What affect on cod gives the most slow down?

[Lt. Bob]

Hi, i was just wondering what affect in cod slows it down the most? i have a gfroce fx 5600 with a p4 and 1 gig of ram, and yet for some reason i still get a lot of slow down. Does anyone have any tips of any sort to help solve my performance problems?
In the windows performance tab, my settings are pretty much all the way down too.....i have no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

[Tighten]

Are you speaking of online play or SP play?

The best thing you can do for online play is adjust your maxrate, snaps and FPS.

It doesn't matter what your computer will do, if you have your FPS to high, you will not recieve the information from the server via your connection. Explained further below. (http://www.quakebits.com)

Rates ---
LAN ** seta cl_maxpackets "100"
seta cl_packetdup "0"
* seta snaps "40"
seta rate "25000"

ADSL / Cable / Wireless ** seta cl_maxpackets "60"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "40"
seta rate "25000"

ISDN Bonded ** seta cl_maxpackets "60"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "40"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
128000 BPS: seta rate "14000"
112000 BPS: seta rate "12250"

ISDN Single ** seta cl_maxpackets "60"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "40"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
64000 BPS: seta rate "7000"
56000 BPS: seta rate "6200"

56K Modem seta cl_maxpackets "30"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "20"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
50000 BPS: seta rate "5500"
48000 BPS: seta rate "5200"
46000 BPS: seta rate "5000"
44000 BPS: seta rate "4800"
42000 BPS: seta rate "4500"
40000 BPS: seta rate "4300"
38000 BPS: seta rate "4100"
36000 BPS: seta rate "4000"

V34 Modem seta cl_maxpackets "25"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "20"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
33600 BPS: seta rate "3500"
31200 BPS: seta rate "3300"
28000 BPS: seta rate "3000"

28.8 Modem seta cl_maxpackets "25"
seta cl_packetdup "1"
* seta snaps "10"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
28000 BPS: seta rate "3000"
26400 BPS: seta rate "2800"

Minimum Bandwidth Settings - Testing purposes or temporary settings while lag settles. seta cl_maxpackets "15"
seta cl_packetdup "0"
seta snaps "10"
seta rate "(See Table Below)"
64000 BPS: seta rate "6000"
56000 BPS: seta rate "5000"
50000 BPS: seta rate "4600"
48000 BPS: seta rate "4400"
46000 BPS: seta rate "4000"
44000 BPS: seta rate "3800"
42000 BPS: seta rate "3600"
40000 BPS: seta rate "3500"
38000 BPS: seta rate "3200"
36000 BPS: seta rate "3000"
34000 BPS: seta rate "3000"
33600 BPS: seta rate "3000"
31200 BPS: seta rate "2800"
28000 BPS: seta rate "2600"
26400 BPS: seta rate "2400"

FPS seems to be the most important to reduce, you have to do this to decrease the demand the system's putting on your connection for the data required to render at such high (offline) fps rates. If you don't do this then your connetion will keep locking up and choking as it can't get enough data from the server to render the relative position of everything going on in a online game - which is why players sometimes seem to 'jump/stutter' across your screen (it's like trying to suck the last drops of a cola through a straw, most of the time you hit air - packet loss - and occasionally you hit cola - data). See the table below about the best rates/connection speeds.

Set your FPS lower to compensate. 76 is usually a nice solid number to keep your FPS at, assuming you have a decent connection. Also when you keep a steady FPS (instead of it fluctuating) you get a better overall response time and more of a fluid like game play on or offline.

[Jasper]

Ok, once my head stops spinning from reading that and I get independent verification of all that info I'll sticky it :)

If it gives me more FPS or generally improoves my performance I'll name my firstborn after you.

[Tighten]

The idea is not to give you more FPS online but, to stabalize your game and the connection to the server.

If you can tweak out your end so everything runs smooth and all parameters are set with in the limits of your connection - game play will become more stable (at least if the server you are playing on is stable)

Because your forcing your PC to cap the frames per second, you can adjust everything else accordingly.

Otherwise your PC will try and push the most out of everything, thus, creating un-needed traffic in your upstream and the response from the server.

In RTCW I can force my FPS to about 220 on my servers, but I always cap my FPS at 76 (have toggles for FPS), this allows my jumps and overall gameplay to be more consistent.

Other servers I might toggle to 56 FPS or 43. It just depends.

But the information I gave above is valid.

[rta]

Shell Shock shocks my 2800+. :cry:

Tighten, Is this a XP registry tweak deal or CoD console deal? Looks console.

[Tighten]

This is done in console or set in your config.

[Conman]

Fantastic Sticky. This may very well be the issue I've been having with my DSL connection while playing COD. Hadn't thought about the overloading my connection with too high of a frame-rate setting. Minds set at 300fps and hunkmegs at 750. Maps like Bocage, Hollenberg, and Hurtgen when loaded with players seem to really slow down while other maps when loaded with players I have no problem with at all. Lowering my IG settings have no effect. Perhaps this is also the cause of the lag spike I get right after shell-shock. I'll try this and report back. If this doesn't fix anything it's still an excellant thought to have "Stickied".

[Tighten]

I thought it was a good post as well. Many people (including myself at one point) assume if their PC can handle it, everything else is up to the server. It's just not the case though.

In any event, I hope it helps.

[Titatovenaar]

Hi all

Now for the 1 milion dollar question ... how do I actually set the fps rate on my server, meaning : which setting do I use?

Something like : "seta fps 75" :?:

Greetz,

Titatovenaar

:?: hmm, i would like to no, please, how to set these rates on my pc. i got no idea :? :? and like Titatovenaar asked? how is it dun on the server

Thanx

(PFB) THE WOLF

[Tighten]

seta rate "###"
seta snaps "###"

etc.....

You can bind them as well so you can see in game which works for you best.

/bind r seta rate "###" (example) you place all of this info in your config. If you do not have a personal config and choose to use the game console to manipulate settings, then it will be labor intesive to keep changing everything.

If you want, take the cod_mp.cfg from your folder - open it with notepad, organize the settings and add the rate, snaps etc.. into the config and save it as (example) tighten_mp.cfg. Then in your auto exec file, add exec tighten_mp.cfg so that config starts when your game loads.

Or, exec that config from conosle while in game. Keep in mind there are limits to what you can adjust as PB will pick up on VARS that are out of range, and boot you from server.

[Titatovenaar]

Well, call me picklehead, but isn't "rate" meant for distributing the available bandwith over the users? Or am I wrong?

Second point : which 'snaps' value would be ok for a fair connection from server to client?

Cheers,

Titatovenaar

[Tighten]

Rate = the amount of allocated or designated bandwidth to one given instance (port, application, NIC card, home user , server etc..)

You can adjust the rate at which your computer sends information just like you can allocate it to a server.


Setting the rate on your end, along with adjusting FPS, snaps etc... will make the overall performance of your online experience better.

Snaps for anything above a 56k modem should be between 35-40.

FPS - most will find 76 is ideal if your video card is decent. Although it is very possible to push higher FPS, it is unlikely to sustain that amount of frames.

Believe me, when you tweak your game so that you get the best, consitent performance, your skills improve. This is because, you do not need to keep adjusting to variables (ie: fps, rate etc...) so you become familiar with what your PC and connection can handle.

Example: Instead of wondering how far to lead your rifle every time you shoot, you will know 1/2 " in front of the target usually does it.

hi sorry m8, im still none the wiser on how to actually set my rate etc :oops: please help.

[Tighten]

Paste your config in here, I will show your were and how to add it. Then you can copy and paste it back into your config.