Steam and Windows 7....high pings...anyone else?

Cooper · 30 Jul 2009 at 12:43

I have a dual boot laptop with WinXp and the Win7 RC 7100 installed on it, in XP all the pings in my steam games are as they should be given my connection, in the 30-50 range.

However when i boot into W7 they are all suddenly in the 120-180 range.. :confused:

Neither Xp or Win7 has anti-virus installed and the firewall has been configured for the steam games.

Also on my destop i have Vista64 installed, and the pings are the same as they are in XP...

It just seems to be a W7 problem.....

I really would like to install W7 on my desktop, but not if im going have all my steam games unplayable.....

Any ideas guys..?, ive done abit of Googling and tried a few suggestions from there but it makes no difference.

uv · 30 Jul 2009 at 12:51

I've no problem with any Steam games on 3 different Win7 machines.

cHk4 · 30 Jul 2009 at 12:51

no problems here on LFD and CS:S

gbradders123 · 30 Jul 2009 at 13:37

http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-game-network-latency-in-windows-7-or-vista/

that should sort you

Cooper · 30 Jul 2009 at 13:51

gbradders123 said:
http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-game-network-latency-in-windows-7-or-vista/

that should sort you

Thnx for that i'll give it a try.

Looks as though there definately IS a problem for some people with pings and Win 7....

bledd · 30 Jul 2009 at 13:53

wireless/cabled?

i only ever use gigabit when i need solid pings, but there are decent drivers for some usb and pci wireless cards that work well too

have been using 7 this year, and no ping problems.

Cooper · 30 Jul 2009 at 13:57

bledd. said:
wireless/cabled?

i only ever use gigabit when i need solid pings, but there are decent drivers for some usb and pci wireless cards that work well too

have been using 7 this year, and no ping problems.

maybe it is a problem with the drivers for my wireless laptop (Atheros Wireless Lan)...i dont know.

In all all likelyhood, the problem wont occur on my desktop which is connected with a cable....

Its just a major hassle to do a reboot and find out the problem is still there...and then have to re-install Vist64...

...lifes too short

ChEsTeH · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:43

Moved from Win XP to Win7 a few weeks back, I have to admit it looks like a good move.

Pings through steam are same as XP for me.