On other news: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3129310
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXQwmazf-o so any plugin to kill this? >________________________________ > From: dan <[email protected]> >To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list ><[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 13:56 >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] [hlds] TF2 server performance spikes > > >On 28/05/2013 02:44, D Bauhmz wrote: >> I thought about making an entirely new post but we'll see how much >> attention it gets in this one first. >> >> We've also been experiencing some other behavior that I've just noticed in >> the past few months. It's player warping. When you watch them after you're >> dead they seem to skip several flames and teleporter from one location to >> the next. I'd expect that this player was lagging but when checking their >> ping they are just fine. I know I've seen a few others report this here on >> the list too. > >If it's every player it's likely some issue with the server or its >connection (or your own client & connection you're using to observe) >It's just one or two players, it's more likely some issue with those >players client or connection. One that perhaps ping doesn't indicate. > >I always assumed the odd person warping, when others are fine, was >either packet loss or their client has rate set low (which >now Valve have set the default to 30000 for everyone is perhaps less >likely to happen) > >Presumably you can use sv_minrate to fix it for them if you don't >already do that. > >But, throughout the time TF2 has been released (i.e not recently, but >years ago) I've had occasions when my rate was lowered somehow, without >me changing it. The subsequent experience is awful until you discover >the cause. I've helped a few people who have been complaining of >"performance problems" with TF2 (i.e they've been trying to lower >graphics settings and so on) where it has been the same issue. > >I'm sure a tiny %age deliberately stymie their connections too in an >attempt to avoid being killed. Perhaps I'm just overly suspicious, but I >see people who have a great ping and then every time they are hit, it >leaps higher and then drops after. I recall a similar experience when I >was healing a pyro and every time someone attacked him, he would lag and >the heal would drop. Was that a lag switch or something? Perhaps a bad >connection has the same symptoms, triggered by more data being sent when >more things are happening. Either way, the net effect is the same he >gets an edge by having a bad connection whether deliberately or not. > >I'm reasonably convinced that, from time to time the client can get out >of synch with the server in some way. In the sense that the netcode is >supposed to mean a hit on your screen is a hit when the server gets the >packets from everyone, figures out where everyone was and so on. > >Most of the time I can reasonably accept that's the case (except for >backstabs and melee). Sometimes I'm convinced nades / rockets that hit >the player on your screen aren't being registered as hits whilst shots >that miss, perhaps only by a bit, turn out to be hits (with nades, of >course, this is more noticeable than rockets because rockets are >supposed to hit when you miss - and valve's tiny red writing for how >much damage you did is too small for me to read - and I can't push my >nose into the screen these days) > >It could just be that I'm incredibly inconsistent from one round to the >next, but sometimes I join a server and every nade I throw seems to >miss, bar people standing still or from the secondary explosion, but >switch to another server and I'm hitting everything that moves. > >The other thing I note too is, often times getting hit behind the wall >after I've run behind cover, but with a far bigger latency than >"netcode" seems to make sense to explain it. e.g me and the client that >killed me have sub 20ms pings, but I die half a second or more after >going behind cover. > >Perhaps any or all of the above can just be simply explained by packets >getting lost and other transient connection issues? > >-- >Dan > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please >visit: >https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
