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  • Bruce
    PCHF Member
    • Oct 2017
    • 10695

    #91
    Originally posted by PeterOz
    @Bruce what do you make of the speed test
    totally unbelievable to me! mind blown!!!

    at work, we just paid $21,000 to NBN to get a dedicated 200/200 fibre to the building connection.
    my speedtest just then got me 94/94, which we are ecstatic about as we were 25/5.
    so to see something like 900/800 that Jakeeer got is the Holy Grail as far as I’m concerned.

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    • Jakeeer
      PCHF Member
      • Jan 2023
      • 56

      #92
      Originally posted by Bruce
      totally unbelievable to me! mind blown!!!

      at work, we just paid $21,000 to NBN to get a dedicated 200/200 fibre to the building connection.
      my speedtest just then got me 94/94, which we are ecstatic about as we were 25/5.
      so to see something like 900/800 that Jakeeer got is the Holy Grail as far as I’m concerned.
      Yup and otherwise the internet works perfectly. I’ve never experienced stuff download so quickly. A 100gb game used to take all day, now it’s minutes… Really crazy and makes it kind of infuriating that I cant find anything that’s blatantly wrong causing these issues with my game.

      Ill post the speccy shortly

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      • Jakeeer
        PCHF Member
        • Jan 2023
        • 56

        #93
        Originally posted by Rustys
        Let get a speccy report.

        [COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]Do not forget to post the make and model of the PSU

        Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

        To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

        In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

        In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

        Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.
        [/COLOR]
        [COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]
        http://speccy.piriform.com/results/M...rhjYvKgFGyJT3d[/color]

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        • Jakeeer
          PCHF Member
          • Jan 2023
          • 56

          #94
          Hmmmm I just ran the same speedtest again and this time my download speed is barely over 100mbps. One other person is streaming netflix or something right now, could that be the reason why? I only mention this because I’ve done this test dozens of times and never have gotten below 600-700mbps and I’m sure Ive done it while people were streaming…

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          • Jakeeer
            PCHF Member
            • Jan 2023
            • 56

            #95
            Ok my internet speeds are fine again, I disconnected the Ethernet cord from my external lan card, tried it with my motherboard’s ethernet and it worked fine (>900mbps download), then I plugged it back into the external card and now my download speeds are fine again.

            But it’s weird because it was getting like 103-106mbps like something was capping it at 100mbps.

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            • PeterOz
              PCHF Technical Response Team
              • Mar 2021
              • 4181

              #96
              could be part of the issue
              That is a big drop

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              • Jakeeer
                PCHF Member
                • Jan 2023
                • 56

                #97
                Originally posted by PeterOz
                could be part of the issue
                That is a big drop
                i turned my pc on and immediately ran the speed test a couple of times but yeah idk it’s never done that before, but unplugging the cable and plugging it back in seemed to fix it.

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                • PeterOz
                  PCHF Technical Response Team
                  • Mar 2021
                  • 4181

                  #98
                  see if the games stutters now.
                  If yes see if anyone else is downloading at the same time

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                  • Jakeeer
                    PCHF Member
                    • Jan 2023
                    • 56

                    #99
                    Originally posted by PeterOz
                    see if the games stutters now.
                    If yes see if anyone else is downloading at the same time
                    Edit: yeah, game 2 and it’s doing it consistently now

                    I played one game and it seemed fine, but more than likely after 2-4 more games it will start buggin out, but Ill play and see

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                    • Jakeeer
                      PCHF Member
                      • Jan 2023
                      • 56

                      #100
                      I’m gonna include additional info I dont think Ive provided but it’s a bit complicated and Im not even sure if it’s related to my stuttering problem.

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                      • PeterOz
                        PCHF Technical Response Team
                        • Mar 2021
                        • 4181

                        #101
                        could help
                        can’t hurt

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                        • Jakeeer
                          PCHF Member
                          • Jan 2023
                          • 56

                          #102
                          My game has been having these issues (microstuttering, issues with the game’s physics, sound, and hit registration) for over 6 months intermittently but it suddenly got worse in the past 2 months.

                          The following is what happened right around the time the problems got way more consistent:

                          My motherboard has an intel ethernet card. It’s a mini itx. Someone said they had general problems with Halo MCC and updating their wifi drivers fixed it for them. So I updated my ethernet drivers (I dont use wifi) but immediately after I did that, my internet stopped working. Pages would only partially load, or wouldnt load at all. I got DNS timeouts for reddit, duckduckgo. Youtube videos would just buffer endlessly. Come to find out that particular ethernet chip (Intel i225-V) has a ton of issues that have been going on for a couple of years with many people not able to use their internet at all, and for some people updating their drivers β€œbreaks” something. For me, I could turn my PC on and it would work for a few minutes then would break and do the things I listed. Strangely, the Ookla speedtest website NEVER timed out, even when no other websites would load I could access it and additionally my download/upload speeds were always perfectly fine.

                          Rolling back the drivers didn’t fix it, reinstalling Windows didnt fix it, etc. I ended up buying a new board and a new processor (I switched from AMD to intel), but unfortunately that board had the same ethernet chip and upon installing it and reinstalling windows, my ethernet still didnt work.
                          (At one point I rolled back the drivers, and disconnected the ethernet cord and the moment I plugged it back again in my pc BSOD’d. It was like plugging the cord in caused the blue screen…) I tried reinstalling Windows, 10, 11, multiple ssds, multiple psus, gpus, ram, etc.

                          I actually never really fixed this problem but it sort of resolved itself. What happened was I ran Linux off a thumbdrive and my internet worked fine there, and when I booted back into Windows it suddenly worked again.. I messed with it for another week and despite my internet continuing to work fine my game still had the same problems (I was hoping the switch to an Intel processor might have fixed it), so I returned that board and cpu, then connected my AMD board that also had the intel ethernet chip and the internet still worked fine.

                          My game still had problems and I wanted to try an external ethernet card (there isnt room on that board for one as it’s a micro itx) so I had to pull out my older AsRock B450 mobo (which is what I’m on now,) and thats when I realized that nslookup was timing out, and obviously my game was still not working, which is when I first made this post.

                          So on the two itx boards my internet stopped working, with many websites giving me dns timeouts, and my older board, the at I fixed that particular issue with the batch file from earlier on in this thread, but it’s all just weird as hell to me.

                          Personally I suspect maybe some sort of setting or bug is getting synced over automatically to me. I think I mentioned earlier in the thread that when Id format my drive and reinstall windows, despite not signing into the machine with a Microsoft account, all my store purchases would briefly be visible in the store. I was told on the eleven forums that Windows syncs data not just via your email signin but all based on hardware identifiers such as mac address, which has me wondering if something could be getting synced even accidentally and that’s causing my problems.

                          What does every make of this?

                          Also, I forgot to include this for Bruce. My power supply is a 750w Asus Tuf bronze psu.

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                          • Bruce
                            PCHF Member
                            • Oct 2017
                            • 10695

                            #103
                            and other PC’s in the house have no internet issues?

                            what is the make/model of this external ethernet device?

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                            • Jakeeer
                              PCHF Member
                              • Jan 2023
                              • 56

                              #104
                              Originally posted by Bruce
                              and other PC’s in the house have no internet issues?

                              what is the make/model of this external ethernet device?
                              Well I did try my game on another computer here and after 20 mins it started doing the same stuff, but otherwise, for normal use- no one experiences any problems with the internet.

                              And the internal Ethernet card on this board, per the manufacturer’s website, just says β€œRealtek Gigabit Lan” and the external pcie card is a TP-Link TG-3468 and according to the manual it uses Realtek’s driver.

                              Also, since my last post I tried installing Windows 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite
                              Info: [COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]Removed security reasons Admin

                              Ghost spectre is a modded version of Windows that doesnt have bloatware and has telemetry disabled, and it’s made for gamers and people with low-end machines. For example there is no Windows store or Xbox Game Bar, and instead of making you use a Microsoft account you just have a basic Administrator account like in older versions of Windows.

                              I installed the version with Windows Defender and my game actually played way better for a couple of hours over 2 days, and then the same issues with excessive microstutter, players vibrating, and game instability suddenly hit me again. I actually thought I fixed it to be honest.

                              It always seems to happen where I’ll have one game where only a couple of questionable things happen, then the next game everything feels messed up for the entire game and every game after.[/COLOR]

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                              • Jakeeer
                                PCHF Member
                                • Jan 2023
                                • 56

                                #105
                                I know I’ve explained it a million times but for the sake of being thorough, the problem only seems to happen when there’s an interaction with another player. For example I can go into a local custom game by myself and the game might have some small microstutters every now and then, not ideal but it doesnt really feel broken. But as soon as Im in a game with players, and I get into an interaction, the players just vibrate. It feels like a very tiny persistent amount of lag, or that the players characters and their animationz are stuck at 30hz or something much less than the 240hz I get. My fps never dips, there’s no spike in network activity. It feels like when a player does an action such as jumps in front of me, it skips the frame where they jumped, so people just sort of appear places. Same thing if someone spins around and shoots me, it feels like the frame where they spun around is getting skipped.

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