moments of lag that come and go

2009-12-31 08:33:11

#1

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

ever since 1.5 i get the strangest lag every so often. at the beginning of a round (if i join a new server) and periodically during the round, there will be a 30 second period of terrible lag. the game is unplayable until it stops, and it's driving me bananas. i suspect punkbuster, any tricks i'm unware of?

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2009-12-31 08:43:05

#2

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6000|Catherine Black

Tried making the time inbetween PB checks longer?

I think it's pb_sleep or something.

2009-12-31 10:08:08

#3

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

i get something similar
the beginning of the round the screen freezes for 1/2 second every 3-4 seconds then eventually stops happening. VERY ANNOYING.

if EA fucked with my PB.......

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2009-12-31 10:18:43

#4

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

Clearing Shader Optimizations: When you change the graphical settings or install a new patch, BF2 attempts to optimize the shaders used in the game for the best performance on your particular hardware. These optimized files are stored in your \Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache\ directory in XP or \[username]\Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache\ in Vista. If you've changed your settings several times, I recommend you finalize your changes, close BF2, go to the above directory and delete everything under the \cache\ directory. The next time you start the game and play single or multiplayer, your shaders will be optimized again. Close BF2 one more time, defragment your hard drive, and now things should be much smoother and load much faster the next time you go to play BF2.

from tweakguides.com

gonna try that and see

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2009-12-31 11:00:29

#5

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

Stubbee wrote:
i get something similar
the beginning of the round the screen freezes for 1/2 second every 3-4 seconds then eventually stops happening. VERY ANNOYING.

if EA fucked with my PB.......

this is exactly what happens... i'll see if the tweakguides stuff helps. i can't help but think its PB related since it happens every so often in game even after i join. i've also heard alot of people complaining about it.

2009-12-31 17:04:22

#6

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

well clearing the shaders helped loading times but not the annoying lag (crashed twice into choppers) grrr.
pb next.

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2010-01-02 21:20:22

#7

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

any luck steelie?
pb_sleep 500 seems to work at times but it seems to still happen there less frewquently. which makes sense i guess.
i remember doing setting pb_sleep before so the 1.5 patch DID fuck up PB. it was set to 60.

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2010-01-04 06:15:47

#8

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

i haven't noticed a difference yet. i may try to do some performance monitoring with windows to see if i can get a picture of what the hard drive is doing when it happens, but i hope it doesn't cause too much of a resource hit. i'll keep the topic updated...

2010-01-04 07:06:05

#9

I'm Jamesey: Do a Research Noob; +506|6344|Scotland!

Stubbee wrote:
any luck steelie?
pb_sleep 500 seems to work at times but it seems to still happen there less frewquently. which makes sense i guess.
i remember doing setting pb_sleep before so the 1.5 patch DID fuck up PB. it was set to 60.

its not pb. Try cleaning the dust out of your gpu and reinstalling graphics drivers

2010-01-04 08:39:15

#10

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

I'm Jamesey wrote:
Stubbee wrote:
any luck steelie?
pb_sleep 500 seems to work at times but it seems to still happen there less frewquently. which makes sense i guess.
i remember doing setting pb_sleep before so the 1.5 patch DID fuck up PB. it was set to 60.
its not pb. Try cleaning the dust out of your gpu and reinstalling graphics drivers

how could that be related? if it was a hardware issue, i wouldn't expect it to come and go the way it does. its not like it gets laggy and i have to reboot... it gets laggy for about 30 seconds, and then stops. it has to be either a network issue or some sort of paging done on the hard drive.

2010-01-05 11:16:57

#11

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

im going to try something stupid and update my vid card drivers. i'm having a blue screen issue with l4d2 and their recommendation is to use the latest drivers, which i know from past experience to usually cause more problems than it solves. i'll keep the post updated.

2010-01-05 11:51:00

#12

Phatmatt: Vroom Vroom; +298|6401|Canada

Tried re-applying patch 1.5 over the "old" 1.5?

This fixed it for me.

2010-01-05 13:07:19

#13

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

I'm Jamesey wrote:
Stubbee wrote:
any luck steelie?
pb_sleep 500 seems to work at times but it seems to still happen there less frewquently. which makes sense i guess.
i remember doing setting pb_sleep before so the 1.5 patch DID fuck up PB. it was set to 60.
its not pb. Try cleaning the dust out of your gpu and reinstalling graphics drivers

month old hd4670 with newest drivers. it was happening with the 8600GT too because the caps exploded.
crashed the A10/SU39 several times yesterday because of this retched problem

Last edited by Stubbee (2010-01-05 13:11:13)

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2010-01-05 13:08:57

#14

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|6955|Reality

Phatmatt wrote:
Tried re-applying patch 1.5 over the "old" 1.5?

This fixed it for me.

the same patch twice or from different sources?

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2010-01-05 13:26:55

#15

Phatmatt: Vroom Vroom; +298|6401|Canada

I've used the same patch that I already had on my computer. For some reason it worked perfectly when I re-applied the patch, kind like if something didn't patch properly the first time. Worth a shot.

2010-02-08 06:40:11

#16

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

i re-applied the patch.... problem seems better, but it still a bit laggy at the beginning of the round. o well, i can live with it.

2010-02-10 05:49:26

#17

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6593|the land of bourbon

well, it still happens in game. i also noticed others complaining about it when it happens, so i guess it's a server issue. i'll have to start spamming the global chat to see how many people are being affected during the game.

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