Lag

[The Floating Pen]

Is anyone else experiencing this? I just want to have a general idea in order to figure out if the problem is at my end or Jagex's.

 

The lag has gotten really bad. When I farm herbs, I end up picking 5+ herbs at the same time. (The XP counter shows a lump gain, such as +200 XP for 5 herbs.) The game crashes as well. I've tried many solutions: my Java/browsers are updated, the lag is still present with every browser/game client, I've closed every background process, I restarted my computer, I only have one tab open, I choose low-ping low-population worlds (it still lags, even if I'm in a deserted area), I set my graphic settings to minimum with maximum CPU usage, Java is set on high priority, I don't have any malware, etc.

[Lord Paul]

Sometimes having everything on minimum settings isn't the best option; I actually lag less on max than I do on min.

 

Have you tried allocating more memory to Java? You can do that by changing the runtime parameters.

[Ammako]

Software? OpenGL? DirectX?

 

Or maybe Safe Mode?

 

By all means, stay away from Software.

[Kaida23]

^ This. I can't even load the game in software mode anymore, it just straight up crashes.

 

Were you having problems before or is this recent? A lot of people were having problems after the Bot Nuke, but the first stage of Optimus seems to have corrected this for the most part. I have some lag issues, but my laptop is pretty old so I've just been assuming that's the issue.