An Ironic Fix for my lag

[iPirate]

Re: An Ironic Fix for my lag

so you INCREASED your sound quality and you lagged less. uh yeeah thats kind of weird

weird? not really...
my brothers 8800 GTS lags when he turns his settings to low on most games.

[Wizrdwarts]

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I have a Pentium D. It works fine with a HD 3650 but it'll probably bottleneck even more with a 8800 card.

[jake_]

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I have a Pentium D. It works fine with a HD 3650 but it'll probably bottleneck even more with a 8800 card.

Have you done a benchmark test on it and compared it to a benchmark test on a similar PC set up but with a Core 2 Duo?

Unless you have and there was no improvement, you can't really conclude that.


Sorry, I have to be the cynic and devil's advocated. Its just my thing.

[Wizrdwarts]

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Yeah, but if you still want to buy a Pentium D, go right ahead. :)

[jake_]

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Yeah, but if you still want to buy a Pentium D, go right ahead. :)

wait, what?

Who's buying a Pentium D?

[deadman2312]

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well, that isnt the best of processers, but what is the rest of your specs?

Shaz, i have an emachines w3502(im bracing for the laughter). Yes an Emachine! But ya know what after some upgrades it really isnt all bad

Upgrades: 2 gb G-Skill, 400w PSU, NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT(oc edition factory settings) basically around 300$ of upgrades, and only 300$ for the machine originally, it could play Bf2 out of the box, not well, but it could play it.

Honestly it kicks a$$(after upgades) when playing 2142 conquest 48 players at high settings, Bf2 on high settings, Cod4 also on high settings, Hl2 on high settings, bla bla bla.

Yet the dreaded Titan mode kills me(literally), lol, i have a few milliseconds of graphic lag when targeting folk, and thats huge, the slow guy dies.

I think im just going to drop a hundred bones on a dual core, the fastest my motherboard(LGA 775 socket) will utilize is a 2.2ghz dual core Intel, and i have been eyeballing one on newegg for some time now. I think the time has come:thumbsup: I have read good things about it, associated with 2142, so why not?

I plan on giving this PC to my 9 year old son soon anyways, and buying a real beast, not an Emachine. :shakehead:

I think EA should have been a little more clear about processors, they recommend 3.0ghz, i have 3.2ghz yet it doesnt play right.

Shazanelli is right about the processor, but the rest of your set is good enough.
I used to have a Pentium D. I seem to recall not having too many problems with it though.

Of course, you'd see an amazing increase in performance if you upgraded to a new motherboard and core 2 duo.

Also,
There's a more data being transfered on Titan, especially when you're in the Titan. For example, on servers with a high ping (over 150) I often get lag on a Titan but nowhere else on the map.

Have you tried playing with the lowest settings or a lower resolution?
When you compare you're highest settings to your lowest settings you should notice some change in FPS, even if its still choppy. If you do see some improvement there's a good chance upgrading you're parts would fix the problem too.

Don't hold me too it though.

Lowest settings provide little to no improvement.

[jake_]

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I think im just going to drop a hundred bones on a dual core, the fastest my motherboard(LGA 775 socket) will utilize is a 2.2ghz dual core Intel, and i have been eyeballing one on newegg for some time now. I think the time has come:thumbsup: I have read good things about it, associated with 2142, so why not?

GO FOR IT!!!!!

Lowest settings provide little to no improvement.

Hmmm... I'm don't really know what it could be now, if it isn't from your hardware being overworked.

Go to speedtest.net and tell my what you're speed is, just to make sure. :)

[whiteguy16]

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i tried that speedtest thing and my download speed is 10092 and upload is 341. is that good?

[AvalancheDiode]

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why would you downgrade on a processor....thats like...downgrading from an HDTV to a crappy one with the dials and sh**

CPU processing speed is not THAT important to FPS games. Bus speed and L2 cache do. That's why E2160 perform so well in games after overclocking, but it doesn't do any other jobs as well. After all, it all comes down to how fast you can transfer large chunk of data from one place to another. Once AMD moves to 45nm and DDR3, we'll see a huge improvement of AMD product line. Both AMD/ATI and NVIDIA are working on porting physics engines to GPU rather than CPU. I'm done with Intel because I am very unsatisfied by their product line. So what are they offering OTHER than speed? Is speed the only thing that we want in a computer? For CPUs that within my affordable range, AMD offers better total package, while Intel products are just expensive. If you can afford latest quad core Intel CPU that charges at $1500, good for you, but I'm not the lucky one and most of my hard earned money goes to insurance and rent.

For CPU on the line around $150 to $70, AMD's products worth their mark. Another concern of mine is power. Sure it is inevitable that big PSU is needed to run graphics cards, but does it need to be on all the time, draining 400W when it's on, even while I am reading the forum and talk reason to people who think I'm an idiot? Lucky for me that I am not paying electric bills at the moment, since my landlord takes it over. But time will come that I have to pay it. I've seen AMD and NVIDIA moving toward the direction, but not seeing anything Intel has done about the power other than mobile CPU and the new Atom. After considering two computer solution, which I dubed as ridiculous, I think AMD 45W CPUs offer a balance between power consumption and performance. The latest Tom's hardware shows that as long as your CPU is not too lame, GPU is more important to your rig's gaming performance.

[AvalancheDiode]

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*sigh*

Not being offensive, but I started to build gaming rig before you went to grade school in order to get something to run X-Wing without lag (helping my friend upgrade from 386SX to 486DX 33MHz), and I always did it on tight budget since then. First 3D card I have is a 3dfx Voodoo and I can tell you Tie-Fighter's music is total awesome if you have a Maui. One funny thing about those old DOS game s is that you need to manage your memory because all you have is 640kB, and MS-DOS.sys and IO.sys takes 30-80kB depending on versions. Then came DOS/4GW and suddenly having 4MB RAM makes sense. In these old days, L2 cache was on the motherboard, and due to the price of L2 cache, not most people have lots of empty slots, and I have seen no one ever filled them out until much later. Played with 30pin, 72pin, 168pin, 184pin all the way to 240pin, and will get some DDR3 in the future. Someday, but not today.

[deadman2312]

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GO FOR IT!!!!!


Hmmm... I'm don't really know what it could be now, if it isn't from your hardware being overworked.

Go to speedtest.net and tell my what you're speed is, just to make sure. :)

There ya go.....not great, but not bad.....:salute:

And yeah, i went for it, should be here soon! Then we will see.:thumbsup:

EDIT: i get way better pings than that in-game 60-100

Not being offensive, but I started to build gaming rig before you went to grade school in order to get something to run X-Wing without lag (helping my friend upgrade from 386SX to 486DX 33MHz), and I always did it on tight budget since then. First 3D card I have is a 3dfx Voodoo and I can tell you Tie-Fighter's music is total awesome if you have a Maui. One funny thing about those old DOS game s is that you need to manage your memory because all you have is 640kB, and MS-DOS.sys and IO.sys takes 30-80kB depending on versions. Then came DOS/4GW and suddenly having 4MB RAM makes sense. In these old days, L2 cache was on the motherboard, and due to the price of L2 cache, not most people have lots of empty slots, and I have seen no one ever filled them out until much later. Played with 30pin, 72pin, 168pin, 184pin all the way to 240pin, and will get some DDR3 in the future. Someday, but not today.

Oregon Trail FTW!:yay:

[jake_]

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Not being offensive, but I started to build gaming rig before you went to grade school in order to get something to run X-Wing without lag (helping my friend upgrade from 386SX to 486DX 33MHz), and I always did it on tight budget since then. First 3D card I have is a 3dfx Voodoo and I can tell you Tie-Fighter's music is total awesome if you have a Maui. One funny thing about those old DOS game s is that you need to manage your memory because all you have is 640kB, and MS-DOS.sys and IO.sys takes 30-80kB depending on versions. Then came DOS/4GW and suddenly having 4MB RAM makes sense. In these old days, L2 cache was on the motherboard, and due to the price of L2 cache, not most people have lots of empty slots, and I have seen no one ever filled them out until much later. Played with 30pin, 72pin, 168pin, 184pin all the way to 240pin, and will get some DDR3 in the future. Someday, but not today.

I had a C64, does that count for anything?

[imported_Field]

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oh ok that makes sense why my cpu sucks cause people were talking about stock the pentium D 805 that i got has a really slow fsb speed bah 1300mhz

thats pretty funny though X-Wing i remember playing that game im 20 now so however old i was when that game was out yeah i remember playing X-wing, Tie-fighter, DUke Nukem 3D and some other star wars fps game i forget the name

[jake_]

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oh ok that makes sense why my cpu sucks cause people were talking about stock the pentium D 805 that i got has a really slow fsb speed bah 1300mhz

thats pretty funny though X-Wing i remember playing that game im 20 now so however old i was when that game was out yeah i remember playing X-wing, Tie-fighter, DUke Nukem 3D and some other star wars fps game i forget the name

I remember tie-fighter, actually, and always trying to convince my brother to let me play Duke Nukem 3D.

There ya go.....not great, but not bad.....:salute:

And yeah, i went for it, should be here soon! Then we will see.:thumbsup:

EDIT: i get way better pings than that in-game 60-100

Nice on the Core 2 Duo. :thumbsup:

As for that speed test. It is awfully slow, but I'm no expert on telling what is too slow or fast enough. You're ping could obviously be lower, but it isn't too bad, although that might be part of the problem.

My connection is usually well over 10,000 kbps though, unless I'm using my motherboard's wifi card, then it drops to about 5,000 mbps.


If it isn't your internet connection and it isn't your hardware, I really don't know what to say! Sorry.


Don't hold me to anything.

[imported_Tim]

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Lotek, I remember this was the case with me in the BF1942 days I think it was. I never really understood why raising the graphics more would help. I just couldn't put it all on the highest.