Possible lag issue

DjordjeDtW · Feb 10, 2015

I played ED when I gently be struck by lag. In Supercruse mode it is not happening.
But during the fight and landing at the station there is a lag which increases and become more frequent, intensed as i approach to the object (station, other spacecraft).

What is the problem? My connection - No, System specification - No.

RipperJack · Feb 10, 2015

not trying to hijack but the youtube videos are all messy as im writing from my phone but are they similair to the ones in the first post here?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=111288

DjordjeDtW · Feb 10, 2015

Yes, exactingly like that. I spoke about that lag from first video.
What is this?

I play smooth first half hour, maybe hour without a that lag.
After some time, its happen again.

Dash · Feb 10, 2015

That is your game completely freezing. It's not a latency thing.

The good news is, it doesn't happen to most people - which means you should be able to resolve it. The bad news is it might be hard to track down.

Whilst your system, you say, is a good enough specification, it may not be running optimally, or even at all well. You will have to run through troubleshooting to try and narrow down what is causing your system to act unlike other peoples.

From the look of the complete freezing in that video; it would suggest that it isn't your computer generally straining, as this tends to be more a consistent stuttering. To start off you can basic things:

* Make sure all your drivers are up-to-date (sound, graphics, chipset, etc).
* Check you're running the latest BIOS
* Remove/disconnect any hardware not at the minimum required for playing the game
* Try disabling your sound-card
* Shutdown any anti-virus or anti-malware applications
* Shutdown background processes (both applications and services) that you don't require
* Make sure you don't have any video capture software running

xondk · Feb 10, 2015

DjordjeDtW said:
I played ED when I gently be struck by lag. In Supercruse mode it is not happening.
But during the fight and landing at the station there is a lag which increases and become more frequent, intensed as i approach to the object (station, other spacecraft).

What is the problem? My connection - No, System specification - No.

What graphic card do you have? and specifically brand? i've heard about memory leaks in latest drivers on both amd and nvidia's side, though if you aren't using beta this shouldn't be the issue, but it sounds like a memory leak.

S.H.A.D.O · Feb 10, 2015

DjordjeDtW said:
I played ED when I gently be struck by lag. In Supercruse mode it is not happening.
But during the fight and landing at the station there is a lag which increases and become more frequent, intensed as i approach to the object (station, other spacecraft).

What is the problem? My connection - No, System specification - No.

Are you sure its lag and not low fps?

CMDR AMAZE · Feb 10, 2015

I was having the same thing and downloaded "Realtemp" to find out my CPU was hitting 100 degrees celcius. Switched out the stock cooler and applied new thermal paste and taaddaaa no more lag.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 10, 2015

I have no this kind of issue on other game. Only with Elite Dangerous i have.
My spec:
Q6600 (quad core) with Katana Scythe 2 cooling system.
4 gb ddr2
HD 7770 GHz Edition 1 gb ddr5 (Powercolor), lastest driver (Omega)

Early (before last patch 1.7) i don't have this issue with Elite Dangerous.

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S.H.A.D.O said:
Are you sure its lag and not low fps?

I'm sure, this is lag (but im not sure what kind of lag)

I will run some scans and cleans. Check hardware connections.

My computer is like old upgraded sport car. With lot of care and love.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 10, 2015

I found where is the problem.
WatchDog.exe is related with Elite Dangerous game. I opened Task Manager and kill process. Game is suddenly shut down. When I started the game again everything was back to normal.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 11, 2015

Elite Dangerous Launcher make in game CPU lag issue.
Please, FD team check this, fix issue or tell me what to do.
My way of solving the this kind of problem is: Task Manager - Kill Process WatchDog.exe, and start game again.
Before killing a process i save game.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 12, 2015

Problem solved 2. method:
Go to Task Manager, open Processes, go to WatchDog.exe and set CPU Priority on Above Normal, then i reroll set on Normal.
Work fine.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 13, 2015

DjordjeDtW said:
Problem solved 2. method:
Go to Task Manager, open Processes, go to WatchDog.exe and set CPU Priority on Above Normal, then i reroll set on Normal.
Work fine.

Not help anymore.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 13, 2015

Please, HELP!

DjordjeDtW · Feb 13, 2015

PROBLEM SOLDVED! AT LAST!
This game need optimization.

DjordjeDtW · Feb 17, 2015

I did a couple of things, for me it worked.
First , I checked the sound card in properties.

Go to: Control Panel/Sound (double click on default sound device) in speaker properties pick "card" Advanced, under Default format pick 24bit, 48000hz (studio quality) or 44100hz if you don't have first.

That was step 1.
Step two is settings in Game.

In sound options must have everything on, and sound power put on half or high.
In graphic options there is Field of View (view distance), put it on maximum.

My opinion is that this option with the field made a lag.
Because the lag that happens every time the aircraft suddenly might pass with my. It was first away, then suddenly approached. At the remote site graphic details are not rendered, when the spacecraft closer to mine, graphic effect suddenly been rendered.