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Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: ZXMAW on December 22, 2002, 02:17:23 PM: A squadie (T2MAW) had mentioned that after reviewing many sys specs he noticed many that used the Athlon processors experienced more probs than others with AH. Is there a connection to AH and it's lag and disco probs due to these processors?
More importantly, if so is there a fix?

I thought my prob was with my conexant modem. I am unable to play even Red Alert on the net w/o huge lags and then a disco from game and then an immediate boot off the net.
Does anyone else use this modem and if so have you experienced any probs with it or the processor?

TY
ZX
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: AKIron on December 22, 2002, 03:05:15 PM: Seems unlikely to me. Have used AMD for years now, very few disco's and little warping compared to most. I do have broadband and was in the same area as the server(s) with 10ms ping times. Now I have 30-40ms ping times and still little problems.

Would bet that better than 9 times of 10 discos or lag are connection related.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: Innominate on December 22, 2002, 03:43:17 PM: I use an AMD system, no problems whatsoever.

Disconnnect problems are most often caused by bad ISPs/network connections.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: Vulcan on December 22, 2002, 04:22:18 PM: I have an Athlon 2100XP+ system, no problems whatsoever.

I suspect it may be system quality thats the issue.

Most 'home built' Athlon systems are built to very high standards - top end boards, video cards, memory, and cooling systems. Most prebuilt name brand Athlon systems are built using the cheapest parts out there.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: moose on December 22, 2002, 06:25:48 PM: Athlon XP 1800+ here w/o any problems.

Vulcan is right - homebuilt AMD setups usually have a lot of pride and effort put into them.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: lasse on December 22, 2002, 06:40:20 PM: Had several AMD systems the last 4-5 years, built them all myself, and never had any problems whatsoever with AH.(Or anything else for that matter)

The Wild Vikings
Lasse
Title: Re: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: maxtor on December 22, 2002, 06:43:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ZXMAW
Is there a connection to AH and it's lag and disco probs due to these processors?

no
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: buzkill on December 23, 2002, 04:54:58 PM: i've got 3 year old athlon 750, 56 k modem. i see some lag when the host is using 56k., but never get complaints from anyone.(and i ask all the time if i'm warping/lagging)
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: bloom25 on December 23, 2002, 07:27:31 PM: The CPU type isn't going to make a difference by itself.

I think Vulcan might have a point.

When it comes to connection issues there are SO MANY possible causes, but cheap modems (like in many name-brand systems) do not hold connections well. It's also generally true that V.90 connections (56k) have higher latency and often drop connections more than the older 33.6k standard.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: Dowding on December 24, 2002, 05:06:12 AM: Home built Athlon here with no connex problems.
Title: AH AMD Athlon lag/disco connection?
Post by: buzkill on December 24, 2002, 08:55:32 AM: you're right bloom.forgot to say that i usually turn my modem down to 33 when in the game.i hardly aver lose connect that way