im not rich, $200 probably the most I will be able to spend. Im thinking of a graphics card should fix it, and maybe upgrade my RAM if I have enough money left (I have 256 ram right now). The graphics card I currently use is really bad, it came with the computer. So can someone recommen a graphics card to buy or.. recommend something, anything Im lost..

10-22-2006, 03:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
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KyleDeath420 Gunzfactorian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 193 KyleDeath420's GamerBio	Re: How to run gunz smoothly..? Yeah... stock graphics card won't get it done, and 256 ram is enough to run gunz; but its always nice to have more.

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~~destrucci?~~ Banned Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,928	Re: How to run gunz smoothly..? what kind of gpu slot do you have pci? i recomend an ram upgrade before anything else.

10-22-2006, 06:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
TheComet Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Glens Falls, NY Posts: 71 TheComet's GamerBio	Re: How to run gunz smoothly..? contemplates making a "slow computer pride" movement, is shunned by many I run off a pretty crappy pc myself, the biggest thing to do is to lower your res to at low as it can get, (640X400 I believe is the size) and setting the textures to 16 bit. Light Map is the biggest cpu eating effect (although if the backgrounds just had the shading drawn into them that wouldn't be an issue to begin with...just the character shading would), I always have it off. all the others can be set to low except for effect, set that to normal or high so you can see the bullet impacts and bullet holes, it's hell to not be able to see those. setting the color at 16 bit helps too, but I'm not sure how big of a difference 16 and 32 bit have though colorblind, so if you want to balance out performance and quality, you might want to consider it. __________________ GunZ's trigger happy fox! Level: 34 Style: K-Style + D-Style Avenger+Breaker 7 Favorite gun: Avenger Melee: High-Class Sword ********************* Check it: Art: http://thecomet.deviantart.com/ Music: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=594138 (Mostly DnB, Breakbeat, Hardcore, and some Gao)