a little help would be appreciated ;)

[I_R_BIG_TROLL]

Hi there posters

I recently got my new inet back up and running - and decided its time to return to my beloved camelot, but i'm having some hassles accomplishing this hehehe.

The problem is, ofc, lag :S... I get lots of delay (5sec + ) before actions occur, and as soon as i start fighting / see many foes, i go LD

I tried running ping's to the Prydwen server - and i get average response times (200-300ms) with no packet loss, so this problem leads me to believe it might be something technical

my box is set up like this:

p4 2.7, 512 ram, 256mb nvidia geforce.

I have all the latest video drivers, directx etc - so i dont think it would be that

The only thing i can think it would be is my router. Im no router guru at all, as this is the first one i'm using. Its a Marconi 4 Port ethernet POTS router, and is set up to be the DHCP controller. (my pc's network settings are to detect automatically).

I ran some pingplots, and get 300ms-ish using ICMP packet mode, and a loverly 70ms average using packets over tcp (http).

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

regards,

Sequana

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

is it fashionable nowadays orso to give as little needed information as possible?

if you press [shift]+[p] ingame, you receive a little screen with three ickle icons. which one is colored yellow/red? the left? middle? right?

you say you have a GeForce.. what GeForce? they're at 7 now... so if you've got the original GeForce.. no wonder it's crashing..

Also... you aswell have a very helpfull threadtitle...

 

[I_R_BIG_TROLL]

apologies ..... the framerate is green, the other two goes red.

and i have a geforce 4 5600 256mb (me thinks)

 

[DocWolfe]

you downloading while playing? who's your isp? whats your connection speed? if framerate is green then it's not a graphics card issue. 200ms is very high.

Tracing route to www.camelot-europe.com [193.252.123.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 24 ms 26 ms 25 ms 217.41.165.122
2 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 217.41.165.161
3 32 ms 24 ms 25 ms 217.41.173.21
4 25 ms 27 ms 27 ms 217.41.173.65
5 26 ms 31 ms 23 ms 217.41.173.122
6 24 ms 23 ms 25 ms 217.41.173.50
7 26 ms 25 ms 23 ms 213.123.108.113
8 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms core1-pos14-3.manchester.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.2
.145]
9 27 ms 27 ms 29 ms core1-pos13-1.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.196.
122]
10 34 ms 29 ms 29 ms core1-pos5-3.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [195.99.120.21
3]
11 43 ms 29 ms 31 ms transit2-pos5-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.20.
154]
12 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms t2c2-p1-0.uk-ilf.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.101]
13 30 ms 31 ms 31 ms t2c1-p8-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.208.2]
14 32 ms 28 ms 29 ms t2a4-ge0-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.135.98]
15 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms 166-49-211-130.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.130]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms po1-0.pascr3.Paris.opentransit.net [193.251.128.
222]
19 40 ms 38 ms 39 ms po9-0.pascr1.Paris.opentransit.net [193.251.129.
61]
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 40 ms 44 ms 44 ms 193.252.122.14
22 43 ms 42 ms 58 ms www.camelot-europe.com [193.252.123.35]

Trace complete.

this is my tracert on 2mb broadband

 

[I_R_BIG_TROLL]

you downloading while playing? who's your isp? whats your connection speed? if framerate is green then it's not a graphics card issue. 200ms is very high.

Tracing route to www.camelot-europe.com [193.252.123.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops: <SNIP!>

this is my tracert on 2mb broadband

thanks for the reply..

firstly, not using the connection at all other than for daoc. My isp is SaDomain - in South Africa. my connection speed is 512kb/s adsl

200ms is quite high, but i had 400ms when i was living in Dubai, and 500ms when living in Mauritius, and there i had alot of packet loss too - and i could still play (albeit laggily).. now its ld every 5 mins

an update.... tried port forwarding for the 3 common daoc ports, but that doesnt seem to work (that being if i did it right hehehe)

the struggle continues

 

[Kaelimar]

what kind of network card do you have?

check settings for it and se if you have a thingy called hardware checksum control on/off if it´s on try put it on off

had same trouble with mine

 

[Honza]

Try downloading Visualroute ( http://download.visualware.com/networkmonitoring/index.html ) and let it track the route from you to the www.camelot-europe.com

My report looks like the one attached.

 

[DocWolfe]

tried connecting straight to the internet rather than through your router? might determine whether it is your router thats the problem.