I've been experiencing severe lag in PVKII.
PVKII on average is slightly laggy for me, even though I have a more than adequate machine.
The lag according to statistics whilst playing, is not from FPS.
The numeral output for 'choke' is where the lag and stuttering appears to be related to.
The choke on almost all servers is above 10, and on butt pirates, about 40.
Now, I'd blame the servers, but my friend Tolin has stated he has absolutely no lag.
I've never ever had to port forward for Source engine, but decided to do it just incase it was a firewall issue, and that didn't solve a thing.
Even though it is clearly a network issue, I tried toying with graphics, lowering them to the absolute lowest, even though I have a GTX 580.
Even tried disabling multi-core in both steam console, and using task manager to set affinity.
No luck.
The lag is so severe, the game is virtually unplayable. I die constantly, because there is a pause/freeze during combat, randomly.
I'm willing to do some demos and dumps if that info is needed. Please help me fix this or I'll have to just give up on playing PVKII, my favourite game.
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Do you and Tolin live in the same area and have the same ISP?
Also, during the pauses can you rotate your POV? Does the FPS on your net_graph still fluctuate during them?
I changed them today to a config my friend was using, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
This is the current config, idk what it was before.
cl_cmdrate = 100
cl_updaterate = 20
Different states in the US and different ISPs.
The FPS does not appear to drop during these pauses. What I notice is that the choke is high in net_graph 1. Sometimes in net_graph 3 I will see spikes on certain things, but there doesn't seem to be direct correlation between some of those spikes and the pauses/stutters in net_graph 3.
Would you like me to get on the game and make a demo?
Concerning graphics, did you try disable advanced model shaders? I think it`s in Multiplayer options and advanced, not in graphiscs options, caused lag to me when I had a lower end pc.
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Yes. Send it to peepeewilson[at]gmail.
Also cl_updaterate should be about 100 as well, and rate should be set somewhere over 20,000. You didn't mention what rate was set at so you may already have it dialed in. I doubt changing those values will solve your problem, but it should make registration feel better during combat and could bring down your choke in some servers.
Can you enlighten this a bit further?
Unfortunately, a lot of the servers enforce default rates (sv_maxupdaterate 60)
[*]With the command prompt open, typetracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with an IP address on the Internet.
[*]Press [Enter] and watch as each hop is 'pinged' and logged. The first ping should be your computer, modem, or router, and the last ping should be your target address.
[*]Notice that the response time for points farther away from you will be greater than those closer to you.
so here is a screenshot of what it looks like, i used the Cannabis Clubhouse for my test:
http://s16.postimage.org/nxl5o6pcj/tracert_example.jpg
i outlined the Latency/Ping in red. you will want to look at those and make sure you don't have a bad one that is giving you like 300 ping or some ridiculous number like that. if you do, the only thing you can do is outline it and take a screenshot and send it to your ISP and tell them re-route your hop, at least, that's the only way i know how to fix it. hope this helps~
or drop it to 10000 if server is laggy.
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 40 ms 56 ms 27 ms 174.48.16.1
3 13 ms 32 ms 15 ms te-7-2-ur01.tamarac.fl.pompano.comcast.net [68.85.125.253]
4 33 ms 20 ms 19 ms 69.139.181.229
5 34 ms 18 ms 32 ms pos-0-7-0-0-ar03.northdade.fl.pompano.comcast.net [68.86.164.5]
6 26 ms 18 ms 36 ms he-0-8-0-0-cr01.miami.fl.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.93.85]
7 50 ms 59 ms 35 ms xe-10-0-0.edge2.Miami1.Level3.net [63.209.150.97]
8 66 ms 46 ms 48 ms ae-32-52.ebr2.Miami1.Level3.net [4.69.138.123]
9 44 ms 60 ms 44 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.140.142]
10 43 ms 38 ms 50 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.33]
11 53 ms 66 ms 69 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.106]
12 43 ms 44 ms 42 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.143.214]
13 52 ms 54 ms 61 ms 4.69.148.49
14 66 ms 56 ms 49 ms ae-91-91.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.78]
15 47 ms 46 ms 59 ms ae-4-90.edge3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.155.209]
16 64 ms 52 ms 49 ms CHOOPA-LLC.edge3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.31.17.242]
17 69 ms 46 ms 63 ms 108.61.92.177.choopa.net [108.61.92.177]
18 45 ms 61 ms 51 ms ve104-as1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.79.90]
19 49 ms 49 ms 64 ms 8.2.121.206
Trace complete.