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.

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.

Software? OpenGL? DirectX?

 

Or maybe Safe Mode?

 

By all means, stay away from Software.

^ 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.