Weird Latency Variation Issues

[SectorNine50]

Republic, when did this problem start occurring for you?

[republic]

It occurs with Vista only.  I use dialup to play AH.  On every machine I've tried it does the same thing.  Latency goes crazy.  If I do what I mentioned above, it seems to delay it...but no matter what I do I can't find out how to stop it.

Unfortunately there are a couple components in my current computer that prohibit me from installing XP, as the drivers have to be modified to work in XP.  I'd really hate to have to have a machine just for AH. 

[Skuzzy]

By default, Vista will make a mess of the Variance in the game.  It has to do with Aero, SuperFetch, adn ReadyBoost, primarily.

However, there are many other things that can cause it as well. Norton is bad.

[republic]

I still can't pin it down.  I think I've fixed it and it pops back up again.  Seems to be only the modem, I test on a friend's DSL connection and it worked fine....but didn't really have time to test thoroughly.  Not just my laptop.  Every Vista machine I've tested with a combination of modems USB, PCI, heck...even an old external serial port US Robotics business modem.

Got to be something I'm missing...

[SectorNine50]

Wait, republic, is this an HP laptop?

[republic]

No m8, and it happens on both my laptops running vista and my desktop.  No worries though, I've got XP running on a 2nd drive so I can dual boot.  Even with it's own dedicated XP install AH still takes up less space than most of my games.

Edit:  Though I used to be a Vista hater myself, I've really grown to enjoy Vista 64.

[SectorNine50]

No m8, and it happens on both my laptops running vista and my desktop.  No worries though, I've got XP running on a 2nd drive so I can dual boot.  Even with it's own dedicated XP install AH still takes up less space than most of my games.

Edit:  Though I used to be a Vista hater myself, I've really grown to enjoy Vista 64.

You know, my dial-up modem drivers had an update in July that I downloaded that caused my latency issues.  I'm not sure why...  I uninstalled them and all was well... 

I installed Vista on this laptop, since it was "Vista Compatible" and quickly uninstalled it.  Even with 2GB of RAM my games just did NOT play near as well.  However, on machines that were built for Vista, it seems to run very well!  Not sure why they thought they needed so many resources running though...

[republic]

Well the problems continue.  My laptop has to have hacked drivers to run XP, and has it's own problems with AH, completely different from the Vista problems.

Has anyone discovered the root of the latency variation?  It ends up looking like saw teeth. 
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I've tried two vista laptops and a vista desktop, but all were Intel based with nVidia graphics.  I wonder if this a widespread Vista issue or only specific hardware.

Until then I'm playing on a Macbook Pro with XP installed.  Works perfect...oddly enough.  lol