Lagging??

[Dito]

Why would my computer lag at 30 ping?

[SlothX311]

well it depends on a number of things, your hardware, your internet connection, the server your connecting to, and the game, so tell me a little bit about your situation and i can help you more

[Dito]

P4 CPU
512MB RAM
onboard Graphics
40GB HDD

BB Conection of 2MB
game is COD 1

and All Seeing Eye

[SlothX311]

Originally Posted by Dito

P4 CPU
512MB RAM
onboard Graphics
40GB HDD

BB Conection of 2MB
game is COD 1

and All Seeing Eye

you have a fast enough internet connection to support any game, so throw that idea out, the game isnt that instensive, so that idea is out too. the only thing that it could be is the server having a low tic rate, or because of your integrated graphics....one way to find out which, is to run a single player game of COD1 or a lan game, so that you can test your hardware without a connection, so there is no lag, if you still have lag, then it is your video card, but if there isnt lag then its prolly the server that your trying to play in

[Whatcha]

I would say the intergrated graphics, you can tell this usually by it lagging when their is a lot of action around. I have a very poor graphics card 8Mb and i lagg to hell in CS when smoke nades are thrown.

Things like smoke or shadows, basically any sprites that need to be constantly redrawn will make you suffer with a poor graphics setup. And rember even if you have say a 64mb intergrated it still has to compete with the cpu for cycles.

I would look for some cod config commands usually from the command line to reduce some of the special effects to lower the demand on your system. Turning things off like the bullets casing, shadows, blood and gore can give a significant improvment.

Though the best solution is get a decicated graphics card. I am looking at the ATI 9550 256MB 8XAGP retails for around £45 but gets good reviews for playing recent games at good rates. Also it can be overclocked i belive into a 9600

[MADMAX]

Originally Posted by Dito

P4 CPU
512MB RAM
onboard Graphics
40GB HDD

BB Conection of 2MB
game is COD 1

and All Seeing Eye

I did lag, so I bought a 256mb graphics card, that didnt help (lol) i found the problem was my virus protecter (mcafee) I have to sign in to my privacy service to sort the lag out, if its not that try making the graphic details to low instead if extra (options)


Buy cod2 and join the clan!!!!

[SlothX311]

yes dito, you could always try cleaning out your windows task manager programs that are running, eating up your system resources...worth a shot

[Whatcha]

sometimes it is handy to create a gaming profile that just loads the essential programs that you need to free up as much sys resources as possible as sloth says. I do believe their is a flag for some games to force more resources to it but you would have to search to find apporiate ones, i know in the good olde days you could never relly bothered looking lately

[SlothX311]

yes ^ good point whatcha....worst case, if you cant get it to run right, just run msconfig and clean out what isnt standard

[dyrim]

Might possibly be a HL server problem.