CS Help

[chinaboy00]

please anyone know how to fix this awful lag that i get from playing CS. every few secs i will freeze from packet lost, ugh its horrible.

i have @home connected through a linksys router(1.38.5) if anyone has any info please help.

[pimptrizkit]

um i was going to say connection but try this " connect modem strait to nic and try that and have @home come out and ceck your line for dammage also check your caps and your ram ,video,cpu power all play into this and same with fsb and make sure you have all updated soft wear and drivers for every thing

leave another post saying your specs and i am sure some one else will help you out more then i can

[chinaboy00]

thanks for your suggestion

im running on a celeron 600 @ 900, 256 ram, geforce 2 mx, sb live

i run at 1028x768 16bit and get around 90 fps

anymore inputs would be appreciated

[rpeAMP]

Hi, go to a DOS prompt and type in:

tracert x

Where the x should be the IP address of the server you are connecting to. Then post the results here.

Does this happen on multiple servers or just one?

[ 05-13-2001: Message edited by: rpeAMP ]

[chinaboy00]

it happens to just about every server

[chinaboy00]

Tracing route to slugger.onshore.com [206.69.90.98]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms 10.75.213.1
2 13 ms 16 ms 12 ms r1-fe1-1-100bt.afour1.il.home.net [24.5.232.1]
3 70 ms 72 ms 81 ms bb1-pos2-3.rdc1.il.home.net [24.12.155.238]
4 99 ms 100 ms 98 ms c1-pos8-0.chcgil1.home.net [24.7.74.89]
5 106 ms 107 ms 101 ms c2-pos10-0.chcgil1.home.net [24.7.77.170]
6 89 ms 95 ms 90 ms 204.6.142.93
7 * 35 ms 38 ms nc.transit.tier1.us.psi.net [154.13.2.66]
8 114 ms 98 ms 91 ms 154.13.92.38
9 98 ms 103 ms 97 ms 206.69.91.1
10 97 ms 97 ms 102 ms iagnet.rtr.chicago.sba.com [206.69.81.190]
11 108 ms 106 ms 121 ms 10.128.1.1
12 127 ms 113 ms * 192.168.1.2
13 65 ms 57 ms 53 ms slugger.onshore.com [206.69.90.98]

Trace complete.

[rpeAMP]

The paths don't really look that bad. The latency increases some when you reach the @home backbone, but not enough to cause what you are describing. Have you tried playing without your router? Also, do you get disconnected alot?

[[TLM] Rat In Experiments]

I have seen people talkin about lag caused by a router in the cs-ingame chat...
Try to play without it (if possible).

[Minvaren]

Firmware 1.38.5 has been reported to have issues with CS.

Downgrade to 1.38.4 and see what happens. I'm running it on my BEFSR41 with no problems in CS.


Minvaren

[chinaboy00]

i think i found the problem. it is because i have my a splitter that connects one to my cable modem and one to a tv because when i remove the splitter i no longer lose anymore packets. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a place where i can find some rg6 cables with quad shielding and a high pass filter and maybe a good high quality splitter

[s0ulfly]

Splitters are always bad. They add too much noise and degrade the signal.

[Praetorian109]

I get the same type of problem running without a router. Adelphia Rowland Heights area in Souther california. Intermittent lag spikes every 30 to 40 seconds. Happens whenever, not just in CS but every other game. Seems like it happens when browsing webpages also. Running Dlink 530TX RevA NIC, winME. I'll post more specs if requested.

[rpeAMP]

Originally posted by chinaboy00:
i think i found the problem. it is because i have my a splitter that connects one to my cable modem and one to a tv because when i remove the splitter i no longer lose anymore packets. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a place where i can find some rg6 cables with quad shielding and a high pass filter and maybe a good high quality splitter

Get the cable company to come out and look at it. Don't try to get the splitter yourself. Some work, some don't. It's definately a signal issue. Just tell them that you are getting packet loss, and that you have identified the problem as the splitter. Probably what they will do is drop a new line from the tap to the room where the computer is so that it doesn't have to be split to any TVs. They should do this for free.

[ 05-19-2001: Message edited by: rpeAMP ]