Hi,
Windows 7 -32bit (10month old installation)
3GB RAM (5 year old)
500GB HDD(defragmented,no-errors,plenty of free space,5 year old).
Game: Medal of Honor Allied Assault (a decade old FPS game with little requirements).
GPU: Galaxy Nvidia 450 GTS (8 month old,75C temp under load,48C idle temp)
PSU: 500W ocz500mxsp (1 year old,has built-in fan)
CPU: E6550 Core 2 Duo (35C idle temp,60C loaded)
I've been playing in this particular multiplayer game server for 4 years and never had a problem.Always 50ms ping.They did not move their servers.Not a single other play is experiencing lag issues,just me.My ping is now anywhere between 150ms - 600ms.When my player doesn't move- the ping is low.When I move a lot and shoot- it goes high.
The internet is not the issue.Played the game on another computer with no problem.
Speedtest and pingtest show 10ms latency with 0% packet loss.25Mbps download speed.
I had(and just -reinstalled) the latest version 314 Nvidia drivers.I've also tried the driver from Galaxy's own website (version 306).
I re-installed the game too.
The hard drive's S.M.A.R.T meter shows the drive's condition as GOOD(not excellent and not bad) with 5713 ms spin-up time(is this too much?).
HDD Tune shows average of 75MBps read/write speed.Drive has no bad sectors(thoroughly checked) but it's old and it does make slightly more noise than a year ago.
Is there any way I can find out what caused this sudden latency spike ? Any program that I can use to find out if it's a hardware or software problem? Kind of "divide and conquer" thing.
Thanks !
