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[Tiruin]

I play on Very Low settings.

Will post specs in a few hours.

Vehicles and players teleporting around is the telltale signs of bad lag and a shaky connection. It sounds like that is primarily responsible for your problems.

I doubt its lag. I can get snapshot kills (the kill problem I posted before was just a 1% thing of events) and I can hear Voice perfectly when teleporting happens...
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I've even had one player comment on why I'm sitting under a rock while the firefight is going all around me.
Then said player knifed my face. xD

It's probably your ISP, then, though Briggs is notorious for connection issues.

Briggs. *hiss*
Though I doubt it. The same problem exists when I made an NC character in Watte-...that US East server with a W as the start of the name.
Still happens. ;_;

[Skyrunner]

The reason you can get kills is because Planetside 2 calculates bullet collision client-side, so it's irrelevant of lag as long as you can kill them before they kill you. eg, sniper.

Tiruin plays on a laptop, btw.

[Toaster]

Are you connecting wirelessly?  If so, go wired and try again.

[Tiruin]

Are you connecting wirelessly?  If so, go wired and try again.

...Yes. :x
Now the problem is how.
Thanks! Also to you, Skyru.

[Toaster]

Nice and reliable Cat5!

[Duuvian]

That said, there's some fix for Windows to speed up network connectivity.  It's in this thread, somewhere I think.   Duuvian, I think you posted it once: you know what I'm talking about?

Be warned they've added some ads since I went there last time so if you are leery go in with your shields up. Essentially if you use Windows 7 some versions of it limit the number of packets it sends out from your computer by tying multiple packets together and sending them that way. This causes a tiny delay that isn't really noticeable in most uses but will cause minor to moderate lag in video games as your computer is sending information out to SOE servers at 1/3 or 1/2 the rate (not sure of the exact rate offhand, I made those numbers up).

http://windows7themes.net/en-us/how-to-improve-latency-in-wow-in-windows-7/

If you are using a public network wirelessly in a somewhat densely populated area though you can bet at least one of your neighbors is streaming videos or torrenting or some such. If you have access to the wireless modem you could put a password to access your wireless and give it out to people who ask. If you are the one who is using someone else's wireless you will just have to make do with competition for wireless. As someone else said using a wire will be the most reliable solution.

Try opening the useroptions file in your PS2 directory and turn off lighting by setting it to 0. That's what gives me the most performance boost on my computer.

Spoiler:  My useroptions display settings (click to show/hide)

[Display]
FullscreenRefresh=0
Maximized=1
RenderQuality=0.450000
FullscreenWidth=1024
FullscreenHeight=768
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=753
Mode=Windowed
FullscreenMode=Windowed

[Rendering]
GraphicsQuality=2
TextureQuality=3
ShadowQuality=0
RenderDistance=1024.000000
Gamma=0.100000
MaximumFPS=250
UseLod0a=1
OverallQuality=-1
LightingQuality=0
EffectsQuality=1
TerrainQuality=1
FloraQuality=4
ModelQuality=1
VerticalFOV=55
ParticleLOD=0
ParticleDistanceScale=0.650000
FogShadowsEnable=0
MotionBlur=0
VSync=0
Smoothing=1

Finally this is something you should look at if your game has a lot of lag; it's possibly the most common easy and free fix to graphical lag (non internet speed) problems for people running PS2:

https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/unparking-your-cpu-to-get-more-performance.53793/

[Tiruin]

Can that work on Windows 8?
I'm totally unsure about Windows 8 given all the things...in there :/ Also, the 20kbp/s connection? Our home connection which nobody else uses but us.
The 20 kbp/s thing? The the highest peak (~30kbp/s) is when its unused and...on rare occasions. The 20 is the usual >_>

Also thanks!

[Duuvian]

I'm fairly certain that the latency fix is not necessary for Windows 8. Tying packets together was extremely unpopular in Windows 7.

The Core unlocking could be useful for Win 8 users though. It depends on your CPU manufacturer and I am not sure which ones, only that mine was one of them and unlocking the cores was very helpful.

30kbps peak speed is pretty slow and it would likely explain the warping around. That's usually a sign of internet lag.

You might want to find a speedtest site and see what your speed is on that.

Are you supposed to be getting more than 30kbps? Is that on wireless and is it different when your laptop is near the wireless router?

You can access your modem through your browser. Find your run menu, type cmd in it. This will open command prompt. Type ipconfig and hit enter.

This will show information on the networks your computer is connected to at the time.

Look for Default Gateway and open your browser. Enter the IP address to the right of Default Gateway. This Ip address is your modem's IP address. Entering it into your browser will send you to your modem's splashpage thingy and you will probably need to enter a password, which is likely to be something the ISP sent to your house.

Don't post either the IP address or your account info on the internet.

Don't change any options in your modem after you open it up with the password.

If you are paying for more speed than you are getting having that page open may help if you call customer support. It may also offer hints such as connection type as to why you are only getting 30kbps.

If you can find a cable wire you can plug it directly from the modem to your laptop's port. If it improves performance you might consider purchasing a 30 or 50 foot cable cord from Amazon and running it from your modem through a hole in your wall and through to another hole closer to your lair.

[Skyrunner]

I want to mention that you should not play fast games on wireless. Wireless automatically adds a ton of latency to any connection, and as an added bonus it's also intermittent even in ideal conditions, sometimes "flickering" off for a fraction of a second.

[TolyK]

Exactly. Even though I have to play on wireless due to room length reasons (seriously!), I much prefer the wired variant since I get ~80 less ping...

[Tiruin]

So my problem is because I play it wireless (yep, both accounts). Among other things and stuff...
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Thanks guys! 

[Imofexios]

You can play it wireless.
Just get the router closer or check settings.

[Tiruin]

No I mean the problem = I can't do large scale battles (unless from afar/sniping) due to when being in the presence of such, everything...'teleports' and literally flips out.
I've been trying to find the source of said problem so those answers popped up and I'll be testing on, later.

[NobodyPro]

No I mean the problem = I can't do large scale battles (unless from afar/sniping) due to when being in the presence of such, everything...'teleports' and literally flips out.
I've been trying to find the source of said problem so those answers popped up and I'll be testing on, later.

That sounds like a slow connection.

[Tiruin]

T'was the same thing when I was on a high-speed connection...well, relatively fast @~100-120kbp/s