My Computer And The Lag...

Mullet

<div class="IPBDescription">I got some questions...</div> Okay, whenever I play NS and more than 4 guys appear in my screen and/or shoot at me, my ping skyrockets to 900+ (I'm 56k, Average ping is like 350). Here are my comp. stats:

AMD Athlon 900mhz
GeForce4 Ti 4600
SoundBlaster 512mb
900mb of SDRam
40 gig hard-drive
**Running Windows XP Professional**

Okay now, I think it's my CPU. Do you think if I install windows98 or windows millenium it could fix the problem a little? I remember when I ran windows millenium (which sucks), it was probably one of the smoothest times playing HL....but at the time when I play HL, it didn't have the voice-recording added to it, which lagged me a lot.

So what should I do? (Please dont just say buy a new computer, because not everyone has spare money for that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )


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I didn't put this in the Tech forums because although it IS NS-Related, I get this problem with like every game <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Moquiao

well i have played ns on a 633 celeron with a 1 mb vid card... and i didnt have that problem :S

i mean i lagged to hell but that was the 1 mb vid card lol

your setup looks fine imho.. just slow net connection i guess...

Mullet

Thanks Wolf, BTW: What IMO mean?

Please more people post if you think this could be a reason why I'm so laggy.... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dunsby

IMO = In My Opinion.

Your got graphic card drivers?

p4Samwise

When you play single-player half-life, does everything seize up when more than four monsters appear at once?

I'm guessing it's your net connection. That 56k pipe just can't handle the data from four people at once.

Mullet

I'm completely up-to-date on all drivers.

I don't think its my connection because I've played on my friends computer (hes like 3 miles from me) and his works absolutely fine. |NOTE: He has a 1.8ghz CPU tho....

When I play LAN/Single-Player everything works great. I was just playing LAN a couple days ago with 10 people and 10 bots and nothing slowed down.

Mullet

Here's a shot of me in my base on an 18 player server.


Note: my friend is [LoDw]DirtyGabbs, and look at his ping to mine....he only lives a couple miles away.

Mullet

And another....

Later on an onos, 2 fades, and a skulk came into our base and my ping went to 1,300.....

NOTE: My modem is an AOpen FM56-PM.

Thansal

netgraph 3

tell us what hapens to choke and pkt loss <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Mullet

There we go. I've noticed my choke being around 20-30 a lot.

Mullet

Some help...anyone?

VeNeM

its your updaterate and cmdrate and rate settings. They are all wrong. and also fps_modem is prolly wrong too.
fps_modem 60
cl_cmdrate 32 or lower
cl_updaterate 20 or lower
cl_resend 1
cl_cmdbackup 2
cl_latency -half your ping there

Mullet

<!--QuoteBegin--RAPTOR+Aug 19 2003, 11:27 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RAPTOR @ Aug 19 2003, 11:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> its your updaterate and cmdrate and rate settings. They are all wrong. and also fps_modem is prolly wrong too.
fps_modem 60
cl_cmdrate 32 or lower
cl_updaterate 20 or lower
cl_resend 1
cl_cmdbackup 2
cl_latency -half your ping there <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I tried all of that, and nothing changed....any ideas?

Thansal

does this hapen ANY where else?

if so contact your ISP

oh, and use <a href='http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2' target='_blank'>ASE</a> to find games of 1.04

VeNeM

Did you change them in the config, or did you just randomly change them ingame. Changing them ingame wont do crap. Dialup sucks for changing rates and such, so you have to join the game with the right settings or just lag.

VeNeM

Also, make sure the servers sv_minrate isnt higher than what your rate is set at. If it is, dont expect to play with a "decent" ping (56k decent = 200-350)