For the longest time, DOD:S and many other online games were UNPLAYABLE due to a framerate averaging from 2-12. I assumed this was video lag, because lowering the video settings gave me a decent framerate boost [though DODS was still unplayable] and also there was nothing to suggest it was 'internet' lag, it didn't have any of the traits of 'net lag. It didn't jump me around into random places, it just rendered the scene slowly. Sounds and voice transmissions didn't skip or crackle. My ping was in the 60's. No one else complained about lag. But today, after being disconnected from a scrim, and found that my wireless router was fried. I ended up replacing it with a regular router, and plugging in my computer directly. I noticed the game was going faster, and to finish this test I maxed all settings from low and no HDR to High, full AA full Antistropic, full HDR, 1024 x 768 [my screens max resolution, but this is a nice screen despite it's small size] and voila, 70 fps average! It feels good to see my first glimpse of DOD:S in more than 12 fps again!
But what could make internet lag act as video lag? Why didn't it carry over to anyone else? Why didn't it at least tell me, in either the scoreboard or the net_graph that my ping was so high?
But what could make internet lag act as video lag? Why didn't it carry over to anyone else? Why didn't it at least tell me, in either the scoreboard or the net_graph that my ping was so high?
