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| Red Faction : Lounge : Strange lag effect |
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| sHaGGy_reborn |
  Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:24am |
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I recently upgraded my pc and have reinstalled RF and started playing with a LAN party and then online at the same party. I noticed a strange lag effect which at the begining I thought was just lag.
I got comments from people online about me modding and teleporting because of the way I was jumping around the levels. I noticed the jumpy strange effect on everyone else and not myself in the game. I then watched from someone elses screen to view the strange affect, and noticed that my player was the only one affected.
I can't figure out what is causing this. Any ideas????
Here are my computer specs:
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System Information
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Time of this report: 2/2/2006, 21:19:26
Machine name: REBELBASE
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: alienware
System Model: alienware
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Page File: 607MB used, 3333MB available
Windows Dir: C:WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7800 GTX
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: EnumPCIVEN_10DE&DEV_0091&SUBSYS_02C210DE&REV_A1
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: SyncMaster 930B/930BC/930BF(Digital)
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.7750 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 5/25/2005 19:02:00, 3885440 bytes |
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sobe  |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:52am |
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I would say either because of the dual core, and/or hyperthreading.
First try just turning off hyperthreading via BIOS. |
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| Assaultman67 |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:52am |  |
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you need to designate a core to RF ... RF is not made for a dual core CPU, so you have to assign one core to the program, if you don't it will switch the task back and forth between cores causing lag type effect ... get what im sayin? 
Sobe got there first ...   |
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Modified Feb 3rd, 04:53am by Assaultman67 |
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| E_Darkness |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:52am |
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The teloporting may be due to an over clocked device. This type of thing happens when you over clock your video card. I know that it can be used as a form of cheating. The lag effect might be the rf.exe being shuffled from core to core. I have seen some one post a fix for this part of the problem you are having and it my work providing that the lag is from the duel core part of the computer.
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when you have a dual core processor or a dual CPU motherboard your programs will be computed on whatever core is available. Red Faction was acting Jerky because you did not assign a core to that program alone. So the program was being pushed back and forth between the two cores.
How do i know this?
Because when i loaded seti on my dual amd it was skippy, so when i installed it twice and assigned a core to each program, it did twice the amount of work without skipping
when you did Compatibility mode it set the processor efinity (not sure if that's spelled right ) to one or the other. (i manually do it though usually) |
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| Assaultman67 |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:55am | |
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yeah, that was me ... if you Ctr+AltDel you can go into processes and set the CPU efinity then you can alt+tab back (problem is RF is finicky to being alt+tabbed
Edit: i guess it is possible i was able to alt+tab it and get back in.  |
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Modified Feb 3rd, 04:58am by Assaultman67 |
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| sHaGGy_reborn |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 4:58am |
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Thanks everyone for the input. I will try the affinity property. I never new it existed. |
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| Assaultman67 |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 5:06am | |
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well, it doesn't ... unless you have two cpus or a dual core in a couputer. then the property shows ... (i ran 2 copies of seti on my dual athlon, at the same time)  |
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Modified Feb 3rd, 05:15am by Assaultman67 |
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| sHaGGy_reborn |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 5:22am |
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I have tried setting the affinity to each of the processors individually and it did not make a difference either way on either processor.
Did I do it incorrectly? |
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| redfac18 |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 6:17am |
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Hyper-threading issues can sometimes be fixed by setting RF to windows 98 compadibility mode in the program properties. I have hyper-threading on my PC and win 98 compadibility fixed it. |
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| Assaultman67 |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 1:23pm | |
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well, i dunno if you did it correctly ...
does the game work in SP or is it skippy there as well? because if it isn't, this is not your solution. |
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| sHaGGy_reborn |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 2:59pm |
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Running the game in 98 mode fixed it. I still have the affinity set to both cpu. Thanks for all the help. Now if someone could just make me play better....... |
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NoClanFrank  |
Posted 3rd Feb 2006 8:27pm | |
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| Quoting sHaGGy_reborn | | Now if someone could just make me play better....... |
*POOF! *
You are a better player. 
Your welcome.  |
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