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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Kidd on August 04, 2007, 05:06:57 PM
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First off, i'm pretty sure I have a good computer and internet connection. I feel that i just have to change settings here and there or there might be some kindof work around or some sort of interference with something on my computer and AH.
The problem is that I'm warping: I've messed with a ton of the video settings on AH from highest detail to lowest detail/highest performance. There is no change in any of this.
Have also turned off windows firewall, Norton
Any background process that I know I have started.
(Vista has really increased the background process and I honestly don't know what is what) I have already gotten rid of all their stupid parental things where it asks you ever 5 seconds, "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT?"
Vista
2.0Ghz T7000
2gb Ram
256MB Nvidia GEForce 8600M GT Driver 7.15.11.143
Cable/Wireless. Never any connectivity problems. D/Ls at a constant 500-700kb/s. My connection has always been very very smooth.
Frame Rate is constant 50+
The rest of that info shows me its using only 1gb memory and very little of my vid card, etc.
Any advice? Thx.
Kidd
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One thing to note: I did switch off my wireless and went directly into the modem with my ethernet cable and there was no difference.
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Did you already try a "tracert 206.16.60.39" ?
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What is the process for this and what I'm looking for?
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I have just performed this. How do i interpret the data?
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>tracert 206.16.60.39
Tracing route to 206.16.60.39 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 11 ms 10 ms 8 ms 73.141.93.1
3 12 ms * 9 ms ge-3-2-ur01.sterling.va.richmond.comcast.net [68
.86.124.29]
4 8 ms 9 ms 13 ms te-1-1-ur02.sterling.va.richmond.comcast.net [68
.86.172.242]
5 12 ms 15 ms * 68.86.172.246
6 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms po-50-ar01.staplesmllrd.va.richmond.comcast.net
[68.86.172.162]
7 20 ms 17 ms 16 ms 12.86.111.9
8 56 ms 55 ms 53 ms tbr1.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.113.18]
9 47 ms 49 ms 48 ms tbr1.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
10 48 ms 49 ms 46 ms tbr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
11 52 ms 56 ms 50 ms br2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.213]
12 49 ms 48 ms 47 ms mdf1-gsr12-1-pos-6-0.dal1.attens.net [12.122.255
.78]
13 57 ms 51 ms 52 ms mdf1-bi8k-1-eth-1-2.dal1.attens.net [63.241.192.
202]
14 52 ms 50 ms 51 ms 206.16.60.39
Trace complete.
C:\Windows\system32>tracert 206.16.60.39
Tracing route to 206.16.60.39 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 8 ms 10 ms 73.141.93.1
3 11 ms * 9 ms ge-3-2-ur01.sterling.va.richmond.comcast.net [68
.86.124.29]
4 9 ms 10 ms * te-1-1-ur02.sterling.va.richmond.comcast.net [68
.86.172.242]
5 11 ms 12 ms * 68.86.172.246
6 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms po-50-ar01.staplesmllrd.va.richmond.comcast.net
[68.86.172.162]
7 19 ms 17 ms 17 ms 12.86.111.9
8 55 ms 54 ms 55 ms tbr1.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.113.18]
9 66 ms 48 ms 47 ms tbr1.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
10 47 ms 48 ms 48 ms tbr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
11 56 ms 48 ms 50 ms br2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.213]
12 49 ms 48 ms 47 ms mdf1-gsr12-1-pos-6-0.dal1.attens.net [12.122.255
.78]
13 49 ms 51 ms 51 ms mdf1-bi8k-1-eth-1-2.dal1.attens.net [63.241.192.
202]
14 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms 206.16.60.39
Trace complete.
C:\Windows\system32>
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I see the dreaded Comcast in your route.
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209435&highlight=comcast
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is the jump from step 7 to step 8 significant? Being dialup, I wouldn't know:furious
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fuzeman. How am i supposed to interpret the data from pingplotter. What data is significant for you.
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Not sure if this applies to you, however it worked perfect for my buddy. He was so warpy even his own team complained about it. He had a great computer, good connection, but his variance on his network status was horrible. Tried graphics, cutting processes, nothing worked. I remembered reading about Power settings in here and this did the trick.
Go to:
Control Panel
-Power Settings
If its on "Energy Star" change it to "Home/Office Desktop"
Cured it right there.
Good luck and I hope this is what plagues you.
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Hey i tried that. In vista its a bit different but i did whatever i could for "Fastest Performance". Didnt work. I'm now going through all the background processes one at a time to see what i can cut and what I can't.
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Finished turning off every process i could, but it was not changed. I assume this is internet let related and i guess comcast. I couldnt really tell what i was supposed to be looking for with that pingplotter thing. If you could let me know, i can get you the results and you can let me know if i'm doomed or not.
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Originally posted by bj229r
is the jump from step 7 to step 8 significant? Being dialup, I wouldn't know:furious
I wouldn't think so. It looks like the entry to the ATT backbone. The Traceroute looks okay to me. I would try ping plotter to see what kind of packet loss you are experiencing on the Comcast network.
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Originally posted by Kidd
fuzeman. How am i supposed to interpret the data from pingplotter. What data is significant for you.
I believe anytime you see one of those asterisks it's a ping that timed out, in other words it was lost. Lost packet = warp usually.
All *s seem to be within Comcast.
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Ok, i did the pingplotter thing, but still don't know what i'm looking for. Occasionaly it will say "packet loss 10%" or something like that and it will go away.
Then a minute later or so it will say it again for something else.
I'm warping around way more than that when i actually play vs. how many instances this pingplotter says I should be warping.
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Is there any work around for packet loss?
I just went up to try and fly again and it was the same warpiness. It got especially bad near the carriers flak.
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Originally posted by Kidd
Is there any work around for packet loss?
I just went up to try and fly again and it was the same warpiness. It got especially bad near the carriers flak.
I get warps near ANY puffy ack---well, I don't belive them to be actual WARPS, but micro-freezes of cpu...(not sure if others see me freezing)--the actual puffy ack sound being generated by my pc causes it--tried a standalone sound card, really not better (3200 processor and 256meg video card, but slow mb)
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Good point bj229r, don't confuse a mini stutter with a warp.
Warps are generally internet related and associated with packet loss.
Mini stutters are generally hardware related and could be a computer resource issue.
That's about all my grey matter can say about this, a guru I'm not.
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Not really sure since its vista, but you could try going to control panel, performance/maintenance, power options and see if its set to home desktop or something like that. Fixed all of my warping problems (and I was warping badly) and has fixed others warping problems. I even have Norton running on my computer when I play, and absolutely no warps.
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Well thanks for help. Tried your ingame suggest BJ but dont think its going to work. I went straight into the modem and the net status was still just bouncing all over the place. Thats the last stop, so i guess its all comcast. Oh well, maybe next year I'll have verizon FIOS or something.