Screen Lag Issues
aegaeon
Join Date: 2003-11-07 Member: 22370Members
Join Date: 2003-11-07 Member: 22370Members
in Tech Support
Intel® celeron® CPU 1.7 GHz
ATI Radeon 9200 256 mb
Windows XP pro
Open GL - 1054 X something (the first one above 800 x 600)
No EAX
HL Retail - running NS beta 5 through steam ( no install problems)
The problem is that every game i play, regardless of the map and number of people, i run into problems where it seems like NS isn't reading all my commands quick enough and what happens is i get stuck going one direction, and i can't do anything (no mouse movement, no forward/ lateral movement, nothing) then after being stuck like this for a couple seconds, it releases me and i go back to normal. Then 45 seconds-ish later it happens again.
Quite frustrating given the nature of NS gameplay.
And on one particular server when this happened the server gave me a message "scripting not allowed on this server"
-i don't script. never have.
Any suggestions would be Appreciated.
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ATI Radeon 9200 256 mb
Windows XP pro
Open GL - 1054 X something (the first one above 800 x 600)
No EAX
HL Retail - running NS beta 5 through steam ( no install problems)
The problem is that every game i play, regardless of the map and number of people, i run into problems where it seems like NS isn't reading all my commands quick enough and what happens is i get stuck going one direction, and i can't do anything (no mouse movement, no forward/ lateral movement, nothing) then after being stuck like this for a couple seconds, it releases me and i go back to normal. Then 45 seconds-ish later it happens again.
Quite frustrating given the nature of NS gameplay.
And on one particular server when this happened the server gave me a message "scripting not allowed on this server"
-i don't script. never have.
Any suggestions would be Appreciated.
All Drivers are up to date, as of last monday. 9/6 <!--emo&::tsa::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comments
What fps are you getting?
Type net_graph 3 in console (0 to turn it off)
unless NS upgraded their engine or something of that matter i don't think it is my system RAM as i never had this problem with beta 4a and older
and depending on the server i usually get a usually consistent range of 40-60 fps.
however i have seen it drop to about 35 and peak at about 80 something.
in addition, my ping in the servers usually shows up in the 40-50 range.
then connect to a server & see how it plays. This will cause your NS install to recreate all the config files at default settings (you will have to rebind your keys in the menus & change any settings you may have done).
If you still have problems after doing this let us know.
Though there was a little bit of an improvement the 1st time, the issue was still prevalent,( i tried a combat map); So, i decided to try another combat map, sava, and a standard NS map, tanith, and the problem was just as severe the before i renamed the cfg filed to .old as you suggested.
perhaps i didn't do it properly?
i went into the NS folder and renamed all the files i saw under the 'details' view as a CFG file, i right clicked the file and put ".old" at the end.
thanks for your help through this all of you too!
mike.
Some people made playable versions based on the dedicated server, to play before the client was released. Those versions have those lag spikes, like you said. That is because of missing files.
But before doing that check your installer file size and compare to the size of the ones on the downloads page.
but when i completed the download (from a different mirror than i initially used), it came up with the same file size.... plus, reinstalling NS didn't do anything. I didn't completely uninstall STEAM though, should i try that?