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@-=HipKat=- - You shouldn't have too much headache as long as your PC and Plex are wired up with IPs or hostnames directly. The stuff we turn off here is centered around the way devices figure out their local network forests when they're in mesh-style setups with shared folders everywhere like you'd see in a typical office setting. Your PC is still hooked up to your local network with a reachable IP/hostname. It's just not going to send out a "hey gang! i'm alive and this is my name! wanna be friends?" blast of packets every X seconds. With IPv6 and WiFi devices running all over the house, my desktop being the only physically connected machine meant it was basically being treated as the DNS service for the connected tvs/rokus/tablets/etc. Just a constant flood of devices asking "hey what's your name? do you know where this other network resource is? do you know the name of this IP address? can you connect me to that device? etc." @GHARIB - Spot on dude! It's almost like you're a network engineer or something I just wanted to add that it looks like you've got that view filtered, but the same level of interruption traffic also happens on the IPv6 address space. Realizing I had completely ignored a parallel network stream in my optimizations was an "Aha!" moment in squashing this behavior.

Hey dudes - Ever since the COVID stuff started, I've been convinced something felt...different when I played ET. It didn't really make sense either. I just built a new PC, upgraded internet, new router, stable ping, blah blah blah. No matter what I did, aiming and shooting with smg's never seemed smooth enough. It's hard to explain...but you kinda just know how it's supposed to feel when you're aiming at someone's face and you click to shoot. That's gotta make sense to the other people that have been playing this game for 15 years. Your brain knows the timing between clicking the mouse and what your eyeballs should be seeing I did all kinds of crazy stuff in my hunt for the lag, but I finally gave up and just watched packets in wireshark for longer than I'd like to admit. What I noticed was that my network was noisy as hell. That didn't make a lot of sense either. I play at night when no one's really watching anything. I've got a wired connection on my desktop, so it definitely jumped out at me when I kept seeing the names of dozen wireless devices show up in wireshark. From there I went down a rabbit hole of stamping out unwanted interrupts on my nic/cpu. Once I got to about 30 tabs open in chrome, I realized that I had done all the same stuff I was seeing on my XP box a decade ago to achieve the same goals. What I did only really works because I don't need my home desktop for work stuff. Windows 10 just kind of assumes your computer MUST be part of a heavily inter-connected enterprise network for whatever reason. That ends up leading to all kinds of things constantly talking back and forth on the network. It's not enough to slow you down when you're doing daily life computer stuff, but it's stealing milliseconds constantly. I figured those little bits of time could definitely be messing with the mouse click -> hit sound -> recoil shake -> enemy muzzle flash -> damage shake flow that felt off. Be careful doing some of this stuff if your network traffic is more important than browsing/ET. If you're on WiFi, some of it might still help, but I don't know. Step 1) Build a fence so your neighbors know you don't like them Open up the old school looking firewall management tool. Hit your windows key and start searching for Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security. It's one of those apps that's too complicated to update to the fancy UI. We're not going to mess with the rules, we just want to start building a fence around our PC. Right click on the root Windows Defender Firewall... item on the left and go to properties Do the following for all 3 network profiles at the top unless you know which one you're using: Domain, Private, Public. Note, this is where we start to make our PC less friendly to other devices, so be careful if you care about talking to other devices in your house in a healthy way. Click on the Customize button for Settings Select No for Allow unicast response then click OK 2) Tell your neighbors to piss off and never talk to them again Open up Control Panel. Make sure it's not that new Settings app or whatever. Assuming you've got the default view layout, click on Network and Internet. Click on Network and Sharing Center Click on Change advanced sharing settings on the left. We want to turn off network discovery for Private and Guest/Public. I also turned off file and printer sharing since I don't need them. This is another thing that you probably don't want to do if you need to get to your desktop from another place in your house for whatever reason. Then expand All Networks and turn off Public folder sharing Save changes to go back to the Network and Sharing Center. Now click on your active adapter. Click Properties Turn off all the stuff you don't need unless your PC needs to talk to other PCs. Like I said before, I only really need browsing/ET type networking from my desktop and those still work great. Ignore the Npcap entry, that's something you'll only have if you've installed packet analysis software. I only need my computer for the network traffic I generate, so I only want IPv4 and IPv6 enabled on my desktop. Click OK and restart your computer. Step 3) Hopefully get some headshots before you die now No screenshots here because it's late, but my lagometer hasn't moved since doing this a few days ago and it feels like there's a direct connection between my hands, mouse, keyboard, and eyeballs again. I was always convinced that it felt better playing on my old college computer than anything recent, and this kind of network stuff getting in the way might make sense. ET is an old game, It doesn't care about bandwidth. It only really cares about latency. Our home connections are a hell of a lot "faster" now, but all those new things Windows keeps adding mean I don't really have a dedicated gaming box by default. It definitely feels like I've got that now.

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Any update dude? I'm sure I'm not the only one that's fantasized about doing what you're doing while staring at my computer screen all day!

One of the cool parts about moving to the Pacific Northwest from the Midwest has been how much clearer the moon and stars appear. I stood my in backyard for like 15 minutes the other night just staring at the moon

Oh my god...i love this picture...you have enriched my life today

Hey dude! My wife loves the Keto diet, but she's doing more of a "low carb" thing now since strict Keto gets hard to maintain with young kids. I just wanted to share this site/app with everyone in case you haven't seen it yet. It was a lifesaver for Keto and gave us a lot of good new recipes. https://www.eatthismuch.com/ You click on Keto, tell it how many calories over how many meals and it'll generate the meal plan. You can include/exclude certain foods and keep clicking regenerate to get new recipes

I do have to ask tho...what would that big block be like on asphalt...for science... 🤔

Why you gotta remind me of one of the few good parts about growing up in Ohio right before the apocalypse? I used to love going to the dirt track races. It's awesome when you see like 20 people sliding around the oval and you know they all wrenched on their own cars. I always did wonder how so many small towns in the middle of nowhere could support enough self-owned landscaping companies to fund the cars though