Slow Laggy Gameplay Of Doom
Necrosis
The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Steam related. Help??</div>
Ok, everything installed, all's well, but when I connect to a game I'm getting timeouts, even if the server is give or take 200 ping. After a few retries I can get to the server, but its all slow and choppy and the scoreboard pegs me with a ping of nearly 600. This happens for all the mods plus steam-run half-life.
Normal half-life doesn't seem to have this problem. Sooooooo it stands to reason steam is glitching me out severely. Sound is hellishly choppy too, even at low quality.
Yes I realise this is not the steam forums and yes I'm asking on the steam forums as well, but it was just in case anyone had solid suggestions here. Here's my pc stats, and yes it IS an old pc but its only temporary until I get a new motherboard (better motherboard died, was replaced by interim crappy one).
Intel P3 501 MHz
ATI firegl, latest drivers
256 RAM
Sound card is some sort of onboard c-media one.
WinXP
3.37 gig free on the primary (of 7), running Steam from a second drive with 1.36 gig free (of 12)
Running in 1024x768, opengl 32 bit
Not running EAX
Running Steam install
Conclusion I've come to is its likely the motherboard and RAM (or lack thereof) although if normal HL is playing OK I thought steam hl would be even halfway playable.
Ta if you've tips, I'm off to check the steam forums!
Ok, everything installed, all's well, but when I connect to a game I'm getting timeouts, even if the server is give or take 200 ping. After a few retries I can get to the server, but its all slow and choppy and the scoreboard pegs me with a ping of nearly 600. This happens for all the mods plus steam-run half-life.
Normal half-life doesn't seem to have this problem. Sooooooo it stands to reason steam is glitching me out severely. Sound is hellishly choppy too, even at low quality.
Yes I realise this is not the steam forums and yes I'm asking on the steam forums as well, but it was just in case anyone had solid suggestions here. Here's my pc stats, and yes it IS an old pc but its only temporary until I get a new motherboard (better motherboard died, was replaced by interim crappy one).
Intel P3 501 MHz
ATI firegl, latest drivers
256 RAM
Sound card is some sort of onboard c-media one.
WinXP
3.37 gig free on the primary (of 7), running Steam from a second drive with 1.36 gig free (of 12)
Running in 1024x768, opengl 32 bit
Not running EAX
Running Steam install
Conclusion I've come to is its likely the motherboard and RAM (or lack thereof) although if normal HL is playing OK I thought steam hl would be even halfway playable.
Ta if you've tips, I'm off to check the steam forums!
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Also have you tryed turning off all steams auto updates? so that it doesnt update while your playing.
Can be done by right clicking the games in the games menu and selecting properties.
Also have you tryed turning off all steams auto updates? so that it doesnt update while your playing.
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Unfortunately, my custom games (including NS 3) in the games menu do not have a "Properties" option - only the standard games have this. Is there a manual setting somewhere I can type in?
Also have you tryed turning off all steams auto updates? so that it doesnt update while your playing.
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As of now NS 3.0 beta does <b>not</b> support Steam auto-patches.
Check your Steam network monitor and check for any fishy activity. Could also be external programs running in the background. Some programs slow games down a LOT, especially anti-virus software.
Try turning off any anti-virus software you have running, and tell us if it helps.
If it isn't then it should be your mobo, because Steam was built on newer mobos (yours is most likely an exceptionally old one from 1998) and maybe they forgot about the low-end users.
If all solutions you try don't work at all, consider trying your HDD on a friend's PC to see if the problem disappears. If it does, it's your mobo. If it isn't, something is surely lagging you like heck (most probably a virus)
Definitely think its the mobo. Bog standard HL runs like a greased pig, as do other low end games. Its only in Steam that I get any problems. Ah well, should be getting a new mobo "soon" according to my supplier. Who's usually full of poo, but beating him up won't make the little git work any faster.
*sigh*
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I entered this in my console "cl_timeout 9999" and everything worked fine.
Also sometimes it does not stick so when you join a new game it might say "timeout"again just enter that every time as desired.
Asus 8440 (GF4 Ti 4400) 4X
AMD XP3000+
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe
512Mb PC3200 DDR
768/128KBs Cable Interet
I've got my CPU clocked 200Mhz over the factory default and my Geforce 4 is clocked up to 295Mhz from 275. I've got everything turned off in the background (firewall, antivirus). This is NOT a slow machine by any definition. However, the second I see more then 1 or 2 players on the screen, the game craws. My mouse lags to hell, and I'm lucky hit an onos standing still. The game is barely playable, and I have no problems with non-steam NS.