Originally Posted by
Jellyflower
I've had dcing issues on my desktop ever since 2 years ago. Note that I've been playing with the same comp for 4 years or so, upgrading graphics card 3 times and so, and changed hard drive just a year ago or so when it crashed. When I first zakumed back in Dec 06 I believe, arms would summon and my screen will freeze after anywhere after 5 sec to 10 min in. I decided to change to a better card and I never froze or dc'ed from zakum again, this was with school's T1 connection. It's an Athlon XP 3000 with 1 gb of ram. Remember zakum runs used to be an hour or longer and usually consists of nearly full 30 people to fill in all the slots so no crashers can come. Never did I encounter graphics problem or freezing. Now, the very same comp with a better graphics card, I have trouble at zakum sometimes if I don't change my graphics regularly, I think it might be ram problem or my slow hard drive on there. I'm still using XP on that comp, and it's actually a clean install compared to my massive load of programs back in school. XP with vista/w7 graphics glitch, weird huh? Some say it's DirectX problems, some say it's memory, some say it's the way graphics is handled. I switched to an SSD on this laptop and I can tell you any portal I go in is very quick. You know how sometimes when you're done bossing and you change channel or go in cash shop, your maple will crash due to graphics glitch. I had that before on this laptop after each horntail run, but when I switched to SSD, it never happened again, ever. I personally believe maple is just really picky, you need good amount of ram, the right OS, fast HDD and ram, good graphics card but not too good. I seriously doubt big bang will fix it, if anything, it'll get worse. The programmers are bad at fixing it because their testers can't test things at the same calibre as us and they always tend to overlook things.
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