Having Issues With Lag Spikes In All Servers
PowderdToastMan
Join Date: 2004-02-19 Member: 26711Members
Join Date: 2004-02-19 Member: 26711Members
in Tech Support
(specs are below) Ok, heres the problem. Ever since ive started playing, ive always had trouble with stuff moving sluggishly or waht some call "teleporting players" which is usually associated with huge amounts of lag. I used to think it was an FPS problem, but my machine is pretty decent, and this is still the halflife engine. I play on cable, and thats what bothers me, that im playing with broadband and im still getting huge lag spikes when a rather large battle ensues (not to mention i held down tab, and my ping went from 100 - 400+ during a battle)
Here are my specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz
OS: Xp-pro
Memory: 512MB RAM
Sound: Onboard Mobo sound support
Graphics Card name: RADEON 9800 PRO
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Game setup: Opengl 1600x1200 32bit color (already tried lowering the resolution, hasnt fixed anything)
Not running EAX
Playing from halflife disc
Using steam.
Playing beta 5 (noticed the same problem on older versions though)
Here are my specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz
OS: Xp-pro
Memory: 512MB RAM
Sound: Onboard Mobo sound support
Graphics Card name: RADEON 9800 PRO
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Game setup: Opengl 1600x1200 32bit color (already tried lowering the resolution, hasnt fixed anything)
Not running EAX
Playing from halflife disc
Using steam.
Playing beta 5 (noticed the same problem on older versions though)
Comments
open your net graph to see them clearer
(net_graph 2) in console
<u>its not your system spec I can assure you of that.</u>
<b>Have you set up your rates? </b>
If not (and I assume your cable is at least 512k) use
cl_rate 20000
rate 20000
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 101
If you are still getting them after this...
It will be either
*your internet service provider
*the server your playing on lagging
Try playing on loads of different servers, and if you are getting lag spikes on them all then it your internet service provider.
happened to me for 2 weeks but nows its gone, im using ntl and i beleave they've updating the servers or what not, so it maybe that.
open your net graph to see them clearer
(net_graph 2) in console
<u>its not your system spec I can assure you of that.</u>
<b>Have you set up your rates? </b>
If not (and I assume your cable is at least 512k) use
cl_rate 20000
rate 20000
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 101
If you are still getting them after this...
It will be either
*your internet service provider
*the server your playing on lagging
Try playing on loads of different servers, and if you are getting lag spikes on them all then it your internet service provider. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, i guess i hadnt setup my rates yet. That helped a ton, thanks for the info guys.