Back to using a spare 2010 sony vaio laptop
For the time being and when I play maple it uses up about roughly 30% cpu, but yet the game lags horrendously. (has four gigs RAM)
I am sure there is plenty of dust I can use a compressed can of air on, and it might need a better cooler, but otherwise I can't think too much about what is causing it.
The old graphics card inside is a GT 330m nvidia (I believe) which I think for it's time was mid-range... been so long since I touched this thing. So I don't think it's the card itself but it could be drivers?
Vaios are notoriously horrible for driver updates. Sony always had this stupid policy where you can't install drivers unless sanctioned by them via their websites limited allocation. So could that be the issue? Otherwise I am out of ideas. (besides standard things like reformatting, reinstalling and fresh wipe of OS, defrag, etc)
I know I mentioned maplestory but in general I am just wondering what to do to work on this computer's laggy issues with simple games like minecraft and such. If all else fails no big deal I won't be using this forever as it's a temporary issue.
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@Redadin Have you done the reformat/reinstall of Windows..?
If it's an old installation that might help a good bit by giving it a fresh start.
Of course that would involve obtaining the most current Vaio drivers all over again, but it would solve that too, if drivers really were an issue (not really likely).
Unfortunately a lot of the lag in Maplestory appears to be software related. That is, the Maplestory client program which runs on your computer has become horribly bloated with both all the flashy stuff they've been adding in recent years and all the anti-hack and anti-cheat patches they've had to tack on. So the software itself contributes to the lag experienced in the game.
Added to that the Nexon game servers have been acting seriously overloaded ever since they did the "World Alliance" thing, which I'm guessing means they removed a lot of server computer hardware to save money, which results in more lag on their end of things. And again, more anti-hack and anti-cheat patches on the game servers. In all, it's 10 year old software technology trying to run up to 2015 standards, and not doing a very good job. All of which means there's a lot less dependent on your computer when it comes to the lag you see, and that sadly there's nothing much the player can do about it.
Is 30% of your RAM while playing normal? It sounds like a bit too much for me.