Problems with playing runescape.

Anubis · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 10:48 am

I spend far too much time in this forum. Well, now runescape's just really, really laggy. So laggy in fact I can't even enter my bank pin before I'm kicked out of the game. I've tried different world, I've cleared my cookies, updated java, scanned for ad/spyware and viruses, and absolutely nothing has improved.

I'm not playing with bittorrent or anything else running which connectes to the internet either, and I'm out of ideas. Help?

edit: And it's only the runescape game which has this problem, the rest of the wesbite and my internet has been working fine.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 10:48 am

Tjbartz2009 · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 10:52 am

To much bandwidth on the Runescape Server(s)? I know they havent added new worlds in a very long time so it might be catchin up now. Plus there are so many bots out there...

Anubis · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 10:59 am

I can play on my brother's computer with no problems. That one has the main internet connection though, my one, the one I'm using now, uses a wireless connection. But since I can do everything else without any difficultly, I'm confused as to what the problem is.

Jan · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:06 pm

Anubis wrote:

:roll: I spend far too much time in this forum. Well, now runescape's just really, really laggy. So laggy in fact I can't even enter my bank pin before I'm kicked out of the game. I've tried different world, I've cleared my cookies, updated java, scanned for ad/spyware and viruses, and absolutely nothing has improved.

I'm not playing with bittorrent or anything else running which connectes to the internet either, and I'm out of ideas. Help?

edit: And it's only the runescape game which has this problem, the rest of the wesbite and my internet has been working fine.

Maybe you should get more memory on your computer?

Anubis · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:11 pm

I have a gig of memory.. I'm sure that's sufficient.. and I just spent £300 upgrading parts my computer.

Shadow Assassin · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:13 pm

Since when has it started did it start after u downloaded something maybe.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:13 pm

Anubis · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:17 pm

I first noticed it yesterday.
Last thing I installed was AOE 3
I've also put in a new Graphics Card and new Power Supply, though these were done on friday.

Jan · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:21 pm

Anubis wrote:

I have a gig of memory.. I'm sure that's sufficient.. and I just spent £300 upgrading parts my computer.

seriously, if nothing help's, I think you should look about your internet you use.
firefox
internet explore
or what you use?
my mother has firefox, and it laggs like hell.
but my father's internet explore rocks.

cooldude68n · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 1:51 pm

Jan wrote:

Anubis wrote:

I have a gig of memory.. I'm sure that's sufficient.. and I just spent £300 upgrading parts my computer.

seriously, if nothing help's, I think you should look about your internet you use.
firefox
internet explore
or what you use?
my mother has firefox, and it laggs like hell.
but my father's internet explore rocks.

im not trying to get in a browser war but firefox has less lag then internet explorer for me

just tell us are you using windows mac what type browser, ram how much memory stuff like that

Anubis · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 2:14 pm

Memory: 1024MB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8800GTS
OS: Windows XP Media Edition
Browser: Firefox (Primarily)

I tested on IE and Opera, IE was laggy, same on Opera.

Riceay13 · **Posted:** October 8th, 2007, 7:50 pm

I've had similar problems in the past. Have you tired using the "sun java option" from the drop down box on the detail page?

This worked for me. However I use an mac.

Don't know too much about windows.

also does lag decrease in low detail?

Anubis · **Posted:** October 9th, 2007, 12:36 am

I always play in low detail and I have tried sun java. Still laggy.

Frankie042 · **Posted:** October 9th, 2007, 5:49 am

This maybe a "HDD" problem, when I had several recording products/games on my machine at one time it lagged me like hell, I remembered the last software I installed, un-installed it and I ran fine.

So maybe uninstall last installed software before lag, and let me know what happens?

Because this maybe virtual memory problem.

sound_proof · **Posted:** October 9th, 2007, 2:46 pm

Re-install Java? (It worked once for me in the summer, same problem)

If it doesn't work try playing with the launchable Runescape Client downloaded from the site.

If not then, I hope someone else has an answer for ya

jrdgames · **Posted:** October 9th, 2007, 6:02 pm

How much free disk space do you have? If less than 1GB then that can slow your computer down tremendously.

Does AOE run fine? or is it laggy also?

Frankie042 wrote:

So maybe uninstall last installed software before lag, and let me know what happens?

AOE shouldn't have slowed down your pc, but were you lagging like this before you installed it?

sound_proof wrote:

If it doesn't work try playing with the launchable Runescape Client downloaded from the site.

That won't improve anything because the Runescape Client just uses IE extensions.

*Wonders how Anubis' computer can have so many problems*