Lag, Terrible Lag
Hagen
Join Date: 2004-02-01 Member: 25892Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I dont understand why though</div> Ok, Ive been playing NS alot lately as most of us have <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> But ive been getting a lot of lag, especially with marines...
This apears to be happening when
1. lots of PCs on the screen
2. I get scanning as a marine
My ping is often 50-70...but when one of those 2 things happens, it jumps from 300-500 at times, making it very difficult with my ever changing Ping...
Now I could understand this if i had a crappy machine and 56k or a crappy net connection/isp I dont, heres my system specs
512mb DDR ram
2.1gig AMD Athlon
Geforce 4 128mb 8x
120gb harddrive
512kbs broadband
Is there anything I can do to get this lag down? I know theres all that Cl_rate n crap that can be edited, never tried it before, but it makes for hellish gaming when your ping jumps all over the place.
(other ppl seem to suffer too, although not as bad as me)
This apears to be happening when
1. lots of PCs on the screen
2. I get scanning as a marine
My ping is often 50-70...but when one of those 2 things happens, it jumps from 300-500 at times, making it very difficult with my ever changing Ping...
Now I could understand this if i had a crappy machine and 56k or a crappy net connection/isp I dont, heres my system specs
512mb DDR ram
2.1gig AMD Athlon
Geforce 4 128mb 8x
120gb harddrive
512kbs broadband
Is there anything I can do to get this lag down? I know theres all that Cl_rate n crap that can be edited, never tried it before, but it makes for hellish gaming when your ping jumps all over the place.
(other ppl seem to suffer too, although not as bad as me)
Comments
my specs:
2600+ athalon (2.1ghz)
1024ddr RAM
128mb geforce fx
56k provided by BT (cant get broadband here)
180gig HD
DX9
no idea why steam has this effect on my computer, any help/info about this problem would be appreciated.
Cheers - Rhodri
I thought is was the only one having this problem but apparently i'm not... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Just wait ppl, it will get fixed.
One scenario that has happened:
3 friends and i went onos to finish off the rines but when i got to their base i just..lag...move..move..laaaag...*rine shoots* ..kersplat onos dead <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Is anyone else still getting this problem? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*Returns to the Shadows*
i had this exact problem too, changing the Connection settings in Steam fixed my lag as well.
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The answer: MORE TACOS
they locked cl_rate, not rate. and cl_rates max is 9999 anyways in HL. Try adding Net_graph 3 and pay attention to your choke when these things happen, it if shoots up then your rate is set too low and needs to be reset at a higher value (I currently have mine set to 9000). It also could be that your playing on a laggy server.