"lag" in online games with Windows 7

[Axeman113]

Hi there,
I really appreciate everything that you were doing so far, however, I still have those incredible nasty lag spikes in all of my games (TF2, L4D2, SF4) even after editing all those vars! My ping says 25-50 in all steam games but still the animations are not correct (delayed, like when having a bad ping)! And the thing with disabling my sound card wasn't able to fix this prob as well. So, what the hell is wrong here?





A good comparison is also the fact, that the TEON server in L2, while vista was my main OS, ALWAYS showed me a ping of 30. But now (W7 installed) it shows me a ping of 59!



My system
ASUS P5Q
Realtek ALC1200 @ Intel 82801JB ICH10 - High Definition Audio Controller (Realtek HD Audio Driver)
Generic Marvell 61xx RAID Controller
Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller
Windows 7 x64 Prof
Intel Q6600
4GB DDR2
all drivers are up to date and have been downloaded from the original ASUS homepage

I just installed Windows 7 x64 2 days ago and already have some serious probs, this is really pissing me off ...!

 

[SleeStak]

I just installed Windows 7 x64 2 days ago and already have some serious probs, this is really pissing me off ...!

have you checked out Tips on Troubleshooting Game Issues

new install of W7 make sure you update your Direct X files (#5)

 

[pinstripe]

If you still have issues after disabling your soundcard this not a thread that will be able to solve your issue. I recommend you create a new thread.

 

[vladislav]

I did what u recomanded - i changed NetworkThrottlingIndex and at the side it became 0xFFFFFFFF but the problem is still there ( i have lag delay spikes in w3 ). I must be the same problem beacouse when i disable my sound card it runs verry smooth. Any ideas how to fix it ?

 

[stardrawer]

Hi,
I disabled the NetworkThrottlingIndex, now my ping is stable and lower, but now i have some probleme with my sound, cracking etc... exactly what you said with your first method.

My soundcard is : Creative x-fi xtreme music.

(sorry for my english)

 

[Axeman113]

Problem solved guys!

It was my overclocked CPU which caused those lag spikes (!), although the symptoms for a too overclocked CPU were really strange. Does someone maybe know how I am able to overclock my CPU without getting those lag spikes (since my CPU is not the strongest)?

 

[sotorious]

Do you think microsoft will fix this issue so everytime we reformat we dont have to keep doing this.

 

[raffael]

Do you think microsoft will fix this issue so everytime we reformat we dont have to keep doing this.

Well, the first question we should ask ourselves is "Do they know about this problem?".
I think that if they knew and found a way to fix it they would supply people with an update through "windows update" to make everything work right.

So either they don't know about all of this either they have no solution to the problem.
Until the fix comes out I will continue using Win XP x64.

 

[nightrhyme]

I reported the bug to microsoft and linked them to this thread. Not hoping for much but it surely can't hurt.

Hope they fix it soon

I reported this bug to MS. They know :sarc:
No fixes ever worked for me. It suddenly went away and now sometime return. But a reboot fixes it. I don't dare reformating

 

[Sandzu]

I have tried every trick there is ...it helped a bit but I am living together with my friend and we play Heroes Of Newerth...soon as we play together on the same server it starts to spiking..really annoying.

 

[moriez]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault running on Win7 Ultimate (32bit) seems to be stable after changing the HEX value. You may add it to the list.

It is solved so thanks mate! MS should fix this.

 

[TheCorp]

Hey pinstripe just wanted to chime in here with some research.

System
Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz
4gb ram
Windows 7 64bit
Radeon 4870
Realtek Onboard Sound

As soon as I disable onboard sound in the BIOS all of my performance issues go away so either this is the same issue you guys have or something very similar.

I am having issues with HoN (general bad performance) and just got Starcraft 2 and getting issues with that as well (even in single player campaigns). The weirdest thing seems to be that even the video cut scenes (the non rendered ones, just video, I believe Bink) run incredibly shitty. Super choppy video, the audio is out of sync etc etc.

So I tried the network throttling reg fix and that didn't seem to do anything so I did the steps to disable MMCCS and that helped my video playback for cut scenes slightly but still had issues and as you mentioned, now I have choppy and stuttering audio as a result of MMCCS being disabled.

I have tried a wide variety of Realtek drivers (currently using 2.51) and have fully updated video/other drivers. Has anyone tried replacing their sound card? Is this issue just that my onboard Realtek sound card is not really compatible with Windows 7 64bit? I have an old Audigy laying around somewhere that I may test out and see if it helps...

Thanks for all the people who did the research on this bug! Hopefully can find a fix soon

 

[TheCorp]

FYI guys I tried installing an old Audigy 2 ZS and updated the drivers to the latest win 7 64bit drivers and im still getting the choppiness. So weird

 

[TheCorp]

More info...

After installing my Audigy 2 zs, disabling it doesn't seem to affect the performance at all. Back when I was using my onboard sound only, going into the BIOS and disabling the onboard sound resulted in higher performance.

Continues to confuse me...

 

[kylekempfer]

For everyone who has this problem try my solution. I tried every other solution and i still got lag spikes. Simply disable the program Super fetch. I know they say its not good 2 but what happens is it eats up ram while your trying to play games to make your computer faster but its actually making you lag. As soon as i disabled it ALL lag spikes were gone!!!!

 

[Wolfyx]

Hi guys,

It would SEEM that the latest updates from Windows 7 may have fixed the fps drop in cs 1.6, specifically KB982110 and KB2272691. Not sure which one of them did the trick but, after i installed, i tried playing a few rounds and it went smoothly as it would in XP. Adding an extra priority for hl.exe in the task manager will also increase performance.

I tried virtually all the fixes i found while googling, but none seemed to fix my issue. It improved somewhat, but not a permanent fix. Out of all the ideas suggested, i stuck to network throttling off, turned off DEP for hl.exe.

I have a core 2 duo 2Ghz a piece, 2 GB DDR3, and a GeForce 9500 GT, running Win 7 x86.

Hope this helps.

--Wolfyx

 

[TheCorp]

Man I hope you are right, im testing right now, will report back with results...

 

[TheCorp]

These seemed to have helped my framerates and the video speed but it is still not perfect. Can anyone else confirm if this helps?

 

[nikimooh]

=(

i have done all the register modifications what i have found on internet and non of them actually helps. im still having that lag and at the moment i just think that there is no solution on this problem :/

 

[MajorStone]

It worked frist time, thank you i so much. no more sound lag. again thanks