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Sassy · Post by **Sassy** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:58 pm

Is it possible for MJ to cause lag? Panzer keeps telling me no

and it's not that I don't believe him but I'm having the same lag that I was getting when I was using MJ before.

I hate my computer

Nakamuro Zataki · Post by **Nakamuro Zataki** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:01 pm

All software you run on your computer can cause lag. There is connection lag and there is computer lag. If you have a slow connection then lots of data being sent back and forth will cause it to lag, since game data has to wait for the other traffic. If you have a slow computer then lots of programs running will cause lag since less cpu time is spent on games, less memory available and so on.

If you have dogs, cats or rats, better keep them well fed, or you might find your computer out of electricity too...

Sassy · Post by **Sassy** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:12 pm

*SIGH*

Oof · Post by **Oof** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:38 pm

Sassy, how fast is you computer and your Internet connection speed? That might help to answer your question.

Sassy · Post by **Sassy** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:39 pm

I'm on cable modem and ummm....not sure where to find the answer to the other question. I'm not a techie and know just enough to be dangerous to myself.

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:04 pm

Sorry - some of that might sound too techy

As already mentioned there is computer lag and internet lag.

As far as I know MJ (and I have dealt with it quite a bit) it does NOT cause internet lag on cable-, and DSL lines (i.e. non-modem lines).
Although there is a steady data transfer between your plugin and my server, the amounts are by far smaller and the transfers by far less frequent than what your AC client and the AC server exchange.
56K lines are a special problem, because in fact every single byte that leaves the modem means lag

Computer lag is a different topic. The speed of your CPU and the amount of RAM you have determine whether any active plugin takes resources that your AC client might need to run smoothly. Even the speed of your harddrive and the size/location of your Pagefile might have an influence.

For instance the fastest cable connection cannot prevent lag if your PC only has 64MB RAM or a you have Pentium3/500 - or both - and you run a firewall, an anti-virus software, ACClient, Decal, ElTank, MJ, ACStats and maybe even more (video card speed is not too important in this respect).

Another aspect is the dependency of plugins, filters and their versions.
MJ is an ImpFilter-user. As are ACStats, Housekeeper, ImpInventory and others. If you have an "unsupported combination" of ImpFilter and those plugins this may cause lag within ImpFilter itself or one of the plugins.
For instance if MJ requires ImpFilter version X but ImpInventory needs and installed ImpFilter version Y, you cannot blame MJ if it acts weird.

If you enable MJ and experience lag that you definitely don't see when turning MJ off, MJ obviously causes the lag but it is not necessarily the reason

As we can most likely eliminate connection lag we would have to analyze your PC a bit more.....

Sassy · Post by **Sassy** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:23 pm

Owwwwwwwww, now my head hurts. How bout I just take a hammer to the )$*#$*# thing.

Post by **Panzerfaust** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:17 pm

i had some good stats as far as network traffic go for MJ. It's very minimal.

The way to test is to run a particular plugin alone and see when lag appears.

I had to dump keba.net.

Sassy · Post by **Sassy** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:23 pm

I haven't been having any problems with just Tank. This just started when I went back to MJ. I'm going to try tonite with just tank again and see what happens.

Trekman · Post by **Trekman** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:44 pm

I also suggest the other side of the coin.

In a safe place try only MJ....

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