Lag from taking screenshots?

nphillip · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1012 **Location:**

i've been lagging when i take screenshots lately, does anyone know why? :S

just yesterday i was taking a screenshot inside the DW cave while killing a giant and got killed because of the lag :[

i'm also interested in knowing whether anyone else has been lagging from taking screenshots lately?

hemagoku · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 2720 **Location:**

I ALWAYS been lagging from taking screenshots and without taking them

Sylhana · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3467 **Location:**

I always do, but I think its my comp :oops:

tedtwilliger · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:26 am

What method do you use to take a s/s.?

By using the print scr button i have about a second of lag, but i believe that is for the computer to render the picture taken. Though i remember when i was using xfire to take screenshots i use to lag a bit, though not enough to die.

Hope it helps.

Gusy · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 561 **Location:**

Mine lags for like half a second.. maybe you have a shitty video card

realfoxboy · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 751 **Location:**

that's not a connection lag, it's just your pc!

Itonami · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3182 **Location:**

it depends which pc i'm on

vindicated01 · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 1094 **Location:** XE

need more memory

Doppleganger · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:36 am

I get like a half a second of lag.

nphillip · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1012 **Location:**

Gusy wrote:

Mine lags for like half a second.. maybe you have a shitty video card

i just bought a new video card yesterday .. i still lag, with the previous one as well

Stress · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:54 am

I lag, but just a tiny bit.

tedtwilliger · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:01 am

nphillip wrote:

Gusy wrote:

Mine lags for like half a second.. maybe you have a shitty video card

i just bought a new video card yesterday .. i still lag, with the previous one as well

Then maybe its your other hardware? What ram do you have? What processor?

DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

I don't really lag, but the game kinda freezes for a sec on the frame I got the ss of.

I guess you can call it lag but it goes right back to normal a second after.

Pinoy_Archer · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 937 **Location:** Home

I could say it depends on what place you are taking picture of it...
like if ur in a crowded place many ppl and mobs , and your doing multiple skills their is a posibility that you could lag more than a sec.

rather than having a simple place where non-agresive mobs rome the place brainlessly in to the unknown beyond(like in front of you). it would be like no lag or just a milisec. of it.

nphillip · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1012 **Location:**

tedtwilliger wrote:

nphillip wrote:

Gusy wrote:

Mine lags for like half a second.. maybe you have a shitty video card

i just bought a new video card yesterday .. i still lag, with the previous one as well

Then maybe its your other hardware? What ram do you have? What processor?

i dont think its my ram or processor... 3days ago it takes me half a second to take a screenshot.

gamef · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 2290 **Location:** London

Yeh i get a few second lag the first time a take a ss but after that its ok.

Matrixman__ · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 773 **Location:**

hardly noticable lag, but ya, this all depends on ur cpmputer specs

Orotiagito · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 799 **Location:**

If I take a screenshot while 2 or more aggro mobs are around me, i'll probally come back dead.

uBeR · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 966 **Location:**

The first screenshot I take usually lags me for about 2-3 seconds. Each screenshot after that only lags about half a second. Depends on computer specs.

HakubiNi · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 843 **Location:**

Back when my RAM was low it took a while to take screenshots, but my current computer with 1GB RAM has no problems. The only lag I get is the first time I start recording something on Fraps.

StealMySoda · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 5245 **Location:**

If your having problems taking screenshots with the in game system. The main reason will probably be is because when the screenshot is taken is has to be compressed into a jpg image. When I take screenshots, I use Fraps and take them in BMP mode, as this is uncompressed there is very little delay, and you should have much less 'lag' while taking them, I basically have none while taking them. The free version of fraps takes screenshots in BMP i believe, so you can start off with that

Crumpets · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 7800 **Location:**

vindicated01 wrote:

need more memory

Yup, also for the people that lag when someone leaves a party, just get another 512 mb RAM and you shouldnt lag while taking a screen shot etc etc.

PB_and_J · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:26 pm

I have a very short delay the first SS I take, after that, nothing.

Sharp324 · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4383 **Location:**

Doppleganger wrote:

I get like a half a second of lag.

DOP! love the sig.

But on topic i barely ever lag except when its server side. Screenshots dont lag me

Chromis · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 122 **Location:**

I just lag for the half second after pressing the printscreen button.. Think that lag is meant to be there so, maybe that's it. ALWAYS been there for every full 3D game i've played.

139022 · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 858 **Location:**

RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM!!!!! RAM is the most important thing for video games on ur pc. RAM!!!! probably the most important thing in ur pc.....almost

nphillip · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 1012 **Location:**

139022 wrote:

RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM!!!!! RAM is the most important thing for video games on ur pc. RAM!!!! probably the most important thing in ur pc.....almost

... lots of people said it was my ram, its fixed now and i didnt buy a better one.

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