Black Ops latency trouble

TommyV · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:31

Hey all!

Bought black ops last thursday, and LAN'd round a friends house until yesterday evening with no torubles at all, upon trying to play back at home the latency fluctuates HUGELY, one second it's 50, then it's 500, up/down/up/down constantly (even in the server browser page when refreshing my favourites)

ALL other games work 100% fine with a ping of 40, download speeds are fine, and no-one other than me is using the connection, i don't torrent nor do i stream anything (other than youtube!) so there is no concievable possibility there is a problem with the connection.

This leads me to beleive it is something with the combination of black ops + my router, anyone got any ideas?

I'm not a technical whizz when it comes to routing/net type stuff, also google is failing me

ANY help much appreciated, I must hit prestige!

Craig R · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:32

Make sure you have downloaded all the patches and updated your graphics card's drivers, and if you are still having problems, try turning off shadows and reducing texture quality.

Swifty55 · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:33

Done the usual commands?

cl_maxpackets 100
snaps 30

?

Also, http://portforward.com/ just to cancel that one out.

ISP and router?

TommyV · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:38

Swifty55 said:
Done the usual commands?

cl_maxpackets 100
snaps 30

?

Also, http://portforward.com/ just to cancel that one out.

ISP and router?

Hey,

Yeah tried those 2 commands to no avail unfortunately, will have to try portforward when I'm home from the office.

ISP Orange, router is netgear I think, will update when i get home.

Thanks for your swoft responses guys, appreciated

Tom

TommyV · 29 Nov 2010 at 19:31

router is a netgear DGN-1000

TommyV · 30 Nov 2010 at 09:32

After 2 hour last night seemed to stumble across a lucky combination of events,

THE SOLUTION (all be it, a very odd one at that), not being a networking wizard I cannot explain the anomaly, this may be beneficial to someone else should they have the same problem;

- open ports 3074 are opened for both TCP/UDP (not neccessary to begin with but see below)
- Attempt to login, hangs at 'connecting/fetching stats' screen, Cancelled this by pressing escape
- Close the ports again
- Login to Blackops fine, see the fluctuating ping as expected
- ALT + TAB, re open port 3074 on TCP/UDP again and apply
- Voila - 50~ steady ping on my poop 1mb connection (live at the tail end of 2 exchanges, all we have is copper wire

)

Not practical at all, nor can I explain it, but for some reason it seems to work, we're going to try another router at my place today, having to do that each time is a nightmare!