[BUGS] Quick Run Down of 1.02

(pgh) #21

Kendle. I am on 600k (NTL im guessing) cable to but unlike yourself its a spot on service pinging XS4ALL Q3/ET servers ingame at around 20ish :slight_smile: and 30ish for some reason on all/most UK/EU servers.

Afaik snaps is based on your own fps and not the servers set fps? Ill look into it and let you know when I get home (get to #lsr.et [QNet] for 17:30ish if ya can). In the mean time depending where im playing (bloody PB forces ya to use certain settings at places) I use:

snaps “60”
cl_maxpackets “100”
rate 25000
com_maxfps 125

Never touched packetdup and timenudge doesnt really affect performance as its only usefull to speed up connecting to servers but forces back to 0 when connect anyway…

(Kendle) #22

I get a decent connection mostly thru NTL, but sometimes I get little red spikes in my lagometer, which, if they’re causing this mouse weirdness, I’d like to do something about. I’ll try cl_packetdup 1 next time I play.

Snaps is not related to client FPS. It should be equal to or greater than the server FPS determined by the server-side setting sv_fps, which should be 20 but is sometimes more (there’s a thread around here somewhere explaining why it should always be 20). You’ll probably get kicked from PB servers for a setting of 60.

Timenudge adjusts for high ping but it’s a) not necessary in ET for servers using anti-lag and b) can be abused. You should only have a non-zero value for timenudge if you’re on dial-up or ISDN.

The “speeding up connecting to servers” setting you’re thinking of is timescale.

(pgh) #23

Doh, Scale/Nudge. :confused: Remember now!

Afaik tho PB forces Snaps settings on some server. And as much as im probably wrong I think, was it not between either 40-60 or 20-40 which seems more likely but you never know. But! This was a Bug thread not a Connection thread… :slight_smile: but as usual… happy to try and help. If its any use when I get home i’ll join up a server with ya thats empty if you wanna try different settings etc and see how our pings/pl etc compare till you find one that suits ya?

(pgh) #24

Oops, forgot to say…

Bare in mind that ET may be more stressful on the server as RTCW was. I dont own or run any servers, only admin, so I dont deal with the techy side of setups etc… but its just a suggestion.

(SCDS_reyalP) #25

No. Snaps is the number of snapshots you get from the server, per second. So if the server only runs at 20 FPS, setting it to any higher value is pointless.

http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Quake3/connection.html

edit:
from the sounds of it, having a value higher than sv_fps has no effect.

(pgh) #26

Okies. Got a feeling I picked info up wrong when I used to idle in #bwadmins on QuakeNET when Q3F and our BW servers were popular. Then, setting it on a server, is it summit like a value of 1 third an avg users fps? or the servers avg fps? I mean, fairynuff theres guides etc to what it does etc, but how would you know what value to set it on a server? Just either 20, 30 or 40?

(SCDS_reyalP) #27

ET only works right if sv_fps is 20. So you don’t set it, on client or server. There is a long thread on this somewhere…

(mouse) #28

ET only works right if sv_fps is 20. So you don’t set it, on client or server. There is a long thread on this somewhere…[/quote]
Yes it has a very gentle title :smiley:

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4431

(Rain) #29

That sounds like this bug…

(Kendle) #30

That sounds like this bug…[/quote]
Characters in my name? The only non-alpha characters I use are ! and | as in !nfamous|ken. Would they make a difference? I seem to remember last time this happened to me a couple of my Clan-mates (who were on the server wth me, and use the same tag, obviously) reported the same problem.

(pgh) #31

Yeh, remember reading that thread now… :slight_smile:

(Rain) #32

No, characters in the name of someone who would’ve just connected.

(Kendle) #33

No, characters in the name of someone who would’ve just connected.[/quote]
What a bummer!! Someone with a funny name joins and we all end up looking at the clouds!! :angry:

(pgh) #34

Hrms, I dunno.

I use (as in sig) lsr.pgh! which as you can see has the ! in it. Other clan m8s, since we merged with our old clan 83rd.et + lsr.et some of the players have been using lsr.pgh|83rd. Now, we play at least 2/3 times a week and practiced together reguarly and I can honestly say not once have I expirienced this problem? It seems to just happen randomly… be it on an empty server myself, full server with lots of action. Because its happened on both these scenarios and more than likely when someones connected I cant say thats the cause, but it doesnt seem to be cause for my mouse doing it. :???:

(Bludd) #35

I was on a server where a guy’s name was “…” (no quotes), and everybody on the server was having the mouse problem. After a lot of complaints, he started laughing and said it was because of his name, and that every time he said anything in chat or died or killed or otherwise got his name posted on the screen, it caused the mouse problem. He was doing it for kicks. Anyway, I looked into it and it turns out his name was actually “%%” which shows as “…” by ET. Whether or not he was BSing everyone or not, I dunno, but that thread on Bani’s site kinda makes me think it was true.

(pgh) #36

Sounds correct seeing as PB Kicks for Incorrect character usage so… musta been a pb 0 server else he wouldnt be there. And yeh, from what i’ve read and expirienced now it wouldnt suprise me if it was true that thats how it occours…

(Xerxes) #37

Oasis Gun Bug : Correctly Timed Double Plant on the same gun will cause the game to register that Both Guns have been blown when only one has been.

Bug can be reproduced easily.

(Fusen) #38

thats already been said :confused:

Vapir Oxygen Vaporizer

(mouse) #39

hmm, maybe some proof will chear it up then :stuck_out_tongue: