vending map

[Little Sara]

I used to run the game on a pretty old system. A P3 933 Mhz with 256 MB ram and a 32 MB video card. It ran fine, loading between maps took actual time (like 3-4 seconds), but otherwise, there was no graphical lag much. Problem with skill spamming with effects on occurred though.

I changed my system to a P4 2.4 Ghz with 1 GB Ram with a FX 5600 256 MB card (which broke, later replaced with a 128 MB card) and it ran fine too. I changed computer in 2003. I did notice a difference in loading times, but could still lag due to massive stacking effects and such.

I changed my system once again last Fall for a Quad 4x 2.4 GHz with 8800 GTS 320 MB card with 3 GB ram, and while I can keep effects on and not lag, or heck, record Fraps and not lag, Prontera loading still lags me if there's 100 merchants there. My framerate per Fraps drops to below 10-20 frames for a second or two, before going back to 75.

Oh and note that on the Quadcore computer, the % map loading takes less than one second. Doesn't prevent massive amounts of packet from lagging me, that's a connection issue.