Lag is normally no problem for me. But when there`s about 300+ people on I experience this strange phenomenon:
Any plane, press trigger when flying alone - immediately lead starts flying.
When I`m near someone, pull trigger - - screen freezes half second - pop pop some rounds come out - screen freezes half second - firing really starts.
This is quite annoying, and I just lost a 262 to it.
This makes it impossible to fight properly, and I have to log or smash something around the room. I narrowly evaded tossing the monitor out the window.
Turn into nme 262, pull trigger, LAAAAG, next pic in slideshow, lead flies - where is he ? BOOM.
I have tried everything, reducing sound accelleration, reducing graphics detail and resolution, no dice.
It doesn`t depend on my grahics card I think - I can normally fire, even in a massive furball, unless there are about 300 guys on.
System: Athlon 1.4 GHz, GF4200 128 MB DDR, 512 MB DDR RAM system, onboard sb, IBM DDRS SCSI HD, Board Epox K7A
Connection is single line ISDN (about 7kbit)
I`m running Win ME or WINE under Debian 3.0 for AH, makes no difference. Of course, nothing is running in the background.
Any hints save not flying during american prime time ?