One of the managers complaining about lag last night said he was on a much slower EE connection. So it got me thinking, are the issues anything to do with broadband speed? I'm fortunate enough to live in an area covered by Virgin Media fibre and a speed test suggests I am getting approx. I have never experienced any lag nor did I during Beta testing whereas others with higher spec hardware than mine do seem to be having issues. My laptop is nothing special, it's an Acer Aspire with an i5 processor running Win 10 with (I think) 4Gb of RAM. I'm no computer techie but just a thought.įor the past few evenings I have been racing in the Elite Tier of Everyone Welcome league and a couple of the managers have been complaining about lag ruining their race. If still experiencing problems check you have the latest graphic drivers for your system. Type about:flags in the address bar & tick the following boxes: Other Versions of browsers to try if above doesn't help. The above applies to all systems running WinXP, Vista, Win7, Win8/8.1 & Win10. To enable Hardware detection, set to false 'Double Click' To enable Direct2D, set -enabled to true 'Double Click' To enable Layers Acceleration, set -enabled to true 'Double Click' To enable WebGL, set webgl.force-enabled to true. Type about:config in address bar and make the following changes:

WebGL and acceleration is blacklisted in some graphic cards. The above applies to systems running Vista, Win7, Win8/8.1 & Win10 as well. 'relaunch google chrome' it should work now. Then under 'Override software rendering list' Double click to 'enable' If that doesn't work type 'about:flags' on address bar of google chrome On Win XP, WebGL and acceleration is blacklisted because it causes various (serious) system crashes.Ģ) Find the Chrome shortcut you use (normally on the desktop or in the start menu) and right click on it.Ĥ) Add the flag -ignore-gpu-blacklist at the end of the Target box For some people different browsers work better than others in terms of frame rate and performance.īut it is what it is and not everyone can run WebGL straight out of the box it needs Hardware Acceleration in order to run.

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