Fix FPS & lag instead of bringing new game content?

[Merre]

I'm getting so tired of playing Runescape with this lag. I never ever go above 20FPS anymore, mostly I'm around 7-10'ish.

This all started since bot nuke and hasn't improved alot tbh. I thought the new client would solve things, but in fact I'm still suffering intense lag.

I checked the official forums and they're working on it. Sigh, bot nuke was in November and we're almost February now.

I own a very decent gaming pc on which I run other heavier MMORPG's without any problem. I even play online shooters on the best possible

graphics/details so I don't get why a simple JAVA based game can't be run decently...

 

Stop the updates and make sure everyone can play again, so we can at least enjoy the new content ffs!

[Swiller2]

I agree. It's getting frustrating.

[Ellac]

I've moved this thread to the Rants forum, since it was mostly criticisms with a hint of suggestion, making this a more appropriate forum.

 

If you've got any questions, please PM me :)

[HexiledRazz]

Glad to know i'm not alone.

RS ran flawlessly on my new build for about a month constantly getting 50 FPS almost everywhere. But it randomly dropped to 20-25 FPS eveywhere. Was getting upset thinking it was my computer when i could still run games like Skyrim flawlessly on maximum graphics.

 

They really do need to fix this garbage. It takes them far too long to fix the key things that effect our gameplay.

[highlanders]

RS has always been slow. I used to think it was because of my old comp, but then I got a new comp and there is still quite a bit of lag. Even on my old comp I could play games that were much more graphically demanding than RS and it would play smoothly because those games were just better designed I guess, had better servers or whatnot.

[essiw]

sigh, how many times does it need to be said? The people who make new content are not the same people that fix things like lag and FPS.

[Merre]

sigh, how many times does it need to be said? The people who make new content are not the same people that fix things like lag and FPS.

 

Now this is total bullocks, essiw... Don't waste your frikkin time on useless posts? Jagex is responsible for the game content, for the financial side, for the technical side and for the customer support.

So no matter who's appointed to do what in-game, it's Jagex' duty to make sure everyone gets what they payed for. I just registered for 6 months at once in December and I can't even play decently!

That's one month of member fee thrown away since I can only do things that don't require running around: like slayer tasks or making potions etc. Hunting penguins, runecrafting or questing is a major pain in the ...

(agreed RC & quests are always a pain in the bottom, but still).

[Kimberly]

His point is that there are two separate departments that work on content and optimization and so long as there's two separate things, there's no reason to halt one to progress the other. It's a faulty assumption. So it's not "useless."

[Piu]

It's funny because I have no lag and FPS issues whatsoever. Maybe you should consider getting a better computer if you haven't upgraded yours recently, you can't expect Jagex to keep up with the graphics but be held down by lower-end computers. I'm still on a GT9500 GFX card and I can support almost maximum graphics with 50 FPS, my other computer is on a GTX550-Ti and it runs everything smoothly, so I don't see why people are lagging FPS-wise.

 

There are options for lower graphics aswell. If you lag on FPS, why not try lowering them?

 

Ping lag-wise, I'm from Asia and the lowest ping I can get on a server is 250. It doesn't disrupt my gameplay. You're from the UK, so I'm not sure what causes you to lag.

[Omali]

It's funny because I have no lag and FPS issues whatsoever. Maybe you should consider getting a better computer if you haven't upgraded yours recently, you can't expect Jagex to keep up with the graphics but be held down by lower-end computers. I'm still on a GT9500 GFX card and I can support almost maximum graphics with 50 FPS, my other computer is on a GTX550-Ti and it runs everything smoothly, so I don't see why people are lagging FPS-wise.

 

There are options for lower graphics aswell. If you lag on FPS, why not try lowering them?

 

Ping lag-wise, I'm from Asia and the lowest ping I can get on a server is 250. It doesn't disrupt my gameplay. You're from the UK, so I'm not sure what causes you to lag.

 

I can play any recent game on max settings on my computer, but solely RuneScape runs horribly. I highly doubt it's just a coincidence that so many people are having problems that just happened to start on the exact same day, meaning it's a problem with RuneScape running on certain setups, not the performance itself.

[Leaf]

The team has been dedicated to eliminating the last of the performance issues experienced by some users since Bot Nuke Day, and we will shortly be releasing an update intended to resolve these problems.

[Ren]

Not good enough imo.

 

Fix it today for [bleep]'s sake.

[essiw]

sigh, how many times does it need to be said? The people who make new content are not the same people that fix things like lag and FPS.

 

Now this is total bullocks, essiw... Don't waste your frikkin time on useless posts? Jagex is responsible for the game content, for the financial side, for the technical side and for the customer support.

So no matter who's appointed to do what in-game, it's Jagex' duty to make sure everyone gets what they payed for. I just registered for 6 months at once in December and I can't even play decently!

That's one month of member fee thrown away since I can only do things that don't require running around: like slayer tasks or making potions etc. Hunting penguins, runecrafting or questing is a major pain in the ...

(agreed RC & quests are always a pain in the bottom, but still).

You don't get it, what you are saying is to put every man at Jagex to fix FPS and lagg. Now tell me why would you put someone who is specialised in graphics and doesn't know anything about code and FPS on that case? It doesn't make sense. What I tried to explain was that at Jagex they have "teams" and in those teams are mostly separate people working (only some people are in more then one team) so the Technical team would most likely be working on FPS and lag and other important things, but the graphics team is only working on graphics, same as the designers team etc. etc.

So it doesn't make sense to stop the Graphics team, designers team etc. (aka new game content) to speed up the FPS and lag problem as it isn't going to get faster because those people can't help in those cases.

[highlanders]

Since recruiting budgets aren't limitless, there's an opportunity cost involved every time they hire someone to work on graphics or game content. It's possible that whichever team is in charge of fixing these issues is undermanned or is made up of inexperienced/incompetent lowly paid employees. It doesn't make any sense to say "It's different teams so it's not Jagex's fault" when Jagex is in full control of just how many people they are hiring to put in each team, and whether or not they are willing to spend the money to acquire skilled employees.

[Jaffy1]

Since recruiting budgets aren't limitless, there's an opportunity cost involved every time they hire someone to work on graphics or game content. It's possible that whichever team is in charge of fixing these issues is undermanned or is made up of inexperienced/incompetent lowly paid employees. It doesn't make any sense to say "It's different teams so it's not Jagex's fault" when Jagex is in full control of just how many people they are hiring to put in each team, and whether or not they are willing to spend the money to acquire skilled employees.

 

Though that may be possible, I don't think Jagex's current financial situation is so poor that they would have to fire someone that works on new content just to hire someone else to help the coders to fix one issue.

 

If the coders, or whatever you want to call the team that fixes things like lag and FPS, are undermanned, they may need to hire more people.. but you don't even know if they are. Perhaps the problem is just really complicated or takes a lot of time being fixed.

 

That said, even if they are undermanned, that does not mean that new content should be stopped being produced. I believe Wisse's point is more along those lines: i.e. it makes no sense to stop team A if team B is undermanned or not performing fast enough in your opinion. Team A is irrelevant to the work that team B does, so the notion that updates should be stopped to fix your issues is illogical seeing how the teams (or departments) work on different things.

[essiw]

Since recruiting budgets aren't limitless, there's an opportunity cost involved every time they hire someone to work on graphics or game content. It's possible that whichever team is in charge of fixing these issues is undermanned or is made up of inexperienced/incompetent lowly paid employees. It doesn't make any sense to say "It's different teams so it's not Jagex's fault" when Jagex is in full control of just how many people they are hiring to put in each team, and whether or not they are willing to spend the money to acquire skilled employees.

 

Though that may be possible, I don't think Jagex's current financial situation is so poor that they would have to fire someone that works on new content just to hire someone else to help the coders to fix one issue.

 

If the coders, or whatever you want to call the team that fixes things like lag and FPS, are undermanned, they may need to hire more people.. but you don't even know if they are. Perhaps the problem is just really complicated or takes a lot of time being fixed.

 

That said, even if they are undermanned, that does not mean that new content should be stopped being produced. I believe Wisse's point is more along those lines: i.e. it makes no sense to stop team A if team B is undermanned or not performing fast enough in your opinion. Team A is irrelevant to the work that team B does, so the notion that updates should be stopped to fix your issues is illogical seeing how the teams (or departments) work on different things.

Indeed ;)

Also to highlanders I did not say it isn't Jagex fault, because all those teams are part of Jagex so IF the bug team would not work good or is focusing on other things it would still be jagex fault ;)

[Omali]

This is getting ridiculous. Every new update brings RuneScape's performance down for me. The new Taverly barely runs on mid-level graphics mode, it's so bloated and unoptomized.

[D. V. Devnull]

This is getting ridiculous. Every new update brings RuneScape's performance down for me. The new Taverly barely runs on mid-level graphics mode, it's so bloated and unoptomized.

Heck, I'm having that issue all around F2P. This issue has been ongoing since the Dominion Tower, which hit me even though it is a P2P feature and I'm 100% F2P. Bot Nuke didn't even bother me, but the Dominion Tower release sent me to hell for performance, and it has been that way since then. Like with you, it has been getting incrementally worse, but extremely slowly in my case. :(

 

We can hope Jagex will fix their half-[bleep]ed junk, but I'm not holding my breath. *facewall* :wall:

 

~D. V. "I know the [bleep]ed-over feeling." Devnull

[essiw]

nvm

[Syd]

I've started having bad lag problems recently too. Doing things that require more accurate clicks (prayer switches, moves etc) are getting very annoying. Like glacors, corporal and so on.

 

Not to mention it simply just annoys. RS used to run no problem a while ago, but I think it was somewhere around Dominion Tower update when it started lagging - and it's only getting worse. Really waiting for the fix. :-|

[Kimberly]

This is getting ridiculous. Every new update brings RuneScape's performance down for me. The new Taverly barely runs on mid-level graphics mode, it's so bloated and unoptomized.

 

I've had performance issues since the Troll Warzone update as well.

[Leon S]

I am stuck at 5 - 6 FPS now. Lucky to get 11 FPS in a very quiet area w/o any NPCs in sight. Before the last system update I could still get around 22 FPS in quiet areas and around 16 in busier places. I can't play RS right now.

[The_Fray]

I am constantly and 10-15fps myself since the Troll update. It seems every update adds to the misery.

[sohkmj1]

I get constant 15-16 FPS in Taverly/Burthope, around 17-18 in GE, it's a consistent 27-30 FPS elsewhere (except for Darkmeyer which is like 10 FPS), with all settings on max including 4xAA. It appears that new areas seem to lag more (although Dominion Tower is lag free for me)...?

[LinovUSA]

I could not agree more with you. It is very frustrating and annoying to be getting such bad performance. Honestly, I think if it doesnt improve people are just going to stop playing. I would love to enjoy the game but due to heavy lag and fps problem I cannot.