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[Edit: Fixed! ]Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by MateoTheBold! » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:40 pm

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. :cry:

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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Jesus_Faction » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:45 pm

wireless?

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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by MateoTheBold! » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:47 pm

No wireless. Plugged into the router.
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by OldMan » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:56 pm

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?

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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Flash » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:03 pm

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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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Pine » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:04 pm

I have a similar issue, only mine has started to calm down a bit to make things slightly more playable
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Fano » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:06 pm

does this happen on every server?
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by MateoTheBold! » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:26 pm

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.
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.
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. :lol:
[TOAD] Fano wrote:does this happen on every server?
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.
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Flash » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:48 pm

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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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by John Doe » Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:16 am

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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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Clay Pigeon » Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:00 am

Your NIC may be the culprit. Make sure it has the most up to date drivers.
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by Peahats » Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:54 am

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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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by metacide » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:05 pm

Have you noticed lag spikes when doing other things online? Have you tried running a pathping test to the L4D2/TF2 servers?
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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by l3eeron » Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:55 pm

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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Re: Help Meee! Laggy!

Post by stujitsu » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:48 pm

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.
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.

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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