Jittery animations

[sirefef]

This was a post i made prior to 2.0. The problem still persists and was never solved.

Link:

http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=185950

[IAmRoot]

There was a layer3 node lagging there. Could you please provide a new traceroute so I can see if it's still doing it?

[sirefef]

Tracing route to 72-46-134.unassigned.userdns.com [72.46.134.2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms adsl-75-4-255-254.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net [75.4
.255.254]
4 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms dist4-vlan50.irvnca.sbcglobal.net [67.114.50.2]

5 7 ms 13 ms 7 ms bb2-g10-0.irvnca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.92.198]

6 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 151.164.102.118
7 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 4.68.127.49
8 9 ms 16 ms 17 ms ae-61-60.ebr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.5
0]
9 14 ms 15 ms 42 ms ae-1-4.bar1.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.133.109]

10 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-0-11.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.126]

11 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-5-5.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.133]

12 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms RD-TECHNOLO.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.71.178.
38]
13 20 ms 15 ms 15 ms gig1-2.core1.las1.versaweb.net [8.23.72.22]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.

[IAmRoot]

Ok. That node looks fine, now.

Could you do http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/wiki/index.php/Identifying_Lag_Type to confirm you are getting network lag?

[sirefef]

Im positive that it's network lag. FPS is around 100+ most of the time. Characters walk jerkily during network play only, not in practice mode or in replays. According to the wiki, it is described as downstream network lag.

[IAmRoot]

Ok. Could you do the ping and traceroutes to the server region(s) you play on? http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/wiki/index.php/Network_Quality_Diagnostics

[sirefef]

PING TO USW SERVERS:

Ping statistics for 208.115.118.200:
Packets: Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 66ms, Average = 59ms

TRACERT TO USW:


Tracing route to 208-115-118-200-reverse.wowrack.com [208.115.118.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms adsl-75-4-255-254.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net [75.4
.255.254]
4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms dist1-vlan60.irvnca.pbi.net [67.114.48.130]
5 12 ms 8 ms 7 ms bb1-p2-1.ksc2mo.sbcglobal.net [151.164.42.7]
6 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms ex2-p15-1.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.39.229]

7 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms asn3549-glbx.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.248.1
06]
8 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms cr2-sea-B-t4-3.bb.spectrumnet.us [207.138.144.18
]
9 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms agg1-sea-p20.bb.spectrumnet.us [208.76.153.38]
10 40 ms 38 ms 39 ms WOWRack-SEA-10000M.demarc.spectrumnet.us [216.24
3.28.190]
11 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms core2.wowrack.com [216.244.95.130]
12 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms 216.244.95.141
13 41 ms 40 ms 41 ms 216.244.88.10
14 40 ms 40 ms 41 ms 208-115-118-200-reverse.wowrack.com [208.115.118
.200]

Trace complete.

[IAmRoot]

Ok. Those results look just fine. Either you have traffic shaping on your connection (either by your ISP or by your modem) or you are having problems caused by windows sound drawing too many resources (see http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281).

[sirefef]

I have already tried those fixes. Those were the first things I tried before posting on the forums. I've been researching for a month before i actually posted so theres probably no solution that I can find through google that I havent tried. Are there any other possible solutions or causes? This incident began when I installed my new gpu roughly 4 months ago but I don't see how it would affect network games and not practice games. Is there a possibility of a gpu interfering with networking?

[IAmRoot]

Hmm. Ok. Could I see your console.log from after playing a laggy game?

Your gpu won't affect this. One possibility is that traffic shaping started to be used on your network. That would result in low ping times, yet high in game latency.

[sirefef]

Is game latency shown by host_drawfps 2? If so, the game latency is an average of 10-20ms. I will post the console log the next time I play.

[sirefef]

I believe a console log has already been uploaded from the previous ticket i submitted. Check the very first post where i linked the initial post prior to 2.0

[sirefef]

bump. I believe many others share this same problem so solving this would benefit the others.

[sirefef]

bump.

[sirefef]

bump for the last time.