Papulatus = Totally bugged + Free maple crashes! :/

I'm using WinXP, so it's not only Win7 now... it's also WinXP, and most likely WinVista as well...

Like I said, it's never been a problem exclusive to 7/Vista. 7/Vista just make the problem worse/more likely to occur.

When I kill Pap, I always finish off all 3 forms (Time Sphere, Clock, final), but before I get the chance to loot much, I dc.
The weird thing is, when I kill the clock, the dying animation makes it invisible and the final form appears.

Vista 64-bit, I can finish off pap and loot fine, but dc when trying to leave like others. Music issue was there from the start too. I had no visual errors other than the window frame from the NPC when trying to leave.

Late to the party comment: So can 1.1 attacks miss by default now, or is that a result of the bowman evasion skill? I wound up avoiding the 1.1 more often than I did touch damage from orange mushrooms the prior day.

Vista 64-bit, I can finish off pap and loot fine, but dc when trying to leave like others. Music issue was there from the start too. I had no visual errors other than the window frame from the NPC when trying to leave.

Late to the party comment: So can 1.1 attacks miss by default now, or is that a result of the bowman evasion skill? I wound up avoiding the 1.1 more often than I did touch damage from orange mushrooms the prior day.

1/1 misses me pretty often on my sair too, which is nice cuz it takes a pretty big chunk out of my ships hp whenever it does hit. Btw there was a thread about this in the bugs forum, but when I disable my sound card, it at least fixes some of the graphical issues including the one where the npc's text box goes invisible. Havnt dced in pap since, but havnt attempted a longer boss fight like zak.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit. I can Pap and Zak without a single problem. They act in every way as they were intended to, no graphics issues, nothing.

I do two things:

1) Turn off Maple (and any other program that is making noise in Windows) and then disable your sound card driver. Do not uninstall, disable it.
2) Turn on the 800x600 Resolution and lower the graphics all the way.

I know that sound issue has been affecting many people, and it's been confirmed that disabling the driver has helped them.

if you have enough ram it wouldn't be a problem.

if you can kill it fast enough it wouldn't be a problem.

I was monitoring my computer during pap and all it did was bring my ram to 1.5gigs, as soon as i killed it and tried to leave the room, maple froze and this time i waited it out and all of the sudden, bam 1gig of ram was freed and maple was down to 500mb of ram used and things started to move on maple. Then it crashed lol.

if you have enough ram it wouldn't be a problem.

if you can kill it fast enough it wouldn't be a problem.

I was monitoring my computer during pap and all it did was bring my ram to 1.5gigs, as soon as i killed it and tried to leave the room, maple froze and this time i waited it out and all of the sudden, bam 1gig of ram was freed and maple was down to 500mb of ram used and things started to move on maple. Then it crashed lol.

And I think is not just pap or something new, since preBB when I fought bergamot my maple froze for maybe a min or two, and today when I went to kill it again same but worse (though now I have double the ram), which makes me wonder why a map full of monsters or even fm ch1 entrance don't lag as bad as killing/fighting just 1 monster.

Also I use windows XP.

I killed captain lantica the other day on my outlaw and had no issues at all, he is summoned.

I'm on Windows 7, 64-bit with 4 gigs of ram.

Have no issues with pap except the sound. Have killed it 4 times without d/c. I do get the blank npc message when I try to exit ,but I just move my keys to "yes", and after a short lag (black screen), I do exit WITHOUT DC.

Zak however, isn't as nice, because I dc within a minute of summon. >_<