Every few matches or so, I come across a few laggers because I’m very hasty to press the ready button without watching their ping first. Even when it’s yellow, the match usually goes very smooth. But there’s some players that I’ve seen that have green pings and start lagging for no reason in the middle of my combos or whenever in the match it seems convenient. Is there some sort of lag abuse or cheating in the PC version that I’ve not heard of, or are these lag spikes pure coincidence and I’m just imagining things?
PC version is bugged. This is well-known. Here’s some additional info on it: http://www.reddit.com/r/SF4/comments/2d0idk/usf4_pc_netcode_is_100_bugged_heres_why_network/
The patches they’ve done for it have been band-aid fixes at best but haven’t addressed the underlying issue: you still get pinged endlessly by players the longer you play resulting in the stutters. Since in SF4 (across all platforms actually) if either player’s game client stutters or drops performance it affects both players. So in your sessions if you come across a person that’s been playing for a bit and is already getting pinged too much your match with them will lag. This hasn’t been fixed as of yet and they claim to be working on it but we’re all pretty pessimistic about it.
The only thing you can do to prevent lag occurring from this bug is to stick to private endless lobbies with friends that you already know have good connections.
This is separate from the usual type of lag where someone genuinely has a shitty connection/playing wireless/downloading porn.
the odd thing is that lag spikes on Windows XP are non-existent during search or training mode with fight request on. Also lag spike during match occured only once in over 100 matches on ranked.
there are laggy connections but it was the same on Gfwl.
Same PC with winxp/win7 partition. Same day,same amount of players.
It also has to do with how Windows 7 and above handles network traffic. They converted the old netcode for steam which was based on gfwl, originally made for winxp. Arcade version was also based on Xp.
I guess they couldnt embed winxp network code for security reasons. Winxp is discontinued after all.
No, the net code is just shit, barely playable, hence why i barely play it. A good alternative might be to play on XBL, if you don’t mind paying that is.
Well the reason why I moved to PC is because I’m tired of paying for my subscription, plus all the games I like are on PC anyways xD!
edit:sent you a friend request cuz fuck it, my steam name is Trutsumi.