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Trying to hunt down lag source

Jul 19, 2003 Mr_H link
Hi, new player, first day, yada yada. I'm trying to hunt down the source of tremoundous lag that I'm getting in the game. I'm unsure if it's my computer, or Vendetta, or the servers, or what not.

My lag goes like this: I'm flying along and I turned 30 degrees left. It goes that direction, then about a second later it puts me back before my turn and does the turn all over. Fly for about 5-10 seconds, then it occurs again. I've had a few times when I come in and it's smooth sailing, then occurs again and keeps going. Has happened when i logged out and such.

I've altered my video settings to see if ti's that, and it still occurs with low level graphics. This does make combat pretty much impossible:(

First off..anyone know the names/ips of the servers so I can check traceroutes for the lag times?

Second...any suggestions?:(

THanks
Jul 19, 2003 StarFreeze link
While in game do a /ping

majikthise.guildsoftware.com
204.29.203.105(This info came from Blaster)

Thats the game server.
Jul 19, 2003 Mr_H link
Thank ye muchly (looks like someone's router at voyager.net dislikes me today..)
Jul 20, 2003 Rabid Panda link
you do know that 20 is bad and 1 is good.
Jul 20, 2003 a1k0n link
Yeah, if you're actually being involuntarily shot around space, it's due to resynchronizations. If you have really erratic latency or high packetloss it will confuse the timer phase-locked-loop very much, and then this happens.
Jul 20, 2003 Mr_H link
Yeah, the pings are rather 'average' for my system in other games. Traceroute dies after a router/switch/server/whatever just one hop in front of the game server...

<snip of beginning IPs..>
...
9 206.220.243.34 44.751 ms 43.304 ms 41.726 ms
10 129.250.5.70 45.070 ms 43.099 ms 44.739 ms
11 129.250.25.167 44.844 ms 47.360 ms 53.614 ms
12 128.242.186.186 64.251 ms 60.615 ms 62.176 ms
13 169.207.224.22 66.997 ms 71.657 ms 70.161 ms
14 * * *
15 *
....

14 should be the game server.

Ingame my pings avg 500-1000

EDIT:
This = weird. I rebooted my machine into Linux (originally playing in Windows, dual boot, same box), run Vendetta under linux..and viola. I'm out and playing without any major lag...
Jul 22, 2003 a1k0n link
Zonealarm? If you have it, try disabling it.