Official Call of Duty: Black Ops PC multiplayer thread

My small 40+ brain cannot cope with a fps and controller......kboard/mouse just feels more natural.
 
Tinman said:
For some reason, I can only see 2 local servers in the server browser :(
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Change your seta cl_maxPing "800" to 200 in the multiplayer config file. I doubt this will fix the issue but it may help finding SA servers easier.

I will try it out when I get home today.
 
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Laaaaag.

Just spoke with Alex G., he seems to indicate that the source of the lag might be with the GamerServer server config.

Issue is with the sv_maxrate, currently on all servers it is set to 5000 (because of consoles I would assume) it should be set to around 25000 for PC.

Therefore most pc users are finding a poor online expierience.

I have been on with gameservers all day and their tech team.

We tested the different rate on our server as a fix (via the tech team) and guess what, absolutely perfect.

Our server has actually just been changed back, of course they can't edit the servers, They have submitted a request to whitelist the command sv_maxrate for all users to activision to be able to edit to what they desire. (They didn't want to set all servers to it by default because they believe people will have bandwidth issues).

Just so you know they have limited results in the in game server browser to a few hundred servers to stop it overloading. Leaving most people unable to find their own servers!

Also don't know if you know yet but there it no connect/reconnect and similar commands in the game and the addfavourite command does not work.

Hope this is useful and details enough :)

-AG
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I am using my mweb account and I did a tracert to mybb. Surely this isn't correct.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Kyubi_Brat>tracert www.mybroadband.co.za

Tracing route to www.mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 605 ms 550 ms 583 ms 41-132-2-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.2.1]
3 603 ms * * tengig-0-0-0-107.vic-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.158]
4 * 556 ms 617 ms vl-92.vic-hscore-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.189.2]
5 * 564 ms 647 ms tengig-0-0-0-0-11.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.225]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 956 ms 893 ms 980 ms pos-0-0-0-0.lon-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.163.230]
8 * * 816 ms 79.141.38.37.available.above.net [79.141.38.37]

9 322 ms 271 ms 279 ms so-1-0-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.28.37]
10 277 ms 551 ms 535 ms xe-2-0-0.mpr2.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.28.146]

11 263 ms 271 ms 305 ms 213-152-230-91.mtnns.net [213.152.230.91]
12 490 ms 791 ms 373 ms 196.30.1.21
13 289 ms 753 ms 607 ms vlan9.hr3.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [196.30.156.13
6]
14 446 ms * 268 ms 196.30.213.108
15 268 ms 267 ms 266 ms firewall1.jnb2.host-h.net [196.7.216.173]
16 269 ms 268 ms 268 ms mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Kyubi_Brat>
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Played about an hour of multiplayer tonight and so far I've observed the following.

*Framerate is not so great, setting the affinity of the game to high mostly fixed that problem (still needs a patch though).

*There definitely is a strange lag happening, even though my ping was hovering around the 80's. It happened so few times though that I mostly had a very enjoyable time playing it.

*Multiplayer is pure fun, plain and simple. With a few patches it's going to be hard to beat. I love the pace of the game. :D
 
got some good news

Hello,

This is in response to your ticket regarding Lag. We are in the process of rolling out an update to the black ops server configuration. This will be automatic. After testing, we have found that our update will significantly improve performance on all servers.

No action is required to be taken by you. Please, we appreciate your patience. This roll out will happen in the next 2-4 hours. Please wait 24 hours before submitting any additional support requests regarding lag, as your issue will likely be resolved as a result of this change.

Thank you,

Zachary Williams
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Tinman said:
Ya'll are famous :p

Call of Duty: Black Ops - broken at launch?
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lol....and now for the immortalized ones :D

Some comments left in the official MyGaming Black Ops multiplayer thread:

Jack Bauer: I am sorry but I feel that I wasted R500. Partly due to the lag and Counterstrike feel. Maybe when the issues are fixed I will feel different.

Maplassie: The lag is horrible. Playing on a 30-50 ping, then it shoots up to over 600 and stays like that for like 20 seconds then disconnects, or comes back down. Stutter everywhere!!!!!!!

Kyubi_Brat: I didn't play a single game last night after all the issues I experienced. At first the game would crash while updating, then when it finally installed, I launch the multi-player and the game gets stuck on "fetching stats". I don't have any stats!!!! I finally resolved this after a while. I finally jump into a game and my ping keeps jumping from 70-999 within the first few seconds. My FPS drops to 20fps and it lags horrible rendering the game unplayable for myself. I tried with both my Mweb and Axxess account and it's the same issue. Eventually I just got rather frustrated and didn't bother trying anymore and just went to cry myself to sleep.

Terak: I was lucky enough to play a couple rounds last night with Plassie. For the most part I was getting really annoyed, it seemed that every time I shot at someone my ping was jumping to 500+. Other rounds it was perfect and I was really enjoying it. This game is definitely made of win but they need to fix the online lagging issues.

DenSweep: As for general gameplay, AWESOME! This is all the issues aside obviously! The lag is kak. I also kept getting Steam disconnects. Or map ends and then just "hangs" and eventually kicks you back to menu. Not always being able to see all the servers.

Other than that, FUN FUN FUN! Very cool game modes. LOVE the in-game currency idea. The Contracts also very cool. Once all is up and running, would love to see how the wager mode will work.

Isengard: Played about an hour of multiplayer tonight and so far I've observed the following.
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LooooooooooooooL

I am still not having any luck. I really hope this patch fixes things. I haven't been able to play any game yet. I managed to get my FPS to 50-70 but my ping in game keeps jumping between 100 and 999.
 
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i played a few games this morning for the first time. wow its awesome.
did not have any fps probs.........
yes there was lag but not how it was described. you could actually get a kill.
it was a lot easier getting to play a game than mw2.

and at times the games really got intense.
bring on patches and so forth.........
 
Guys tried my MWEB account last night and was able to see more servers vs my Web Africa account. JHB servers ranged between 18 and 22ping. Had a lag free gaming experience all night again. I assume on Web Africa I was ony seeing the Cape Town servers.
 
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