I'm having major fps problems.

[Kaios]

I too was rather curious for a long time about why this game used up 50-80% of my CPU at all times. It makes it near impossible for me to run anything else other than the game at the same time (MSN, Skype, Web Browser). Eventually I just got use to it.

If anyone knows why the game uses so much memory I would really appreciate an explanation, or a link to a topic if it already exists.

[DigDog]

Still, this game just runs slowly. It spends a long time drawing things for some unknown reason. Crop fields where the crops have a lot of sprites per tile cause the biggest FPS drop, such as wheat, poppy and flax. Every computer I've run it on (my own and otherwise) runs it very slowly for its level of graphics. This leads me to believe that either everyone has a super gaming machine or they don't have a laptop that lights on fire while playing because complaints are rare.

No it doesn't. I'm running this game on a WinXP computer with onboard graphics (Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family) and a Pentium D 3.40Ghz CPU that simulates two cores while only having one physical core. That's not what you call a super gaming machine, not at all. And still I run the game smoothly on the standard client as long as I don't walk through a giant field of flax or whatever. And I can do other stuff while I'm waiting for a stump being removed or something. 7 FPS is unplayable and I only saw this once before, namely when I tried to run the game at a resolution of 1680x1050 on said computer. But that's not the game's fault, that's just my crappy onboard graphics.

So I still say it's the machine that is to blame,prolly the drivers or the java version.

[ElGato]

Lately, since I had to reinstall windows 7, I've been having horrible FPS problems.
It's gone down to around 5 and max I've seen lately is 15.
However, with the default client I don't seem to be having any problems. Can't exactly tell my FPS from default client unless someone knows a way to see that too.

Maybe someone can help me?

[sabinati]

shoot yourself in the dick with a cannon if you're still using the default video drivers from win 7

[Sever]

No it doesn't. I'm running this game on a WinXP computer with onboard graphics (Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family) and a Pentium D 3.40Ghz CPU that simulates two cores while only having one physical core. That's not what you call a super gaming machine, not at all. And still I run the game smoothly on the standard client as long as I don't walk through a giant field of flax or whatever. And I can do other stuff while I'm waiting for a stump being removed or something. 7 FPS is unplayable and I only saw this once before, namely when I tried to run the game at a resolution of 1680x1050 on said computer. But that's not the game's fault, that's just my crappy onboard graphics.

So I still say it's the machine that is to blame,prolly the drivers or the java version.

Obviously, the game slows down when needs more time because it's drawing more things. However, I can run two clients at 1200x900 resolution, skype, MSN, mIRC, a half-dozen web browsers with music and/or videos running. I could fire up a STEAM game or WoW at the same time, and have done so. The computer is hardly the problem, even though it's a pretty budget laptop. It can't run 3 H&H clients, but it seems to be only because I run out of RAM. It simply refuses to draw anything but the ground until the instant I shut another client down. I have 4 GB of RAM, and it allocates a whole gig, I think. Java is a memory hog.

It just drives me nuts to think that I can run retail 3D games at 40+ fps while doing everything else, but for some reason can't handle a game with graphics on par with games from 1997 unless you're indoors with less junk around you.

Things that you would think would affect fps, but don't: running a second client, running other applications (games specifically), being away from large fields OTHER than wheat/flax/poppies (positively, hemp for example. a field filling the whole screen does NOTHING), using the default client (positively), using a smaller window size (positively).

I get great FPS if I go hunting or go inside. Otherwise, it sucks but I'm used to it.

[DigDog]

Hmm, this makes me wonder if it's a hardware issue. You know how certain games just don't run on certain hardware. Kinda like the Radeon disaster when GTA4 was released.

All I can say that I'm playing the game on three different machines: the slow computer I mentioned above on my breaks at work, a somewhat fast gaming PC at home and an equally fast laptop. I can run the game fullscreen on the latter two without any lag except maybe a little bit when walking through really big fields of whateveridontrememberwhichplantexactlycauseslag. All of them have 2GB of RAM if I remember correctly.

[JackBauerDAMMIT]

I fixed it! new drivers thank you....

I apperantly had nividia drivers also installed for my ati card

[Sever]

My video adapter is "Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family"

I suppose it's possible that I've made a mistake. I'll have to look around.