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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: mechanic on April 18, 2005, 01:52:45 AM
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my stick inputs are lousey and laggy.
my rounds do no damage even in something like typhoon i cant get enough rounds to take a spits wing off.
my connection wobbles like a fat girl in a tractor.
lag, lag, lag, lost packets et al.
flying is impposible because stupid stick spikes every time i touch it.
shooting is impposible because i cant hold the plane level let alone aim.
WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?
it was smooth as silk unitll the lastest patch.
tried everything from full windows calibration to reinstalling the hardware and software.
nothing helps.
right now the game plain sucks for me.
add to this that MA gameplay is totaly non-existant and you have a very un happy camper.
HT, whats changed or have ALL of my computer bits gone wrong at the same time?
:(
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Is this the right time to mention that everything has improved for me across the board in the latest patch? :)
Seriously, lots of folks have been having internet issues of late. Try running the ping plot and I bet you see it too.
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yeah, im hoping its just my connection thats gone loopy.
the game looks 1000 times better, but for me its been flying 10,000 times worse.
just wanna know if HT changed anything.
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recal your stick bat ...it wacked mine out too ...
now comes the fun part,,, the micro warps at 200-100 area .. ive given up more deaths to this then guys have shot me down. (this maybe a firing bug also ) but ive seen the micro warps on film while flying in formation ...
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tried recal in windows and ingame.
maybe this stupid saitek is finally busted after 7 months use.
but the rubber bullets and input lags are worse.
imagine being at the top of a rope, and you rudder doesnt redpond for a second or two. you flop down and the guy kills you not the other way around.
and turn fighting is a joke, even more so aiming is impossible even at 400 yrds.
offline seems to be no trouble.
could lag effect stick inputs or am i rustling the wrong wrangler here?
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run all your spyware /av programs ect to be shure your clean 1st ,(thats what i always do )
clean out the temp files ect .. basically be shure your pc is back to top notch again .
(it wont hurt ya )
then ping out the ma just to see . the intardnet has been a wreck all week here in the US . tons of outages and maintenance going on .
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ok, ill give it all a try, thanks mate.
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anytime :D
mines playing ok besides the microwarps after i did all that . having to start over with my stick settings really sucked though .. I just had it too the point to were I was getting the patented Lev turn down also . :(
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To me that sounds like lag more then anything.
Reason I say that is that Ive not had any problems at all since the latest patch.
Though I have had the same problems as you describe before.
These have always been related to lag or loss of cpu performance.
The lag has been either due to my router needing a reset or McAfee anti virus updating it self.
The loss of cpu has always been due to spyware or antivirus starting a scan.
Now I always scan my computer weekly for spyware and make sure to disable anti virus when I fly.
Tex.
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Originally posted by mechanic
tried recal in windows and ingame.
maybe this stupid saitek is finally busted after 7 months use.
but the rubber bullets and input lags are worse.
imagine being at the top of a rope, and you rudder doesnt redpond for a second or two. you flop down and the guy kills you not the other way around.
and turn fighting is a joke, even more so aiming is impossible even at 400 yrds.
offline seems to be no trouble.
could lag effect stick inputs or am i rustling the wrong wrangler here?
I had to redo all my input settings... dampner, deadband, sliders, everything... (No dampening, sept on rudders, sliders at the top,very little DB)
I played around with it offline, seemed ok, then went online & started tweakin some more...
played with video settings a bit then back to input settings, I guess I've reached a happy medium somewhere...
no real trouble til I get in the trees...
I have had lots of trouble with netlag tho... could that be it ?? maybe a combo of the 2 ??
Dunno, but I hope this helped a little...
WD
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Savvis is destroying AH gameplay, i am seeing accelerated stalls that should not be happening.
Rubber bullets, i am getting a huge amount of assists instead of kills.
I would guess that a large proportion of my kills this month are from getting people to auger around me.
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There is no such thing as rubber bullets. Hits can NOT be droped.
Savis can in no way effect aircraft stalls.
HiTech
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sounds like yer stick is die'in.
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^^^^ yup, thats my worst trouble i must accept.
good to hear from the man himself that my aim and flying are just lousey......its my stick i swear it....... :lol thanks for a solid answer.
i wasnt blaming anyone's server, btw.
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
run all your spyware /av programs ect to be shure your clean 1st ,(thats what i always do )
clean out the temp files ect .. basically be shure your pc is back to top notch again .
(it wont hurt ya )
then ping out the ma just to see . the intardnet has been a wreck all week here in the US . tons of outages and maintenance going on .
I'm going thru same thing....usually use hijack this adaware and housecall....
you reccomend anything else...guessing I got critters in the box:(
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mine are Fix it utilities (Trend micro AV) , adaware , hijack this, along with the firefox browser .
Hijack this is a user beware program but its alot easier then doing the registry manually .
I only find about one cookie per week these days w/adaware.
i also check my running proccesses and keep those to a min also .
the other thing that helps is a registry defrag .. (i never do a hd defrag just the reg )
theres lots of other spyware programs to be had, but ive had good luck w/ my setup so far (havent had a successfull virous in a very long time)
the temp files/main windows folder is were alot of bad stuff can hide , ive been cleaning all my neibors pc's for them, so ive kinda got bug extermination down .
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Thanks....is the trendmicro fix it utility different than housecall?
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Hitech my experience this month unfortunately does not agree with your statement.
I am not suggesting Savvis is causing stalls i threw that in as somebody else said things seem to be handling differently.
With regard to rubber bullets, what can i say.
My hit rate has dropped and i am having to really lay into a target to get a kill, no more snap shot kills. In fact unless i get a few seconds on a target they dont even seem to take any damage.
Far to many assists and not enough kills.
Not arguing just saying how it is at my end.
But with Savvis giving me a constant packet loss of between 20% and 60% do you still say its impossible to get rubber bullets ?
On the 1st of this month i was at 12:1 K/D, hit rate was about 20% and K/T around .030.
On the 2nd of this month it was as if somebody had thrown a switch and everything went into freefall.
So i check the routing and from that time to this Savvis connection is abominable.
Now keep in mind i have been playing your game from the time of the original beta, so i reckon by now i know how to hit them and what to expect when i do.
Perhaps you use tcp for hits and they are not supposed to get lost but something wierd is going on (from my perspective at least).
Edit.
Found my handling problem at least, and anybody who uses a Cougar will understand.
In TM setup somehow it had changed from manual to auto calibration.
In effect this means that unless you move your controls to there full extent before flying, then its just guessing a calibration until you hit the movement limits.
Hyper sensitive response springs to mind.
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Originally posted by mechanic
my stick inputs are lousey and laggy.
my rounds do no damage even in something like typhoon i cant get enough rounds to take a spits wing off.
my connection wobbles like a fat girl in a tractor.
lag, lag, lag, lost packets et al.
flying is impposible because stupid stick spikes every time i touch it.
shooting is impposible because i cant hold the plane level let alone aim.
WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?
it was smooth as silk unitll the lastest patch.
tried everything from full windows calibration to reinstalling the hardware and software.
nothing helps.
right now the game plain sucks for me.
add to this that MA gameplay is totaly non-existant and you have a very un happy camper.
HT, whats changed or have ALL of my computer bits gone wrong at the same time?
:(
I recently did a Windows update that included a new Saitek driver.. which caused some difference.
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housecall is fine Ive used that on other pc's
Fix it utility's is a all in one program that was built originally with Trend micro's AV program (it got sold to vcom a couple of years ago) its 20-30 bucks though . theres several of us that use it and ive never seen any complaints yet .
I believe that the AV pattern files are the same between fix it and house call.
im not shure how well the new microjunk AV program works yet . (im ignoring my pc that has xp on it again .. SP2 porked the thing )
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Originally posted by humble
I'm going thru same thing....usually use hijack this adaware and housecall....
you reccomend anything else...guessing I got critters in the box:(
Here's a free cleaner:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html
And a totally free better than anything by Norton et al virus app:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
I run my own small computer business, and have for 5 years.. I've installed the free version on well over 1000 systems, my cutomers rave about it.
The HOME version its 100% FREE, all they ask for is an e-mail to register. No ads, spyware or spam either..
When I'm gaming out the AV processes is easy to kill in order to free resources too.
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Well I have a new stick and It is not the problem...the last patch is causing lag-warping.. plain and simple.....before patch...OK after Patch...BS freezing and rubber bullets..had to turn down all video settings just so the warping would be under control....rubber bullets still exist and I have been flying a typhoon this month....before patch...two hits there down...after patch...200 hits there smokin......I agree the game is evolving but which way? I built a new puter for AHII cause my old puter that was 6 months old wouldn't handle AHII....You guys are going to cause a mass exodous if you keep going down this path. Give us toggles to turn the "Fluff" off...if a person wants fluff they can select it, if they want barebones they can select it. Geez this is getting absurd.
Savis has issues but when the issues magically appear after a patch well it doesnt take a whole lot of gray matter to figure that one out!
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
Here's a free cleaner:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html
And a totally free better than anything by Norton et al virus app:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
I run my own small computer business, and have for 5 years.. I've installed the free version on well over 1000 systems, my cutomers rave about it.
The HOME version its 100% FREE, all they ask for is an e-mail to register. No ads, spyware or spam either..
When I'm gaming out the AV processes is easy to kill in order to free resources too.
I've been using AVG for years and never had a problem (so far) as well as panda...I'll give avast a try see if it catchs something the others missed...