Bad Lag Spikes With Many Players
Kotch
Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21141Members
Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21141Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">It wasn't always this way....</div> So I moved from college to a house. My connection changed from a T3 to cable. My cable gets about 2.4 Mb according to DSL reports. I'm having no problems with other games.
Anyway, I get good pings (<50), but when there are a lot of players, my ping goes in the 300's (slideshow). I didn't used to have any problems(used to play in games of 30 with no problems), and all I did was change connections. I can't imagine it is my system, as I didn't used to have problems, but here are my specs:
Athlon XP 2600+
GF4 TI4200 128
512 PC2200 DDR
Screen refresh locked to 85Hz
Playing in OpenGL at 1028 res
Anyway, I get good pings (<50), but when there are a lot of players, my ping goes in the 300's (slideshow). I didn't used to have any problems(used to play in games of 30 with no problems), and all I did was change connections. I can't imagine it is my system, as I didn't used to have problems, but here are my specs:
Athlon XP 2600+
GF4 TI4200 128
512 PC2200 DDR
Screen refresh locked to 85Hz
Playing in OpenGL at 1028 res
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in: C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\emailaddress\half-life\ns
there should be a file called config.cfg.
The three variables that you should check are these three:
rate
cl_cmdrate
cl_updaterate
Try setting rate to 10000, cl_cmdrate and cl_updaterate to 60.
Those aren't ideal settings, but they should fix all your connection problems.
in: C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\emailaddress\half-life\ns
there should be a file called config.cfg.
The three variables that you should check are these three:
rate
cl_cmdrate
cl_updaterate
Try setting rate to 10000, cl_cmdrate and cl_updaterate to 60.
Those aren't ideal settings, but they should fix all your connection problems. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes do exactly as he said and if this doesn't work, PM me with further detail of all your set rates ect and I'll help you from there.
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i thought he did put his connection. maybe check for programs running in the background???
I remember when I had a virus keylogger installed onto my computer and it made my games lag like hell including NS. I suggest downloading a virus scan and another free scanner called spybot or Ad-Aware. Again, the lagging on my end was from spyway and viruses, you could always try that.
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