Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Miscellaneous Tutorials => Topic started by: Redlinelies on August 25, 2011, 01:37:21 am

Title: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Redlinelies on August 25, 2011, 01:37:21 am: Hewwo Guise!

I thought I'd make myself use of this section, I'm rather certain that at least 50% of those who play FH will find use of this tutorial. So it wouldn't hurt reading this! Just as a note, You need to take your time reading this and understanding it.

We all can have problems with FeralHeart at some point, it could be for various things, but one thing that's very common is that the game might crash when tabbing out, crashing from just playing in a crowded area etc.

Now, what I'm about to tell you might make your game run more stable and maybe even faster if you're lucky, and I'll explain why, and how to do it just now.

How it works
One thing that FeralHeart uses a lot on a computer is the processor. When running this game it wouldn't be surprising if you got around 90% load by running just the game. Thing is that many if not most computers today got a Processeor(CPU) with more than just 1 core. There's Dual core processors and Quad Core, etc. These processors doesn't just have 1 core that the computer can use. It's still just one processor, but there's more cores inside of it doing the work.

Here's the kicker.. FeralHeart can just use "1" Of these cores at a time. If you got more cores the game wont be able to utilize it anyway.

Now imagine yourself playing the game, but also multitasking doing other things such as talking on IM programs, having another game running, browsing the web. The first core will always be working really hard with Feralheart. But not all applications know how to take use of the other cores and this might make your computer slower than it should be.

Most applications started in windows are assigned to the first core in the processor, and FH is a good example of this. Now imagine if your could set so the processor ONLY works with Feralheart on 1 core, and that core isn't even the first one. This will make the first one free from the game, and it are more free to process/work with things such as browsing the web and talking to others.

Not only will this make your computer able to handle other things smoother, but it will also make the game run more stable, and maybe even faster! The only thing you really need for this to work, is that you got a processor with more than 1 core.

Finding out if this works with your computer
Now what we want to do before we even start editing things around, is that we look if you got a processor with more than 1 core inside of this.

How to do this is rather simple.
Go to your desktop and click the start button(The Windows flag). If you have Windows vista, or Windows7. You will have a search bar right on top of it after you pressed the start icon. And will be able to use that one. If you got Windows XP. You're able to find the program called "Run". It should be inside the start menu as well.

Now, what you want to do, is to write in "dxdiag" and press enter.
(http://i52BannedImageSite/6f7dl5.png)

This will bring you to the DirectX Diagnostics window. And it's what we will use to find out how many cores you have!

Now find the row for the Processor: field. Like on the picture below.
(http://i55BannedImageSite/b9zsl.png)

In most cases you can figure out that your processor got more than 1 core by just reading the name, examples of this are "Dual core, Core 2 duo, Quad core, Core 2 Quad, Athlon II, Phenom II, Opteron", etc. But sometimes it doesn't show up that obvious, but in that case, it should show up like on the picture above saying "(6 CPUs)". Anything above 1 CPU will be enough for this thing to work. If it doesn't say anything about amount of cores. You probably just got 1. But for the rest that found more than 1. Lets keep on going!

How to do it!
You can now close down the dxdiag window and get work on how to change which core the game should use.

What I want you to do now, is that right click on the "FeralHeart" paw icon on your desktop. Look at the bottom of the list and click "Properties"

This will give you a new window with lots of interesting stuff in it, and it's what we will use to set the "Affinity" to the processor=Which cores it's allowed to use.

Click the Shortcut tab inside of the new window and it should look like this
(http://i52BannedImageSite/2ip8r9.png)

What we want to do now is to change the text inside the "Target:" field.

Now to make this really simple There's text for you to copy here and paste inside the target field.

Copy and Paste this text if you have 2 cores.
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart" /d "C:\Feralheart" /high /affinity 2 "C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe"

Copy and Paste this text if you have more than 2 cores.
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart" /d "C:\Feralheart" /high /affinity 4 "C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe"

Make the field blank, and then paste in one of these above.

Click the apply button, and then ok.

If we use the first text as an exmaple.
What this text does is that it starts the command prompt before it starts the game, and tells the computer to run the game with high priority and to use the 2nd core only. The other example works the same, but instead it sets it to the 3rd core in the processor(This is hexa language, hence the numbers).

This will as mentioned before in this post, leave your first core free to do other things, while FH use one core only as it should be, and more free to use it as well. This should solve crashes for some, but also make the game run a lil bit smoother in general(Also has a lot with how good your processor is).

I've used this for 3 days now and not a single crash. Someone else also tried it and to them the game seemed to run better as well. *happyface*

Other good sturf
When you do this the icon on the desktop will change from a yellow pawprint to a black box instead. But this doesn't affect the game at all, and you can actually set it back to the feralheart icon if you feel like it. Just go back into the shortcut properties by right clicking the icon. Enter the shortcut tab. Then click the "Change Icon" text. And browse for the Feralheart.exe in the feralheart folder. And it's all back to normal.

Also take note that it will only run on the given core if you use the desktop icon. If you run the game via an icon you didn't edit. Or from the game directory. The game will still be launched on the first core.

If the game doesn't work from the desktop or the game is messing around, just set the text back to normal in the target field.
C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe

Please post your feedback if you've tried this as well! And I hope you find just as much use of this as I did!
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: -Angel- on August 25, 2011, 05:46:07 am: OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! im seeing much less lag too!!!
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Post by: Redlinelies on August 25, 2011, 06:34:12 am: You're welcome
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Post by: aelitastar on August 25, 2011, 06:54:56 am: ok im good at computers but that confused me slightly o.e and i tend to over think things so.... XD
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Post by: -Angel- on August 25, 2011, 10:03:26 am: OHH, NU!
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Post by: barrettm82 on August 25, 2011, 02:52:24 pm: gotta test this out. Will let you know if I have any problems. Thanks for sharing this.
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Post by: FoxfangPitbull on August 25, 2011, 03:05:26 pm: -screams in wild joy- I must test this out!
I need to fix up Photoshop and dump a load of stuff out of the recycling bin & clear my internet history (and then make dinner), but I'm sure this will work :D Thankuu, Red =D
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Post by: Ingredient on August 29, 2011, 06:59:23 am: Would this stop lagging and glitches too?
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Post by: Redlinelies on August 29, 2011, 01:23:50 pm: Quote
Now, what I'm about to tell you might make your game run more stable and maybe even faster if you're lucky, and I'll explain why, and how to do it just now.

Glitches, certainly not. That's all 100% the game itself, things like group glitches, chars going invisible or leaking chats, it would be kov that needs to fix those I'd say.

This is more for Stability and "maybe" performance, as mentioned.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: ToastGhost on August 29, 2011, 01:56:49 pm: Thank you for this. My game used to have a 50/50 chance of crashing whenever I went through a portal. Since I've done this, however, not a single crash. Thank you so much!
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Post by: Redlinelies on August 29, 2011, 02:35:57 pm: The pleasure is on my side toast. I'm just happy that it worked this well, so why not share it?

This is really something anyone with more than 1 core CPU should try.
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Post by: FoxfangPitbull on August 29, 2011, 03:31:45 pm: It's worked alright with mine, but my laptop was a twod anyway, so apart from the fact that if I play FH, I have to solely play FH, it's worked. Less lag where it matter as well =3
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Post by: Ingredient on August 29, 2011, 10:58:46 pm: I didnt see much of a difference but i havent crashed yet so that could be something
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Post by: Jayfeather55 on August 29, 2011, 11:01:03 pm: Red <333

Thanks :P
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Post by: aelitastar on August 29, 2011, 11:28:19 pm: Um, so an ultra duel core is how many? XD
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Post by: Redlinelies on August 30, 2011, 02:28:21 pm: Duel/dual should be 2 cores. You can always google for 100% certain results if you feel unsure.

And yew guise be welcomes.

As mentioned in the post though, this doesn't make your computer/game faster since you still use the same hardware in your computer. It just makes the game easier to handle for the computer which "can" result in a slight performance boost. :3
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Post by: FoxfangPitbull on August 30, 2011, 04:12:24 pm: Quote from: Sukira on August 29, 2011, 11:28:19 pm
Um, so an ultra duel core is how many? XD

2 XD
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Post by: aelitastar on August 31, 2011, 01:10:59 am: Quote from: xPITBULL on August 30, 2011, 04:12:24 pm
Quote from: Sukira on August 29, 2011, 11:28:19 pm
Um, so an ultra duel core is how many? XD

2 XD
i was just wondering because i was kinda confused there XD but my mom has a army laptop so *shrugs* ton of space and strong core's to have it run better XD
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Post by: Robin_Wolfieh on September 03, 2011, 07:14:07 pm: Won't run. Even though I only have two cores. o3o

Aww, I wanted to get rid of "Lagfire", "The Temple of Lag" and "Lag Tunnel".
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Post by: Thierry on September 13, 2011, 03:48:41 pm: Thanks red, Feral Heart has worked fine even in 1 core processor due to /high command.
obviously the rest of all applications has freezed due to 1 core processor.
Runs very more stable, the rest of applications does not interfere when i'm playing.
I highly recommend this post also for 1 core processor, the only different thing is to remove the affinity command

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart" /d "C:\Feralheart" /high "C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe"

Processor:
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: wolffox on September 13, 2011, 05:20:08 pm: Red.
You are a flipping genius for posting this.
Bravo, Mr. Cabbage, bravo! c: -showers with cookies and assorted sharp objects-
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Post by: SimbaOppa on September 13, 2011, 08:38:38 pm: This fixed my problem with playing on my mom's laptop. Thanks Red. :)
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Post by: -Angel- on September 14, 2011, 12:22:01 am: Quote from: wolffox on September 13, 2011, 05:20:08 pm
Red.
You are a flipping genius for posting this.
Bravo, Mr. Cabbage, bravo! c: -showers with cookies and assorted sharp objects-
-eats all the cookies-
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Post by: Kovuo on October 01, 2011, 01:45:15 am: Aw it keeps sayin' : "The Name 'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exd' Specified in the target box is not Valid,make Sure the Path and File name are correct." what can i du o3o
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Post by: Redlinelies on October 01, 2011, 03:04:14 am: You most likely got windows installed on another drive or the search path for the commandprompt is located elsewhere, hence why it can't find it.

You should be able to use the very same code if you replace the path inside the post with your own search path.

I'd say you should check where your windows is installed first. If it turns out to be on the C: drive, try looking if the path Windows\System32\cmd.exe actually works, if not, find where you get to your cmd.
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Post by: Definition on October 01, 2011, 01:35:42 pm: This is really helpful. Thanks.

and 3.2Ghz with 12,278mb ram? Smexy super computer.
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Post by: Kovuo on October 01, 2011, 02:43:09 pm: Mkay thanks Red Ill try that
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Post by: Redlinelies on October 01, 2011, 03:13:35 pm: Quote from: Defined on October 01, 2011, 01:35:42 pm
This is really helpful. Thanks.

and 3.2Ghz with 12,278mb ram? Smexy super computer.

No problem, post a reply if it works better for you as well. I used to crash atleast 5-6 times a day if not more. Now I might get one every once in a while by just setting it to a certain core.

And fank chu xD. Clocked the CPU to 3.6 aswellz! FH is still a lag monster when use lots of AA though :c
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Post by: spirit333 on October 01, 2011, 07:08:05 pm: Holy moly! It worked! :D Been playing for a week! And not a single crash! :DD
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Post by: Thierry on October 01, 2011, 08:52:31 pm: Quote from: Kovuo on October 01, 2011, 01:45:15 am
Aw it keeps sayin' : "The Name 'C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exd' Specified in the target box is not Valid,make Sure the Path and File name are correct." what can i du o3o
here are one problem, is "exe" not "exd"
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Post by: Ramine on October 02, 2011, 07:40:40 pm: I'm not very good with these things so does dual core mean i have 2 cores ? xD

Woof ! By Ramine ^^
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Post by: Ramine on October 03, 2011, 01:50:24 pm: Nvm ^^ It works

Woof ! By Ramine ^^
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Post by: lugailover on October 05, 2011, 09:05:43 pm: Ive done this before! XD its pretty easy. But for people who are game players and not game editors like Kovu, Red, etc. Then its difficult for them. I knew this a bit before you posted this when I was messin with
''Properties'' Also it has a fantastic effect on my Craptop XDDD (Screw you Dell!)
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Post by: -Angel- on October 14, 2011, 10:32:37 pm: haha. i have a compaq. but sadly, it crashed cuz im an idiot
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Post by: Redlinelies on October 15, 2011, 08:09:58 am: Try the code thierry posted earlier in this thread, might work better.
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Post by: Jadeviran on November 06, 2011, 07:18:59 am: Does this work for FH+? c:
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Post by: Redlinelies on November 06, 2011, 11:37:21 am: It does, but then you'd have to edit the paths yourself since FH+ probably use another one if you installed it. The function itself work the same though.
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Post by: Kiyoi on November 15, 2011, 01:58:38 am: sorry to ask, but i have " AMD Athlon(tm) Processor TF-20, ~1.6GHz"

if possible could you or someone else tell me how many cores that has? because i dont now, and/or cant figure out how many it has ^_^'
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Post by: Redlinelies on November 15, 2011, 02:02:59 am: I do believe that one just uses 1 core.
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Post by: Kiyoi on November 15, 2011, 02:05:10 am: okay, thanks for the help ^_^'
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Post by: Redlinelies on December 15, 2011, 10:23:05 am: Just thought I'd throw in a word here.

Since the last patches it doesn't seem like this works for me anymore no matter what affinity I set it to, the process is still started on the first core. I'm thinking this is possibly because of the update to the ogre engine that FH runs? Still able to use this on other software and programs.

If this is just me then I will just have to live with it, would be interesting if anyone that used to use this could try it again and see if they get the same result since I'm not sure if this method even works anymore.
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Post by: MasiYumi on December 16, 2011, 09:18:15 pm: This never worked for me, no matter what :/
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Post by: TigerStar* on December 23, 2011, 11:54:18 pm: It no longer, well never has worked for me either.
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Post by: MetaKnight101 on January 30, 2012, 01:56:54 am: Thx so much!!! I haev no more lag :D
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Post by: Thierry on February 04, 2012, 01:50:21 am: Quote from: Red on December 15, 2011, 10:23:05 am
Just thought I'd throw in a word here.

Since the last patches it doesn't seem like this works for me anymore no matter what affinity I set it to, the process is still started on the first core. I'm thinking this is possibly because of the update to the ogre engine that FH runs? Still able to use this on other software and programs.

If this is just me then I will just have to live with it, would be interesting if anyone that used to use this could try it again and see if they get the same result since I'm not sure if this method even works anymore.
Since Feral Heart Updated to Ogre 1.7, I believe FH now Runs in multi-thread because FH uses about 60% of procesor (with 2 cores), so setting affinity will limit FH to use only 50%. Also because it uses libboost_thread-mgw45-mt-1_44.dll

Setting affinity still working for me as ever, i can run twice the FH, each FH in each core.
But i feel FH is slower by setting only one core to it. I need to experiment a little more.
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Post by: InvaderTAK on February 05, 2012, 11:29:56 pm: I wish I could test this D: But i cant cause my account was mysterously banned for 6 days, Ill just have to wait
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Post by: Fallenstar on March 06, 2012, 07:46:48 pm: Hi! Great tutorial! It worked except nobody else besides me can see my preset....Is this normal?

EDIT:

Aaack! Sorry for spamming! I accidently posted in the wrong thread >.< SO SORRY!
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Post by: charmermew on April 06, 2012, 11:31:46 pm: Hey there ^^

I tried this out and no more crashing :D Except FH is really laggy now :/ Is that normal?
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Post by: BloodScar on April 14, 2012, 08:05:32 pm: I have a small question, my Processor says:
Processor: mobile AMD Sempron (tm) Processor 3600+, ~2.0GHz

What kind would that be, 2 cores?
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Post by: Cheesey on April 21, 2012, 04:12:08 pm: I tried it, now FeralHeart won't work :( I do have two cores though...
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Post by: .::Silver::. on April 21, 2012, 11:11:40 pm: Thank you very much Red this helped me so much with my lag in the game!
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Post by: Barish on May 12, 2012, 09:00:53 am: That seems like a sure-shot way to help our poor pc's and crash suffered rps. However, I tried it and had some trouble. The first few times I clicked on it(the FH icon on my desktop) Nothing happened. I waited for long but still nothing. Then, a little later, when I tried again, a black dialogue box opened, like the DOS ones, and it said, "Invalid "Affinity"".

Now I did Check my dxdiag box as well, and it clearly stated two CPUs. Help? Should I post a screenie of something?
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Post by: DivineHeroine on June 05, 2012, 01:38:29 pm: Whoa, such knowledge is given nicely.
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Post by: Satyrhorn on June 23, 2012, 05:53:09 pm: I only have one core :'(
Anyone know of any other ways to make FH run faster/more stable?
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Post by: wolves01 on June 29, 2012, 06:49:31 am: It works!! :D
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Post by: lacey107 on July 02, 2012, 06:12:47 pm: Real quick question! Does our information (the dxdiag) have to be the same as yours?? xP
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 02, 2012, 10:20:05 pm: Certainly not. The only thing that matters is what's highlighted, and not even that has to be exactly the same, all that "was" needed was several physical cores.

However though, this method I do not think work properly anymore after a few patches that arrived last year, the only thing that does matter now is actually the priority of the task you set, not the affinity, cause it seems like whatever you set it to, the game will ignore it.

But if you still use the high priority option, your game might run slightly faster since it would put the priority on the game instead of other possible programs that runs at the same time.
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Post by: Smiling.Sin on July 02, 2012, 10:40:44 pm: My computer doesn't say anything about CPUs. -3-
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 02, 2012, 10:43:57 pm: Can always remove the affinity line, and just set it to high priority.
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Post by: Smiling.Sin on July 02, 2012, 10:47:20 pm: So...confused. -3-
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Post by: lacey107 on July 03, 2012, 02:17:32 am: ohhh okay thank you Red! God Bless you (sorry I am a spiritual person xP)
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Post by: SilverTW on July 03, 2012, 03:46:30 pm: Meh, I don't have lag XD
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Post by: lacey107 on July 05, 2012, 08:36:06 pm: Hey reddy. I just now relized that I only have one core. .-. (thats how blonde I am so excuse me xD) but I want to thank you for helping out everyone else! God Bless.
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Post by: animals_rock on July 07, 2012, 01:28:15 am: Thanks so much for posting this, Red! :D Definitely work faster :3 Thanks again c:
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Post by: Anatana on July 13, 2012, 10:59:55 am: I cant even open the game anymore! 0.o'
It says something's missing from my computer.
Feral heart hates me,
it's black, it's slow, it crashes, and it wont even start now. T.T
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Post by: IlLupoItaliano on July 13, 2012, 12:18:33 pm: This seems very helpful but its too bad that I'm a Mac user.
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Post by: krimino on July 18, 2012, 07:02:47 pm: OMG This worked SOOOO WELL!!!! Thankyou thankyou thankyou! wow... a LOT less lag too! GRACI
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Post by: Raphilion on July 18, 2012, 07:48:41 pm: Thankies Red.. But before I do anything, I noticed your game folder is placed directly in C-Drive.. hence the C:\FeralHeart..... but mine is in a sub-folder - where I keep all programs and games;
"C:\Program Files (x86)\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe" Would I have to change the code a bit because of this?

Thankies in advance.
RaphiLion
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 18, 2012, 07:57:54 pm: Yes, you'd have to change the destination folder to your folder.
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Post by: Raphilion on July 18, 2012, 08:49:45 pm: Urrm.. I'm no computer pro. is this what my code must change to?
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart" /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\FeralHeart\Feralheart" /high /affinity 4 "C:\Program Files (x86)\FeralHeart\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe"
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 18, 2012, 09:29:52 pm: Well yes. If you have two folders in eachother called feralheart\feralheart then it's all correct.

The installer does just install 1 feralheart folder unless you modified it to do elsewise.
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Post by: Raphilion on July 18, 2012, 10:10:11 pm: Oops.. didn't mean to add in an extra "Feralheart" I was only meant to add the program (86) something-something.. Just wanted to know I'm gonna add that to all the right places and not leave anything out. XD
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 18, 2012, 10:39:40 pm: counting away the double folders it looks alright what you posted.
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Post by: Raphilion on July 18, 2012, 11:31:14 pm: on startup, game appears to run faster O_O.. But servers are a bit full now so couldn't connect to main server. But at least I can confirm I was able to open game no probs, will have to wait till later to confirm it works fine with improvements.
Thanks allot for all the help Red

I spoke too soon XD I got on on second try. And it works allot better.. considering the 900 or less people on servers now, it should be crashing after every portal but its not :)
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Post by: misspink on July 19, 2012, 01:05:37 am: This is awesome!! ^_^
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Post by: Rainbowfur on July 20, 2012, 12:58:22 pm: Wow thanks!
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Post by: Kaguetora on July 28, 2012, 09:31:38 pm: I see that it's working for a lot of ppl, but i still have lots of problems when i click a char, i click it, and then it says loading for so much time and then it says bad token or "failed to connect to game server ;(
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Post by: Redlinelies on July 28, 2012, 11:32:03 pm: Not even related to this, belongs in the help section I believe.

But it sounds like a connection issue on your part or possibly the map you are trying to access that could be down if it's a custom one.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: blondie24 on August 14, 2012, 01:42:09 pm: I've just tried it because my game keeps quitting, it showed 4 CPUs for me so I pasted that 2nd one and the game doesn't even start anymore. When I make it back to C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe it works again but crashes, as always... Why isn't it working? Please help, I'd like to play this game so much! :'(
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Redlinelies on August 14, 2012, 01:57:21 pm: if it doesn't launch it's most likely because you entered the launch command wrongly.

For the crashing itself, if it used to work it's just to reinstall the game, remove the folder

C:\FeralHeart

Then install the game again using a game setup installer from our downloads page.

If your game never worked, try setting your rendering mode for the game to the option not selected(should be Direct3D9). You do this by opening the ogre.cfg with notpad, it's located in the feralheart directory.

Once it's open, just change the top row where it says OpenGL Rendering subsystem, to Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem. Might help
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: blondie24 on August 14, 2012, 02:13:38 pm: Well, I copied and pasted, tried so many times but it doesn't launch. I have no idea why.
I just discovered that my game crashes now ONLY on Bonfire Island. Rendering Subsystem has always been Direct3D9 for me. Thank you for your help anyway!
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: SteampunkWolfdog on August 19, 2012, 04:54:39 pm: Brilliant! It works perfectly. Thank youuu :)
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Post by: 3 on August 22, 2012, 11:30:54 pm: It doesn't work for me :/ I load FH and then it just stops and cancels on me.. :I
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Post by: Milk and Cookiez on August 23, 2012, 08:43:57 pm: Since I am getting a new computer for my birthday ((Which is very soon! <3)) I shouldn't have to worrie about FH running slow anymore, but I went ahead and did what you said for the couple weeks of waiting left, and it is ALOT faster! Thanks, Red!
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Post by: SplashX on October 01, 2012, 10:03:50 pm: Thank you so much! Now, when I'm talking to my BFF (who lives 2,000 miles away...) FH wont Lag or crash when we are talking and/or RPing!!!
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Post by: Minxy on October 04, 2012, 04:32:47 pm: I followed your steps, but it seems my FH doesn't like it and wont open when I click it now. o_O I have 2 core thingys, in cause it was thought I didn't. xD But thank you anyway~
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Post by: Tanikio on October 06, 2012, 11:47:04 pm: Running it on my second core, and its working much faster! I can use the internet and play windows media player while playing the game and making maps :D Thank you so much 8)
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Smiling.Sin on October 08, 2012, 11:24:25 pm: I finally gave it another try, and it helped to reduce lag in my custom maps. Thank you so much, Red.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Wolflover87 on October 15, 2012, 07:37:45 pm: I tried this. But whenever I am trying to get into Cape of Distant Worlds, it keeps crashing. Do you know how I can fix this? e3e
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Redlinelies on October 15, 2012, 07:46:46 pm: Remove all the files in your exports folder, if that doesn't help try deleting custom maps that you might've created. Do not really need to permanently delete, just move them out of your feralheart game folders into a temporary folder, see if the game works. Then add them back one by one til you find the one causing the issues.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Temerariej on October 17, 2012, 04:57:44 am: I did try this, it worked smoother. But then for a crowded place /for example your feral heart city/ I keep crashing at it.
As for the processor it says; Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU U7600 @ 1.20GHz (2CPUs),~1.2GHz
Not really sure how many cores I have though. Didn't understand that part so much. cx
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Forests on October 17, 2012, 03:27:51 pm: This *Really* helped me. Thanks so much Red. I can now place advanced meshes on my maps without lagging. It was easy as well. ;D
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Kashii on October 17, 2012, 03:37:14 pm: Thank you, I'm sure it'll help!
The only thing that freaked me out is that I think I have 2800+ cores. xD

''Processor: AMD Sempron(tm) 2800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz.''
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Tatah on October 18, 2012, 06:42:32 pm: Tried it, but then changed back to the original.

Good sides:
- Chat or any other icons/boxes no longer flash.

Bad sides:
- My game got even more laggier.
- Game still crashes when I try getting in a certain map.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: StitchedUp on November 17, 2012, 08:58:10 pm: This has worked for me, my FeralHeart is much smoother and it lags less, thank you Red.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: EchoWish on December 16, 2012, 06:52:54 pm: The icon for Feralheart changed when I did this, that shouldn't really effect anything, right? o:
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Redlinelies on December 17, 2012, 02:59:17 pm: Taken from le first post

Quote
Other good sturf
When you do this the icon on the desktop will change from a yellow pawprint to a black box instead. But this doesn't affect the game at all, and you can actually set it back to the feralheart icon if you feel like it. Just go back into the shortcut properties by right clicking the icon. Enter the shortcut tab. Then click the "Change Icon" text. And browse for the Feralheart.exe in the feralheart folder. And it's all back to normal.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Wintersphere on January 08, 2013, 03:24:37 am: OMIGOSH! I did EVERYTHING, even Thierry's codethingy, and ever time, FH crashes when it starts to load!

My dxdiag code thingy says 2 CPUs. ;^; I don't want to reinstall FH 'cause I have LOADS of stuff saved on it. X^X helllllp
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Azorukon on January 13, 2013, 07:29:40 pm: wow it runs so nicely now the lag has improved 2 fold im impressed! :D
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: TheGreatSpirit on January 24, 2013, 06:00:32 pm: Didn't work for me. The game just got even more laggy, and still crashes when entering certain maps.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: SummerGlade on February 12, 2013, 05:45:38 pm: Barely any lag in Flourite! :D Thankssss~ <3
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: 580star on February 16, 2013, 10:15:12 pm: Wow, My Game is already less Laggy, I download so many things for FeralHeart my game had started becoming Slower. Thank you, Red! x3x
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Whinp on February 23, 2013, 02:08:33 pm: Thanks :) But it still lags...
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Robin_Wolfieh on February 27, 2013, 04:02:11 pm: Quote from: Whinp on February 23, 2013, 02:08:33 pm
Thanks :) But it still lags...

Aaah, but not as much, eh? *brow wiggle*
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: candy2468 on February 27, 2013, 06:52:06 pm: Ohboi, these are one of those times where I'd wish I had a windows.
~Facepalm~ But I have a mac and therefore my intelligence scale has gone to 0. *.*
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: marr11 on March 01, 2013, 03:07:48 am: I recently tried this out. Everything has been running a whole lot better and.. so far so good!
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Eclipsen on March 02, 2013, 03:08:47 am: Things run a lot smoother now, thanks for this. And although there is still lag in highly populated areas, which is to be expected, the lag isn't quite as bad. In addition, and you can correct me if im wrong, but something about the water reflection effect seems to be smoother than marble surface now.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: austin_puppy on March 11, 2013, 03:12:44 am: Thanks!!!!!
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: linton on April 11, 2013, 01:41:22 pm: I need help.When I open the properties window I get these settings:
General
Compatibility
Security
Details
Previous Versions

Even when I press Advanced settings I don't get them.I have Windows 7.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: cherrytimebomb on May 24, 2013, 10:55:42 pm: I need help.... ;3; I did it, but it only made my game freeze!
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Dingo. on June 28, 2013, 06:32:36 am: I can't find the shortcub tab, I'm confused :I Sorry
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: mossstar1992 on July 02, 2013, 12:47:20 am: I can not find the Short-cut tab you are talking about, and i cant see the pic b/c it says that the image was removed from tinypic, or deleted....
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: WildWolf#1 on July 20, 2013, 07:18:05 am: I did everything you said I had 2 cores to copied and pasted the first link: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart" /d "C:\Feralheart" /high /affinity 2 "C:\FeralHeart\FeralHeart.exe" and the game just didn't want to load, I copied and pasted the other link, that didn't seem to do anything so I put in the C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C START "FeralHeart"blah blah bah" again and the shortcut did the same thing. I opened the game from the FH folder from (C:)drive and the game loaded but the game still lagged like it did before. I did the whole thing again. Still nothing. :o The lag is driving me nuts :'( Please help?
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Penguin1970 on July 20, 2013, 11:14:56 am: Hey.I'm not sure how many cores I have,this is what turns up for me when i open dxdiag tho:

http://prntscr.com/1ghnuk (http://prntscr.com/1ghnuk)
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Post by: Whinp on July 20, 2013, 01:44:36 pm: Quote from: Leda on July 20, 2013, 11:14:56 am
Hey.I'm not sure how many cores I have,this is what turns up for me when i open dxdiag tho:

http://prntscr.com/1ghnuk (http://prntscr.com/1ghnuk)

You will see "Processor" in the list. It looks like that it's only 1 CPU.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: TheArtistOfLife on August 12, 2013, 10:06:00 am: I don't have a 'shortcuts' tab on my properties toolbar. I'm running Windows 7. Also one of the pictures is broken.

Edit: Sorry, I do have one.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: Moon Moon on November 21, 2013, 03:41:54 pm: Soo I tested this on two computers, on one idk if it worked it still crashes sometimes (but I think I fixed those now differently) and I didn't really look about lags there buuut on my other computer, which has Windows seven aand 2 CPUs but when I put this code in the Target thing, press OK and start it it just opens this little black window which always comes for a short time and then nothing. Can you help me somehow because it reaaaally lags alot...
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Post by: DevXVI on December 06, 2013, 04:05:18 am: Thanks for sharing~
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Post by: ~Stargazer~ on December 06, 2013, 01:25:20 pm: Thanks for this Red<3

Hopefully I won't lag in AI when I'm trying to climb now.
Title: Re: Making your FH game run more stable/even faster!
Post by: 310543 on February 24, 2014, 10:42:55 am: it wont open now lol :3