Geoff is right, DX 7 reduces the players ping. It also gives a performace boost over DX9.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Geoff Goas</b> <<a href="mailto:gitman@gmail.com">gitman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">ever spectated someone with a shoddy graphics card and watch their ping?<br><br>go read some posts on IWN. you'll see people saying that directx 7
<br>gave them a much better ping.<br><br>On 12/20/05, Eduardo E. Silva <<a href="mailto:esilva@silvex.com">esilva@silvex.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Since when pinging a machine gives info for memory isues. Pinging has<br>
> NOTHING to do with memory.<br>><br>> Equipa Comercial said:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > if you ping the server from outside the machine and its latancy is about<br>> > 15 then surely is a configuration or memory issue.
<br>> > Did you disable all services that you dont use on linux machine ? your<br>> > server should be running on runlevel 3 (without X) instead off the default<br>> > 5.<br>> > If you cant solve the problem and you dont mind i'l like to take a look
<br>> > into your server to check whats going on.<br>> ><br>> > Regards<br>> > Telmo<br>> ><br>> > ----- Original Message -----<br>> > From: Carlo<br>> > To: <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">
cod@icculus.org</a><br>> > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:28 PM<br>> > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Here is the link to my servers in stats.callofduty.com.......when
the 2<br>> > awe servers (1 cod and 1 cod2) both have players in, look at the<br>> > difference in pings, both are on the same server<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://stats.callofduty.com/?search_ip=194.164.25&=Submit">
http://stats.callofduty.com/?search_ip=194.164.25&=Submit</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 19/12/05, Carlo <<a href="mailto:carlomoretto@gmail.com">carlomoretto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Ping from outside of the game and Im getting around 15ms
<br>> ><br>> > This is the output from "free":<br>> ><br>> > total used free shared<br>> > buffers cached<br>> > Mem: 1554900 860924 693976 0 93132
<br>> > 474448<br>> > -/+ buffers/cache: 293344 1261556<br>> > Swap: 1630556 128 1630428<br>> ><br>> > I cant swap the configs over because the 2 servers that run fine are
<br>> > both cod, and the problem one is cod2<br>> ><br>> > Carl<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 19/12/05, Ian mu < <a href="mailto:mu.llamas@gmail.com">mu.llamas@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> > Linux uses pretty much all available memory for cache and releases<br>> > it as needed, so that can probably be ignored as perfectly normal.<br>> > The command "free" will show whats being used for cache and whats in
<br>> > actual use.<br>> ><br>> > I think you need to start off isolating the problems. If you have 2<br>> > servers that you ping fine to, swap the configs over (if they are on<br>> > the same box as you said). Also do a traceroute and see if you ping
<br>> > 150 outside of the game as well as inside etc.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 12/19/05, Jay Vasallo <<a href="mailto:jayco1@charter.net">jayco1@charter.net</a> > wrote:<br>> > Didn't see this one, sorry for the double sugestion.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ----- Original Message -----<br>> > From: Equipa Comercial<br>> > To: <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a><br>> > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:12 PM
<br>> > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > As you can see you only have 32MB Free 1554900k total, 1522112k<br>> > used, 32788k free,
<br>> > and dont have a swap partition wich is bad.<br>> > So the problem shound reside in this. You should add more mem to<br>> > it and create a swap partition :)<br>> ><br>> > Regards
<br>> > Telmo<br>> ><br>> > ----- Original Message -----<br>> > From: Carlo<br>> > To: <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a><br>> > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:49 PM
<br>> > Subject: Re: [cod] [COD2] High PIngs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > slots is 20, run top command:<br>> ><br>> > top - 18:36:16 up 1 day, 10:58, 1 user, load average:
1.20,<br>> > 1.27, 1.46<br>> > Cpu(s): 19.9% us, 0.8% sy, 0.3% ni, 78.3% id, 0.2% wa,<br>> > 0.2% hi, 0.3% si<br>> > Mem: 1554900k total, 1522112k used, 32788k free,
<br>> > 74032k buffers<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>><br>><br>> --<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Ed Silva<br>> Silvex Consulting Inc.
<br>> <a href="mailto:esilva@silvex.com">esilva@silvex.com</a><br>> (714) 504-6870 Cell<br>> (714) 908-1730 Fax<br>><br>> The information contained in this email is confidential, intended solely<br>> for the addressee, and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by
<br>> other persons is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any<br>> disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be<br>> taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.
<br>><br><br><br>--<br>Geoff Goas, Administrator<br>|ax|anarchic - <a href="http://www.anarchic-x.com">http://www.anarchic-x.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~ Sion "Prism" Duncan.
<br><br>Email : <a href="mailto:prism27@gmail.com">prism27@gmail.com</a><br>Web : <a href="http://www.prism27.net">http://www.prism27.net</a>