Lag in Quake Wars

Kobrakai

Kobrakai

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Anyone else get a massive amount of lag for the first 10-20 seconds of joining a server or starting a new map in Quake Wars?

I also seem to get a lot of lengthy freezes (5-10 seconds sometimes) at random intervals while playing, yet my ping is 20-30 and my FPS is locked at 60.
 
not lag, though i've not been able to play since the patch last week thanks to punkbuster kicking me all the time (not had time to mess with it since). I also used to get some really strange graphics glitches at random intervals in the game, the screen would go all fractal like i was looking at it through a broken window meaning i couldn't see to exit the game so had to reset. thought it was gpu temp but it seemed ok when i monitored it.
 
I don’t know what could be causing the lag, I haven’t had any problems in any other games so I had just assumed it was a quake wars issue. Usually by the time I’ve finished lagging the first objective is well on its way to being completed and all the vehicles are gone etc.
 
Maybe try limiting maxqosrequests. By default it's at 12 , I knocked mine down to 6 and no more lag for me :). net_maxqosrequests 6 in console , seems from official forums quite a lot of people have it on 6.
 
I got huge lag in the first 5-10 secs as well dunno why.

nin9abadga said:
not lag, though i've not been able to play since the patch last week thanks to punkbuster kicking me all the time (not had time to mess with it since).
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I got that error too then found out that I have disabled the punkbuster service in msconfig. Re-enbled that then everything's fine. Were you kicked in the first few secs after joining the game?
 
nin9abadga said:
not lag, though i've not been able to play since the patch last week thanks to punkbuster kicking me all the time (not had time to mess with it since). I also used to get some really strange graphics glitches at random intervals in the game, the screen would go all fractal like i was looking at it through a broken window meaning i couldn't see to exit the game so had to reset. thought it was gpu temp but it seemed ok when i monitored it.
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had the same as you with the graphics,also thought it was my card,doesnt happen all the time just now and again but have to reboot it to get out of it
 
Kobrakai said:
Anyone else get a massive amount of lag for the first 10-20 seconds of joining a server or starting a new map in Quake Wars?

I also seem to get a lot of lengthy freezes (5-10 seconds sometimes) at random intervals while playing, yet my ping is 20-30 and my FPS is locked at 60.
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I had the exact same problem in Windows Vista which I see you are using. Try turning off the sidebar and then run the game, that fixed the problem for me.
 
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