A friend of mine stopped by for a little LAN party tonite and had some problems. Playing solo against the computer, his game is beautiful - about 40fps at 1600x1200 with everything turned on. However, as soon as he connects to a LAN game or an internet game over his cable modem, his performance drops like a rock. The same exact setup now only gets about 20fps at 800x600 and sometimes drops below 10.
He has the following:
P-II 350
256MB SDRAM
Voodoo 5
quality IDE HD
Netgear 310TX
We were getting about 60ms pings to each other over the LAN. I was running fine as the server with about 40 fps at 1024x768. He also noticed that as soon as a third person joined, his game started lagging.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing his problems? I am thinking that it is due to the network card taking a lot of CPU cycles away and the PII not being able to handle both. But I never thought that a network card had that much overhead. Could it be because we were using TCP/IP protocol? Would switching to something with less overhead solve the problem?
He has the following:
P-II 350
256MB SDRAM
Voodoo 5
quality IDE HD
Netgear 310TX
We were getting about 60ms pings to each other over the LAN. I was running fine as the server with about 40 fps at 1024x768. He also noticed that as soon as a third person joined, his game started lagging.
Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing his problems? I am thinking that it is due to the network card taking a lot of CPU cycles away and the PII not being able to handle both. But I never thought that a network card had that much overhead. Could it be because we were using TCP/IP protocol? Would switching to something with less overhead solve the problem?
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