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So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:41 pm
by :FI:ZekeMan
Hey guys, need some help here. Got the upgrades into my computer and found that COD4 now plays :shock: WORSE :shock: than on my old machine. I suspect that it may be a netspeed problem but for the life of me cannot find the bloody console commands to adjust it. I thought there was a netspeed selection upon installing the game, but I can't find anything about that either. Does anyone know the console commands for adjusting netspeed?
Or, any other ideas of what the hell is going on? Frame rate/lag is just atrocious, slide show vid, regardless of server that I am on. CPU has been upgraded to Athon 64 X2 4800+, vid card is Radeon HD3650 512meg, RAM is 1.6G, soon to be 3.

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:55 pm
by :FI:ZekeMan
No ideas, huh? I am devastated! :shock:

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:42 pm
by :FI:Moog
Have you updated the graphics drivers?

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:47 pm
by :FI:ZekeMan
I've done everything I can think of. Only thing that is left that I know of would be that the new vid card is simply a POS, which still doesn't make much sense because its got more than my old X1600. For the hell of it I put COD5 back on just to compare. COD5 loads fine but still plays like crap also. Left a message on the COD4 forums and the best they could do was to defrag my hard drive. :roll: Very disheartening all way round. What would make a better vid card, hotter CPU, and three times as much RAM run worse that what they replaced?

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:20 am
by :FI:Sneaky_Russian
Couple of things you could try -

Advanced System Care - free - Has a tool to optimize your connection.

Leatrix Latency Fix - Yeah sure this was made for WoW , but works for any game or sim. DL is a javascript to optimize TCP packets .

I've used both and Leatrix possibly has the edge on the AWC tool available in the free version.

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:20 am
by :FI:Sneaky_Russian
duplicate post- pls delete

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:39 pm
by :FI:ZekeMan
Check it out guys. For the hell of it I reinstalled COD4...and suddenly it works great. WTH? I then installed each patch one at a time, going back into the game to test each one. Not one friggin problem. :?

Me thinks Murphy slipped into me life just long enough to drive me to drink. At any rate...COD4 is a go once again. :D Thing is I have to start from square one. :( Does the squad still run their own COD4 server?

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:45 pm
by :FI:Moog
That's good to hear Zeke...

If you feel like going down the tweaking route to squeeze even more performance out of your rig I strongly recommend the Tweakguides.com tweaking companion:

http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

No more CoD4 server but I think a few of the Dutch platoonies still hop on to some other CoD4 servers every now and again.

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:24 am
by :FI:ZekeMan
No Irish COD4 server? :( I am heartbroken.

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:44 pm
by :FI:Rabitski
Learn to speak dutch Zeke :D , I think there still playing, but I'm not sure.

Re: So Much For the Upgrade

Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:24 am
by :FI:ZekeMan
I shoot more than talk...

What's the IP of that server again?