Network "warps" and inter/extra-polation

[Distiler]

Hi!

 

Even with low latency servers (like 100ms) and good lines without much packet loss there is a lot of "warping" going on (by warping I mean strange displacements, not induced by the pilot but by the network). To supress almost all warps I have to play with 30-40ms latency. Even that, when helis are very low, seem like warping increase.

 

I remember from my days in il2 sturmovik that I could play even with 200ms without almost any warps. I remember reading a lot time ago that the problem was about code in the client and/or server to interpolate and/or extrapolate player positions, etc. to minimize those warps during network bad conditions.

 

Am I right?

 

Anything on the pipeline about this?

 

Thanks in advance.

[sobek]

Do you actually know about packet loss values of your connections or do you just know about your ping? Those two values are not necessarily connected. Do you play via wireless LAN?

[Speed]

Hmm... I've also seen alot of warping at times, seems kinda correlated at least in some of the cases to times when the host's computer becomes bogged down.