Joe Vegas Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 Hi, I'm new here, just bought Outcast and have ADSL, seems when I join in games they are laggy big time, I haven't found this prob in Half Life etc, what can I do to minimize this, I always 3 finger out everything exept explorer and systray and Norton Firewall, I have , 99, 98, 99, sys resorces free, 900mhz, 500ram, Geforce 2mx 400, 7200rpm 30gig, defraged before install. Other than hosting myself, is there any tips you guys may have? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopSicko Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 Go to dsl reports and run the tweak test to see if your network is optimized...if you haven't done something like this already. It found a big problem with my network and fixed it...wOOt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcmacman Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 What kind of pings are you getting? Is it possible that its an fps problem and not a lag issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Vegas Posted April 12, 2002 Author Share Posted April 12, 2002 Originally posted by pcmacman What kind of pings are you getting? Is it possible that its an fps problem and not a lag issue? Thanks both of you, First off I went to that DSL site, they rated me as "Looking good" all well, I have been to other simular sites to. As to is it a FPS, not really? I have no probs in SP or when I host a game, no one joins me as of yet, I play against bots, but I want real people. Thanks guys for the sugestions, if anyone else has a comment please send as I am sick about this. I tryed the Zone tonight same thing, unplayable, my ping was 850 thu down from 999. This is just a portion of my letter to Lucas: I have been playing online games for years, like HalfLife,JK2, UT,Quake,Renegade. I have never seen anything so bad, as with Outcast I have big lag 999, tonight 850, Unplayable, I have ADSL, 900mhz, Win ME, Geforce 2 MX 400, 447 Ram, X8.1. Grapics set to low low, I 3 finger everything out exept Systray, explorer and Norton Security, My Resorces are 99,97,99. Again thanks guys, I was and am a big poster on Renegade Forum and hope to be a big contibutor to this Forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Vegas Posted April 12, 2002 Author Share Posted April 12, 2002 OK, guys, I am so happy, I have solved most of this problem, I'm sure others have the same and others will follow. I will be sending Lucas the info also, but it is a firewall issue, I thought I'd go naked to experement and wow, everyone had like 45 pings, I joined in and quick insane, razor sharp. Ok, problem not fully solved, no way people are going to shut of their Norton Firewalls, what I need to know from Lucas or any of you guys is, what ports and or port ranges neeed to be opened for application, I have configured Norton before for Gamespy and other Game Serevers, once I get this vital info, I will post it and give instructions on making up a rule or rules. It might be 4-5 days til Lucas gets back to me as weekend, but I will be back and post a new topic also, I really thought I bought a dud, I loved JK2 Dark Forces, and thought this was just a heavy laggy unresponsive game, but will now be able to give folks a close shave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcmacman Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 From what i've heard you need from 28060 to 28081 open... but i've heard varying ranges between those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopSicko Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 The specific UDP ports that Jedi Outcast uses are 28060, 28061, 28062, and 28070 through 28081 (inclusive.) These ports need to be opened in the Out-bound direction to join games. They will also need to be opened in the In-bound direction if you want players outside of your firewall to be able to join your dedicated or non-dedicated servers behind your firewall. Or so the Germans would have us believe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Vegas Posted April 13, 2002 Author Share Posted April 13, 2002 Thanks guys for the port ranges, I have them down. But I must say Outcast and its server system is a very friendly, in the past with Norton I would have to allow the executable full access to everything But PLUS I would have to get like the IP addresses and IP address ranges of the main server meeting place just to be able to log on. But I have found out for all you Norton Security users it is very simple, all you have to do is go into your setup of Norton and allow your JK2MP.EXE full access to all, note not the main executable, which is in your main folder and on desktop, but rather the one in your "Game Data" folder, that is it. Now to all of you who have Norton Security and say, hey I can play and all seems ok, well you guys might want to try this because, without doing the ABOVE you can still plat Outcast but at a greatly reduced rate, to get some info about udp ports and addresses I joined in a game for 30 seconds, then went into my reporting log area and to my amazement there was over 500 different loggings in 30 sec all the same block block, I won't get into the specifics but what was happening as I could figure is that ya it was letting me play and data to flow even where a rule was blocking that communication some info was passing through, it was like a machine gun. But now since I configured it, everything is sharp as a razor, and when I do a get new game list or refresh it's like in 1 second, whereas before I'd be waiting like 30 sec's, plus all the pings showed people at 125, 90, 234, etc, but now it's like 20,23,41,22. so maybe some of you can get extra performance? I am so sorry guys for this insanely long post but it is for people who are frustrated and unable to play a great game, if it hopes 1 person, it was worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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