Thanks for that Jeff, I see that the ping would slow down at the clients end because the pc is handling other matters rather than sifting through the packets as fast as it can.
----- Original Message ----- From: "botman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] OT: Screen res effects ping/latency or not? > > I just wanted to get the opinions of some respected programmer to know if > > lowering your screen resolution will help reduce your ping and hopefully > get > > a simply explaination why. I personally think it does make a difference > but > > the person I've spoken to about it points out that rendering for graphics > is > > client side. But i know that things off screen aren't completely sending > > information to the client since they aren't being rendered and that I'd > > imagine this extends to distant obects which wouldn't be rendered at lower > > resolutions and thus reduce the network traffic a bit as if it was off > > screen. > > I think it really depends on your video settings. The most noticeable > difference will probably be using the default Software rendering mode > (instead of OpenGL or Direct3D). Reducing the resolution will require less > pixels to be drawn which will take less CPU time to render a frame. This > will increase your framerate. If the CPU is spending less time rendering > pixels, it has more time to spend sending network packets (up until the > point it reaches the cvar network limits). The people who would notice this > the most are people using Software rendering mode, with slow CPUs, low > amounts of RAM and high speed network connections. > > As you mentioned, things outside the PVS (potentially visible set) don't > need to be sent to a client, but the framerate of the client won't (or > shouldn't) effect how often the server sends packets to the client. The > server will have it's own independent framerate and will send any necessary > data to the client during each of the server frames. If the server is > heavily loaded, then there won't be much the client can do to improve the > latency between the client and the server (if anything sending more data to > the server will only cause it to slow down ever so slightly). The framerate > of the client will effect how often it can send data to the server. A low > framerate on the client will more than likely mean that the client is CPU > bound and won't be able to send network data as quickly as it should. > Anything that increases the framerate on the client could potentially reduce > some of the latency between that client and the server. > > Jeffrey "botman" Broome > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
