512 should be enough for pretty much any online game. You just need to find server that is closer to your region. As people sayd, of course time when you play does count too.
Has anyone have problem like i that my ping is under 100, fps about 30 at lowest, but still it feels like having 2-3 fps. It just gets so bad when there is base attack going on, that i cant play. Im playing with high settings. But dont have any problems with all full in UT2004 or medium setting in Battlefield 2. Is there some specific video setting that sucks all power from computer? =)
Im from Finland, so sorry if i miss spell something.
I had this with my GTA3 and GTA:ViceCity, GTA3 was unplayable, and vice city was fluid. Could be a HDD-Problem, when a game is not entirely in your RAM and you have a slow HDD (like in a notbook, RPM tells nothing) there are loading-lags.
If you are using WinXP SP2 there is a limmiter built in by microsoft, to how many connections (TCP/IP) at once Windows is going to accept (default is 10).
I had this problem too, that on ppl-flood on screen it would lag like hell. This especially happens when you have ICQ, IRC and/or filesharing-prog running, because all connections are used and windows tries to chop the packets and rotate the connetions (on simple download there is no problem with that, but on games it is a great performance lost)
There is an (unoffical) patch to this, I've set it up to 250, this should be sufficient.
Or maybe just the server you was playing on was laggy :roll:
