You can see them all jump around if you just look at the scoreboard, I use DP so the ping times are always next to the scoreboard. DP also has a net graph you can pop up on your hud, and I can see lots of spikes show up on that while this is all happening. Also yea you can feel the results as you play...its mostly like you are phased out of the loop entirely, and what you see on the screen is already old news, so reacting to it is pointless...so not much sense playing.
I just did some regular command prompt pings, and they reflect mostly the same thing - the ping starts ok about 60 ish, then as you do more ping tests, it creeps up and up gradually, and now I see a packet loss event happening about once ever 4 seconds, which is probably that spike in the netgraph.
In the other post you said you are using the same host, just different IP's? At this point the host might have the issue and not have skilled enough staff to pinpont the problem. Thats what happened at my old host, and and when I said you probably got too many niggers and lgbt working there, they got mad and shut my server off the new - lol....not shitting you.
Actually this type of spike / lag problem sounds _alot_ like what I encountered at my other host where they chassis swapped my hardware. The HW was a good 4 years old and swapping it definitely improved the frequency of the problem, but it still was there , usually at night times alot like this one is showing.
It could be alot of things of course, and may well be that no matter where you move the server the problem will happen again in varying degrees. The support people I had trying to troubleshoot the issue in my tickets definately didnt wanna cooperate beyond saying "We checked everything on our end and its ok". Call that Canned answer numero uno...not good enough for me, I want to know in detail what was checked, and at least get credit for sugguesting the HW swap - these kids are completely clueless about troubleshooting these days if you ask me.
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I noticed a rise in ping at times as well. So, I asked Zop to check it out. He mentioned he never got over 100 on the old server, so we went to test that out and it was rising there too. And he actually did go over 100 on the old server. So, I don't know what to make of it. I think the more you look for a problem, the more you'll find it. Are you saying that you feel the ping? Or are you just constantly hitting ping to look for an increase?
on topic:how many FPS are you using? what client? I have experienced increasing ping and dropped data grams due to fps was set too high