Massive Lag

[V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.]

I have been excited to be able to make a COH account since I never got the chance to play it in its initial run during 2004-2012. However, I've been getting huge amounts of lag as soon as I play. If I go into a building where either no other player is in or only a few other players are at, I receive no lag, and I had no lag whenever I make a new character and play the tutorial, but when I'm out in the city I lag baaaaaaad. Even when I am fighting the Hellions and Skulls, I usually lag and only have a few moments of stability.

 

I've asked a few people in the game to help me and their advice was to lower my settings, play windowed, but nothing gets fix and in fact in some cases my attempts to try to make the lag stop only made the game lag even more. I also did /netgraph1 and the spikes were green and somewhat short.

 

I am hoping someone in the forums can help me. Idk why it's like this, because DC Universe Online and Champions Online are working smoothly on my laptop with no issues, and it's a shame because I really want to play City Of Heroes as much as possible way more than I want to with the other two games, but the lag I have in COH is preventing me to do so.

 

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 3000.

Edited August 11, 2021 by V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.

[SuggestorK]

If Netgraph shows no Problems then most probable its a Graphics/Driver issue.

 

Or even does ur Laptop has 2 Graphic Cards, if so u have to make sure that its using the non built (Intel versus Nvidia as example) in for CoX.

 

Then CoX uses OpenGL which only few other MMOs use , i dont think DCUO or CO uses it, most using DirectX.

 

So updating the OpenGL driver might fix the issues, theres threads in forum about it, the one i found was about AMD graphic card so i dont link it cause i dont know if u have such in the Laptop.

 

Greetings and welcome

SuggestorK

[V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.]

4 hours ago, SuggestorK said:

If Netgraph shows no Problems then most probable its a Graphics/Driver issue.

 

Or even does ur Laptop has 2 Graphic Cards, if so u have to make sure that its using the non built (Intel versus Nvidia as example) in for CoX.

 

Then CoX uses OpenGL which only few other MMOs use , i dont think DCUO or CO uses it, most using DirectX.

 

So updating the OpenGL driver might fix the issues, theres threads in forum about it, the one i found was about AMD graphic card so i dont link it cause i dont know if u have such in the Laptop.

 

Greetings and welcome

SuggestorK

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

After checking things out I have:

 

-One graphic card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics

-OpenGL 4.6 Build 26.29.100.7463

 

My Windows Update says I can install for update:

-2021-08 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64 (KB5004331)

-2021-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems (KB5005033)

 

I will install and try to see if that'll fix it.

 

EDIT: Still lagging. IDK what else to do. My OpenGL seems to be up to date too...

Edited August 11, 2021 by V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.

[SuggestorK]

Well there have been Incidents where other Programs interfered without any recognizable reason, try to shut down all background programs that arent necessary to run the Operating System, especially Browsers, Videorecording Programs, Social Media, etc. and then launch CoX.

 

Not that it Should matter but u are using Tequila or the HC Launcher... if Tequila switching to the new Launcher may be an Option.

 

Just a shot in the wild but unless other more knowledgeable people join the thread theres not much else to do.

 

Greetings

 

 

[TheZag]

My game started lagging horribly and it turned out my cpu cooler had gone out.  I had to replace it but my game had all the lag gone when other players were around.

[Marine X]

Take a look at this post and see if any of the posts help with your issue.

 

Really bad lag - Help & Support - Homecoming (homecomingservers.com)

 

[V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.]

Ok, I downloaded rebirth to see if my computer would handle that instead since rebirth has less players, and it told me that my driver is apparently old and dated to 11/06/19.  I'm gonna try to update it.

 

Edit: Once again, says everything is updated.

Edited August 17, 2021 by V.A.L.E.N.T.I.N.E.

[SuggestorK]

Curiously since Rebirth told you GPU drivers are outdated which is not Part of Homecoming but a different Private Server Team where do u check for updates? Microsoft? Laptop Manufacturer? Mainboard Manufacturer? Intel themselves?