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Lagging:- unacceptable response times which become visible to the end-user.
Lagging has two major components; Network data vs. Game system environment.
The items below are classified using these colors.
There are some basic things you can do to minimize the impact of lag:
players are at work or school during the 8am-5pm hours, peak game usage may well
be evenings and weekends. Peak Internet times however, are local time, 8-5 when
commercial sites are most active. Your experience may vary significantly.
There are two TCP settings that can assist you in network lag, Sackopts and Full Duplex.
see this article for details
Lagging has two major components; Network data vs. Game system environment.
The items below are classified using these colors.
There are some basic things you can do to minimize the impact of lag:
- * Reduce your screen resolution: This does not resolve true internet lag issues,
but higher screen resolutions are more taxing on processors and may create an artificial lag.
This will do nothing to help reduce true lag, but it can increase your framerate. - * Eliminate the soundtrack: Playing the music from the CD-Rom will cause slower machines to go noticeably slower.
- * Reduce chat: Excessive "chatting" will cause a degradation in performance.
- * Play later at night or on the weekends: Avoiding "peak" internet times(1) will aid ping times.
- * Choose your server carefully: Find a server that is close geographically and does not typically fill to capacity.
- * Play games with "client prediction": The best way to get around lag is to have a
software company do the work for you. Client prediction is technique where a server compensates for a players lag by predicting the player's movements. eg: QuakeWorld and Quake 2 both include client prediction. - * Get a Good ISP: Get an ISP that is 3 hops or less from a major internet backbone.
players are at work or school during the 8am-5pm hours, peak game usage may well
be evenings and weekends. Peak Internet times however, are local time, 8-5 when
commercial sites are most active. Your experience may vary significantly.
There are two TCP settings that can assist you in network lag, Sackopts and Full Duplex.
see this article for details