Originally posted by Skuzzy
Yes, more skins was the big change. So if you preload skins then you are probably running out of resources.
Catalyst 4.12 drivers are the best for the ATI 9xxx series of video cards.
None of this will cure packet loss, unless it is inbound loss to your computer. In that case reducing resource usage helps immensely. And packet loss at the last hop of a trace normally means the packet loss is occurring on the inbound side of your connection. Easy for me to verify this. I need the second hop IP address in your PingPlot so I can trace back to you (although I thought we had been through this exercise and found the packet loss was actually in your ISP's network,..could be mistaken).
Are skins downloading in the background? That would explain the hesitation/pauses as well. Does it happen offline? What texture size are you ruinning at? You should have them at 256, which would help free up a lot of resources.
Skins appear to have ll downloaded.
Packet loss isn't happening at AHII server. It's happening a the 2 Dallas hops just prior to AH. Although I do see some from time to time within some of the middle hops.
I preload skins but thinking of turning off skins or something. Going to locate the 4.12 and install I guess.
I keep having to reduce my vid setting just to fly. I've noticed the number online SEEMS to make a difference. I'm saying my gunnery is working fine, I'm hitting, my ACM is working fine, I'm avoiding and stayin on em, then patch or new map or ??? and suddenly it's not working quite the same anymore? Suddenly the lead I used to use doesn't SEEM to work anymore. Start to notice that I can get hits but the number of people online and the time of day make it SEEM very different, a few online and I hit allot, many online and even a 1 v 1 SEEMS way different. Last few days I REALLY got to put allot of ammo into each kill! I watch many hit sprites, I hit with what SEEMS allot of rounds and I see little damage. Both a squadie and I hit a yak yesterday, twice each, and the yak kept flyin and looked like it had little damage??? Ya we finally got a kill message but thinkin it was a pilot wound cause nothing else appeared damage when we got close enough to see?!?!?
I'll email you, and list em here as well, the 2nd hop for both my connections. Neither seems to be working anymore. One has 16 hops the other has about 9.
