User blog comment:Exc0p/Lag spikes... Help?/@comment-1906486-20120323203109

Depends on your connection also. If you play wirelessly the connection isn't solid, also if people start draining the bandwidth it can hinder you. I've actually had someone streaming on my connection, it literally sapped all my upload and I lagged so badly.

Usually a good restart will fix some things, I also use SmartRAM which helps keep memory usage managed. From the same company as GameBooster so you'll know it's good. Just there's so many reasons, it's hard to pinpoint your exact causes.

You can pinpoint it really from a few variables. Net, Video Card, RAM and such. Sometimes there's too much to be handled, to the point the connection is literally choked on data. So you notice all the player teleports, to the point you really can't play at all.

Is your PC actually adequate for running CA? Sometimes there's a difference between it can run, and running properly and effectively. You might also want to decrease your quality, which I do by setting it to custom and doing everything low. That can save your PC having to render high quality, so you can minimize the lag you experience.

At times the server is usually at fault, being so overloaded to the point it's a problem. Try playing on less congested channels and see how it goes? There's so many odds and ends to cause these effects, that really you spend a lot of time trying to fix the wrong thing.