BF4 networking stuff

[Foreign Embassy]

If you see the four squares on the upper right side of your screen (below the kill feed) then you might have a connection issue. This is usually due to packet loss.

You can get more info by typing in the following 'networkperfoverlay.drawgraph 1'.

There will be a nice graph in the lower right hand corner and show you all sort of interesting stuff. The orange and yellow lines are the most important. That indicates outgoing and incoming packet loss. Ideally, they should be flat lines at the bottom of the graph, but if you are having issues you'll probably see a square wave for one or the other. Another useful stat is client hit and server hit. This shows hit registration and discrepancies between your computer and the server. Latency is the round trip from your PC to the server and back so it's usually double your ping.

[Foreign Embassy]

Here's a picture so you can see what I'm talking about. You can see I'm experiencing outgoing packet loss on this server. Click for a bigger version.

[HoneyBeaver]

good job foreign thank you

[crazygunner99]

really how did u fix it

[Foreign Embassy]

Depends. In my case I can join a different server since the problem is outside my ISP. It could be caused by a problem on your end but you would see that on all the servers you join.

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Here's a screenshot from THB #1 that shows a discrepancy in hit registration. My client shows 152 hits registered, but the server only acknowledged 134 due to packet loss.

[Dwel13R]

Whats your gpu monitor overlay in the upper right?

[Foreign Embassy]

MSI Afterburner

[Foreign Embassy]

TAW clans domination server (Gameservers in Chicago).



I guess this isn't limited to NFO. I'm going to contact my ISP and let them know there's an issue with one of their chicago nodes.

[FullEffect75]

Good find!!!