Hi, I recently installed the game "Mabinogi" onto a fairly new laptop computer. The computer's specs should be more than enough to run the game well, but it plays terribly.  I'm pretty sure the internet connection isn't the problem because the game lags terribly before even connecting.  The client takes about 5 minutes to start up, then has giant lag spikes like every 10 seconds. It takes me about 20 minutes just to get ingame.  I've tried out a few other similar games and they've all got pretty bad lag as well.

Here are the computer's specs:
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1
32-bit OS
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz
2GB RAM
GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
DirectX 10

The requirements for Mabinogi are:

Windows 98 - XP (Vista should work though, it works on my other computer)
Intel Pentium3 800 or higher
256M Ram
NVidia-Geforce2MX or
ATI Radeon 7000 or similar
DirectX 9.0c or later

I'm pretty sure I have all of the latest drivers and I changed all of graphic settings to their lowest quality with still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Run a virus scan. Use more than one scanner. There are many free ones out there. I have been using SpyBot for years. It would not hurt to double check your drivers, just in case.

That's a pretty low end laptop , not really for gaming. but even tho the 1.9 is low i would say it's the really bad 7150. that card is not really for any games mmo wise. it say you need a 7000 or better but most know that to mean 7600 or better.

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Originally posted by sanedor
That's a pretty low end laptop , not really for gaming. but even tho the 1.9 is low i would say it's the really bad 7150. that card is not really for any games mmo wise. it say you need a 7000 or better but most know that to mean 7600 or better.

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That may be the case but the game he's running has really low hardware req's so it should run fine.. the game requires a Geforce 2MX or better, that's 5 generations behind his Geforce 7150. The 7000 req is a Radeon 7000 which is also 5 generations behind his Geforce 7150.

Do you have SP1 for Vista and the other windows updates? Do single player games perform really badly too or only online games?

I do have SP1, Windows is fully updated, and single player games perform really badly too.

Originally posted by Nwizard2

Hi, I recently installed the game "Mabinogi" onto a fairly new laptop computer. The computer's specs should be more than enough to run the game well, but it plays terribly.  I'm pretty sure the internet connection isn't the problem because the game lags terribly before even connecting.  The client takes about 5 minutes to start up, then has giant lag spikes like every 10 seconds. It takes me about 20 minutes just to get ingame.  I've tried out a few other similar games and they've all got pretty bad lag as well.

Here are the computer's specs:
Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1
32-bit OS
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz
2GB RAM
GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
DirectX 10

The requirements for Mabinogi are:

Windows 98 - XP (Vista should work though, it works on my other computer)
Intel Pentium3 800 or higher
256M Ram
NVidia-Geforce2MX or
ATI Radeon 7000 or similar
DirectX 9.0c or later

I'm pretty sure I have all of the latest drivers and I changed all of graphic settings to their lowest quality with still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

you might have to run the game in compatibility mode (whatever the name is lol)

often some new game have older program  it should do the trick

your computer is descent for gaming

but vista as a lot of bottleneck

from the factory vista run at about 65 % the speed of xp  so its pretty steep and if you add the speed up most xp user do

vista is 50>% slower then xp so its a big issue

but you shouldnt have the issue your getting

scan for virus ,if you did it  download and scan using spybot

do a dxdiag and check to see if you have problem there

thats about it ,this should help you one way or another if not repost other might have other solution concerning mabinogi great game by the way good choice

Mabinogi is just awful,the graphics are so bad it does not come close to rival some better nintendo 64 games.

The only thing i can think of is too many resources are being used and that card,probably an integrated card is not as good as you think it is.Most laptops i looked at when i was thinking of buying one ALL had horrible graphic cards,they were so bad i gave up buying one.The only machines that were decent were more costly than a good PC,so i said screw laptops.

I might addf that you may be experiencing net lag not graphic lag or performance lag.I guarantee that the games graphics are so bad that ANYTHING should be able to play this game,i would bet anything my 10 yr old PC will play it easily.

I'm running a Virus scan with AVG right now, nothing so far.  I googled Spybot and a few different sites came up.  Can I get a direct link somewhere please?  Don't wanna go downloading the wrong thing and then getting a new virus...

Also I ran dxdiag and everything's good there.

Here ya go.

http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-amp-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

 link to download Spybot, one of the best free programs ever. It gets alot of shit of your computer that you didnt even know you had.

Another program i can recommend is Uniblue Registry Booster and Uniblue SpeedupMyPC, but those are not free, although you can find them free on some sites ;)

Alright, thanks.  I'll report back when the scans are done.

Now I have another problem.  The laptop won't stay on long enough to complete the scans.  It just shuts off randomly in the middle of them.  Think a system restore is in order?

Sounds like a heat issue.

The fan does whirl awfully loudly.  It's on a tile countertop right now.  I'll try moving it...

Too me it sounds like 2 things: Heating issues and the fact that Vista uses way too much resources.

You should consider installing XP on it instead.

Yep, looks like that may be the problem.  The core temp is showing 60-65C degrees right now with just Firefox open.  Great... Now how do I go about fixing that?

Originally posted by Loke666

Too me it sounds like 2 things: Heating issues and the fact that Vista uses way too much resources.

You should consider installing XP on it instead.

I have to agree with this. Besides that, Vista 32 bit is probably slightly better than Windows ME as far as OSes go.

Well, it's not my computer, so installing XP is out of the question unfortunately...  Thanks for the suggestion though.  Any other ideas?

A tool that I really like is Game Booster it disable's windows tasks running in the background and is very easy to use once finished playing just click on non gaming mode and it re-enables the tasks that were running you will get a lot better performance out of it hope this helps www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Well it didn't really help my temperature problem, but that's a pretty cool program.  I may use it on my other computer.  Thanks.