1 Second Lag Spikes

Post by **Jelster** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:07 am

Hi,

Sorry to bang out a 1st post with a question, quite rude I know. Let me introduce myself first.

I've was a dedicated Q3 player for several years, I kinda pulled away from it early expecting D3 to offer "The next big thing", boy was I wrong and do I miss Q3. Tinkered with Painkiller but online sucked, played CoD but thats not the same type of game. So now I'm here with Quake 4. SP was better than I expected and the online seems to be more of what I loved about Q3.

However, I have a problem. My lagometer gets yellow lag spikes at about 1 second intervals. This gives me packet loss like jumps and stutters and makes playing online impossible. Forum searches are of course full of the terms Lag so its been hard nailing this down. Now with the 1.1 beta out I feel confident its not a software issue so would really appreciate some points on where to look next.

My System: I won't go into huge details but its a X2 4200+ CPU, 2gig ram, 7800GTX GPU etc. Router is linksys WRT54GX2, PC connection to router is wired.

Tests:
I've run a local server and it works fine, no lag.
Moved networks menu setting from DSL/Cable to ISDN with no difference in the lag spikes
Swapped the network cards (NF4 mobo so both built in net cards)
Tried multiple, low ping, 0 player servers and done nothing but stared at walls.
Used lagometer in CoD and not seen the same spikes.

Thoughts:
I'd be thinking something crappy on my network end if it wasn't for the CoD test not showing any spikes. I'm on Bellsouth ADSL 2.5meg, nothing great, perhaps some packet loss but the regularity of the spikes suggests something else I think.

Piccy:

Thanks, I'm crossing my fingers you can give me some fragging fun this weekend.

Post by **DooMer** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:23 am

Maybe its pb. Try updating manually? http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=dl-q4.php

Post by **{uZa}FreakOfNature** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:17 am

That's wierd. I have the EXACT same problem. It just happens every great once in a while and while it's going on, it's like I totally lose control. Then a second or 2 later it's gone.

Odd. I just kinda learned to deal with it but please let us know if you find something.

Post by **ichicanix** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:16 am

is there anybody who hasnt got that problem?

i bet they gonna fix that in THE BIG PATCH

you can find that patch here:

Control Panel-Software-Quake 4-uninstall

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:14 pm

are you sure it isn't isp based?

have you tried running a traceroute and looking for a similar pattern?

Post by **{uZa}FreakOfNature** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:04 am

I personally have no problem like that on any other games I play, and there are quite a few.

Post by **Vidda** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:28 pm

I had similar problems, and my solution involved tweaking the 'clientmaxrate' settings in the .cfg. For some reason, changing it in game did nothing, but I played around w/ the numbers until I got the best connection I could.