Steam lag

jongeeone · 21 Mar 2011 at 17:32

Can't get to the bottom of this problem, unless it's just my ISP.

PS3 online works fine, not really any lag/loss/choke/spikes of any sort.

BF2 online isn't too bad.

Steam games (Source/1.6/Promod)... Basically 60 loss, 0 loss, 60 loss, 0 loss. I can take 3 steps forwards then get chucked back 2.

If the server is empty, and i use rates of 10,000 20 20 it isn't too bad. But as soon as i use normal rates and if anyone is on the server it does the loss/choke/spike thing.

Have tried all sorts, reinstalled games, changed reg keys to stop throttling tcp ports, used a leatrix program.

Any other ideas?

FrenchTart · 21 Mar 2011 at 17:33

What ISP are you on? What router are you using? Do you get it more at peak time?

This thread might get better answers in the networking forum.

Neil79 · 21 Mar 2011 at 17:33

What isp?

jongeeone · 21 Mar 2011 at 17:54

Virgin Media (Awful i know)

It's through out the day, could be connected at 10mb, have 20ms but i would still get constant loss.

It's a Belkin router. No problems with any other game, just these few on Steam.

Ravenger · 21 Mar 2011 at 21:20

Could be their traffic shaping kicking in and marking game traffic as P2P. Might be worth going on their support forums.

DooMeR · 21 Mar 2011 at 21:25

couple of things you can try:

1. Add an exception to your Anti Virus for this folder - \Steam\appcache
2. I add this reg tweak, it stops QOS for media streaming, in which windows reserves a large chunk of bandwidth for media streaming. Chances are you won't be running a media server on your pc whilst gaming.
* Open regedit
* Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
* There will be an entry for network performance throttling, default value is 10; set it to FFFFFFFF hex (willl look like 0xFFFFFFFF to the right of the entry)
* Reboot

Worth a try