Vista?!?

GrimDarkHart · 11-03-2008, 05:07 PM

I have to play on a dail-up connection at home and it runs ok, lagging a little. But I went to a friends with a wireless connection and played Fiesta and it plays almost exactly the same as it does on dial-up. Some noticable things are on the character creation screen the screen goes all jagged and pices are missing. As I was watching my firend I noticed how great it actually looked, so smooth. Whereas mine, whether on dial-up or wireless looks terrible compared to his. Does Vista not run Fiesta properly or something? I got my laptop only about 2 months. Thanks in advance.

**Spirit** · 11-03-2008, 05:08 PM

I have Vista and I have never noticed those issues.

**Vasu** · 11-03-2008, 05:10 PM

Dial-up shouldn't change the way the client runs...it should only change the speed at which it runs...

**Hraesvelg** · 11-03-2008, 05:15 PM

You're running it on a laptop? That might be some of your problem. More graphics card power = hotter machine = bad for laptops.

**Loveless** · 11-03-2008, 05:19 PM

I run on a Vista laptop on a wireless connection... no problem.

**Ralath** · 11-03-2008, 06:27 PM

My laptop doesn't get... too... hot as far as I can tell.

**Belaslav** · 11-03-2008, 10:33 PM

Could be corrupt filies, to fix you have to reinstall.

Could be that your comp is slowed by some malware and/or spyware, try running antivirus scans. Maybe a disk defragmentation...

Or could be just your dial-up...

**Hraesvelg** · 11-04-2008, 12:46 AM

I could cook toast on mine back in the day. Some like it hot, and AMD is one of them. Without looking at his specs, I can't say. Mostly speculation, like everyone else is doing. ::shrug::

GrimDarkHart · 11-04-2008, 05:39 PM

my laptop runs off a NVIDIA GeForce 7000M graphics card. I'm not exactly sure how old my laptop is. Can you change graphics cards?? I don't think you can but not sure.

Dynamics · 11-11-2008, 01:09 PM

Let me just confirm what a few have already said. Your internet speed, whether wireless or via dial-up modem is irrelevant to your graphics. The lag you're experiencing has nothing to do with your internet connection, it's just your computer giving you a bad frame rate.

The real source of your problem is your graphics card. The 7000M is an extremely low end integrated graphics card. The 7000M is designed for very minimal things. It struggles extensively with 3D rendering, and even with some videos. It is probably adds a significant strain on the card just running Vista. I'm afraid you're going to have to update to a more functional graphics card if you want to get past the bad graphics.

Important things to note for a graphics card are it's memory (not core) clock speed and dedicated memory. Most graphics cards on new laptops and PCs will support Fiesta just fine, so I won't delve further than those two details.

Clock speed helps your frame rate, and dedicated memory also improves frame rates for using higher resolutions. For a resolution like 1024x768 pixels you'll be fine with a 256 megabyte card. I would say a graphics card with 500 megahertz memory clock speed is good for gaming.