[Edit: Fixed! ]Help Meee! Laggy!
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[Edit: Fixed! ]Help Meee! Laggy!
I have been experiencing significant lag when playing online games. Most noticeably it occurs during TF2, but I have also noticed it within Left 4 Dead. My wife and I use the same router/cable modem/internet connection and she is playing just fine. What is odd is that her ping hovers around 50, but mine stays around 70 most of the time. My ping does constantly jump around but even when my ping is 50 it feels like 400....people teleporting around, rocket jumping is impossible etc.
I've tried reinstalling TF2, excluding the steam folder from my antivirus, disabling multicore rendering, checking for new network adapter drivers. Any advice would be appreciated as online gaming is slowly becoming unplayable for me.
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I've tried reinstalling TF2, excluding the steam folder from my antivirus, disabling multicore rendering, checking for new network adapter drivers. Any advice would be appreciated as online gaming is slowly becoming unplayable for me.
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wireless?
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No wireless. Plugged into the router.
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Silly couple of questions, when did it start? Any system changes lately just before, or after this problem occured? Anything wireless, keyboard, mouse, headset? I see you are cable plugged into the router. Video card overheating? If your video card is wonky, it will stutter even if your ping is good.
And last, did you shake all the loose bits out of the fetzer valve on your motherboard?
And last, did you shake all the loose bits out of the fetzer valve on your motherboard?
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Start with the simple things: move the network cable to a different port on the router (and your computer if it has two NICs). I had a port on my switch start to go out a few months back and caused all kinds of weird networking issues until I figured it out.
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OldMan wrote:Silly couple of questions, when did it start? Any system changes lately just before, or after this problem occured? Anything wireless, keyboard, mouse, headset? I see you are cable plugged into the router. Video card overheating? If your video card is wonky, it will stutter even if your ping is good.
And last, did you shake all the loose bits out of the fetzer valve on your motherboard?
No system changes as of late. Nothing wireless. I will turn on netgraph 1 next time I'm in game to check the FPS and also game for a bit and then pop out to see the card's temp but it doesn't feel video related. I've been playing Witcher 2 nearly maxed out and it is running smooth off and on between online gaming and Witcher has been fine.
I will try switching ports. Since I doubt Zookie will read this thread, I will simply use her port on the router and stick her with the wonky internet if that is the problem.Flash wrote:Start with the simple things: move the network cable to a different port on the router (and your computer if it has two NICs). I had a port on my switch start to go out a few months back and caused all kinds of weird networking issues until I figured it out.
Every server in TF2 I have tried and in L4D2. I have noticed that it comes and goes. I thought I had fixed it tonight but I still noticed it was laggy but playable but then later it dropped down to the point hwere I would rocket jump and the next frame displayed would be at the height of the jump.[TOAD] Fano wrote:does this happen on every server?
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I guess another process of elimination step would be to create a local server and play with Zookie for a while to see if it has the same feeling. That could help narrow it down to a network vs. computer issue.
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Sometimes an obvious one, did you update your video drivers? Thats where I always start when I have issues.
I take it things were not laggy at one point and they became laggy, or have you always had lag? If so then I would tweak the in game settings down, HDR, AA, detail, stuff like that and lower the resolution in game too.
BTW, whats your video card, TF2 and L4D2 are not that demanding unless your doing say 1600 X 1200 or 1920 X 1200, heck I run a many years old card in one box and generally I am still happy.
And the last one, what all else is running while your gaming? In years past I have seen things like zone alarm, Norton AV and other things interfere with communications and cause client side lag. I would try to stop as many unnecessary apps and services as possible to see if that helps too.
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I take it things were not laggy at one point and they became laggy, or have you always had lag? If so then I would tweak the in game settings down, HDR, AA, detail, stuff like that and lower the resolution in game too.
BTW, whats your video card, TF2 and L4D2 are not that demanding unless your doing say 1600 X 1200 or 1920 X 1200, heck I run a many years old card in one box and generally I am still happy.
And the last one, what all else is running while your gaming? In years past I have seen things like zone alarm, Norton AV and other things interfere with communications and cause client side lag. I would try to stop as many unnecessary apps and services as possible to see if that helps too.
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Your NIC may be the culprit. Make sure it has the most up to date drivers.
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I've got two suggestions. You could verify your game cache on steam of try this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1093560
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Maybe your graphics hardware isn't as robust as you think. Try dropping the video settings and resolution to something ridiculously low and see if the problem still happens.
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I'm willing to bet it is not his video card. A slow video card has less to do with ping in the source engine. Most of the rendering work is done on the GPU, after data leaves the CPU. Networking is handeled on the CPU. To really figure it out you need to use something like Wireshark or Capsa to see what is going on with the packets.l3eeron wrote:Maybe your graphics hardware isn't as robust as you think. Try dropping the video settings and resolution to something ridiculously low and see if the problem still happens.
If there has been a power outtage the router settings may have reset and that could be causing some problems. Hell, maybe Zookie scrabled his computers network settings in his sleep to give herself an advantage over him.
My advice would be to reinstall Windows, that'll fix it!
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