Question regarding "lagging", ping

[stupor-mundi]

Hi All,

 

I'm fairly new to IL-2 BoX, so I'm not entirely familiar with the language conventions regarding, what you could call, planes, jumping around in space.

 

I flew a lot around early 2000-ish, in Warbirds, and back then, there was a thing called "warping". I now see some comments on the radio about "lag" and "lagging", and also "stutter", which may be the same thing, or something quite different. I also see many server messages "player soandso disconnected due to bad ping" or similar.

Way back in Warbirds, you could fairly well recognize a warper, the plane jumped about in space, repeatedly, the frequency of the jumping was fairly high, maybe every second or so, but the displacement, correspondingly, wasn't very great. I haven't seen this *type* of warping in IL-2.

What I experience in IL-2, fairly often, is that planes jump around in space, at a much lower frequency, but much farther, and in those intervals where they are NOT jumping, they look perfectly normal, moving smoothly. Just now I was on WOL, Crymea copy, took off, grabbing alt, looking around and behind me in the usual paranoid way. Suddenly see tracers coming from my 6, look, there's a plane, really close. Dive. Plane is gone. Gain some alt again, looking around frantically. Planes appear, disappear. Get shot down by a plane that suddenly appears. Needless to point out, it's no fun like this. None of these effects seem to be accompanied by any graphics related visible issues. My FPS stays solid 59/60. Everything looks smooth.

 

Is this what people on the radio call "lagging"?

Is this ping related, as I assume, i.e. to the internet connection of players, or is it to do with server related issues, or could it be something to do with my own setup?

I'm on fairly decent broadband in the UK. Can I check my ping over the duration of a connection with a server, somewhere in my logs? Are there config things in game, or maybe firewall things on Windows that I should check?

 

[-TBC-AeroAce]

In the main menu go to setting and then multiplayer. There is a download and upload setting. 

 

Set upload to 1.

 

Do a speed test online, take the download speed divided 4 and set the in game download setting to that number.

 

This will give the best results. 

[stupor-mundi]

Thanks AeroAce, will take a look at that now!

[-TBC-AeroAce]

5 minutes ago, stupor-mundi said:

Thanks AeroAce, will take a look at that now!

 

When doing an online speed test make sure you select a server that will give you a representative figure. For example a lot of the multiplayer servers are in Russia so do the online speed test to a Russian server. 

 

Saying this the number divided by 4 will likely be the same.

[stupor-mundi]

Yup, I get 16.00 Mb/s more or less from different speed test servers. I'll set my DL to 4 and try that for a while.

[stupor-mundi]

To wrap this thread up. After changing my settings, this happened again a number of times, and then stopped (so far).

 

In the meantime, on one occasion, I met a genuine warper, who's internet connection was known bad (latency), and the effect was distinctly different. Jumping in space much more frequently, and smaller distances.

 

Since the low frequency jumping I had observed mainly occured on WoL, on a few occasions, typically in a high-plane-density area, it seems to me it was a server side issue that they've since fixed. Maybe it had to do with the rollout of the new version.

 

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Actually now that you mention it I was just on and I think there were about 15 planes in the one area above destroyed tanks... it was the most I’ve ever encountered and my rig was able to keep up... didn’t experience any warping to my surprise!  

 

[stupor-mundi]

It's not happened to me in more than a week, and I was in some quite busy spots. I think they fixed something.