May I please has Some Feedback on the Lag problem

(Weaver24) #1

For those fo you that have played ET, almost all … (Or all) of you have expiereneced unusual lag. My FPS is around 80 in a calm setting and around 30 in an action setting. The first time I played i thought it was the server… I joined another one… still lag. Then I asked the people in the server, they were lagging too. My question is there anything being done to prevent this in the full version, or perhaps a patch so we can play the test like it was meant to be played.

(MuffinMan) #2

well due to lag i couldn’t complete just one game yet but maby that’s because every server is now overwhelmed with requests and will get better

(Rob SAS) #3

My FPS is rubbish, but my ping is brilliant. I have everything on low settings. In rtcw my FPS is not brilliant, but playable. ET is playable but only just. This is the only major setback for what could be a great online game!

(fundamental) #4

I don’t think its a either ping or FPS issue, I was playing yesterday with around 70 ping with decent FPS, game was still seems to be lagging like hell. The movements do not feel smooth and fluid, except if you are the only one playing in map.

(pack) #5

btw, weaver it’s not like you have to start a topic each time you visit this forum or something… (n/o)

(colic) #6

I have posted on other forums before regarding if their is a link between low fps and lag.

I know when you have bad FPS then it seems like you are lagging but you might not be its just how the graphics are drawn.

But my problem is which I have noticed on normal wolf and on ET.

For example on a good FPS map such as village or Base I get a steady 76 FPS capped and my ping goes no higher then 100 normaly and normal hovers around 70 (ISDN 64k)

Yet Tram for example indoors in the castle ping of around 70-110 can wonder about anything it it sticks to that ping and nice high FPS. But the second I approach the outdoors my FPS dropped like mad and my ping shoots up to well over 220.

The same is happening on ET I am fine indoors around 70-100 or so ping step outside and dam 180 ping minimum added with the poor FPS I am getting the game feels nasty. I have a GF4 TI4200 in a poor 800 x 600 resolution and graphic settings on low but the best I can muster outdoor is 50 at the best.

Wonder if any other people experience this problem… especialy peeps on low end connections.

forgot to mention i have a 1800 xp Athlon 512 RAM so my system cant be getting bottlenecked by my card realy

(SCDS_reyalP) #7

I voted no, but it should really be “a bit”. Meaning it was pretty good most of the time, and quite a laggy some of the time. I think the jerky model move (looks kinda heavy -timenudge does in wolf) is not lag related.

BTW, /cg_lagometer 1
and /cg_drawfps 1
still work. That may help people pinpoint the issue. When the lag was bad, I was getting lots of yellow in the lagometer. It behaved much like a wolf server with an under powered CPU does.

(RivrStyx) #8

I’m getting bag lag also as most are. I can have a great ping and good fps and be in a small room and players are major choppy and skipping all around. My movements also feel choppy. In open areas fps drop to 20-30.
I have a P4 1.7, TI 4600. 768 megs of ram and have never dropped like this when a server only has a few players on it like this in any game. This is the same on any server i’ve tried. Small room or open area…major slide show. Hard to tell if your hitting someone or whos hitting you.

(Weaver24) #9

I have noticed that it’s nessesary “lagging” but that the game as poor fluid movements. It has an inablity to keep a players movement constent, so thats why it seems so choppy, hopefully SD is up for fixing this.

(Ph0g) #10

I think the netcode sucks, which would be the culprit for the horrible “lag”.

(SCDS_reyalP) #11

Actually, I don’t think it lags at all. You do need to change the rate from the default of 5000 to something more reasonable, like 10000. This solved my yellow lagometer issues completely. Unlike wolf, changing your connection type does NOT do this for you. use /rate 10000 instead
The animations are still jerky, but that is a different issue.

(fundamental) #12

Animations and Movements, those are the most stand out problems in ET i think.

Who else thinks that the player models faces (both axis and alies) looks more like MOHAA and BF1942 cartoonish models?

(colic) #13

Yeah thats totaly fine if you have BB or cable! Us ISDN’rs are basicly left out :frowning:

Me wipes game off hard drive with tears flowing :frowning:

(Rory) #14

The game is real laggy and is not smooth :frowning: I like the class system though, it feels like i am doing my robot dance all the time. :bump: :S Anyway hope someone fixes this because at the moment the game is really hard to enjoy.

(Weaver24) #15

It’s not smooth at ALL!! Damn, its a great game but i cant shoot shit!