Lag with Missionary, I lag about every min with missionary. Options

[mhspinto]

Hey guys hopefully you can help me with this. I installed missionary two days ago and so far I have loved it except for this lag that seems to happen about every min for 5 secs. Its just hard to play when that happens. I looked through the forum and didn't see anything about this. I remeber when I first started missionary it said something about this and I don't remember what that was and now I can't find it. So anyway hopefully someone knows what to do. Thanks.

[Nixon]

You should only get some lag around every 15 minutes or so when CI is scanning, and this should only last for a few seconds.
It may be just me, but the more I have used Missionary the more then game seems to smooth out for me...nothing scientific to it, it may just be me, but give it some to time, and take a look at some of Druid's suggestions below.



Quote from Druid:

I've had several people tell me missionary caused their ping to rise or cause serious lag. I don't know what to tell people because I don't experience any problems and my computer isn't that great.
1.8ghz with a ti4200 video card

What I do know is 3 of the people who complained sent me the tlog from missionary and all 3 had a ton of unneeded crap running in the background.
One of which was an anti-virus program after the person told me he didn't have a antivirus program installed.
Another guy had the longest list of background crap I've seen so far.

Although I hate to pick on Bubba who started this thread but I think it's worth mentioning. Bubba's list of complaints included his ping was higher now because of missionary. I have a hard time understanding how missionary caused his ping to rise when he doesn't even use the program.

I would highly suggest people take a good look at what is running in the background while they play. Open up task manager, look adnd see how much stuff you have running. I'm sure a lot of you will be clueless about many of the names you see. You can look here to see what each program is for.
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/search.php

[Johnzillah]

[mhspinto]

Yeah im not sure what is causing it eaither, when I play the game regularly withought missionary it runs fine, so thats the only reason why I thought it was missionary. I always shut any programs down before playing and I already changed the stuff in norton. The connection here at school is remarkably fast like 14MBps so its not that and yes I do play on a laptop but it is basically new and runs fine with the game so im not sure what it is all I know is that it is annoying. Thanks guys.

This post has been edited by mhspinto: 01/16/04 5:31pm

[***crafty***]

I also noticed that it is running a lot more smoothly now that i use it all of the time.

[FDR]

Hi guys,

Yeah, I also notice that my ping is higher these days, whether I run Missionary or not. But it's weird, Missionary says my ping to the server is 48 ms but I've never seen it that low during the game - it used to be around 55 ms to 60 ms but now it's hardly ever less than 110 ms and usually higher. And, if I just use MTR or someother program to check the ping, it also reports no problem with little jitter.

As for all these background tasks "running" - mostly, my background tasks are the dock tasks that sit on the lower right. They are normally inactive except when they are invoked. That is, they don't use up CPU cycles - they just reserve some space in virtual memory.

But when Missionary runs - wow! Missionary starts, then runs two helper tasks: mistool and smms. When these 3 are running on my laptop (IBM A31p) they suck up over 50% of the CPU cycles (!). This leaves less for mohaamm.exe; I'm seeing around 40% or so for the game itself. And the amount of CPU Missoinary takes bounces around - sometimes more, sometimes a (little) less.

I think that's why pings get worse with borderline h/w (a 2 GHz mobile pentium is about a 1 GHz Athlon desktop, about, because of less cache and slower memory).

So, as usual, to play a good game, looks like one needs pretty good h/w and as usual a decent vid card.

Thanks -FDR

[mhspinto]

I haven't noticed that my ping goes up I usually run with 14ms. With missionary its the same but I did notice yesterday that when missionary was running that the cpu usuage is up to like 100%, I wasn't playing I was checking the forum and saw this so anyway I am still trying to make it work right.

mhspinto