Alien On Dial-up Attacking Turrets Lag Problem

Drek · October 2003

I've managed to find a solution for the dial-up lag bug for my friends on dial-up except in one specific situation. If my buddy on dial-up attacks a room full of marine turrets, as an alien, he basically freezes. His ping rockets up into the 4000+ range, and he can't move. It is a recipe for certain death and limits what he can do in the game. It also takes a while for his ping to recover after he dies and respawns.

Has anyone found a solution for this specific problem? If you have please post what you have done to solve the problem.

Thank you in advance.

sickboy · October 2003

The only real solution to that kind of problem is getting out of dial-up internet. In an age where DSL is soon to be obsolete, dial-up shouldn't ever be used.

Besides, you can get a dsl line for basically the same price as dial-up.

Another way to "fix" this problem would be to have someone create super-low poly turrets. Like... so low it's just a box.

Morrik · October 2003

Try lowering your graphical setting to almost nothing, as this will help sometimes.

There is no real "quick fix" with dial-up issues in NS because the game does transmit a great deal of information at once.

Sorry. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

VeNeM · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (sickboy @ Oct 4 2003, 07:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The only real solution to that kind of problem is getting out of dial-up internet. In an age where DSL is soon to be obsolete, dial-up shouldn't ever be used.

Besides, you can get a dsl line for basically the same price as dial-up.

Another way to "fix" this problem would be to have someone create super-low poly turrets. Like... so low it's just a box.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
bla bla bla broadband isnt everywhere

Thansal · October 2003

...............

ping is not effected by graphix.......

NS WIL PLAY WITH a 56K............

have him run with net_graph 3

watch choke, loss, and ping and tell us corelations

also if it is choke going up, disable QOSPacket scheduler
basicaly pull up his network settings and under TCP/IP disable qospacket scheduler.

if this aint it, tell us more about the system, the net_graph 3 stats etc

VeNeM · October 2003

yea, you can also start a fire by rubbin 2 sticks together, but id rather have matches

Drek · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>also if it is choke going up, disable QOSPacket scheduler
basicaly pull up his network settings and under TCP/IP disable qospacket scheduler.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Thanks for that tip, I'll see if that helps.

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>watch choke, loss, and ping and tell us corelations</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
A bit of a pain when you are dealing with the problem second hand. I will see if I can run a test with him and find out what exactly is happening with choke, loss and ping. The only thing I can watch when I am on the server with him is ping. I'll see what I can do to get him to get me the other info.

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The only real solution to that kind of problem is getting out of dial-up internet. In an age where DSL is soon to be obsolete, dial-up shouldn't ever be used.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
I often wonder... how is it possible that people can be as ignorant as pronouncements like that make them appear to be? Go vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger or something...

Thansal · October 2003

thank you <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

though I then point out that Ahnold is actualy a very good and viable canidate (dude, made his first million BEFORE going into movies simply with smart investing, the Terminater is frighteningly smart ;P)

ok, enugh off topic ;P

Yes, 56K will work perfectly fine with NS, it is specificly designed so that you can <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

The only thing NS really REQUIRES is a decent CPU (mine is 1.1) and OGL

Mullet · October 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (sickboy @ Oct 4 2003, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The only real solution to that kind of problem is getting out of dial-up internet. In an age where DSL is soon to be obsolete, dial-up shouldn't ever be used.

Besides, you can get a dsl line for basically the same price as dial-up.

Another way to "fix" this problem would be to have someone create super-low poly turrets. Like... so low it's just a box.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
If it were only that easy...

*crys*

Alien On Dial-up Attacking Turrets Lag Problem

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