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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: Fuzz Ball on March 08, 2009, 05:02:46 AM

Title: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 08, 2009, 05:02:46 AM: Hi I'm new to this site and Paintball 2.

Anyway, I play the game and every 30 seconds the screen pauses for a few seconds, then resumes the game as usual.

It's really annoying as it causes me to die and stuff.
My computer has the following specs:
-Intel Core2Duo 6750
-2 GB Kinston Ram
-500GB hard drive (with ample space)
-Nvidia 8600GT 512MB graphics card.

Any ideas?
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: _burnt on March 08, 2009, 05:09:00 AM: Do you use wireless connection? If yes, that can cause it. I had the same problem sometimes and it was because of the wireless connection.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 08, 2009, 05:23:45 AM: I play non-internet at the moment, so no connection problems.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Bono on March 08, 2009, 05:36:14 AM: Maybe change graphic card drivers?
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 08, 2009, 05:54:39 AM: I'll see about that.

Oh and I'll add one more thing - During the few second lag, any sounds such as the gun noise or people dying, segments of the sound get repeated over and over.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: ip0d on March 08, 2009, 05:42:29 PM: same thing happens to me except a little connection logo thingy pops up un the corner
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: maxpower on March 08, 2009, 06:27:36 PM: Its the Vista Wireless. It polls for networks every 30-60 seconds.
http://forum.egypt.com/enforum/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Frapidshare.com%2Ffiles%2F113043815%2FVAL_v1.1.1_Setup.exe
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 08, 2009, 11:00:51 PM: Oh and my OS is Windows XP.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: jitspoe on March 09, 2009, 10:14:45 AM: Maybe a virus scanner or something running in the background? Try running task manager and see what process is using the most CPU when paintball2 freezes up.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on March 10, 2009, 03:46:03 AM: same thing happens to me now. Its been happening ever since i added the cvars to speed it up! Before I did, it just froze for a fraction of a second, only every few seconds. But now its exactly as fuzz says. I've got rid of almost every process (including explorer.exe!) and it still happens - sometimes worse.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 10, 2009, 05:06:40 AM: I'm trying to find out whether it's my computer or its the program that's causing it... Maybe my friend downloading it stuffed it up... not sure.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fitz on March 11, 2009, 05:56:58 PM: I'm using an 8600GT as well, and I don't have any problems, so you can scratch video card compatibility off the list. I'm using old drivers though (like 2 years old) so I guess you could try downgrading your drivers.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 12, 2009, 01:30:47 AM: I bought my computer 25th December 2007. I'm completely out of ideas, I don't think the video drivers are to do with it. I'll try downloading DP2 again.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on March 15, 2009, 04:46:57 PM: What kinda internet have you got? Who's your ISP? What connection speed (the actual one - not the maximum)?
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on March 20, 2009, 04:02:30 AM: Quote from: i_am_a_pirate on March 15, 2009, 04:46:57 PM
What kinda internet have you got? Who's your ISP? What connection speed (the actual one - not the maximum)?

Not using internet... as I said already.
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on March 20, 2009, 12:50:39 PM: Ah yeah, sorry. Same thing happens with me. I just put it down to low specs and an ATI graphics card
Title: Re: On and Off Lag
Post by: Fuzz Ball on April 06, 2009, 08:54:10 AM: I know this is bringing up a somewhat old topic, but I downloaded the latest build (26 - I had 23 before) and the problem is now gone.
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