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For months, I've been driven nuts by certain behavior of Tribes: Ascend. When using fast-firing weapons, like machine guns, it seemed like my bullets, despite having 31ms ping, would clump together, and not quite fire off at the time they were fired.
Doing deeper research, I came to the conclusion that many Ethernet adapters come with features enabled by default which mess with Windows networking stack. This is particularly betrayed by optimizations instructions for various realtime daytrading software, which relies on latency and minimization of errors. Those instructions tell you to turn a whole lot of that stuff off.
Not only are many implementations of these features flawed and differ from driver to driver, and should be turned off for that reason alone... but they are harmful even when implemented correctly.
Moreso, it turns out that a number of these features are controversial and some were even acknowledged by Microsoft to have questionable usability.
I disabled all of this stuff and now I no longer feel like other people in the game have mysterious godlike evasion powers.
In short, if you want the optimal online gaming experience, go to Advanced tab of your Ethernet adapter settings, and disable the following:
* Interrupt Moderation - clumps packets together and sends them as a batch - the main offender
* Flow Control - sounds counterintuitive to disable it, but it messes with existing flow control in Windows networking stack
* Receive Side Scaling - also messes with Windows networking stack
* [anything goes here] Checksum Offload - supposed to speed up performance by offloading TCP/UDP checksumming to hardware; in reality does nothing for an average desktop PC except interfere with Windows networking stack
* Green Ethernet - performance-eating eco garbage
Try it and see! Less rubberbanding zombies in Left4Dead, more headshots in your favorite FPS, etc etc.
Also, if you play a MMORPG and want faster responsiveness, you need to disable TCP/IP Nagle algorithm in Windows. There are multiple guides about it though.
Doing deeper research, I came to the conclusion that many Ethernet adapters come with features enabled by default which mess with Windows networking stack. This is particularly betrayed by optimizations instructions for various realtime daytrading software, which relies on latency and minimization of errors. Those instructions tell you to turn a whole lot of that stuff off.
Not only are many implementations of these features flawed and differ from driver to driver, and should be turned off for that reason alone... but they are harmful even when implemented correctly.
Moreso, it turns out that a number of these features are controversial and some were even acknowledged by Microsoft to have questionable usability.
I disabled all of this stuff and now I no longer feel like other people in the game have mysterious godlike evasion powers.
In short, if you want the optimal online gaming experience, go to Advanced tab of your Ethernet adapter settings, and disable the following:
* Interrupt Moderation - clumps packets together and sends them as a batch - the main offender
* Flow Control - sounds counterintuitive to disable it, but it messes with existing flow control in Windows networking stack
* Receive Side Scaling - also messes with Windows networking stack
* [anything goes here] Checksum Offload - supposed to speed up performance by offloading TCP/UDP checksumming to hardware; in reality does nothing for an average desktop PC except interfere with Windows networking stack
* Green Ethernet - performance-eating eco garbage
Try it and see! Less rubberbanding zombies in Left4Dead, more headshots in your favorite FPS, etc etc.
Also, if you play a MMORPG and want faster responsiveness, you need to disable TCP/IP Nagle algorithm in Windows. There are multiple guides about it though.