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Rofl ... I so want that for a profession title

"Drunken Bumble Bee Master"

Anyone else having this problem? It's horrible..

It happens with every ship I fly. (DSL connection, 0% packet loss, 65 ping) This is on Kauri, around 9:30pm est

Just went back up in space, and ships are jumping around all over the place.. Just watched a player try to fight another target about 2km away... they were both warping all over the screen.

just went back up and tried out several different planet. It's the same for all. I watched red/blue boxes in the distance warp and bounce all over the place and across the screen.

I don't even think it's lag.. just something horribly broken.

Here's an example:
I was flying slowly to Yavin space station (maybe 50-100 speed) and looking at my ship in third person view.
I was about 500-600m out.
All of a sudden, I'm scraping along the underside of the station..
1 second later, I'm 500m away from it..
the next second, I'm scraping alongside the space station..
the next second, I'm 500m away from it..
the next second, under the station...
etc..

Well, that continued for about 15 seconds, warping back and forth. It also has a habit of resetting my throttle/speed often, which I've never had a problem with except for the past two days.

It can't be a case of "CSR: update your drivers", since I'm sending tells to everyone I see in space and they're experiencing the same problem.

Take a look at this thread. Disabling the "AGP spread spectrum" im my BIOS eliminated the whole problem for me, but the thread has more detail on what that does and some other hints.

YES YES someone else who has the same problem =0 WOOT WOOT

it sucks horribly i know =/...i can't even begin to do my missions to get my main toon back up to master =/

i used to be able to go to deepspace...no go anymore...my shipwright status is on hold atm...as i specialize in RE stuff...and atm...well...ya =/

My crude paintshop rendition of the situation

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Moakie wrote:

Weird thing is I fixed the problem on my machine back a few days ago. Had fixed it by changing FSB spread spectrum from .50% to disabled. Then logged in today and went into space and jee, the problem was back. Not sure why.

Gave in and tried a network adapter in the pci card form instead of using the onboard. Which my mobo is a K7N2, nvidia 2 chipset. The onboard nic chip appears to be a Realtek. Replaced it with a Netgear, since had one lying around.

So far it seems to have fixed it. I still get the periodic, once every 5 minutes, reset of my throttle lag. But no sychotic ships that I have no possibility of killing.

Also put the FSB spread spectrum back at the default .5%.

Now oddly enough the instant I replaced that nic (also disabled onboard nic in bios) my ping went from like 110-130 to 75-90.

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you might also want to enable full-duplex on your network interface cards.. for some reason, NIC manufacturers always make NICs default at half-duplex which means data can only be transmitted one way.. either to or from.. not both at once..

with broadband and wider bandwidths there's no reason why NICs shouldn't be full-duplex.. common NIC cards are 10/100mbps, and common cable/dsl are 3mbps.. so even at full duplex, your NIC card would be running 6mbps total streams in full duplex mode, which is hardly near the limitation of your network card..

to enable full duplex, rightclick MY COMPUTER, select HARDWARE, then DEVICE MANAGER..

expand NETWORK ADAPTER in the list of hardware category, and doubleclick on your network card's model/brand name..

go in ADVANCED, and highlight LINK SPEED/DUPLEX MODE and change the value to "100 full mode"

then press ok to get out of there.. it may hang for a minute while refreshing and all, but just wait til it's done and you're good to go.

full-duplex mode is more noticable especially when transferring data between 2 networked computers in a single household

Before putting a NIC in my machine I did try all the different 100T full duplex, and half, and 10T full and half duplex. It did make a difference on slowing things down, but not on the problem ingame.

ATM the NIC in my machine is on auto sense (which if that's working it'll do 100T full duplex). & we have an internal network so that does matter.

I'd still like Brand & model from people who are having this problem. Also I'd recommend to those that have spare parts lying around to try a different NIC, especially if you have an onboard on a nForce2 chipset motherboard.

Weird thing is I fixed the problem on my machine back a few days ago. Had fixed it by changing FSB spread spectrum from .50% to disabled. Then logged in today and went into space and jee, the problem was back. Not sure why.

Gave in and tried a network adapter in the pci card form instead of using the onboard. Which my mobo is a K7N2, nvidia 2 chipset. The onboard nic chip appears to be a Realtek. Replaced it with a Netgear, since had one lying around.

So far it seems to have fixed it. I still get the periodic, once every 5 minutes, reset of my throttle lag. But no sychotic ships that I have no possibility of killing.

Also put the FSB spread spectrum back at the default .5%.

Now oddly enough the instant I replaced that nic (also disabled onboard nic in bios) my ping went from like 110-130 to 75-90.