Why does Jay 4 run smoother(for me)

[=Death Hunter=]

I play mostly on Jay 2. I venture out from time to time but it seems that Jay 4 runs way more fluid and smooth for me. Anyone know why this may be???

[daredevil]

I play mostly on Jay 2. I venture out from time to time but it seems that Jay 4 runs way more fluid and smooth for me. Anyone know why this may be???

 

When you say smoother, in what sense?

[Onni]

If you're European it's propably because Jay 4 is hosted in Europe and you should have less than 100 ping. Jay 2 is hosted in U.S and Europeans usually have around 150 ping there

 

Edit: Oopsie, looks like you are from U.S after checking out your profile :|

Edited September 8, 2012 by Onni

[RedBaird]

I've seen Europeans, playing on Jays 1 or 2, saying the opposite. Some say that the US servers play better for them than the EU FA Jays.

[Spaceballs]

Every server is just fine for me.. Recently I am playing on Silent 1. The ping is just indicating your latency... Usually, after playing for a couple of hours, it shouldn't matter anymore. You get used to it calculate your actions while taking into consideration your ping. It's like that for me.

I haven't been on Jay 4 for a while now... I think I'll go back some time

[Olykiller]

maybe because you were playing with 60 peeps on jay2 and jay4 isnt that full

[Tarzan]

For me jay4 is way smoother then jay2. My bullets hit way more one jay4. When I'm one jay2, only about half of my bullets hit my opponent, even when he is standing still from close by. This is especially with the thompson.

[=Death Hunter=]

I get more lag on Jay 2. Just general spotty performance mostly because of the crappy laptop I use. But I don't seem to get it as bad when I visit jay 4. There is usually a noticeable difference. AND I'm from the states so yeah that's weird

[SunLight]

It's not weird,

I think the number of players is the reason, yesterday I was playing in jay3 and there were few players (let's say like the servers where I used to play in the past, i.e. 16 slots max ) and it was very very smooth, even my ping was lower (then the whole server started to lag badly, but that's another story, even fa forums were inaccessible for a while, that's for sure an isolated case).

 

 

And the map counts, as well. The game engine sends you all the entities (players, medi packs, etc.) which are in your zone, so open maps, where everyone is in the same 'zone', are much laggier than maps with rooms, or areas where other zones are invisible.

 

Other server settings, like medics and fops giving packs when they die (on etpro if you die you just drop your main weapon, so you don't have all those extra entities), allowing players to use more than 125 fps or high packetdup, etc. everything can stress the server.

 

And that's not only about your pc. You might even have a super pc, but if the server is stressed by all that work you would still lag.