Lag spikes / hangups every 10 - 15s

AlexRJ · October 2013

I'm having really bad issues with lag spikes / hangups every 10 - 15s, making the game near-unplayable. Typically it'll run smoothly, then freeze for a second or two and rubberband me back a bit (usually getting me killed); this does not happen in any other games and I am fairly certain it is not a latency issue. I am currently running the game on minimum, D3D9, fullscreen, tried with texture streaming both on and off, everything else disabled, and with NS2.exe's priority set to Realtime. This has been happening when running the game at 140 FPS (aside from when it drops due to the spikes) and at a stable 50ish ping. My specs are as follows:

Intel i5-3570 3.4 GHz
8 GB RAM
GeForce GTX 670 - with latest drivers.
Windows 7 64 bit

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

dePARA · October 2013

This looks like an server who cant handle the game.

Open console with ^ and type net_stats if you on a server and watch the serverrate.
If you have rubberbanding and constant 30 ticks, its and clientissue (your PC)
If you have serverticks below 20 and rubberbanding its an serverissue and you have to change the server.

Constant 30 ticks is optimal btw.

You can check and compare serverperformance on this side also:
http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/index.php

Look for the server you typically playing on and compare with others.
Choose the ones with constant 30 ticks to have an optimal gaming experience.

AlexRJ · October 2013

Ok, so I was entirely wrong and it is a latency thing, been playing on solid 30 ticks servers, but every few seconds my ping spikes up to several hundred and then back down. I've tried reverting back to older drivers from before I noticed this happening, but it hasn't helped.

IronHorse · October 2013

Sounds like networking still (meaning i doubt drivers have an impact unless you installed a new internet device)
So are you running wireless? router? We need a detailed description of your network setup, configuration and model numbers to help you diagnose this further.

Also have you seen the stickied thread in the tech support forums here regarding network connections?

AlexRJ · November 2013

Sorry for the delayed response, it's all working now - was a router issue, not an NS2 one - just posting for completeness.

It was a latency issue, so I used the command prompt to ping google.ca (I'm in Canada) (go to the windows orb, search for 'cmd', type "ping -t google.ca" or whatever website you want) and it turned out that my internet connection was spiking every 3 or 4 seconds. In order to fix this I reset my router to factory defaults and it's worked fine since.

IronHorse · November 2013

Thanks for posting your solution!

Lag spikes / hangups every 10 - 15s

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