Laggy/Choppy Dice animations

[Moon Wizard]

Actually, after a few more cases, it seems that the most common situation causing laggy animation that we have seen is that Windows is assigning Fantasy Grounds to run on motherboard integrated graphics cards, instead of the dedicated 3D graphics card.

Check your NVidia or Radeon graphics settings to see if you can choose which graphics card.

Here's a link I found for NVidia graphics drivers:
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to...-card-3612668/

Regards,
JPG

[ddavison]

Almost all my dekstop PC systems have had NVIDIA and they don't have any sort of lag. My current desktop is running an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. The two laptops I use for testing are around 3 to 4 years old now and they both have built-in cards. One is a Lenova and the other is an HP. We are not doubting that some people are having some form of unacceptable lag. The problem is that we haven't identified the smoking gun yet. You don't have the Mac Compatibility option turned on in your Settings do you?

[Gwydion]

Actually, after a few more cases, it seems that the most common situation causing laggy animation that we have seen is that Windows is assigning Fantasy Grounds to run on motherboard integrated graphics cards, instead of the dedicated 3D graphics card.

Check your NVidia or Radeon graphics settings to see if you can choose which graphics card.

Here's a link I found for NVidia graphics drivers:
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to...-card-3612668/

Regards,
JPG

Yes. At least for me, I think it was definitely the assignment issue. I have a NVidia card and about 2 weeks ago everything started lagging for me. Dice animations, moving tokens, dragging shields from images, stories, etc.. I believe it was right after a windows update. I went back and checked in my NVidia control panel and noticed that I no longer had a rule that forced Fantasy Grounds to run on my NVidia card. Once I added that again, everything has been fine since. I really hope that is your issue Sarm11111! <fingers crossed>

[HWalsh]

I'm having this problem too... I have an older computer and FG just hates my comp.

My Catalyst Control Center doesn't have an option to force it to be used though. I tried messing with Antialiasing and such... No joy.

I'm really confused. I know my comp is 6 years old, but hey it's all I got. It runs video games like Saints Row IV at high quality and over decent FPS, I don't know why it chugs and slogs in FG. It never did that in Roll20 or any other program I have used. Not sure what to do.

I get this, and the program constantly going non-responsive (especially if I open up module information) and I really don't want to have to quit my gaming group because they have all now switched to FG.

[Gwydion]

I'm having this problem too... I have an older computer and FG just hates my comp.

My Catalyst Control Center doesn't have an option to force it to be used though. I tried messing with Antialiasing and such... No joy.

I'm really confused. I know my comp is 6 years old, but hey it's all I got. It runs video games like Saints Row IV at high quality and over decent FPS, I don't know why it chugs and slogs in FG. It never did that in Roll20 or any other program I have used. Not sure what to do.

I get this, and the program constantly going non-responsive (especially if I open up module information) and I really don't want to have to quit my gaming group because they have all now switched to FG.

Hey HWalsh! Welcome to the forum. I'm not quite sure if this will work for you, but I found this online:

Force App To Use AMD Graphics Card

You can force an app to use your AMD graphics card but it isn’t as easy, or as accessible as the NVIDIA option. With AMD, you can select which apps will use the dedicated graphics card. You don’t have an option in the context menu. Instead, you add apps to the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

Open the AMD Catalyst Control Center app by right-clicking on an empty area on your desktop. Select ‘Catalyst Control Center’ from the context menu. From the list of panels on the left, select ‘Power’. Under ‘Power’, select ‘Switchable application graphics settings’.

Here you will see a list of apps that AMD already recognizes as needing better GPU support. On this panel is an ‘Add Application’ button. Click it and select the EXE of the app you want to force to use the AMD graphics card.

After you add the application, open the dropdown next to it for setting graphics options. Select ‘High performance’ and you’re done. The app will always use AMD graphics card.

We should mention that some options may differ depending on your driver version and the GPU model you have. These solutions will still work but the options may be found under a different menu.

[HWalsh]

Hey HWalsh! Welcome to the forum. I'm not quite sure if this will work for you, but I found this online:

Force App To Use AMD Graphics Card

You can force an app to use your AMD graphics card but it isn’t as easy, or as accessible as the NVIDIA option. With AMD, you can select which apps will use the dedicated graphics card. You don’t have an option in the context menu. Instead, you add apps to the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

Open the AMD Catalyst Control Center app by right-clicking on an empty area on your desktop. Select ‘Catalyst Control Center’ from the context menu. From the list of panels on the left, select ‘Power’. Under ‘Power’, select ‘Switchable application graphics settings’.

Here you will see a list of apps that AMD already recognizes as needing better GPU support. On this panel is an ‘Add Application’ button. Click it and select the EXE of the app you want to force to use the AMD graphics card.

After you add the application, open the dropdown next to it for setting graphics options. Select ‘High performance’ and you’re done. The app will always use AMD graphics card.

We should mention that some options may differ depending on your driver version and the GPU model you have. These solutions will still work but the options may be found under a different menu.

I saw that one too. Unfortunately no such "Switchable Application Settings" option exists in my Catalyst Control Center. I have found no other options for me. Thank you for trying to help though.

I'm just in a rut. I'm in recovery from a bad vehicle accident (don't play with Semi's they hit amazingly hard) so I'm not really able to do much other than game. When the one thing I am really able to do is something I can't do it is hair pullingly frustrating. I may have to just quit the group until Fantasy Grounds can figure out how to fix this on their end or I find a way to replace my old comp (not likely).

[Zacchaeus]

Do you have the cross compatibility option checked in settings?

The irony is that FG should run better on older machines than it does on more up to date ones.

[HWalsh]

Do you have the cross compatibility option checked in settings?

The irony is that FG should run better on older machines than it does on more up to date ones.

Nope. I've turned it on. I've turned it off. I've updated it. I have uninstalled it. I have reinstalled it. I have been constantly trying various things with it for the last 4 hours.

[LordEntrails]

First, when FG becomes non-responsive when you open a module, that is because it is loading (or downloading) the info. So that's normal and dependent upon your computer and network.

As for the choppy dice. also make sure that you have updated your video/graphics drivers to the latest available. If you aren't using the latest (which is still probably several years old) you may not have the option mentioned previously. You can also try install DirectX 9 and see if that helps (though I think FG already does that).

Keep with it, we know it can be frustrating.

[Trenloe]

I'm just in a rut. I'm in recovery from a bad vehicle accident (don't play with Semi's they hit amazingly hard) so I'm not really able to do much other than game. When the one thing I am really able to do is something I can't do it is hair pullingly frustrating. I may have to just quit the group until Fantasy Grounds can figure out how to fix this on their end or I find a way to replace my old comp (not likely).

1) If you really want to play, is laggy dice such an issue? I know it's annoying, but does it actually stop you playing?
2) Other options to try to fix "laggy" dice are: go into your graphics card advanced setup and turn off anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.