It's really down to whether your card has enough memory to hold all the required textures or not. Im curious to know if anyone can go many many map cycles, something in the range of 30 or more, and not notice any slow downs?Ĭlick to expand.vRAM. Im not sure if they have the same effect but both are only a temp fix and you'll need to eventually restart the game. A good way to speed up the game after its been running for a long time is to enter chatlog via 'L' then exit, or alt-enter to restore then maximize the game again. This option can prelong the onset of that lag which can take 10 map loads to notice, but there is another short delay while people and horses enter your 'range' and are loaded. Theres still some performance bug in warband that will slowly cause lag as more people and maps are cycled, this is not an obvious memory leak but something sneakier. In situations where for example: you are playing siege with 50 people, you wont always have to load everyone into memory (cant recall if this is Vram or sys ram) with the option enabled. I believe this option came about to reduce the lag encountered during the beta on some older systems.

Mount and blade load textures on demand