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Re: Your pings?? [message #177999 is a reply to message #172293]

Sat, 05 November 2005 11:44

Scythar
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Registered: February 2003
Location: Finland

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Colonel

Errr...the main thing affecting the ping is DISTANCE! The longer the distance, the longer it takes from electricity to move from your PC to the destination. The world doesn't end to the plug on yor wall. Of course your ping will be higher when you try to play on servers that are located on faraway continents. Sure, other things affect ping, but with todays connections, distance is a key thing.

It's funny how many kids don't realize that you simply can't change the speed of light. Unless you create a wormhole linking your backyard to the opposite side of Earth, you're stuck with "bad"* pings to there. There's nothing our technology can do to make electricity travel faster than the speed of light.

*imagine though, that the signal from your PC can travel to the other side of the globe in some 100ms =1/10th of a second.

(Decided to post this rant when someone in CS:S wanted to know how to make his ping lower, from 150 to 10 or so....then other players tossed out comments like "Aaah you need to edit some game files for that"...)

There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.

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Re: Your pings?? [message #178053 is a reply to message #176391]

Sat, 05 November 2005 17:00

icedog90
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Registered: April 2003

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EA-DamageEverything wrote on Tue, 25 October 2005 11:14

icedog90 wrote on Tue, 25 October 2005 03:19

My FPS in Renegade is usually in the 100s. Once I get a Geforce 6800 it would probably be even higher with anti-aliasing.

Note: it depends on your CPU, if you want to have more than 100.

I had an AthlonXP 3200+ (Barton), a Gigabyte 6800 (SilentPipe), 1GB Corsair Ram and with the official Forceware I had only ~70 without Vsync. If you install the Omegadriver, it probably goes up. With this Omega, i had about 120 sometimes...for testing. because I use a BenQ TFT and have Vsync active all the time.

I just got the 6800 and I thought I'd boot up Renegade and see the difference. It's pretty much constant in 130 - 150 FPS now. The Renegade engine can't really do much further. My CPU is an Athlon XP 2600, and I have 1GB of memory. I'm also using the 81.85 nVIDIA drivers.

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