Mouse Lag when attacking players

Kalopsia

When I'm engaging an enemy (generally as aliens), my mouse lags out and the response time increases. It is only minor, but is still enough to miss easy kills. This issue occurs on all maps and it only started happening about 2 builds ago.

I've tried nuking NS2 all together, however it made no difference.
I've installed the latest mouse drivers, no fix.
I've installed the latest graphics drivers, no fix.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

dragonmith

Assuming you haven't, try lowering your graphics settings, it might be the PC. Failing that, it might be bad servers, any extra info you can give us on which ones you play?


Quick question for someone, what settings should be set higher to boost performance? I remember something like particle effects and/or ambient occ.

Kalopsia

@dragonmith I did try running on minimal settings a while back, but don't recall it making any difference. Might try again this weekend to see if it makes any difference now.

In regards to your question, Ambient Occulsions is the option you want off. I have a pretty decent machine and it struggled while this was turned on.

nezz

R_sync 0

IronHorse

Well, what is your FPS like at these moments?
Are you running DX9?
Mouse / drivers?
What is your polling rate?
Have you ensured all overlays and apps are closed in the background?
Have you tried using the profiler, if only briefly, to ensure no background apps are stealing processing from input handling? (like a windows event)

dragonmith

@kalopsia, Yes I know about turning stuff off, its the funny ones that somehow seem to offer higher fps when ON that I asked :P Again however, if its not your machine than it might be the servers, some are kinda... meh.

AurOn2

@dragonmith chances are the things that offer higher fps when on will likely drop said fps more often, when off, it may be 'lower' but it will dip less often. vive le consistency.

Kalopsia

@nezz Tried r_sync 0, didn't help

@IronHorse

Generally around 90 FPS
Running DX9
Mouse is a Logitech logitech g9x running the latest drivers as of last week
Polling rate is 500
I will close all programs next time I play and see how it goes
What profiler is that? The video card profiler?

IronHorse

No the NS2 profile. Are you familiar with it?

Kalopsia

@IronHorse wrote: »

No the NS2 profile. Are you familiar with it?

No I don't think so? Do you have a link to more info?

Thanks

IronHorse

* type "profile" in your console.
* after a bad lag moment, or when you notice that delay, press "spacebar".
* use the arrow keys to select the biggest spike(s) in the bottom of your screen. It may not necessarily be the largest, but typically is, so feel free to try multiple of the vertical columns.
* use your mouse to scroll up and down to find the longest horizontal purple bar(s)
* expand these to the fullest by clicking on the "+" icon.
* make screenshots of everything.
* post screenshots here.

Kalopsia

Terrific, thanks @IronHorse.

Kalopsia

Anyway to rebind the profiler space key? Makes flying as lerk useless and that's generally when the issue occurs.

IronHorse

Rebind jump key instead, trust me

Kouji_San

IronHorse wrote: »

Rebind jump key instead, trust me

I jump by sheer willpower, don't need no fancy keybinds! Dat pauze/space has been the bane of profiler since day one :P

Kalopsia

Yeah I've rebound it to alt for the time being. I've had a few instances where I've ran into a group of marines and just paused there because i hit the wrong key haha.

I haven't been able to get screenshots from the exact moment of the lag when attacking, however I did manage to get some last night on eclipse when it started to lag for me during most of the game.

rkfg

You didn't select the spike as I see. The selected frame is highlighted a bit and on your screenshots it's always the one on the right, not the actual spike. Use the arrow keys to select it as @IronHorse‌ said.