Okay, so since they updated the graphics, i have hardly been able to log into the game.

 

I'll log into the account screen, click on a world and it'll ether lag me out to the login screen, or completely blackscreen me(Another problem i've had for about a year, where my screen will randomly turn black during loading screens, or in places with a lot of people. Forcing me to refreshen the page. Though it's been happening a lot more with this update.)

 

Even if i do manage to get into the game, it's incredibly laggy. To the point where i get black screened after my game screen locks up for 3 - 5 mins. I did manage to log into the game once without lag, but that was only for about 10 mins. then it lagged me out again. And I'm still on the minimal settings, not even the recommended ones.

 

I'm really hurting for a solution for this. Because I'm seriously considering quitting due to this crap. It's impossible to even to do some simple skilling(Like fletching or fishing) with this problem.

 

I know what i really need to do it reformat my computer. Though it's a computer i bought on Ebay years ago, and didn't come with a OP disk. On top of that, the serial code is scratched off. So i can't ask Dell/Windows for a new disk. I would have to buy a new OP, which would be sorta useless. I would be better off just saving and getting a whole new computer.

I had this problem a couple of seconds ago

 

What i found useful is u see in the world select menu theirs a ping colomn

 

Choose the world with the smallest number and that should make things run smoother at least it helped me

Click on the wrench before you log in, make sure you select the very minimal one i forget the name they gave it.

I experienced some pretty serious lag spikes while I was grouping dunge. One of my team mates had something really bizarre happen where his entire interface froze up exept for chat.

it hits me and i restarted my computer and it worked a lot better

Yeah, I'm running on lowest detail. And i've restarted, run a defrag on my system, and virus scan. Nothing really out of the ordinary.

 

Though, this all started happening about a week ago when my dad messed with my computer. I was lagging quite a bit, but not enough to make it un-playable. It only got *really* bad recently with the new updates.

 

He installed a new antivirus software. And the software had a registry error checking feature. So, he ran it and it came back with like 621 or some odd number of errors. And he said it fixed them.

 

Could the program have messed with something it wasn't suppose to, causing me to lag?

 

Edit, just found this out last night:

 

I've discovered a temporary solution: Swiftkit.

 

It pains me to say so, but Firefox is part of the problem. I still get quite a bit of lag, although it's like the gamescreen in swiftkit 'refreshens'(or so to speak) more often. Allowing me to actually click and still control my character, though just though a increased amount of lag. Though with firefox, my screen would just lock up and black out(Swiftkit will still black out, though not as easily).

Whenever RS "blacks out" and completely disappears, it's a memory issue. I used to have ~480MB of RAM, and whenever I watched a YouTube video, the next time the "Loading - Please Wait" showed up, the game would black out because it couldn't load the new information. Since then, I have bought a 1GB stick and it never happens.

 

EDIT: SwiftKit has a smaller memory footprint than Firefox, so that new antivirus is consuming your memory. Firefox can barely not handle RS, I guess.