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Lag when players connect (19 comments)

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Posted by barrybumcheeks @ 00:37 CDT, 30 April 2015 - iMsg

I posted this on the Quakelive site a few days ago.
Nobody seems to know how to fix this.

Lag when players connect

When is this bug gonna be fixed. Its great that the devs are striving to improve the game with various updates but to my mind this VERY serious bug needs fixing. Every single game without fail my game lags at a critical moment and Im dead! Why does this occur? It never happened in Q3 Arena so why is it happening now??? Are the any workarounds? This bug affects actual gameplay and ruins the game for me. I dont care about nice voices or pretty maps. I just want the game to run smoothly without interruption everytime another client connects. Please Please Please fix this.
Thanks in advance
Bumcheeks

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<< Comment #1 @ 01:12 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

dogja

sure lemme get right on that

<< Comment #2 @ 01:32 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

palatka

syncerrors hears you, and he doesnt care

<< Comment #3 @ 01:58 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

pacmanpl '

You can buy donuts for syncerror.

He will eat them but the bug will remain.

<< Comment #4 @ 03:32 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

nsx0r

get a SSD

<< Comment #5 @ 06:32 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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SigningOff - Reply to #4

doesn't help. it's network related. I notice this too, but it's not that significant.

you can play around with "cg_deferPlayers" 1 or 0. But not sure if it will help.

Edited by Skinny_Puppy at 06:45 CDT, 30 April 2015

<< Comment #6 @ 06:50 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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Anonymous (80.130.206.183)

that's actually a bandwidth-related problem. nothing will fix this hiccup except for more mbits. there's a fairly large data packet incoming whenever someone connects, you don't see that problem with a 50mbit line for example.

<< Comment #8 @ 07:44 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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kevz - Reply to #6

ive had this problem for years, 9274194179417/1298472194216489mbit line here and low ms to most european servers.

still dont know what causes it.

<< Comment #9 @ 08:05 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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Yakumo - Reply to #6

Hmm, perhaps low MTU causing that packet to split?

Are the people experiencing this on winXP? or on other OS's and have messed with MTU/rwin settings?

<< Comment #10 @ 12:02 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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Yakumo - Reply to #9

Seems plausible, my router's default MTU for PPoE is 1492, win8 seems to default to 1500

netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces

will show your ipv4 MTU for all ipv4 adapters, this won't show whatever your router may be set to though, you'd have to log into it and see if it will show you.

typically in a game with 12 players on the server (3 in spec) I'm seeing packets under 300 bytes from QL
When someone connects I've seen up to 1338 in a very short testing period.

If your suffering from this could you try the command above, and check your router, in the hope we might get somewhere with this.

<< Comment #11 @ 12:37 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

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Yakumo - Reply to #10

Someone checked this for me and found no MTU problem (not sure of their ESR name but they said they were posting)

But they also sent me a writeConfig dump and that still showed they had cg_deferPlayers 0

at 0 QL loads the player models/sounds/icon as soon as they connect.
at 1 QL only loads that info if you are looking at the scoreboard or call \loadDefered yourself.

So really, please triple check this.

<< Comment #18 @ 03:35 CDT, 4 May 2015 >>

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daryl - Reply to #9

please stop talking out your ass.

<< Comment #19 @ 03:35 CDT, 4 May 2015 >>

By

daryl - Reply to #6

please stop talking out your ass.

<< Comment #7 @ 07:34 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

kava

hire an exorcist

<< Comment #12 @ 13:16 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

Yakumo

Seems this *might* be a solved issue for those still having problems with cg_deferedPlayers definitely set to 1, I've just had T1e and PredatH0r suggest this -

If you are using extraQL, download this script and put it into /extraQL/scripts/ along side all the other scripts.

http://sourceforge.net/p/extraql/source/ci/ma...jax.usr.js

Then in the Quake Live client, under the 'userscripts' option ExtraQL adds, chose 'script management' and turn on "Anti In-Game AJAX (QLHM Edition)"

There is one down side, once you /disconnect the web interface (including in game friends list!!) will not work properly at all until you manually \web_reload (or hit F5 if the 'Keyboard Navigation' script is enabled.)

Edited by Yakumo at 21:24 CDT, 28 May 2015

<< Comment #14 @ 03:36 CDT, 1 May 2015 >>

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h8m3 - Reply to #12

is it possible to add it without extraql(just hook.js)?

<< Comment #17 @ 20:44 CDT, 2 May 2015 >>

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PredatH0r - Reply to #14

you can rename the whole script to hook.js.
or you add this line into your hook.js:
$.getScript('https://sourceforge.net/p/extraql/source/ci/m...=raw');

javascript won't allow you to load files from your local HDD, so you have to use some http-URL

<< Comment #13 @ 14:54 CDT, 30 April 2015 >>

By

me

This bug appeared, disappeared and reappeared 10 times since beta - just like the 'friend list lag', before it gox 'fixed' (surely the same issue).

<< Comment #15 @ 23:22 CDT, 1 May 2015 >>

By

kapca - Reply to #13

at least you have a 'friend list', because I don't most of the times:)

<< Comment #16 @ 05:23 CDT, 2 May 2015 >>

By

cerb0z

Have same problem in Steam only. SSD and 50mbit optical cable.

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