UDP packets drop under gaming

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

What would cause my UDP Out packets to drop from 179 to ~ 48-90 (fluctuating)???

Basically as my character sits there and idles it hovers around 90, moving and playing the game online there is a substantial decrease in outgoing packets from ~ 48-90s. Why and what causes this? Processor strength?

 

[Fardringle]

You'd have to ask the game developers why they made the game behave that way.

 

[theevilsharpie]

The OP's post reads like his username.

What units do those numbers describe? Round-trip latency? Packets per second?

What are you using to measure the UDP flows?

What game?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Outgoing Packets per second.

Incoming is mostly a constant 30 Packets per second which I assume is the server Tick Rate.

I'm monitoring it just by my router's web interface

 

[Danimal1209]

Are you having any ingame problems?

 

[imagoon]

You'd have to ask the game developers why they made the game behave that way.

Basically this. No one can really tell you why except the games network IO team. I would bet they would tell you either since it is likely tradesecret code.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Are you having any ingame problems?

Actually yeah. Feels like there is massive lag. It's been that way for yrs.

The game: Unreal Tournament III - it seems there is a correlation when the packets drop that it feels like the game or something is lagging.