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<title>Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>Recently while trying to fix BF2, I found the issue that hindered
&lt;br&gt; gameplay for it quite a bit.&amp;nbsp; Since I fixed it, I&apos;ve noticed I
&lt;br&gt; have virtually no lag, I go to the loading area or jack in a lot
&lt;br&gt; faster, and I see overall a big jump in performance.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; Try this (assuming you have XP): Go to start, control panel.&amp;nbsp; Open
&lt;br&gt; &apos;system&apos; and click on the hardware tab, then click device manager.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; Go to where you see IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and click the plus
&lt;br&gt; sign.&amp;nbsp; For most of us with standard(non-SATA) HD&apos;s, right click on
&lt;br&gt; &apos;primary IDE Channel&apos; and click properties.&amp;nbsp; Now clickt he
&lt;br&gt; &quot;advanced settings&quot; tab.&amp;nbsp; This lists what is the primary IDE
&lt;br&gt; Channel on your computer, i.e. your harddrive.&amp;nbsp; Right now what we
&lt;br&gt; want to do, is to see if you can get into DMA mode.&amp;nbsp; See what your
&lt;br&gt; current transfer mode is, and then click the transfer mode
&lt;br&gt; pulldown.&amp;nbsp; Hopefully regardless of what it said in the transfer
&lt;br&gt; mode you&apos;ll have an option for &quot;DMA if available.&quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; Now, if your current mode said PIO and you had &apos;DMA if available&apos;
&lt;br&gt; selected, what you need to do, is actually set the transfer mode to PIO
&lt;br&gt; only and click Ok, and then go back, and set it back to DMA if
&lt;br&gt; available.&amp;nbsp; For some reason, Windows doesn&apos;t recognize the setting
&lt;br&gt; if you don&apos;t physically change it back.&amp;nbsp; Right now my current
&lt;br&gt; transfer mode is Ultra DMA Mode 5, and like I said before, big
&lt;br&gt; change.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m not sure how many people can take use of this little
&lt;br&gt; boost, but if I help one person I&apos;ll be happy.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:52:18 GMT</pubDate>
<author>SephyX</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;i have a program for Optimizing Your System for playing MXO contact me ingame&amp;nbsp; /t BuSbY with ur details and i will send u it &lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:43:03 GMT</pubDate>
<author>BuSbY</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>the default setting for windows 2000 and XP is ultra ATA 100. forcing
&lt;br&gt; it to use your hardware if it is fater will imporove things yes.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:54:23 GMT</pubDate>
<author>codiak</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;Hello,&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;Performance advice is always appreciated SephyX.&amp;nbsp; Can anyone else confirm that this helps?&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:55:26 GMT</pubDate>
<author>TSR-RonC</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>I did it and it seems to improve my loading-area times.&amp;nbsp; I can go
&lt;br&gt; through hardlines much faster...or though it seems.&amp;nbsp; My lag wasnt
&lt;br&gt; completely gone, but what i did to improve my lag was restart my
&lt;br&gt; router, and disable and then enable my internet connection through
&lt;br&gt; windows. My lag was considerably reduced after doing those 3 things.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:14:49 GMT</pubDate>
<author>QforQ-MxO</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;QforQ,&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;Well, system performance and connection performance are two separate things.&amp;nbsp; I think the OP&apos;s post was more towards system than connection.&amp;nbsp; So if doing something to your router helps, then your lag was more connection related it seems.&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:39:18 GMT</pubDate>
<author>TSR-RonC</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>Yeah I&apos;m not sure what did the trick.&amp;nbsp; But before I had my lag
&lt;br&gt; before the areas never loaded this fast.&amp;nbsp; I played BF2 for acouple
&lt;br&gt; hours tonight and I didnt have any trouble with lag really.&amp;nbsp; Well
&lt;br&gt; i&apos;m glad i did it anyways, but I dont know if it helped.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:14:01 GMT</pubDate>
<author>QforQ-MxO</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;what about overall lag?&amp;nbsp; I just switched my ISP to direcway and reguardless of where I am, I lag the worst I have ever seen.&amp;nbsp; I am constantly in red latency even with lowest settings.&amp;nbsp; I clocked my download speeds at around 670 kps and my upload speeds around 120kps.&amp;nbsp; What is up with this?&amp;nbsp; Any help is greatly appreciated.&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:47:53 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Arandul</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;I apologize for the double post, but I clocked my internet just now, using my isps speed test at 985kbs download, and 192 upload, can somebody please tell me why I am having this terrible lag problem?&amp;nbsp; I didn&apos;t have it with my previous crappy isp that had me on restrictions.&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:07:32 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Arandul</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;DIV&gt;okay, a third apology, Since I cannot edit my posts, Inorder to explain my problem, and hopefully get help, I need to make a triple post, so don&apos;t kill me! &lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;I just plugged up my old isp so the phone could be used, and when I ran the matrix, my lag issue was elimated, but this internet I&apos;m running off of right now is almost 1/4 slower than my new isp.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m unaware of the upload speeds, but the download speeds are nothing much faster than DSL, and its supposed to be broadband.&amp;nbsp; Yet I&apos;m not lagging, *CENSORED* is going on?!&amp;nbsp; Does anybody, and I mean anybody have any suggestions or comments, because this is like, real confusing...&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:17:39 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Arandul</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yes, doing this minor change has made me love this game again.&amp;nbsp; It
&lt;br&gt; takes roughly 3 seconds from the time I click &quot;jack into the matrix&quot;
&lt;br&gt; for it to shoot me out the hardline, one of my biggest gripes with the
&lt;br&gt; game.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; And I&apos;m not sure if the game&apos;s lag was fixed or something during this
&lt;br&gt; change I made but I don&apos;t ping above 80 since, haven&apos;t seen a yellow
&lt;br&gt; bar yet.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span&gt;:smileyhappy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Message Edited by SephyX on &lt;span class=date_text&gt;10-15-2005&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=time_text&gt;11:41 PM&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:39:05 GMT</pubDate>
<author>SephyX</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>networkcoder, maybe you could call your ISP and ask them what&apos;s going
&lt;br&gt; on?&amp;nbsp; It doesnt make much sense like you said..maybe Ron has some
&lt;br&gt; suggestions?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:23:23 GMT</pubDate>
<author>QforQ-MxO</author>
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<description>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;P&gt;Your connection speed means little to nothing in situations like this.&amp;nbsp; There could be some packetloss or ping issues on your ISP network (the faster connection) that isn&apos;t existant on the slower connection.&amp;nbsp; You&apos;re likely going to want to contact your ISP and explain the situation.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;P&gt;Also, if you haven&apos;t done so, you may want to upgrade your routers firmware and temporarily disable your firewall.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:30:43 GMT</pubDate>
<author>TSR-RonC</author>
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<title>Re: Speeding up the game.</title>
<description>n3tw0rkc0d3r you have an issue with latency and not bandwidth.&amp;nbsp; A
&lt;br&gt; tool like traceroute can help you find where the bottleneck is.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;br&gt; Is direcway a satelite broadband company?&amp;nbsp; If it is then you wont
&lt;br&gt; be able to use this with online gaming.&amp;nbsp; The time it takes for a
&lt;br&gt; network packet to go from your computer to a satellite in space then
&lt;br&gt; down to your isp and back takes time and this is known as
&lt;br&gt; latency.&amp;nbsp; Even though you have plenty of bandwidth you will always
&lt;br&gt; have a latency problem with sat broadband.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:23:37 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Renesis13B</author>
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