cookiem0nster Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 Hey guys, Ever since moving home, whenever I try to hop onto the Hardcore ET server I get lag spikes at random intervals anywhere from 1-20 seconds apart. Usually under 10. I've made sure my AV was closed, tried closing steam and discord, etc. Windows is set to high performance mode, and I've tried manually setting the latest AMD graphics settings to application-preferred too. Changing my FPS doesn't seem to help, tried 76-133 fps. I think I am still playing at 2560x1600 resolution but that hasn't been a problem in the last several years of having this monitor... I checked to see if punkbuster was the problem from a post back in ~2012 or 2013 trying to ping the dead mothership but it is already disabled. I'm trying to remove a bunch of old junk from my ET installation in the meantime, (it was almost 4gb now down to 1.37gb - still lagging but wasn't so bad when doing 6v6 at a less busy time so hard to say if it helped). The connections below spike when trying to communicate with the game server host. I've had zero spikes like this playing other games so I'm at a loss at this point, I know wireless isn't ideal but I could play ET better on a crappy dialup connection! Thanks for any suggestions! Copied this format from another thread...: OS: Win 7 Pro. RAM: 12 GB DDR3 2000MHZ Motherboard: Asus p6x58d-e CPU: Xeon x5670 Hard drive (IDE, PATA, SATA, etc): 500GB SATA SSD Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 290X Internet: 50 MB down, 5 MB up - WiFi Do you use router? : Yes. Your location (country): West Coast USA ET Version: 2.60b 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haruhi Suzumiya Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 I get the same problem if the server has more than 18 players or so. Feels just like the old PB spikes. I fixed it by not playing there anymore. GL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haruhi Suzumiya Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 (edited) Sorry, phone double posted. Edited October 24, 2018 by CATGIRLS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ NaTuRaL Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 If u have AMD Grafikkarte, try to Rename er.exe to quake3.exe IT will Help with the allocated memory Problem. And Set r_primitives 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiem0nster Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 i will try that rename, thank you! I already had to set r_primitives 2 years ago or the lag was horrible. Great tip that not a lot of people seem to know though! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Kiba* Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 you know i had this problem myself not to long ago so i got to messing around with things with my wires and thing like that nothing helped so i called comcast that who i had net with and had them do a hard reset and it fixed my problem so try that even if your net looks fine it could be a problem on their end 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_ Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Kiba is right. You can have a stable speed dl/ul, but also lose pings. Call your ISP and ask to restart the DLM port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSpreadem Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 (edited) Cookie also try set /r_picmip 3 and set /r_lodbias 2 it seemed to help me and tbh ive not lagged half as much i used to, just give it a try bud and rem to save it to your cfg. wirless is horrible for gaming m8 i get maybe 40 on wifi but with ethernet i get close to 240 you would be better off using the ethernet and the commands ive shown u bud id say bubye to wifi Edited October 27, 2018 by DrSpreadem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiem0nster Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 still no love. might be my PC though, hope my SSD isn't dying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xernicus Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, cookiem0nster said: still no love. might be my PC though, hope my SSD isn't dying That would be easy enough to rule out by running some benchmarks and looking at the drive's health. Here's some utilities you can use: AS-SSD Benchmark:http://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/as_ssd_benchmark.html CrystalDiskInfo (SMART status) and CrystalDiskMark (benchmark): https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiem0nster Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 5 minutes ago, Xernicus said: That would be easy enough to rule out by running some benchmarks and looking at the drive's health. Here's some utilities you can use: AS-SSD Benchmark:http://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/as_ssd_benchmark.html CrystalDiskInfo (SMART status) and CrystalDiskMark (benchmark): https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ those are good ones. Might have to update my CDI it doesn't fully support my SSD, but crucial storage executive said it was healthy for SMART. I'll try benchmarking it again tonight, thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Kiba* Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 still to me it sound like a web problem more than a pc problem have you try checking all your wires on the outside and on the inside i know you know your stuff about pc but i still feel like it's a net problem do you us a modem for your net if so it could be out of date to i know the first time i had this problem my modem was like 7 years old and i got a new one and it fixed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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