hickup lag

[Agility]

My computer has like so many seconds delays and it says something must be wrong with my system timer. Whats is a system timer and how do i fix it. Also when i play i get this wierd lag its like not continous but it seems to make my comp freeze for 1 sec then its gone and i usually die.

[Z-Man]

The system timer is what tells the game how much time passed since the last frame. There are various ways it can be borked. For example, it can frequently be adjusted to an internet time server, and if your timer is not precise, perceived time jumps are the consequence. Another case we had in the past was with certain hardware where the High Performance Counter we use (because the standard windows timer has shoddy resolution) is completely unreliable. So:
- What CPU and motherboard chipset are you using?
- What precise Armagetronad version?
- are you overclocking?
- Of course: what Operating System?

[Agility]

-Its a COMPAQ FS7600 and its a desktop. Idk what a motherboard is ?
- I'm using 3.0
- what is overclocking and if i am how do i fix it?
- I am running windows

[galaxy invader]

try running 0.2831 and see if the problem persists, ive had some weird things happening when running 0.3 but with 0.2831 ive had no issues at all

[Z-Man]

-Its a COMPAQ FS7600

That, according to google, is a monitor. What's the PC type?

And yeah, 0.3.0 is ancient. It always uses the High Performance Counter timer, which we later discovered is buggy on some hardware, probably including yours. Use 0.2.8.3.1 or one of the more recent trunk builds floating about, that should fix things.

[Phytotron]

I'm curious to see how this shakes out, just mentioning for now that I regularly get ~15 second timer hiccups admonishing me about my system timer, despite regularly syncing my system clock (and I'm fairly sure I have a nearly-fully-charged battery). I also experience strange split-second occurrences that might be described as lag or a freeze—although they're usually associated with a grind (use of rubber), be it mine or one nearby.


May I also suggest a more meaningful topic title.

[Agility]

Well on my computer tower it says "AMD Sempron" and i downloaded 2.8.3.1 but i still having system timer issues. So how do i fix my system timer?

@phyto Idc give me a suggestion.

[galaxy invader]

ok 0.3 and 0.2831 same so we have ruled out armagetron as the problem

it could be that some other software is causing problems or possibly a virus / spyware, try scanning your hdd with avira http://www.avira.com and malwarebytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/

the problem could also be overclocking of the cpu, go into the bios settings and load default settings and see if that helps fix things

it could also be a hardware problem like the motherboard, its difficult to say for sure

[Agility]

Well i figured what was wrong. It was my router the whole time. IF you use a netgear router and you run windows you have to go to Control panel/Admin tools/service/Wireless Zero Config and press stop. This will fix the hiccup lag

[galaxy invader]

Thats good news im glad you fixed it

Ive never had problems with zero config myself I wonder what it was doing ?