UT3 lag or settings wrong?

[Slinkie]

Hi Folks,

I recorded a game of UT3 with FRAPS to watch back and having watched it I found a few things that don't seem right. I'm not sure whether this is lag from playing online (although my ping isn't often more than 30) or something wrong with my settings or something that needs to be changed in my ini files.

See the following pictures for an example I found from my video. These are screens taken from the video played frame by frame in media player. The crosshair is a bit hard to see because of the compression etc.

Starting to line shot up

Pull trigger with crosshair over head.

Shot travels straight through head!

Shot is still showing as travelling through enemy. Not once does the crosshair turn red (i presume it is red when it is over an enemy)

Is this due to lag and what I am seeing is slightly behind what is actually happening or is there something else to it, a setting somewhere.

I am on virgin media 2mb cable and have my internet settings set to cable modem and no dynamic net speed. Is there anything in the ini's I can change to help my shots register.

Thanks

Matt

PS. Ignore the FPS in the top corner, not sure why it only shows 1fps and 0 fps :-/

 

[Slinkie]

Anyone have an idea? Is it a sign of lag and so it's my internet settings that need to be configured (I have looked for a guie online for getting a better conection in UT3 but haven't found anything yet) or is it a sign of a game setting not right and so an ini file needs to be configured.

Thanks

Matt

 

[OzZie]

If it does it in MP and not SP then it has to be your connection.

 

[Slinkie]

I don't think it it happens in single player, I don't really play single player a lot though. Is there any websites out there that will allow you to change any settings regardingyour connection. When I have it set on cable modem I get this issue. I have tried it on LAN and I get periods of loss, it'd be good to try some settings in between really by configuring the .inis

Thanks

Matt