Extreme lag, please help!!

[SilenceYourLambs]

  Hello all, I have been playing FH for about a year now, and it's always worked fine for me with nearly no lag; but, I restarted my laptop because I was overrun by a bunch of files that would take too long to delete myself. Anyways, I reinstalled FH afterwards, blah blah installed MassMarkings, Pawsome, etc. But when I went on, it was on OpenGl, and every time I would try to go on, it's crash. It's never done that before. But I had heard some where that changing it to Direct3D9 Subsystem helps, and wha la, it worked...only one problem. There is a new lag that is many times worse than I've EVER experienced lag. Like, it's so bad that the screen and character moves in glitch, and only moves around fifteen seconds after I command. It's so bad the mouse glitches in inches across the screen >-> I can hardly type or move it's so bad. I've already tried turning off water reflection, and Lowering the view distance to 0...with very little success. Please help! I have so many Role-Plays that I need to stay active on...if I can't find a solution though...I may have to quit FH...T-T Please please please help if you know anything!

[Feareh]

Have you tried to change rendering systems? What Rendering system are you operating your game on? If your game is running on OpenGL, then i suggest you switching it to Direct3D9
Other options besides constantly re-downloading(which wont do much for lag reasons) is to try to switch off water reflection and viewing distance
You can change these settings by going to the main menu and clicking on the options tab.

[SilenceYourLambs]

Yes, as said above I already have it on Direct3D9, and view distance is at 0 and water reflection is off. With no effect on this treacherous lag at all T-T

[wolfie_32]

Hm, you could try disabling arrival chat names? Disable movies, if you are playing in Flourite Plains, that usually helps me.

[SilenceYourLambs]

 Yes. Actually, I'm currently unable to get on FH at all because it crashes whenever I try to open it, thanks to OpenGl and it is absolutely refusing to let me change it to Direct3D9, like when I go into the ogre, it will say it's changed, but when I try to open FH it immediately changes its self back. >->

[milothegolden]

what type of file did you use to download it? and what computer brand/type do you have? i might be able to help if you could answer this. hope i can help and you get this fixed .

[Whisperingwaves]

If your game is crashing before it opens look at this....

First of all, most of the material in this thread is taken/copied from other people, all credit to them for fixing it. :3
So I'm just putting them all into one thread. (:

1. Try changing your rendering subsystem.

The absolute First thing you want to try is to change the rendering mode for the game. There's different rendering modes you can pick from, usually OpenGL and Direct3D9. This decides which way your graphic card should process the game. This one is at standard set to OpenGL, so we'd want to set it to Direct3D9.

There's 2 ways you can change this setting.

How to fix it!
Either you start the game, go into the options menu, click the Video tab, and then change the rendering subsystem and restart the game.

Sometimes you aren't able to even enter the game, and all you can hear is the menu music, or it just crashes directly after launch. Those who experience this can enter the feralheart folder located in C:\FeralHeart at standard, find the file called "Ogre.cfg" and open it with wordpad.

This file works just as the ingame options menu, but instead of buttons and sliders, there's text.

What we're interested in is the top row


Set the top row text so it is just like in the picture with the text

Code: [Select]

Render System=Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem
Save the file, and close it. Next time you run the game it should boot with the new settings you applied.

Even though this solves the graphical problems for most, there's still some unlucky ferals out there that the problems still remain for, but there's still 1 more thing you can try, and that is to update your graphic card drivers.

A computer is hardware, and with time it gets old just like any other thing in this world. If you had your computer for a while, and never updated the drivers, this might be the cause for FeralHeart not to work correctly. Installing Drivers for your computer is like installing any other program that it might need, though knowing how to do this might be tricky, so check the tutorial on how to Here!

If you already tried this and it's not working, chances are that your computer is getting old and can't handle the game. Installing drivers might help, but you're still running the same hardware. Try the game on another computer instead.

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Plus.. you can also try replacing the selected text in the top row with:

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Render System=OpenGL Rendering Subsystem
2. You might be missing/have doubles of some important files, so just re-install the game.

3. You might have double particles, or other particle problems.
- You should also check for doubles in the object files.

What you have to do is go to your particle folder (by default: My Computer -> C: Drive -> Feralheart -> Media -> Particles).

Look at your .particle files. See any with a _0, _1, etc. behind their name? If so, delete them. These are copys automatically made (for some wierd reason I don't know yet - maybe a glitch?) and therefore are uneeded. Be sure you don't delete your main stuff tho, don't kill the original particle template.

4. There's something else wrong with your game?

Just uninstall the game, delete the FeralHeart folder and all the old setups, patches, etc. Then just download and install it again.
That should solve the problem. (:

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I hope this helps. :3
Feel free to suggest other solutions.

Always, always, always check your particles folder, there is sometimes a glitch in the download that copies all of the files and creates them with a _1 _2 or _3. If you find any of these files, delete them.

Now to change rendering without having to open the game <3

How to Change Your Rendering System
~Windows 7 and 8~

Method number 1~

First, go into C: > Feralheart. If you look at the FH main folder, you will see a flie called:
'orge.cfg'
Click it, and open it with 'NOTEPAD'.



Look at the first two lines in the orge.cfg file. That is where you change your rendering system.



If you followed everything that was typed and the instructions in the pictures, you should have successfully switched your rendering system.

Method number 2~

Turn on FH!
On the main screen, you will see this:



Click options, and go to video. Click 'Rendering System.'



Then just simply switch your rendering system.

Note that sometimes method 2 doesn't awlways work- That's why I listed the orge.cfg file first. ^^


Good luck! Hope this helped those who don't know how to change their rendering system!~

Moar tutorials of mien:

How to Convert A Mesh Using AC3D (With Pictures)

||Alpha's Large Tutorial Collection||

Also if you need to, check out the links to Alphas tutorials, she may have something that can help you <3 Hope these assist you in some way, and also, if you can, do a bandwidth test to see if your internet can handle the server speed and server in general.

~ Whisper

[milothegolden]

Suggestion: if you can't find anything that works Mabey try contracting
A mod or find a person who is good with computers cause I have engineers in my
Family and they always help with stuff like that. Hope you fix it