OFP Lag

[AC_BLu 0]

In OFP Cold War Crisis, i tend to get huge amounts of internet lag, no screen lag whatsoever, most of you guys would say its my connection but i have a 3 meg/256 upload connection. My ping will be around 80 then it would go up to 500 and become very unstable. The weird thing is it only happens in this version, in resistance it works fine, game works good. Ive did some tests hosting the same person in the same map and in cold war (v 1.46) it lags so bad for him but i can host him perfectly in resistance. It was running fine for a while then it got worse.

I did try to buy another disc but it still didnt work, i have a router but i have all the ports open. firewall is off.

my comp specs are:

MSI PT880 Neo

Maxtor - Ultra 120.0GB Internal Serial ATA HD

Pentium 4 3.2ghz CPU

ATI Radeon 9800 pro

Dual Channel 2x512mb Kingston HyperX PC4000

480w Power supply

[Mister Frag 0]

Are you using DirectPlay or Sockets with Resistance? Straight Sockets will give you better network performance.

[pandalefou 0]

or try the auto detect in offgame setting it would work

[AC_BLu 0]

sockets and already auto detected

[GabKa73 0]

Lag can be caused by other connected players that have high pings

[somebloke 0]

Doesn't matter what connection you have, it's where the server is.

[AC_BLu 0]

i know all about lag, but when im playing with my neighbor and i have a 800 ping just with him in cold war crisis then switch to resistance the next minute and have a 19 ping, something is wrong

[sanctuary 19]

If i remember well when you play with Cold War Crisis (1.46) (to do so you are using the old executable aren't you ?) , you don't use sockets as it is an addition to Resistance.

[korax 4]

resistance has a much better netcode, so why would you possibly want to play the original OFP 1.46?

[-MT- 0]

Maybe his friend only owns CWC?