What have u tech lads been up to then?

[H+Rusta+H]

Last night my ping on H-L was out of this world. I dont think it went over 80, and was mostly between 65-75 (hh with bt internal card). So whatever you're doing seems to have helped my connection cos I sure havent changed anything and it used to be between 90-110 at best. So some thanks and congratulations are due methinks http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/teeth.gif

[[AaB] fozza]

And what about the BT Internet homepages and pop3 issues?

[Fleetfoot]

Ahhh someone else I can ask! What graphics card do you have - I was on last night and could only get down to the high 80's - in HL latency can also come from your own system - so I'm trying to determine if it is my g'card before I upgrade.

Thanks to NOR BTW who was answering my questions ( I was playing as lag_testing_victim ).

[I've a Riva128, Celery 300A running at 464 mhz with 128mb ram so I think the graphics card is the weakness http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif)

[Northmoor]

Yeah,

Last night my Lag was down into the mid 80's, got as low as 60 for a while. SO thanks guys for what ever you did.

Fleetfoot I have a RivaTNT and two V2 in SLI.

The riva kicks out the polys and then my V2 render them, get a framerate of mid 60's with 800x600 and a lag of 80.

I would have thought that your card is good enough, what type of TA are you using??


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[MrVista]

Drilla's written something on performance testing and what's being done so far, note that there's still loads more analysis to be done:

www.wireplay.co.uk/html/stories/210599drilla1.htm (http://www.wireplay.co.uk/html/stories/210599drilla1.htm)

The BT Internet problems are caused by their firewall needing to be reconfigured to let us in, they're working on it.

And good to hear about the ping improvements!

[Fleetfoot]

My TA is the internal BTSpeedway. Eventually my ping was matching Nors so I guess I've now got it set up right.

I'll be upgrading the graphics card anyway for TA:Kingdoms and the volumetric fog etc.. Besides which the Riva128 is dark and prone to ugliness. Its time for TNT for me http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif

I was also playing at 800x800 in openGl.

[H+Rusta+H]

Fleetfoot, I use a single V2 at 640x480, P3-450. I spose I didnt really notice much difference in ping when I tried running at 800x600 (a few weeks back now), but I'm paranoid so I dropped it back to 640x480 just in case http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif I might try it tonight and check what happens to the ping.

And youre right about the system slowing the ping (or latency I guess is the more accurate term) cos on a lan day we had a couple months back, one bloke had a p166 I think, and his latency was around 150 vs the rest of us at 20!

[WPS]

We plugged the network into a fresh cup of really hot tea...