Alright. I've been a player of inf for quite awhile now, and consider the best mod I've ever seen.
However, as of late I have been having a severe problem with connectivity. Until maybe a week or two ago, I'd have about 100-150 ping on most servers. I still get the same numbers when pinging them in browser, but the second i join the number scales up continually until it reaches 2 - 4k. Obviously unplayable.
It does this will all servers. It's not my connection, I've tested my bandwidth and it comes up around its usual 100 kbps (I have cable). My friend, who lives a few blocks away, and has the same service, has no problems.
Occasionally the ping will drop into playable ranges, but never for long. I have scanned for viruses, cleaned my hd, and reinstalled both UT and INF. I have never had a problem with the game previously, so I'm guessing its something I installed/removed recently. I've tried running from a restart with anything non-critical disabled using msconfig.
The problem has increasingly gotten worse over the past few days, from usually being playable, to now never being playable. I have no clue whats up with UT/INF. The game doesnt stutter or jerk, I only get extreme delay. No packet loss.
Oh, and other games run fine, including Mechwarrior 4, Diablo 2, StarCraft, and Halflife. Normal UT has the same problem as INF.
Any possible sugestions on what could be causing this problem? Could it be a file I accidentally removed, or something else interfereing.
I doubt it's hardware, since it worked fine until recently, but jic, heres my specs:
AMD Duron 700
192 megs ram
Voodoo 5500 64mb vram (agp)
20 gig hd, 2 partitions (UT is on the windows side... the other is a backup)
Cable modem connected to standard 10/100 ethernet card
Windows ME
I have yet to test it using dialup.
However, as of late I have been having a severe problem with connectivity. Until maybe a week or two ago, I'd have about 100-150 ping on most servers. I still get the same numbers when pinging them in browser, but the second i join the number scales up continually until it reaches 2 - 4k. Obviously unplayable.
It does this will all servers. It's not my connection, I've tested my bandwidth and it comes up around its usual 100 kbps (I have cable). My friend, who lives a few blocks away, and has the same service, has no problems.
Occasionally the ping will drop into playable ranges, but never for long. I have scanned for viruses, cleaned my hd, and reinstalled both UT and INF. I have never had a problem with the game previously, so I'm guessing its something I installed/removed recently. I've tried running from a restart with anything non-critical disabled using msconfig.
The problem has increasingly gotten worse over the past few days, from usually being playable, to now never being playable. I have no clue whats up with UT/INF. The game doesnt stutter or jerk, I only get extreme delay. No packet loss.
Oh, and other games run fine, including Mechwarrior 4, Diablo 2, StarCraft, and Halflife. Normal UT has the same problem as INF.
Any possible sugestions on what could be causing this problem? Could it be a file I accidentally removed, or something else interfereing.
I doubt it's hardware, since it worked fine until recently, but jic, heres my specs:
AMD Duron 700
192 megs ram
Voodoo 5500 64mb vram (agp)
20 gig hd, 2 partitions (UT is on the windows side... the other is a backup)
Cable modem connected to standard 10/100 ethernet card
Windows ME
I have yet to test it using dialup.
. All I'm used to doing is F-Disk off the windows disk, then a complete reinstall of OS, drivers, then games.