Best settings for playing online games

[Kananmuna]

Since I changed to Win XP Pro from ME it seems that there is much more lag than before :confused:... I tried to search for a topic like this but couldn't find one. So, I'd really appreciate it if you gave me some tips how to make online games smoother and better...
I mostly play a game called runescape and have cable.

Btw, everyone thinking about changing their OS to XP should do it, it's really great, hasn't crashed one single time in the 1 month that I've used it.

[YARDofSTUF]

omg winME i feel so sorry for u, i too used winME once, and ya i love XP, ok list ur hardware:

video card, cpu, all the stuff u know and did u install new drivers for the video card when u switched over?

[Kananmuna]

geforce 2 mx,700 celeron, msi 6163pro mobo, 3com etherlink 10/100,386 mb sdram, I've installed the xp detonators, that's the hardware. I have installed the sg win_2k patches.

But I don't have any probs with graphics or the like, just online games running as slow as with a 56kb dialup, actually my brother has a dial-up and I can't see any difference between my cable an his dial-up. My download speeds are fast, about 350-400kb, so there ain't nothing wrong over there, just lag. well thanks for replying, it's nice when someone trys to help:)

[YARDofSTUF]

oh i ddint realize it was net speed u were talkign about, ok

here take this and post results pls

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31779

and also goto START > RUN > type in "cmd" [ENTER] and type in "ping www.speedguide.net"

and tell me ur ping times.

[Kananmuna]

ping speedguide.net: average 144


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 = 49 hops
TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000

[YARDofSTUF]

ur ping is very high, i'd call ur ISP and tell them about this and they can check ur line for its signal, or maybe they are having a problem

[Kananmuna]

that's a high ping? damn, the game I play has it's servers in the UK so it's over 200 in ping, I pinged some sites in the uk and they were all over 200...What can my ISP do if I call them, I mean, what can be done so that it gets better?

[Kananmuna]

I just disabled QoS packet scheduler,it increased my download speed by 20%, I am not sure what it does, all I know is that it reserves 20% of the bandwidht to the OS which is probably a thing most people don't want. But when, if, somebody does this You have to log-in with the account ADMINISTRATOR, do not login wit a account with administrative rights, this will screw up the system. I did this a couple of weeks ago and had to do a clean install...
It can be disabled in Network Connections | ur network card, there is QoS packet scheduler, disable it (at your own risk).If something gets screwed up just use system Restore...

[YARDofSTUF]

Originally posted by Kananmuna
that's a high ping? damn, the game I play has it's servers in the UK so it's over 200 in ping, I pinged some sites in the uk and they were all over 200...What can my ISP do if I call them, I mean, what can be done so that it gets better?

they can raise or lower the signal to ur modem if ur low or high or u can find out if theres a problem, disabling QoS is good.

[Joe]

Try installing the drivers for your NIC that are from the company that makes it.. For instance when using windows drivers for my NIC i gain anywhere from 10 to 20ms but using the manufacturers drivers I lose those 10-20ms

Also if that does nothing try getting the default Win 2k patch from here and see if it helps you any.

[Kananmuna]

Well I installed the drivers and the ping to speedguide grew by almost 100ms but the game seems to be running smoother...:confused:

[Da_Devastator]

Hi.

Try changing the network settings for that game.

Also, Make sure that your video is running good on that game because i think that if the video isn't running smoothly in the game, it can severely affect your lag, regardless of your connection!

bye.

[davejonesusa]

Hello, I was having similar problems when I switched over from 98se to xp pro. Unreal tournament was running slow. Mainly online. It took a week or 2 but i finally saw that when I installed the game xp configured some of the ini. files (settings) incorrect. I changed the files back accordinly. I don't know why xp does this but as soon as i changed the ini. files in unreal back everything ran smooth as silk. Hope this helps

[Kananmuna]

Da_Devastator:

Well, it's a online game which can be downloaded, and u start it and choose server and start playing, there are no settings. Actually, you could take a look at it, it's 117 kb so that shouldn't be a problem. It's really great when you know some things about it.Runescape (http://www.runescape.com)

DavejonesUSA:

Well what ini's did it change?

[Kananmuna]

Next question:

Is there some way to make packet loss smaller or none?

bye