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Shruikan Iceeye
0uter.Heaven
Proficiency V.
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Posted - 2013.12.14 17:51:00 -
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What causes it? |
Patrick57
Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2013.12.14 17:52:00 -
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You know what lag is.
(Insert comment about Nyain San lag switching)
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Shruikan Iceeye
0uter.Heaven
Proficiency V.
119
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Posted - 2013.12.14 17:59:00 -
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Sooo what is lag?
I'm talking about the technical side of video games/computers.
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Patrick57
Fatal Absolution
2059
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:00:00 -
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Shruikan Iceeye wrote:Sooo what is lag?
I'm talking about the technical side of video games/computers.
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mollerz
Minja Scouts
1331
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:01:00 -
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Lag is basically the slow/inefficient processing of network packets.
#shittycoding
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Vrain Matari
ZionTCD
Public Disorder.
1360
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:12:00 -
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Shruikan Iceeye wrote:Sooo what is lag?
I'm talking about the technical side of video games/computers.
It one of those simple questions that have a complicated answer, but here goes:
Peeps use 'lag' to mean different things and often those different things get lumped together.
-Lag can be the time delay between when you push a button on your controller and when you see the action on your screen. This usually gets called 'input lag'. Usually if input lag is too high the game doesn't have a good 'feel' - your brain notices those tiny delays.
-Lag can be the time it takes for your actions to get sent over the internet, through various copper wires, cables and routers and end up at the game servers and then for to result to be sent back to you. this usually gets called 'latency'.
-Lag can be the time it takes for the game servers or your PS3 to do their thing.
That's a pretty sloppy list i just gave you but that's the gist of what 'Lag' means.
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R F Gyro
Clones 4u
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:13:00 -
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"Lag" is the pause between you doing something with your controller and seeing the effects in-game. It is caused by the need to send the information about what you did from your PS3 to the CCP servers, for those servers to figure out what it means, and then to send the results back to you.
There is always some lag in the game, but normally a fraction of a second. We only typically refer to it as "lag" when it becomes noticeable.
Sometimes it is caused by information taking longer than normal to cross the Internet. More often it is the game server not keeping up though.
The whole lag issue is made more complicated because your PS3 will often show you what it thinks the result of your action will be immediately. For example, you shoot at someone, your PS3 thinks you hit them, so it shows you a shield flash. Shortly after the server sends a response saying that actually you missed, so that shield should not have flashed.
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Benjamin Ciscko
The Generals
General Tso's Alliance
333
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:39:00 -
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Lag is caused by equipment spam comms and people from multiple countries in the same game.
Tanker/Logi
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Tectonic Fusion
710
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:41:00 -
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When you walk a little and you teleport back, that's lag. When you shoot someone with a mass driver and it doesn't do damage, that's lag.
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AP Grasshopper
The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar
DARKSTAR ARMY
74
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:43:00 -
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a period of time between one event or phenomenon and another.
For video games it's caused by how efficiently and quickly information is able to be exchanged over distance. (I think) |
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Spkr4theDead
Red Star.
EoN.
1480
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:44:00 -
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Shruikan Iceeye wrote:What causes it?
It's something that doesn't exist because "player skill" is always apparent and the only thing that matters.
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mollerz
Minja Scouts
1334
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:44:00 -
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lag is when a CQC battle is like dancing in a strobe lighted room.
Also when you go to run around a corner and then somehow magically find yourself halfway up some stairs.
#shittycoding
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Oswald Rehnquist
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:51:00 -
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Vrain Matari wrote:Shruikan Iceeye wrote:Sooo what is lag?
I'm talking about the technical side of video games/computers.
It one of those simple questions that have a complicated answer, but here goes: Peeps use 'lag' to mean different things and often those different things get lumped together. -Lag can be the time delay between when you push a button on your controller and when you see the action on your screen. This usually gets called 'input lag'. Usually if input lag is too high the game doesn't have a good 'feel' - your brain notices those tiny delays. -Lag can be the time it takes for your actions to get sent over the internet, through various copper wires, cables and routers and end up at the game servers and then for to result to be sent back to you. this usually gets called 'latency'. -Lag can be the time it takes for the game servers or your PS3 to do their thing. That's a pretty sloppy list i just gave you but that's the gist of what 'Lag' means.
Vrain gave a few good examples
Lag is just a "falling behind", whether it is used in a technological sense or not. So anything technical that is delayed would classify as lag. And there are a lot of things that cause it, faulty internet connection, overloaded or maxed out devices, etc.
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shaman oga
Nexus Balusa Horizon
1171
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Posted - 2013.12.14 18:55:00 -
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Lag?
Everything that make you lose.
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