Consignment Houses and the Black Market
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donkey_NA,
Posted on: 2009-10-16 10:47 in The Market and Inventions
no problems here.
On my old computer I would sometimes mapserve when I first opened the market window, which I suspect was due to limited RAM.
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How are the specs of your computer? The only times I have a problem with the market interfaces is if my machine is under load - like when I'm running two copies of the game. My older machine, which I don't use much any more since my new machine can run two copies of the game, has a significant delay when I click on the interface.|
Originally Posted by donkey_NA
What I am wondering is is there just something wrong with my computer or my software of the game when I try to enter it or are others having the same problem.
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The interface isn't very resource friendly. It seems to load up every market item for the initial list, and it does so in a way that consumes pretty much all your CPU time until it's complete. If your machine is slow or bogged down, this can cause your game client to stop communicating with the server for so long that it counts it as a lost connection.
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It's the game. WW/BM is bad news. I almost never have it crash me, but it often freezes the game while it's loading. Rikti invasions and Hami raids don't hit my system like that.
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Originally Posted by donkey_NA
What I am wondering is is there just something wrong with my computer or my software of the game when I try to enter it or are others having the same problem.
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So, based on the second sentence, you're agreeing that the market interface is one of the most resource-intensive aspects of the entire game, yes?
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
no problems here.
On my old computer I would sometimes mapserve when I first opened the market window, which I suspect was due to limited RAM. |
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I dearly wish they would make a text-only version of the market interface with all the silly icons stripped out to reduce resource load. They could call it the "business" or "grown-up" edition. 
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This^^^. If I'm smart about it, it only lags for a horrible period of time. I had to learn the hard way though--I used to hard crash out every time. And I have 2.5 GB of RAM, and the game running on "normal" effects.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
It's the game. WW/BM is bad news. I almost never have it crash me, but it often freezes the game while it's loading. Rikti invasions and Hami raids don't hit my system like that.
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I get this all the time when I load the market after logging on or not being at the market for like 15-20 minutes.
I'm not sure if the lag is from massive loading of icon resources or if it's from the massive need to send data to the client. I only have one gig of RAM but another poster noted that it happens on his 2.5 gig setup. To me that says it may not be RAM.
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The icons are all on your computer before you even start the game. A text-only version would still stream all the data that it currently does (which some people believe to be the entire freakin' database), and therefore would take just as long to load.
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Originally Posted by Laevateinn
I dearly wish they would make a text-only version of the market interface with all the silly icons stripped out to reduce resource load. They could call it the "business" or "grown-up" edition.
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@Roderick
I am having a problem of my connection to the game failing when I try to enter the Consignment Houses or the Black Market at least one time a day if not more often. I have access to two internet providers and its not that. Nor do I have much of a problem when I am doing anything else in the game its just when I am trying to enter either the Consignment Houses or the Black Market. What I am wondering is is there just something wrong with my computer or my software of the game when I try to enter it or are others having the same problem.