lagging bad Options

[CodeName]

The other day logged on to stock maps , everything working fine then all of a sudden the lag got so bad I could not even play. Any server I log into now the lag is still bad.Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

[Cross of Iron]

Whatever it is Codename,hurry up and fix it ,as I miss killing you......................

[JTKLT]

you might wanna get all of the aim and stuff logged off or maybe even Firewall

[Crazy Canuck]

i've been having similar issues where early in the day my ping to the servers is fine, but later in the afternoon my ping goes through the roof! my issues appear to be with level3 communications....a company that routes alot of the major cities networking.

[CodeName]

Been messing with settings and drivers all day , but nothing seems to help. I think it has something to do with fps , but I dont know how to fix . Strange stuff happens when I am in spectator, if I go above the map and look at the sky my fps goes up, but if I look at the map fps goes almost to nothing. Some screenshot attached.

[CodeName]

Went to evenbalance site today and saw there was a pb update right around the time I started having problems 10/10/06. I wonder if this is another pb issue?? Is anyone else having problems?

[steel]

Just some ideas I'd try:

1. Make sure there's no spyware or viruses (run whatever spyware zapper and virus removal tools you have installed).

2. Defrag your hard drive.

3. Run Enditall before starting up your game, to stop all running processes that do not need to be running while you're playing a game. http://www.the-old-sea-dog.net/enditall.html

4. You can also use pingplotter (www.pingplotter.com) to type in the IP of the server and see if there's an internet bottleneck happening between you and the server.

5. Get rid of all extra maps and mods out of your cod and uo directories. The cod multifixer is good for this http://callofduty.filefront.com/file/CoD_MultiFixer;67336.

6. Set your maxfps to something reasonable, either 43, 76, 125 or 333, whichever you can comfortably sustain. Pull down your console in the game with the ~ and type (where 125 represents the value you choose):
/com_maxfps 125

There are many other things to try, but probably you'll hit the cure somewhere in the above list.

[CodeName]

Still no luck, did all virus scans,spy bot,ping tests,vid card tests,directx tests all ok.I just dont get it that one day things stop working.I played for around 8 months after I bought the game with no problems, the first problem I had a month ago was due to punk buster, got that fixed and now this. Still wonder if this is a punkbuster issue as they put out another update around the same time my problem started again.

[steel]

I seriously doubt that it's punkbuster.

Is your vid card overheating? When a vid card overheats, it will throttle back the gpu speeds, causing massive slowdown of games. Every few months, I shut down the computer, unplug it, open the case, and blow out all the fans, expecially the cpu and vid card fans, with compressed air. Dust bunnies in there can definitely cause overheating.

What happens if you play the game in single-player mode? Is it smooth there and do you get good fps in single-player?

[CodeName]

No lag in single player game plays fine. I dont think my vid card is over heating problems occur as soon as machine is turned on. Have un-installed & re-installed game and everything is ok for about 5 mins frame rate 40 to 60 fps, but then game locks for about 30 secs and frame rate goes to hell in a hand basket 2 to 4 fps.When I did test on vid card I got 146 fps. Just cleaned can recently also formated system and installed new drivers after problems started this did not help.

[Old Man Mike]

CodeName,

Sorry to hear that you are continuing to have problems. Looking at the lagometer in your screen captures, it does appear that you are losing packets to/from the server. I suggest you download the PingPlotter program suggested by Steel. Set it up for a 1 second continuous ping to the MOB server you are playing. Keep it running while you play the game. It has historical charts so when you have a lag problem, you can check the graph to see what is happening.

Also, you can run the Windows Task Manager (Cntl-Alt-Del) using the Performance tab to monitor the CPU and Memeory usage. Again, you can run this while running the game and return to it when you experience a big lag. It might show that the CPU was at 100% during the event which could mean something is running in the background stealing processing power.

Of course once you've found the problem, don't continue to run PingPlotter or Windows Task Manager.

Good Luck,

Old Man Mike

[CodeName]

Today I tried using end all this did not help,used ping plotter and pings seem to be ok ,low 16 to 25 mostly 16. Also used task manager and saw that while I was in the game cpu usage was at 100%, this is with end all running what would cause this? If I remember right my fans used to spool up when I started a game, they do not do this any more.

[Major.Pain]

Did you do a diskclean and defrag? If your hard drive is fragmented, the cpu is so busy looking for info on the drive, it can't run apps properly.







pain

[CodeName]

Yes defraged and cleaned disk this did not help. Thanks


This post has been edited by CodeName: 10/22/06 3:04pm

[CodeName]

I am about ready to give up! Still having same problem, anything I try just does not work. Thinking about upgrading to a better graphics card but not even sure this will help as I was able to play both COD & CODUO fine before this all came about very frustrating.