Could Video card be my problem ?

[PeaceWarrior]

I had just upgraded from an AMD 500 , guillemot cougar vid card
383 ,Pc 100 ram, With which I had a server set up in Unreal Tournamet 8 Players and was running great !!!! on AT&T cable broadband 1500 dn 300 up
I Upgraded to : SY-k7v mb, Athlon 1.4 , 512 DDR , and " G-Force
MX 2 Video Card (in between these two MB's I had a Asus MB and AMD 850 with same results) And now I have High Ping Spikes (up to 4000) ,large Packet loss 66 %,,, tried all settings for RWIN with no difference Had Cable Techs (lol) to the house on 3 different occasions ,all sed everything was ok,, :mad:
Ping spikes Happen when a 3rd player enters the server, and seems that it Spikes big time when there is a lot of action (understandable) up to 4000 and back down to 30- 60 ping in few moments , only to spike again very soon !!!

Please Help !!!!!!!!!
PS this has been going on for the last 6 mos :cry:
and doing anything other than UT seems to be fine ,, I have removed and reinstalled UT many times with all different UT settings
Thanks : Peaceful-Warrior

[PeaceWarrior]

Here is my Settings
TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 256960
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits
Unscaled Receive Window = 64240
RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64240 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product:
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 10278.4 kbps (1284.8 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 4111.36 kbps (513.92 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 46 hops
TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000

:confused:

[gusto_NL]

I have a cable modem for almost 5 years and have experienced alot of problems.
One time i didn't have a connection for 3 months after my ISP changed my modem after failure. They didn't remove the old modem from my settings in there server so I had two IP adresses and two modems registered to me. That was the first problem.

Then a year later I had the simular problem you have. Normal speeds when surfing on the web but very poor online gaming. Quake, Unreal etc.
The problem was my ISP.
Games like Quake etc. make use of UDP packets other than TCP.

TCP packets make a server give you a signal that your packet has arrived and your computer sends a signal back to the server when you get a packet in return. Typicaly used by webbrowsers.
!can also make sure packets are received in the right order!

UDP packets just go to the server and the server replies with information based on the software you and the server uses, like your quake client to a quake server. UDP means less network traffic and less reliabillity.

To determen if your problem is the same as my problem:
use "winipcfg.exe" to see the IP-adress of your gateway.
In the dos-console of win98 type "ping xx.xx.xx.xx -t" (xx.xx.xx.xx is IP-adress gateway)
This wil trigger a continuos ping to your gateway (probably the main ISP server between you and the Internet)
Leave this running and start your online game.

If your game hangs by network obstruction or something use ALT-TAB to go to the DOS-console where "ping" is still running.
If you see that there are no or almost no ping's returned from your gateway IP-adress the problem can be your ISP.

At the time I also received UDP packets in the wrong order resulting in the following.
Playing Quake2 I moved around the level. When encountering a enemy I was going for the kill. At the exact moment I was placed back to a position in the level where I was comming from. This while not being killed by anyone.

I'm sorry I have no solution for your problem.
My ISP told me "you can still surf the web at normal speed, what is the problem?"
The problem was I didn't bought a Cable modem to surf the web but to play online games.
This problem lasted about 6 months. I'dont know if it was my complain e-mail about UDP performance to my ISP that resoved my problem or just god's way to tell me not to play those freeking games.

The option is to play less internet based games like Max Payne, or Alone in the Dark etc. until the problem resoves it self.
Time is money.