Lag and rubber banding - Battlefield 3
Tried multiple forums without sucess, might aswell have a go on this one.
So lately I've been getting a lot of rubber banding making this game unplayable. It's happened to me in the past a few times, but it's usually been after a patch and has went away by itself. This problem has persisted for the past 3 weeks at differing times of day.
Specs:
AMD 960T
8GB RAM
Nvidia 680
All with up-to-date drivers
dxdiag
Problem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5361RnWq-J4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2dBsnLP2uE
What I've tried so far to isolate the problem;
speedtest
pingtest
BT speedtest
Defaulting all overclocks
Repairing battlefield 3
Resetting Router
Switching to wired connection
Defaulted BIOS
Changed servers multiple times
Pinging server -n 500 while I play - 0% packet loss, 23ms
Choosing Non-PB servers.
Removing and re-installing Origin and Battlefield 3 twice
Few optimisations
Disabled sound
Set router into DMZ mode & disabled firewall
System restored to a known working point.
Cleared temp files
Played campaign with no problems
Played the CO-OP mode 'Fire from the sky' when I was flying (and hosting) I and my friend was getting lag, when he was hosting his game was fine but I was lagging.
Flashed router firmware
traceroute
Turned of uPnP
ADSL settings
Update 27/7 - Tried it on my neighbours connection, problem persisted.
re-installed network drivers
re-installed chipset drivers
Case has been reffered to dice as there was no sutiable solution found
[u]Steps taken as advised by EA customer support;[/u]
Sent DXdiag dump (Already in this post)
Set resolution to 1024x768 and taken a screenshot (Lol?)
Anyone got anything else I can add to the list? Been sitting twiddling my thumbs for nearly a month.
- Anonymous14 years ago
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
The only relevent tweak I found in: http://sonsofvalour.forumotion.co.nz/t687-battlefield-3-tweaks-and-fixes that I hadn't tried before was trying to disable ECN packets, never really done anything.
I had previously tried running only the required services and programs along with the minimum hardware but the problem persisted.
Finally caved in and done a fresh install of windows which seemed to have fixed the problem, unfortunately I haven't been able to isolate what was conflicting with BF3 but I can presume it was probably software related. I'm still getting lag spikes every 10 or 20 minutes but I think that's down to the problem a lot of people are having with punkbuster, either way it's better every 10 minutes than once a second.
I have since re-installed most of my programs I had before without the problem resurfacing, so maybe it was an older version of something.. We'll never really know. Shame I had to go through the hassle of a full re-install to solve it. but yeah.