Hi,
I recently got myself an athlon comp
Athlon 750
asus K7V bios 1003
256mb of apacer pc133
20GB ibm gxp34 hdd
sblive! Player
cambridge fps2000 speakers
sony 32x8x4 cd-rw
and I cant play quake 2 online
I get 99% packetloss
does anybody know what could cause this??
I can play offline perfectly (playing single player/running around the map by myself/playing agianst bots)
I have also tried to play UnrealTournament online and i cant play that properley either (the packet loss isnt as bad in UT as it is in Q2) i get about 40% pl in UT
I know the promlem is'nt my modem, my isp or my phone lines. because i have my old computer next to this one and using the same modem and phone lines i can play with minimal packet loss. And I have 2 ISP's. i get this problem with both of them. I've also called them and they say nothing is wrong, it must be my computer. and i've tried 2 different modems, one v90 and the other 56kflex.
I have formatted 3 times (which means ive re-installed windows and the games a few times)
and it didnt help.
My ping to my isp is 90ms. and 130-180ms to the 30odd servers i have tried to play on.
I can download at up to 5.8kbytes/sec
which suggests that its not a hardware fault.
I have tried playing with and without using my config file, and ive tried different rates and cl_maxfps
here are some screenies of the sort of pl i get.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/emeraldp/smurf1.jpg(60k)
http://www.users.bigpond.com/emeraldp/smurf2.jpg(80k)
It ussualy takes about 2 minutes to connect to the server, and then i timeout after 10-20 seconds(getting 99% pl the whole time)
my netgraph is green down the bottom with red blocks about 1mm apart and 2mm thick.
In unreal tournament my packetloss coming in flash's from 0% to 40% every couple of seconds and about 0 to 20% going out
the transfer rate is very low, ussually below 1000bytes/sec, and allways below 2000bytes/sec
I get that "phone line out the socket" icon nearly all the time in both games.
The only thing that comes to mind is the windows CD being damaged and when i installed it, it copied corupted network files
What files do games(q2,ut) use to connect to servers? (ie winsock.dll ? ect)
(is it possible that software is causing this?)
and how can i find out if these files are corupted?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I recently got myself an athlon comp
Athlon 750
asus K7V bios 1003
256mb of apacer pc133
20GB ibm gxp34 hdd
sblive! Player
cambridge fps2000 speakers
sony 32x8x4 cd-rw
and I cant play quake 2 online
I get 99% packetloss
does anybody know what could cause this??
I can play offline perfectly (playing single player/running around the map by myself/playing agianst bots)
I have also tried to play UnrealTournament online and i cant play that properley either (the packet loss isnt as bad in UT as it is in Q2) i get about 40% pl in UT
I know the promlem is'nt my modem, my isp or my phone lines. because i have my old computer next to this one and using the same modem and phone lines i can play with minimal packet loss. And I have 2 ISP's. i get this problem with both of them. I've also called them and they say nothing is wrong, it must be my computer. and i've tried 2 different modems, one v90 and the other 56kflex.
I have formatted 3 times (which means ive re-installed windows and the games a few times)
and it didnt help.
My ping to my isp is 90ms. and 130-180ms to the 30odd servers i have tried to play on.
I can download at up to 5.8kbytes/sec
which suggests that its not a hardware fault.
I have tried playing with and without using my config file, and ive tried different rates and cl_maxfps
here are some screenies of the sort of pl i get.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/emeraldp/smurf1.jpg(60k)
http://www.users.bigpond.com/emeraldp/smurf2.jpg(80k)
It ussualy takes about 2 minutes to connect to the server, and then i timeout after 10-20 seconds(getting 99% pl the whole time)
my netgraph is green down the bottom with red blocks about 1mm apart and 2mm thick.
In unreal tournament my packetloss coming in flash's from 0% to 40% every couple of seconds and about 0 to 20% going out
the transfer rate is very low, ussually below 1000bytes/sec, and allways below 2000bytes/sec
I get that "phone line out the socket" icon nearly all the time in both games.
The only thing that comes to mind is the windows CD being damaged and when i installed it, it copied corupted network files
What files do games(q2,ut) use to connect to servers? (ie winsock.dll ? ect)
(is it possible that software is causing this?)
and how can i find out if these files are corupted?
Thanks in advance for any help.