Hey guys,
as some of you know we (the Doomdaddies) like to play big and hard wads in survival mode for a long time now. It's been several years I realized some strange lagging occurring after a time.
No mods, just original Doom (Zandronum)!! I waited to ask this question until now, because I bought a new (and really strong) PC.
The phenomenon:
In big maps -I would say more than 1k monsters- after a time, for example half an hour, a very soft lagg starts to occur, every 3-5 seconds. If we continue playing the map this lagg will increase.
It is noticable that it will disappear after 1: we finish the level! 2: I die, quit Doom and restart!
I always thought it would be my shitty PC, but now I bought a new one. My internet connection is also not bad (100k). Usualy a friend of mine hosts a server (also 100k).
Has anybody of you already experienced this phenomenon? And is there something I can do?
I saw a new option in the actual Zandronum version, something like "empty your cache" or so - but this option won't help.
For me, it feels like some sort of cache is getting filled or so....
Thx in advance for your answers!
Big map starts lagging... after a time
Re: Big map starts lagging... after a time
I had this happen to me too. After playing a map for a while, every 5-6 seconds the game would freeze for about half a second and then continue running normally for the next 5-6 seconds. I haven't experienced this kind of lag for a while now, especially since I got a new PC, but it could be because I don't play very big maps. Also it always happened to me on complex doom but that's because I practically only play survival with complex doom.
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Re: Big map starts lagging... after a time
That's exactly what I am talking about....
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Re: Big map starts lagging... after a time
I can explain you how to generate this "error"
It happenend to me again yesterday: I started the Slaughterfest 3.wad (sf3c.wad).
I start a server, even my own server that I join via LAN with a ping of 1, I start map 20 (about 4400 monsters), start to play and with the first wave of monsters it appears!
Or: map 13 with brutal doom: same same!
Interesting fact: a friend of my mine joined that server and could play without problems. His pc is not as fast as mine.
We did it the other way around: he hostet, I joined - the same problem.
In my opinion this error occurs in moments with a lot traffic (those moments with the "missing paket" errors everyone of us still knows...
It happenend to me again yesterday: I started the Slaughterfest 3.wad (sf3c.wad).
I start a server, even my own server that I join via LAN with a ping of 1, I start map 20 (about 4400 monsters), start to play and with the first wave of monsters it appears!
Or: map 13 with brutal doom: same same!
Interesting fact: a friend of my mine joined that server and could play without problems. His pc is not as fast as mine.
We did it the other way around: he hostet, I joined - the same problem.
In my opinion this error occurs in moments with a lot traffic (those moments with the "missing paket" errors everyone of us still knows...