Bad Lag Spikes With Many Players

Kotch

<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

theclam

What are your rate settings?
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.

SloppyKisses

<!--QuoteBegin-theclam+Nov 18 2004, 10:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (theclam @ Nov 18 2004, 10:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What are your rate settings?
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.

xeon-skycreations

what did you change your connection to?
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exileSoul

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

i thought he did put his connection. maybe check for programs running in the background???

SloppyKisses

Lag spikes can contribue to a lot of factors, some which were already mentioned by others, some have not.

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.

xeon-skycreations

lol that was sad I completely missed the first paragraph, As to the problem Im gonna asume it a connection issue due to the only problem is massive lag. Your Config files is helpful but have you tryed tweeking your rates?

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