We had our weekly friday night HL2DM session last night. It's getting harder and harder to find lag-free servers it seems.

UCT's Biowaffen servers were the only almost lag-free servers last night. The thing is, the lag seems to be machine based and not bandwidth. It's not that you have so high ping.

So, are these modern games such comp killers it isn't possible to run a 16 players servers, or are the comps used just not up to the task? Many servers seem fine until they get a certain amount of players, then it all goes slowly to hell.

The worst part about lag is obviously how it sucks the fun out of the game. Last night I played for 5 hours or so (quit ahead of the guys, they kept on playing) and only had serious fun for about 1 hour. The rest was spent dealing with lag more than other players.

Still, I am sure there will be another short session tonight, hopefully we can manage to find some unlaggy servers this time...

* Edit *

I can go on and on about this, but I think I will eventuate in Rav's analyzis of the situation. Rav is a man of few words, he said: "Same servers, new game". :D