Help needed plz..

[brian12345]

Ok guys i have a question and would very much appreciate any help available if possible.
My other computer crashed so i reformatted another pc i had laying around and redownloaded quake2 even tho i knew i wouldn't have the same graphics ect... i could atleast play quake2. On my other pc I used to ping 80-110. Now on this computer when i click on servers page it shows my ping as 1800 for example. What I dont understand is how could that be so dramastically different seeing as how I have the exact same Isp cable (1.5mb down) Nothing has changed at all except the Computer. I'm no Computer Wiz but slower processor's or computer graphics cards and system memory may slightly affect ping but surely not that drastically? Here are my other pc's spec along with this one.

Previoius:

P3 1.2
Win Xp Home
60gig harddrive
256mb SDRam
Geforce FX 5200 256mb


Current:
Win Xp Home
Compaq Presario
Intel(R)Celeron(R) 2.53GHz
248mb Ram
Integrated Graphics
Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV graphics Controller

Any ideas on something I can do inorder to make this PC playable at the moment? Thanks in advance.

[G_Dem]

Are you using LAN or Wireless LAN?

It could be a faulty network card. If your previous pc had a pci network card you could try it in the current setup. Before you do that though you could try updating the drivers of your NIC either from your motherboard's site (if its built into the MB) or the Network card's site.

[brian12345]

I just reformated this pc, and soon as it was completed I used my quake2 cd to install quake2. Then I installed the 3.20 patch to make it playable via internet. What I dont understand is With a 1.5mb cable connection to a U.S. server that I have been playing on for 4 years with a different computer (same cable connection tho with a previous 70 ping) It is showing my ping as 2000+ I can not figure out why? I am using Winxp pro SP2 and I have disable the firewall to eliminate the possiblity of it blocking the gaming port for quake2 *27910* I did a ping and tracert of the IP, and it is showing my ping for that server to be an average of 90 and the tracert is not showing anything wrong. Anyone have any tips? I really really need to get back to playing quake2 hehe thanks in advance.

[smurfy]

In addition to the questions raised by G_Dem, is it only within Quake2 that you see the high ping?

I wonder whether the 3.2 patch was cumulative and included all previous patches or would it have been better to so a more incremental patching job?

[brian12345]

Originally Posted by smurfy

In addition to the questions raised by G_Dem, is it only within Quake2 that you see the high ping?

I wonder whether the 3.2 patch was cumulative and included all previous patches or would it have been better to so a more incremental patching job?

Faulty network card? Doubtful because it's the same NIC that I used on my previous PC that give me good performance.

"I wonder whether the 3.2 patch was cumulative and included all previous patches or would it have been better to so a more incremental patching job?"

3.20 patch includes I believe 2 previous upgrades from 3.14, but I feel as if that has nothing to do with it. I've been playing q2 for 8 years and have used the same patch every time i've ever installed q2. But I do enjoy being wrong if it gets the job done. I dont think the problem lays in the game itself persay, because I installed a q2plug patch to see the servers via webpage. And all that does is show the players and latency, and you can do that without even having q2 installed. And thru that it shows my ping as 2000 also. And no its not just quake2 even when I try to play Yahoo Pool when I try to load a game room it just waits and waits and waits then slowly connects to it. Weird thing is my download rate is just fine at estimated 150kb/sec on most downloads which is normal. And when I do a Ping and tracert to this server for quake2 it shows my ping as 70-90ish and no problems via tracert. Weird huh?

[G_Dem]

Are there any ports you need to forward from the router for the game? Perhaps you set it up previously and since rebooting windows you haven't set it as the same static ip. Just a thought.

[brian12345]

Originally Posted by G_Dem

Are there any ports you need to forward from the router for the game? Perhaps you set it up previously and since rebooting windows you haven't set it as the same static ip. Just a thought.

No ports from a router no, I use a cable modem not dsl. I turned off my entire winxp sp2 firewall so that I would not have to worry about port 27910 being closed or needing to be directed to allow q2 to operate.

[brian12345]

Ok I just got my other pc to work (was rebooting on it own) by reformatting and installing Winxp. Now this pc has same problems with showing 2000+ ping for quake2. Exact same components as before (showed 70-90 ping) with the exception of a reformat and went from Winxp Home edition to winxp pro. Same exact hardware ect... My only guess is drivers maybe? Only thing I've done is reformat and use Internet explorer. Here are a few of my hardware components if anyone needs to know. And if you think its driver related would you mind please posting a link to a good driver I could download for the corresponding component. I'm not good with finding myself (and yes i've already tryed but always get either dead links or can't find it) Ty

Right click My Computer>manage>System Tools>Device manager

Network card shows:
(TE100-PCBUSR 32-Bit Cardbus PC Card)
Processor:
(Intel(r)Pentium(r)III processor)
Video card:
(Nvidia 5200 FX 256mb)
Sound card:
(Sound blaster LIVE)