Bad lag in BF1942/DC

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:11 pm

I'm sure a few of you know, I had to fix a problem with my computer rebooting. It was over clocked a bit, and all I had to do is put it back to the original setting. First, here are my specs.
AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz
1 gig RAM
WinXP Pro SP2
ATI Radeon 9600

So when I was having problems before, my CPU's Frequency 1 MHz Stepping was at 132 (max) so to fix the problem, I put it back down to 100 (min).
After that is when i started lagging badly. I put it up to 108, then 112, and now at 116, and it is still lagging.

We toned down some of the video settings in BF to see if that helped... It did, but very very little. Then we over clocked my video card from Core 400 and Memory 270, to Core 455 and Memory 320. It did very little to stop the lag.

I read that the recommended specs only requires a 800 MHz processor, so I should be fine with that, and with all the same parts, it was fine before, so I have no idea what could be causing the lag.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:56 am

Online play? Ping's when your playing..stable internet connection? Could be the ram going/gone bad...rum memtest to check out the sticks one at a time.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:20 am

If both him and I are playing at the same time...on a server in Germany, we're both around 65-75 ms as far as pings. It's not bandwidth.

I know his system is a little low in specs by todays standards....but I've been playing BF DC for a long time...prior to that was using an AMD Palo 1900 myself with a 64 meg GeForce2.

Upgrades coming soon to the computers at Cats Pad..this one is just to hold him over until then.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:39 am

server in Germany? Can't find one in the US to play on?

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:26 pm

Sava700 wrote:server in Germany? Can't find one in the US to play on?

we both like to play on that one because, well for me anyway, it has all the good maps in the map cycle and there are no rules other than no TK and no cheating...

but i am still confused on how the hell could it just crap out so fast...

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:37 pm

Sava700 wrote:server in Germany? Can't find one in the US to play on?

It's a modded server...only one out there with these cool mods..and a great crowd.

Pings aren't an issue anyways..as illustrated...65-75 for 2x concurrent players, smooth as butter.

Gotta dork some more with his ATI video settings, the 9600 card is a 256 megger....should handle the old DC engine just fine.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:56 pm

Why not just get the mods and put one up yourself here local..draw in some of the US people to it?

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:58 pm

Sava700 wrote:Why not just get the mods and put one up yourself here local..draw in some of the US people to it?

would have to be brians job... but anyway thats not the point. we both play fine on that server, but now i lag real bad... help

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:17 pm

Sava700 wrote:Why not just get the mods and put one up yourself here local..draw in some of the US people to it?

Because the 0-]T-M-P[-0 servers are cool, lots of regular players there over the many years I've been playing there.

With the internet..you can't think geographically. With an average ping of 70ms....it doesn't matter where it's located...70ms in game performance is great as far as the network latency goes.

And I don't have the energy to build/run/maintain/manage/collect money/fund/police a game server anymore.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:22 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:
And I don't have the energy to build/run/maintain/manage/collect money/fund/police a game server anymore.

I hear that..

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:59 pm

Sava700 wrote:I hear that..

i hear not help... come on man i havent been able to play in like azillion days

lewis · Post by **lewis** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:55 pm

Maybe another gig of ram? Couldn't hurt. Using the latest drivers? Or try re-install them...

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:25 pm

hmmm ram might help

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:44 pm

MetalHead324 wrote:hmmm ram might help

I already suggested ram was a issue..

Sava700 wrote:Online play? Ping's when your playing..stable internet connection? Could be the ram going/gone bad...rum memtest to check out the sticks one at a time.

It might not be bad but you could use some more and ram is cheap.

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:54 pm

Sava700 wrote:I already suggested ram was a issue..

It might not be bad but you could use some more and ram is cheap.

i know that but i have no money at all. if i did, i would have bought ram like as soon as this started happening. i just need some more ideas that might help.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:57 pm

the ram you have might not be working right.. test with memtest one stick at a time.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:58 pm

have you tried reinstalling the game patches and mods?

I jumped in that server, helluva alot of action going on in there and i get alot of lag aswel my ping is around 80

must be all the mods?

MetalHead324 · Post by **MetalHead324** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:02 pm

Randy wrote:have you tried reinstalling the game patches and mods?

I jumped in that server, helluva alot of action going on in there and i get alot of lag aswel my ping is around 80

must be all the mods?

the server is the same as always, no new mods or anything. before it ran great, but then once i put my front side bus down the the original speed, and thats when it started running slow.