I'm playing the official Indonesian version of Lineage II (or to be exact, "I was", because I've had enough with inconsistent promises of the GMs. helped them for more than 2 years collecting player violations, and they turned me down for not punish players who broke the rules more than half a year).
I have a 945GM laptop, and I also have "The game may not be consistant because AGP is deactivated, Please activate AGP for consistancy." message everytime I start playing. it's not the game's fault. it's more likely because of our built-in chipset. and of course you have to either click OK or close the message to begin playing. in short, "just accept the message". for the video lagging problem: - try to use smaller resolution available (if playing in fullscreen mode) - or put a custom window size via Option.ini (if playing in windowed mode. mine was GamePlayViewportX=936 and GamePlayViewportY=702... at least that size is enough for me, still retain 4:3 ratio. don't know if it's affect the game, but I like exact ratio ^^') - I'm one of the "care less of eyecandy" person type when playing (except I want to do a really good screenshot), so I put almost all the graphic section in low quality, uncheck Ground, uncheck Shadow, etc (...well, maybe except NPC Range on maximum because I need full target location visibility, and Terrain Range on Nedium or Near, enough to understand my surroundings... once again, it's my preference). - uncheck the GPU Animation. I got 1-3 FPS reduced if I checked it on my 945GM. - check Decrease Background Performance. uncheck it if you can play more than one window (I play 2 windows usually) + all of them is active (hunting, walking, etc). if you also have more than 2 CPU cores, then put different CPU affinity on each window (very useful in reducing critical error). if you play more than one window, but only one is active (the others are busy vending items), then you don't need to uncheck the option and do the affinity. - use software TnL mode in registry for l2.bin. helps get rid of bad lighting effects http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad255/polisi_lineage2/zero.jpg => this is registry value 0 http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad255/polisi_lineage2/one.jpg => this is registry value 1 (actually, any value that's not zero, for this game.. but just use value 1 for simple) - the other settings are in l2.ini, but it's encrypted. even though I know how to modify it, I won't tell because it's against the game's EULA (don't worry about not be able to modify it. it won't give you high FPS boost unless you make the settings so low until your char and its surroundings just look like polygons, and you're okay with that, seeing only polygons in the game ^_^'). -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
