so my friend has a laptop that is vista compatible and since he's over at my house for a week, we thought that we both play flyff leveling our characters together. i'm using my computer (which it's windows xp) and he brung his laptop (which his is vista and it's a fairly new one too) with him to play. but we've ran into some problems. while during gameplay, his screen froze (yet his cursor can still move around at some times) and a little frame skipping. his hard drive has a lot of free space left, so it obviously couldn't be that problem that's causing it. we're pretty much wondering... does anyone else have this little issue here and is vista flyff-friendly?
Well it sounds like he was trying to open another program.
Vista seems to 'freeze' flyff when for example when I open another program that needs the prompt to open it (I.E Ventrillo). Doesn't happen all the time where I keep 'frozen', but the best way to ensure that this doesnt happen is to log out of the game, then open the new program, then log back in
so my friend has a laptop that is vista compatible and since he's over at my house for a week, we thought that we both play flyff leveling our characters together. i'm using my computer (which it's windows xp) and he brung his laptop (which his is vista and it's a fairly new one too) with him to play. but we've ran into some problems. while during gameplay, his screen froze (yet his cursor can still move around at some times) and a little frame skipping. his hard drive has a lot of free space left, so it obviously couldn't be that problem that's causing it. we're pretty much wondering... does anyone else have this little issue here and is vista flyff-friendly?
How much ram does he have? Vista is retarded and its new graphic heavy interface eats about 1 gig to run and this was an issue with my cousin's vista laptop. She had 2 gigs of ram and vista, but it ran slow as hell.
What kind of gfx card does the laptop have. Most standard laptops dont exactly come with game-friendly vid cards. I had Flyff run fine on my Vista install, 1gb ram, 8400GS, AMD 3000+ PC. Fairly old.
If it's horribly laggy you can turn off the Aero interface if you have it running, and go for Vista Basic screen theme. Running in fullscreen mode will help too, as will keeping as few applications as possible running.
Well it sounds like he was trying to open another program.
Vista seems to 'freeze' flyff when for example when I open another program that needs the prompt to open it (I.E Ventrillo). Doesn't happen all the time where I keep 'frozen', but the best way to ensure that this doesnt happen is to log out of the game, then open the new program, then log back in
Omgar...I thought I was the only one in the WORLD that this happened to. I'm running a Compaq 6720s notebook (business based notebook) with 2 gigs of memory....it does this thing with the thing that pops up over everything asking me if I want to open the program, every time, and it freezes FlyFF every single time.
Omgar...I thought I was the only one in the WORLD that this happened to. I'm running a Compaq 6720s notebook (business based notebook) with 2 gigs of memory....it does this thing with the thing that pops up over everything asking me if I want to open the program, every time, and it freezes FlyFF every single time.
We have those laptops here at work too. Theyre absolute shit to do anything on, period. It's the laptop. My moms Acer Extensa 5210 runs Flyff just fine with Vista on it. Same vista at work and at home.
Well i use a vista laptop too, and flyff crashes often too. When the screen goes white, just spam a key. Like 'q' or something and flyff goes back to normal. However, i dont know how to solve the problem youre talking about. Maybe you should use window mode (start => options => window mode) cause flyff is way better then. (of my own experience) and, when you use window mode, move the screen and the quality will be not that good (still good enough imo though), but flyff will go as speed as lightning. (not really but ok :P)
on a vista laptop you need a lot of video ram to run it properly. goto your bios setup and put the frame buffer to the highest setting. when you start flyff, put everything on low and put glow off. you have to play on windowed mode (i think with nvidia only) because theres some glitch where the mouse cursor is off by a little. if you have that theres an easy fix. when you start flyff, move the window around in the login screen. you see a black border on the right side but it goes away after you login to game.
if you gave some specs on your comp it would help a bit..
We have those laptops here at work too. Theyre absolute shit to do anything on, period. It's the laptop. My moms Acer Extensa 5210 runs Flyff just fine with Vista on it. Same vista at work and at home.
apparently all the versions of vista apart from vista ultimate use the ram of the graphics card to run, whereas ultimate doesn't....something along those lines lol i didn't listen carefully when my friend explained it.
Am I the only one who hasn't had any problems with vista? Everybody is always telling me how much they hate it, but I love it. I don't have any problems running flyff on my viao with vista. It ran great even before I upgraded my memory. The only problem I have is if I let it go idol or close the top while I am running flyff. This makes it sometime freeze or everything appear dark.
No, I agree I like Vista. It's a good OS just way too long in the making but that's offtopic.
On the older nVidia cards (7600 and older) it seems to have a cursor offset as mentioned above, but only in windowed mode from my experience. The 78xx and above don't seem to be affected by this. Some cards seem to function better in windowed, some in fullscreen, you should play around with the setting and see which gives the most reliable performance for you.
Service pack 1 made a fair amount of difference as to the speed of Flyff on my Vista laptop but none whatsoever on my desktop so it'd be worth making sure all your updates are installed. As usual make sure you have the latest drivers for your video hardware, and mainboard too.
As jonno said it's worth getting everything you want to have running set up before you start up Flyff, as loading up other apps when Flyff is running can cause issues. If you're running in fullscreen and you have things going on in the background, they can be degrading on your performance, and some machines seem to have major issues with alt-tabbing in fullscreen, bringing it back up can be incredibly slow or not load at all.
Any system info your friend could give would be useful
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