I have seen a couple posting about lag and gaming and I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but here goes. The threads and posts I have seen so far deal with Vista and Wireless lag issues. I use a wired cable internet connection. I get this cyclical lag every 20-25 seconds or so. It happened when I had a DSL connection as well. It's either a setting or the net but I wouldn't expect the net to produce cyclical lag, just lag as it occurs. I'm on an AMD 6000+ 3.0 Ghz cpu with ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI, GbLAN mobo. I have 4 GB Kingston HyperX RAM and a 9800 GTX+ graphics card. I don't think its the hardware. the cabel connection I know have is 8 down 2 up guaranteed and actually gets from 12-16 down and 3.5 up so the speed and bandwidth are there. To give you an idea I will go from a FPS of 128 (nice and smooth gameplay) to a jaw dropping 5 or 6. Please help!!! Any ideas would be appreciated. The game is a peer to peer first shooter called Warrock. I know this means lag can be totally from the other poeple but I still don't thik it would be that cyclical.
Ok so no one has any ideas but here is an update that may explain it. If I ping my default gateway (i.e. my modem) I get a lag spike at about the same interval. What could be causing this as apparently it is my computer and not the net???????
Here is what I'm talking about. Nothing running while test being done.
Brink. Good news. No more lag. Unfortunately the game just updated with a new protection software so as of yet Im not sure whether it was setting the autotune to another setting or the old software was bad. I'm betting it was the autotune. It was so much fun finally being able to play smoothly. Can't thank you enough. I guess the default is high restricted but with the standard modem you get from the cable company and dealing with everyone elses network in the peer to peer game it was just trying to push through too much info into the things that couldn't handle it. the normal setting works like a charm. This fact alone earns you my vote for President. LOL. Thanks again and you have a good week. Squa190.
You're welcome Squa. I'm happy to hear that it is sorted and working fine now for you. It may have been a combination of the game update and autotune though.
Unfortunately the game just updated with a new protection software so as of yet Im not sure whether it was setting the autotune to another setting or the old software was bad. I'm betting it was the autotune. It was so much fun finally being able to play smoothly. Can't thank you enough. I guess the default is high restricted but with the standard modem you get from the cable company and dealing with everyone elses network in the peer to peer game it was just trying to push through too much info into the things that couldn't handle it. the normal setting works like a charm. This fact alone earns you my vote for President. LOL. Thanks again and you have a good week. Squa190.