Very bad lag?

ToPheRToPheR Join Date: 2002-10-28 Member: 1677Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">All servers experiencing bad lag?</div>Has no one on these forums played on the internet yet? Or are all these comments based on LAN games?

I just stopped trying to play on the internet out of disgust. EVERY SINGLE server, without exception that I joined was getting RIDICULOUSLY bad ping, as in unplayable pings. This is not on my side either, every person on each server had a similar ping.

Has anyone else noticed this problem or did i just happen to wander into the 14 different servers that happened to be getting very bad ping  <!--emo&:angry:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':angry:'><!--endemo-->

What gives?!?!?
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  • bigjanginbigjangin Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2090Members
    yup almost every server has a ping over 1000...
    I found ONE(wolf?) that had ping under 300... NS is awesome but i have no idea why its so laggy.  Me and a friend were playing lan and every once in a while ns would slow down to a crawl for a second or two.  Hope this gets sorted out.
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  • ZeroPointNRGZeroPointNRG Join Date: 2002-05-18 Member: 628Members
    I don't see how a huge problem like this could be passed by the playtesters o_O??
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  • The_New_AkumaThe_New_Akuma Join Date: 2002-05-30 Member: 699Members
    i found this prob too, i dont mind abit of lag in games, but NS was just stupid, 1000 pings, lowest i had was 600 at one point, i have a T1 line for gods sake, whats up with lag then? it needs to be fixxed, i for one, will not be playing again till it is, i did get to play on a no-lag for for about 10 mins ONCE, i played as commander mode and loved it, i really want to carry on playing, but with no good servers, or just bad netcode, i just cant... very disapointling really <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'><!--endemo-->
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  • DrakeDrake Join Date: 2002-09-06 Member: 1289Members
    Maybe most of the servers up just don't have the juice to run NS? This mod does alot of things that I have never seen in another FPS so I think that may be the cause.
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  • The_New_AkumaThe_New_Akuma Join Date: 2002-05-30 Member: 699Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Drake+Oct. 31 2002,19:22--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Drake @ Oct. 31 2002,19:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Maybe most of the servers up just don't have the juice to run NS? This mod does alot of things that I have never seen in another FPS so I think that may be the cause.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    thats not it, and u know it <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo--> it has to be the netcode, since all servers are lagging, even dedicated ones O.o
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  • WooFerPPkWooFerPPk Join Date: 2002-04-23 Member: 494Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ZeroPointNRG+Oct. 31 2002,19:19--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (ZeroPointNRG @ Oct. 31 2002,19:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't see how a huge problem like this could be passed by the playtesters o_O??<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    not as much players where playing at once,
    i notice after a server reaches about 16 ppl the pings go sky high but lower they stay around 100 - 800 with me
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  • KadrealKadreal Join Date: 2002-06-28 Member: 837Members
    yes it's hard to find a good ping server, but i'd recommend looking for one with low max players, like 12 or 16, any higher and the lag seem to increase expontatly, actually i joined a 32 player max server when there were only 12 in it, at the start it played decet, but as people kept joining the lag got worse and worse getting about unplayable around 18-20, so just look for a good connection to low max servers and be prepared for a bad rear end game
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  • HavicWindHavicWind Join Date: 2002-04-16 Member: 461Members
    It's a combination or things:
    a)The netcode NEEDS to get optimized, really bad. This is known and flaya is worken' on it.
    b)This game does a HUGE amount on the server side. I was doing a Lan thing at home here as a test and my system which is a 1.8 atlhon w/ 512 megs of ram running XP was getting eaten' a live! It was sick really. Only had leik 3 ppl in the game 2. The servers are gonna need to be beafed up a bit as I think the only ones that stand a chance of doing NS will a lyns...
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  • voogruvoogru Naturally Modified (ex. NS programmer) Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1827Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    Im having lag as well, pings usally in 100-300.


    Also, I get a lot of these:

    18:31:13 og L 11/01/2002 - 18:34:22: FATAL ERROR (shutting down): SZ_GetSpace: overflow without FSB_ALLOWOVERFLOW set on Server Reliable Datagram
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    ***Moved to Tech***
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