Lag with Missionary, I lag about every min with missionary. Options

[mhspinto]

Hey guys hopefully you can help me with this. I installed missionary two days ago and so far I have loved it except for this lag that seems to happen about every min for 5 secs. Its just hard to play when that happens. I looked through the forum and didn't see anything about this. I remeber when I first started missionary it said something about this and I don't remember what that was and now I can't find it. So anyway hopefully someone knows what to do. Thanks.

[FDR]

Hi guys,

Yeah, I also notice that my ping is higher these days, whether I run Missionary or not. But it's weird, Missionary says my ping to the server is 48 ms but I've never seen it that low during the game - it used to be around 55 ms to 60 ms but now it's hardly ever less than 110 ms and usually higher. And, if I just use MTR or someother program to check the ping, it also reports no problem with little jitter.

As for all these background tasks "running" - mostly, my background tasks are the dock tasks that sit on the lower right. They are normally inactive except when they are invoked. That is, they don't use up CPU cycles - they just reserve some space in virtual memory.

But when Missionary runs - wow! Missionary starts, then runs two helper tasks: mistool and smms. When these 3 are running on my laptop (IBM A31p) they suck up over 50% of the CPU cycles (!). This leaves less for mohaamm.exe; I'm seeing around 40% or so for the game itself. And the amount of CPU Missoinary takes bounces around - sometimes more, sometimes a (little) less.

I think that's why pings get worse with borderline h/w (a 2 GHz mobile pentium is about a 1 GHz Athlon desktop, about, because of less cache and slower memory).

So, as usual, to play a good game, looks like one needs pretty good h/w and as usual a decent vid card.

Thanks -FDR