21 replies to this topic

[Damien Tokala]

ummm yeah... care to explain? also while you're in there, remove the desync protection and make it so i can block people from spectating me

[vettie]

hot fix in bound?

[Mothykins]

Hotfix. Was mentioned, both in game (FIVE MINUTE WARNING flashing throughout the chats) and A few places in the fourms.

Mind you, it's pretty much routine after a normal patch that something unintentionally breaks. It's normal, don't panic.

[KraftySOT]

Hotfix.

[Damien Tokala]

not so much as a panic, as in, i see no mention of it anywhere. not even twitter

[Abisha]

weird did not see any warnings, so i try log in a game and again and again.

[Fut]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:25 AM, said:

make it so i can block people from spectating me

Umm.. why don't you want people spectating you?
Pressure of a potential audience throwing you off your game?

[Damien Tokala]

Fut, on 08 October 2014 - 09:32 AM, said:

Umm.. why don't you want people spectating you?
Pressure of a potential audience throwing you off your game?

when people spectate me, it causes me to lag from 25 FPS to 5 FPS. but once i die, my FPS magically goes back up

[Fut]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:33 AM, said:

when people spectate me, it causes me to lag from 25 FPS to 5 FPS. but once i die, my FPS magically goes back up

That's interesting.
I can't imagine any reason for this to be happening. How do you know that people are spectating you when your FPS drops like that?

[Logan Pryde]

Calm down Francis, hotfix incoming...

[mania3c]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:33 AM, said:

when people spectate me, it causes me to lag from 25 FPS to 5 FPS. but once i die, my FPS magically goes back up

nice theory buddy ...but spectating has nothing with your client... but I have spare tin foil hat if you want..

[Damien Tokala]

Fut, on 08 October 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

That's interesting.
I can't imagine any reason for this to be happening. How do you know that people are spectating you when your FPS drops like that?

i've had people giving me grief about my performance while they spectate me, and i reply, well yeah, because i'm in a sudden crippling slowdown that drops to 5 fps and sometimes down to 1.

mania3c, on 08 October 2014 - 09:35 AM, said:

nice theory buddy ...but spectating has nothing with your client... but I have spare tin foil hat if you want..

well it's either spectating, or an issue with the desync protection

[Jun Watarase]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:25 AM, said:

ummm yeah... care to explain? also while you're in there, remove the desync protection and make it so i can block people from spectating me

We are not important enough to receive a warning. PGI does this all the time.

>4 mech kill streak
>last mech left is a red leg spider
>jump onto a ridge
>hes there
>shoot
>notice my shots arent impacting
>everyone is walking in place
>great, did i lose my net?
>nope its just PGI taking servers down with no warning

Edited by Jun Watarase, 08 October 2014 - 09:40 AM.

[Cybermech]

well damien that is a different story, what pc specs you got?

[HiProfile]

100 C-Bills says they're removing or softening the matchmaking gamemode votes so people who unselect a mode don't get it 90% of the time like I've experienced.

Spectating uses data the server already gets from you and relays it to that person. They're not using your GPU to spectate, although I wouldn't put it past PGI given what we've seen so far. Also it's been clear for a while that the server does NOT prioritize a spectator, meaning if it has to it will reduce the proverbial bandwidth of info it feeds the spectator to make it seem like there's a desync or lag. Personally I've only seen a FPS drop near the end because FPS-reducing steam is emanating constantly from running my mech hot.

Edited by HiProfile, 08 October 2014 - 09:43 AM.

[mania3c]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:36 AM, said:

i've had people giving me grief about my performance while they spectate me, and i reply, well yeah, because i'm in a sudden crippling slowdown that drops to 5 fps and sometimes down to 1.



well it's either spectating, or an issue with the desync protection

you are sending your input to server, server checks it, react accordingly and your client will play and show whatever is needed.

if someone is spectating you, THEIR client is just fetching your data from the server..not from you...and THEIR client has to manage, what they see on their monitors.. that's why you can see a bit different results when comparing live footage on your monitor and spectated projection of spectator.. however.. your client is not affected by people spectating you..

but desync fix could actually somehow affects your performance..but it's weird it doesn't affect me..

[Damien Tokala]

Cybermech, on 08 October 2014 - 09:39 AM, said:

well damien that is a different story, what pc specs you got?

PC specs are irrelevant, since i used to be able to play just fine until they implemented the desync protection

[MeiSooHaityu]

Cavale, on 08 October 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

...don't panic.

And always carry a towel.

[Jody Von Jedi]

http://mwomercs.com/...t-8th-10-am-pdt

[Creovex]

Damien Tokala, on 08 October 2014 - 09:25 AM, said:

ummm yeah... care to explain? also while you're in there, remove the desync protection and make it so i can block people from spectating me

Just so you know, we called your mom's house and she said you we in the bathroom and not in the basement so we had to move on to notifying the next person on our MWO Call Tree...

She said she would put a post-it on your SpaghettiOs napkin for lunch.... guess that ***** is just being lazy again...

Edited by Creovex, 08 October 2014 - 09:49 AM.