Clocks !@!# <wit pics weee>

[m0zone]

oh btw i did uypdate to newest nvidia drivers and still get clocks

[esteel]

~/.nexuiz/data/config.cfg while ~ is a shortcut to your home directory.. (propably /home/m0zone ) but you can also enter those lines in the ingame console which you can open with shift-escape and close with escape.. And those settings will then later be saved into the config file.

Well normally the clock has nothing to do with the graphic card those settings are just a very long shot..
I still guess you have some problems with your network or your provider has some problems with Nexuiz..[/url]

[7H4_D00D3]

well I'm having that same problem too

My ping never goes above 250 and it stays stable @ 100-150 most of the time

Clocks all over the place...

I also play termulous and even with ping 300-350 it doesnt lag as much as in nexuiz with 100.... how come? :p


all p2p msn and other bandwith stealing stuff is closed....I'm running it on winxp (altough it would be nice to run it on suse 10.2 x86_64 :p)

What is the cause of this?

[ai]

Heh, my comp is also starting to act up, dunno if it's a temporary ISP problem (which I hope) but I get clocks and also, sometimes I see everyone else move and the game flow and I can look around with my mouse but can't move. Like if my keyboard wasn't there and my character continues to do the last action I did, if I went to left he would continue to go left even though I don't press it, if I shoot he would continue to shoot etc. Heh, I was once laserjumping and then it acted up and he continued to do that, almost died, survived with 30 hp ^_^

[esteel]

My ping never goes above 250 and it stays stable @ 100-150 most of the time

I also play termulous and even with ping 300-350 it doesnt lag as much as in nexuiz with 100.... how come? :p

What is the cause of this?

Obviously your ping.. I would NEVER EVER play a game with ping >100 and i really doubt that tremulous ping thing.. Very advanced anti lag methods might cope with ping up to 250 but beyond that things get more and more unbalanced..
Please take a look at the scoreboard while playing (pressing tab by default) it shows the current ping and also the packetloss (PL) packetloss is MUCH worse then ping so even a number of 1 or 2 can feel horrible also its very bad if ping is NOT stable but changes a lot.
Were are you from? Most people (except aussies) should be able to find a nice ping server near by. When in the join menu click on the 'ping' in the table header that will make it sort for ping (not sure if it already does that by default). There should be servers with ping <100.
Also try to ping the server from the shell. If the numbers are way too different we might try something else

Ai: Hmm did you do a virus scan?

[ai]

Ai: Hmm did you do a virus scan?

I have reinstalled windows so all existing viruses should have gone away, and I also recently did a virus scan (also for spyware) and there was nothing. Well there was spyware but after deleting everything there's still problems. I get the PL% (what's that now again), sometimes i have 80-90 but normaly 1-2. Ping is fine most of the time but sometimes goes to 100-250.

[tZork]

Ai: Hmm did you do a virus scan?

I have reinstalled windows so all existing viruses should have gone away, and I also recently did a virus scan (also for spyware) and there was nothing. Well there was spyware but after deleting everything there's still problems. I get the PL% (what's that now again), sometimes i have 80-90 but normaly 1-2. Ping is fine most of the time but sometimes goes to 100-250.

PL% Is how mutch packet loss you have. 80-90 is relay REALY bad. packet loss gives you a way worse experiance then high ping. The high numbers indicate that you having ISP problems or some of you local network equipment may be starting to fail.

[esteel]

Yes packet loss is really bad, i would say you start to feel it from 3% upwards.. Being a game Nexuiz uses UDP to transmit the packages telling your client what is going on in the (game) world. It can happen that a package does not get to your computer and thats called packetloss. "Normal" applications use TCP which does notice such a loss and resend the packages. But thats useless for a game as its realtime and it just uses the next package to update the world.
If this happens either the server has problems or the connections to it is bad. Things like WLAN are bad by nature for the ping and packetloss. Or maybe its indeed your hardware or ISP that has problems.

[Urmel]

Well, though I'm aware of my houswife knowledge about teh teknikal backgournd of different sorts of lags, I'd says there must be something else but PL and ping, or the whole pingometer in nexuiz is bitched up. To be proved wehn playing in my company with ping 0 and no packetloss but thumping around like hell or shooting through my enemies.

[torus]

Yea ive had packet problems problem MANY times, especially when playing Facing (which is really irritating, because you rocket jump, it freezes up, and you fly off the map- with the flag! ). I suspect that 1. my router is crap (its 5 years old) 2. My ISP is crap (verizon) 3. I live in the northeast US, when all the good servers are in the EU I cant imagine that its my ISPs fault, because I play FEAR without a hitch, and it is a horrendously poorly optimized game.
What I have found is that the best way to remedy this problem without switching ISPs or other things is to call up the join/server list. This resends the current data, and the game will start up faster than if you just sit and wait. Usually it takes 5-6 seconds to get back to fraggin.