Improve performance and fix lag?

[Granger]

I suggest you get a decent older card on ebay.

While the graphics card might help with frame rate it won't help with lag because of a slow link to the server.

Still with noticable input delay. Is 166ms ping really that bad?

[Mashadar]

I suggest you get a decent older card on ebay.

While the graphics card might help with frame rate it won't help with lag because of a slow link to the server.

No, but since I get heavy lag spikes on my notebook with integrated graphics and don't get any on my desktop computer, I assume that there's some correlation.

[Granger]

Do you have your laptop on wlan and the desktop on cable?
If so you might have EM interference messing with the wlan.

[wolf1000wolf]

Humans perceive everything visual with > 30ms delay as delayed.
With audio the minimum delay is shorter since the processing in the brain is more direct.

A ping of 160 ms is clearly noticeable.
Could you post the output of tracert to the game server (game.havenandhearth.com)?

Tracing route to ansgar.seatribe.se [213.239.201.139]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 12 ms 14 ms 11 ms rd3st-tge0-5-0-1-1.vc.shawcable.net [64.59.149.2
05]
4 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms rc3no-be11.cg.shawcable.net [66.163.72.69]
5 42 ms 45 ms 42 ms rc3sc-be10.wp.shawcable.net [66.163.78.2]
6 44 ms 43 ms 44 ms rc2nr-hge0-19-0-1.wp.shawcable.net [66.163.73.20
1]
7 65 ms 67 ms 66 ms 66.163.76.22
8 158 ms 151 ms 151 ms rc1eqn-tge0-0-0-0.uk.shawcable.net [66.163.78.14
6]
9 163 ms 158 ms 160 ms rc1eqn-be5.nt.shawcable.net [66.163.78.158]
10 155 ms 156 ms 155 ms amsix-gw.hetzner.de [80.249.209.55]
11 161 ms 160 ms 161 ms core1.hetzner.de [213.239.203.157]
12 182 ms 166 ms 173 ms core21.hetzner.de [213.239.245.217]
13 165 ms 165 ms 164 ms juniper1.rz13.hetzner.de [213.239.245.82]
14 169 ms 167 ms 167 ms hos-tr2.ex3k7.rz13.hetzner.de [213.239.224.40]
15 168 ms 170 ms 165 ms ansgar.seatribe.se [213.239.201.139]

Trace complete.

Is this as bad as it looks? XD

I notice input delay for normal tasks like walking in forest and waiting for archery/combat. I also notice much worse lag when close to high amounts of stuff/buildings/fires.

I assume I'm experiencing both latency lag and graphical rendering lag then.

[MagicManICT]

How would a windows vista, 32x bit reduce this lag? I don't believe I have this, "Catalyst"?

Sorry. The Catalyst Control Center is the standard driver and options manager for ATI graphics cards. I forget the name of the manager for the old integrated graphics processors, and it was different at that time.

If Catalyst isn't installed on your system, you may be running Windows passed drivers, and you may do loads by going to AMD's website and downloading the latest for your computer: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Find the GPU family (Radeon HD 4000) and your OS (you said Vista 32, which will probably be under "other," which is this link: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/windows-legacy) Even if the driver version is the same, you'll get a lot of performance tweaks that Catalyst manages for different games.