when i started playing cod4 everything was fine etc. and i could kill everything. now after i tried playing multiplayer, cod4 takes up not that much cpu but i get HUGE response lags.. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/384/capturekg.jpg the green is the responsiveness, while the red is the cpu usage this is after i started playing multiplayer LAN with my friend and i lagged realy badly bascially i press 'w' and then my guy runs straight into a wall because i cant turn. then after lik 3 seconds my guy decides to turn. i try to strafe but instead i stand still staring at a wall. onlly 3 seconds later do i strafe. this is so annoying! please help
does this happen only on multiplayer. if so then sounds like youre in a laggy game or you playing a server outside from your country. try playing local servers. with low ping
Here's a better screenshot http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/307/capturem.jpg The green line is the responsiveness of the computer The red line shows the overall cpu usage The white line shows the cpu % cod 4 is using.. the red line is so low.. why is the green line also low? it makes me get massive lag in cod4.. it seems to happen in hl2 as well
please help me.. ive tried reinstalling cod4 and it doesnt seem to work.. as i said b4 it seems to be a cpu problem. a low cpu but very low responsiveness as well
I doubt it has anything to do with your specific hardware. It's got to be a network latency problem. I don't know much about networking, so I can't help with that :( There's probably somebody here that does though.
[QUOTE="shokwaav"]it seems that i get lag for most games :(shokwaav
starcraft too!!! (singleplayer campaign) ok it seems to be that with any game involving keyboard + mouse.. i get lag. i played a game called chalk (2D singleplayer window) and it still fails.. any idea why?
do you have v-sync on that causes noticeable mouse lag for me in games like cs:s and l4d.johnny27
nope i tried turning it on and off.. doesnt make a differenc again i think its a CPU problem (responsiveness of the WHOLE system) rather than a gpu/network latency problem
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
PTMags
im not sure.. but ive felt it and its fine. and moreover, im using a laptop cooler and this laptop is new
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
shokwaav
im not sure.. but ive felt it and its fine. and moreover, im using a laptop cooler and this laptop is new
Run something like speedfan or hwmonitor to find the temps at idle and under load. Try defragging, run ccleaner, use driver sweeper to remove your video card drivers and reinstal them, use a different driver version and see if it helps. Which/how many processes do you have running? You could try using system restore to a point when it was working fine. If your laptop cooler runs via USB try unplugging it and see if that makes a difference. If none of that helps i'd say you're probably going to have to reformat and use the recovery disks that came with your laptop.
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
PTMags
but to put your mind at rest.. the cpu is running at ~55 degrees C at 50% load.. and i dont even get to 50% load during gaming
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
shokwaav
but to put your mind at rest.. the cpu is running at ~55 degrees C at 50% load.. and i dont even get to 50% load during gaming i just played a bit of warcraft 3 and i got lag.. cpu is still ~54 degrees C... whats the problem?
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
shokwaav
but to put your mind at rest.. the cpu is running at ~55 degrees C at 50% load.. and i dont even get to 50% load during gaming i just played a bit of warcraft 3 and i got lag.. cpu is still ~54 degrees C... whats the problem?
Well apparently it's not heat, did you try anything else I mentioned? It may be a driver issue. Hopefully you don't have to reformat. Did you make a thread in the hardware forum too?
[QUOTE="shokwaav"][QUOTE="shokwaav"] but to put your mind at rest.. the cpu is running at ~55 degrees C at 50% load.. and i dont even get to 50% load during gamingPTMags
i just played a bit of warcraft 3 and i got lag.. cpu is still ~54 degrees C... whats the problem?
Well apparently it's not heat, did you try anything else I mentioned? It may be a driver issue. Hopefully you don't have to reformat. Did you make a thread in the hardware forum too?
no i didnt.. cos i think its like a game issue. driver? i dont think i installed any drivers by playing multiplayer. maybe when i install windows 7 itll solve the problem
gta san andreas lags sometimes.. it mostly doesnt but then again i dont play it full screen but not a lot. there's lag when im at 6 *s and running cos it needs to calculate all the movement of the police/army/me
I wish I had a solution for you... I feel your pain. I have had the exact same issue with COD 4 multi player. I originaly thought the batteries on my cordless keyboard were dying but replacing them did not result in less keyboard lag. The mouse works great.... This tended to be a sporatic problem. Some days it was bad some days no KB lag. I have noticed the same thing now in Left 4 Dead.
What are your temperatures? You're on a laptop from the looks of it, and they can have significant heat issues especially when gaming. You may need to try using an air can and cleaning it out, or mabe your fan failed altogether?
PTMags
^This
Is it hot to the touch? It's most likely the GPU overheating (CPU temp might not represent this) if it happens in MW2 and not Warcraft 3. The simplest way to test this is to turn your computer off, let it cool down, then try running MW2 at bare minimum settings for a period of time. If it eventually starts lagging, then you need to purchase an external cooling device.
Also try a google search of your laptop type and "overheating" to see if anyone else has these issues.
1. try updating or reinstalling the drivers for your mouse and keyboard.
2. make sure games are patched and up to date.
3. try turning off and making sure your vsync and triple buffering options are off, along with any smooth mouse options.. and on games that have it choose hardware mouse..
i hope any of this works, all i could think of off the top of my head.
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