Lag since patch

Hybrid1987

<div class="IPBDescription">Spiking</div>Have been running NS 2 for past 2 weeks without much issue, but since the patch update today i have been experience lag spikes.. 1-2 seconds of nothing and major porting when combat hits, the more shooting/biting the worse it gets, though sometimes its bad 1 on 1.

avg'ing 50-60fps (18-19ms)
and 70-100ping (mostly sits on 100 though once a room fills up)
any ideas? graphical errors?

(P.S. specs of computers are pretty high.. windows scores me 7.7 processor 7.8 ram (16gig) 7.9 graphics and 7.9 gaming graphics......)

Bicsum

Hi and welcome to the forums.

Everyone has this problem at the moment. I'm sure it will be better in the next patch.

Max

The 1-2 second hitches are the game compiling shaders for the first time. This should only happen a couple of times and then the game should be good to go (once the files are compiled they are cached on disk so it will never need to do this again).

If you are getting more than a few of these hitches, then something is wrong. Can you check the directory %appdata%\Natural Selection 2\cache and report what is in there?

Hybrid1987

im in C:\Users\Anthony\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\cache
did u want me to zip these files in order to send them? or is there another way of reading these?

shaders_Deferred_shader_template_cinematics_vfx_materials_build_surface_shader.c
ached_surface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_cinematics_vfx_materials_nanoshield_surface_sha
der.cached_surface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_cinematics_vfx_materials_nanoshield_view_surfac
e_shader.cached_surface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_materials_infestation_infestation_decal_surface
_shader.cached_surface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Emissive_surface_shader.cached_surface_
shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Level_emissive_surface_shader.cached_su
rface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Level_surface_shader.cached_surface_sha
der
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Model_alpha_surface_shader.cached_surfa
ce_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Model_emissive_alpha_surface_shader.cac
hed_surface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Model_emissive_surface_shader.cached_su
rface_shader
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_Model_surface_shader.cached_surface_sha
der
shaders_Deferred_shader_template_shaders_WaypointPath_surface_shader.cached_surf
ace_shader
shaders_GUISystem_shader_template_shaders_GUIBasic_surface_shader.cached_surface
_shader
shaders_GUISystem_shader_template_shaders_GUIWavy_surface_shader.cached_surface_
shader
shaders_GUISystem_shader_template_shaders_GUIWavyNoMask_surface_shader.cached_su
rface_shader

Hybrid1987

just incase you want Dxdiag here it is;