Massive Networking Problems

[Odin]

Despite having a great ping on servers close to me(around 60-90ms), I encounter huge amounts of warping/lag, and the game is pretty much impossible to play. I asked around and a lot of the people I asked had the same problem as I have.

Nexuiz-sdl 2.3 on Linux 2.6.20(Ubuntu 7.04).

Is this a known problem?

[Psychcf]

it could just be your framerate spiking. Try turning on vsync, that's what made the game much more playable for me.

[Ronan]

If you have an Ati card with fglrx drivers installed, try to disable Vertex Buffer Objects in the video menu.

[Odin]

I have an NVIDIA Geforce 7800GT.

It is most definitely a network problem because other players will warp all over the place.

[esteel]

Can you try the [RBI] servers? and try to enter rate 25000 in your console when playing there and see if that helps? Maybe we should change some defaults for 2.3.1..

[Urmel]

Maybe we should change some defaults for 2.3.1..

Why maybe? Are you kiddin`?

[esteel]

Well no.. but first we need to find out what causes the problems.. it would be a bad idea to just blindly change some values.

[Odin]

I already set rate to 25000 to no avail.

I tried those NY and GA USA "standard deathmatch" servers. Some people did not have the problem, while some did, which means it's probably widespread.

[esteel]

The rate is ALSO limited (ultimately) by the server! Both the server and the client can set a rate limit, which both default to 10000byes/s by current defaults. So if you raise your rate on the client it will be helpless unless the server also raised his limit. Basicly your client can just limit it further (so the server does not send too much to you).
Thats why i asked to test on RBI as i know it has a higher rate limit then default.. Not sure about the servers you mentioned.. But i understand that ping might be bad for you on the RBI servers..

[GreEn`mArine]

do shownetgraph 1 and take a screenshot of how it looks when you have that bad playing experience. Show the screenshot to us.