WTFuture

[Venegal]

Hey, I was vlearing out the Vigil's Keep basement Crypt part to get the Master Lyrium Potion recepie, when the big three Avvar dudes attack suddenly the game crashed, but the Icon was still down on the start bar or whatever the heck is called, when I clicked on DA to open it again I and the rest of my companions where in a full grey place, no keys worked and I could do nothing, but Velanna was shooting at me with her staff, actuallu not shooting, just making the same move over and over again. I quited with Alt + F4 but since then the game is running really slooooow.

 

Help?

[DarkeWolf]

try hitting ctrl + alt + del (all three keys, all at the same time) to get into the program manager and see if there is another instance of it running in the background. if so, end task on all instances of it running.

You may also need to reboot your comp.

[Venegal]

Hmm. the normal speed is OK now, but there is a new problem, when I do something, like drink a Health Potion or hit and Enemy, it takes around 3 mins for that action to show results, like I hit a darkspawn now, 3 mins l8er it tells me I did 80 dmg to it and it dies, then all the rest of my attacks on his body are shown over his head for the next 3 mins, that means I wasted 3 mins of my time bashing a corpse. Or for example I drink a HP, when I'm dead there is a green +150 above my head, why do you need HP when your dead? I removed JBTextures and it's a little better now, but still sucks.

[DarkeWolf]

I had something like that happening to me too. Especially in high lag areas like the fight to defend vigil keep towards the end. I'd be sitting there bashing on an enemy that was already dead, while my npc's had already moved on to another critter.

 

that part of it for me was system lag. the memory leak in the game had drained my comp so bad that I was lagging behind.

[DarkeWolf]

try going into program manager and end task on some of the background programs that you've got running. But only do it on the ones that you know what they are. After XP, windows gets really really fussy if you close down some of the wrong things.

 

program manager is pressing ctrl + alt + del (delete) keys all at the same time, on your keyboard.

[Venegal]

Ok, , Thanks :D

 

Unisntalling JBtextures was a big help, though its kinda dumb because this never happened b4 the crash

[DarkeWolf]

yah, cutting down your resolution can definitely help in high lag areas. setting your detail setting lower can also help out.

 

its possible that the crash affected some of your files, and that is what is causing the additional lag. OR it could be that the crash was a symptom of the lag itself.

Speaking from experience in denerim... the lag there just got worse and worse over time. And after having to load a big fat savegame (DAO sucks down about 2g of ram at that point....) I was lagging really seriously.