Closed - lagspikes. again

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

Name: J. Anderson

Rank: Staff Sergeant

Type of issue: Not sure

Brief Description of Issue: so the lag spikes which ive had for a while before are back and another lag which makes it impossible for me to hit a target because when i am aiming and i go left to aim when i want to stop aim and stand still the lag keeps making me aim more to the left so it makes it impossible to aim. and the lag spikes which i had before are back too this computer is really driving me mad

***Medical Supply Staff ONLY Below this line***

Current Status: Closed

Main Technician: T. Brown

Supporting Technician:

[Cutts]

Hi there...

I'm not really an expert on lag, but I do know it can be caused by a number of things.

A few things that might help tracking down the cause of the problem...

1) How often does it affect you? E.g. is the lag intermittent, or constant?

2) Do you use the net_graph command in game? It can be useful.

I always have net_graph 3 on, which gives you a visual representation of your network

connection to the server. It also has a number of other convenient statistics... the most important

ones being ping, loss and choke (you want all of them to be as close to 0 as possible).

By using the net_graph, you can identify some part of the lag problem (eg, is it due to packet loss, or packet choke?)

Packet loss normally indicates that the physical network you're using is malfunctioning, or is oversubscribed

(eg, some router is broken... usually your ISPs fault.... or alternatively your ISP is trying to send too many

customers data down one line, causing packets to get dropped). To fix packet loss normally means either fixing,

or upgrading hardware, but its likely to be the ISP that has to do this. (I'm assuming here that all your torrents,

downloads, folding-at-home etc. stuff is deactivated... high bandwidth use by other programs can lead to packet loss).

Packet choke normally indicates a that too much data is trying to be sent/recieved by your game client at one time.

As far as I understand it, choke isn't loss of packets, but packets that have been delayed, and recieved out of order.

A little bit of choke is annoying but usually acceptable (a lot of it causes the enemy to kill you even though you appeared to fire first).

Generally, if you have any packet loss, the choke goes through the roof at the same time, but you can have choke on its own,

without getting any loss recorded.

As far as I know, choke can be adjusted by tweaking rate / cl_updaterate settings, to some extent.

Anyway - it will probably be useful to know which of these is causing the issue (it might be both).

This is about as much as I know about this sort of thing, I'm afraid.

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

To add to cutts, have you posted your computer specs before? I went through your post history a bit, but didn't find anything. Post specs of comp! This could be a complicated issue though, so if you see me online Steam (I'm always online), tell me to get into vent and we'll talk about it (since posting everything we might need to fix it here could take a lot of time for ya )

[Cutts]

Oh yeah... I'll do it at some point. Can't remember specs right now.

Its nothing special to be honest.

I used to always have the most bleeding edge stuff, but I got a bit tired of the arms race to be honest!

IMHO computer programs are getting slower, faster than hardware is getting faster; so I barely see the point

in shelling out thousands each year any more!

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

well something to add on the lag spikes happens at every game i play whilst the delay thing lag only happens on dods

edit: something i came to remember is that is usually with the delay lag happens on the pub not in so many other servers

Edited July 26, 2012 by J. Anderson 1st MRB

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Oh yeah... I'll do it at some point. Can't remember specs right now.

Its nothing special to be honest.

I used to always have the most bleeding edge stuff, but I got a bit tired of the arms race to be honest!

IMHO computer programs are getting slower, faster than hardware is getting faster; so I barely see the point

in shelling out thousands each year any more!

oh phfsh cutts, I meant to Anderson! Though you can post your specs too, I always like seeing people's specs : ) And agreed on the arms race; i just upgrade as needed (until I got dumb and bought a case that was too slim to fit a new card in :\ WHY EVEN MAKE CASES THAT SLIM DAMMIT)

but yea, Anderson's specs plz

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Ok to get specs, go to the little windows icon on the bottom left of your screen, click it, then in the Search bar, type dxdiag

copy/paste it all here : )

Then click the tab up top that says Display, and copy/paste those things there too

Edited July 26, 2012 by T. Brown 1st MRB

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

Aktuellt datum/tid: den 26 juli 2012 18:25:06

Datornamn:

Operativ system: Windows 7 home premium 64 bitar (6.1, Build 7600)

Språk: Svenska. Nationell inställning: svenska

Systemtillverkare: Emachines.

Systemmodel: eME642G

BIOS: InsydeH20 Version V2.00

Processor: AMD Athlon™ II P340 Dual-Core Prosessor (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz

Minne: 4096MB RAM

Växlingsfil: 2339 används, 5840MB är tillgängligt

Direkt-X version: DirektX 11

and thats all in swedish lol

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

And to anyone also looking in on this, Reis and Anderson run their computers in the same house, same network; both are relatively similar in performance. Have instructed Anderson how to put Dillon's config on which brought the lerp down, but the problem is still there, and is only on his computer.

I WILL NOT GIVE UP ON YOU ANDERSON!! I WILL FIGURE THIS DAMN THING OUT )@*%$^

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

Namn: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Tillverkare: ATI Technologies Inc.

Kretstyp: ATI display Adapter (0x68c1)

DAC-typ: Internal DAC (400Hz)

if you need more let me know and this is also in swedish

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

damn, that should run DODS beautifully : \

So config, hardware are out.

Have you noticed any problems in any other games?

Have you noticed it on servers closer to Sweden? Euro servers and whatnot? Or is it isolated to U.S. servers only?

Does Reis have any issues that are remotely similar?

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

no reis does not. and yeah as i told you in vent multiple times yes i have the same lag spike thing on other games as well sometimes

[Holland 1st MRB]

How is this ticket coming along? Are the problems still persisting?

Please post back here, updating us on the current situation of the issue.

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

yeah it is only on the pub server as it is

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

Brown any news?

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Just throwing this out there since it seems to have been forgotten, but Anderson have you tried updating your display drivers?

What version are they on?

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Brown any news?

Damn, sorry Anderson, I completely forgot about this (had a hell of a past two weeks)! So sorry mate. I will focus on it tomorrow if I can't dedicate any time to this tonight, promise!

edit: can you post the numbers from net_graph 3 too? If it has only been happening in the pub as of late, perhaps some rates need to be tweaked. What I think would be easiest is to find me on steam either tonight or tomorrow (if you see me in pub, grab my attention and I'll happily leave to help you out; again, sorry for forgetting about this Allow me to make it up to you , and we'll jump in vent and the pub and see if we can work on this hands-on, instead of posting and posting here. If I can witness the changes happening while watching what you're changing, might make it easier to pinpoint the issue.

Edited August 22, 2012 by T. Brown 1st MRB

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Just throwing this out there since it seems to have been forgotten, but Anderson have you tried updating your display drivers?

What version are they on?

I think we tried reverting them back last time we worked on this in vent to no avail, but if not, this is definitely something to look into, agreed completely.

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

i think is solved it by going to some files in my computer which makes it a lot less lag and more "clean" to play which in turn made me really happy so i think its solved but the display thing if my display things are outdated which i dont know it would be awesome to get help with that

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

i got a lerp issue not though -.-

[Holland 1st MRB]

Is the lag spike issue fixed?

What exactly is the issue with the lerp? Value needs to be changed?

[Holland 1st MRB]

Ticket closed. You are welcome to post another ticket if the problem persists, however this ticket appears to be dead.