Games and Bandwidth usage.

[Clipse]

lol cameron, I run quake3 at maximum of 1800fps and I was only refering to quake3 with the fps post :_)

Clipse, are you saying I can decrease how much bandwidth Battlefield 2 drinks by decreasing my frame rate? At the moment it seems to use more than 1MB per minute, so I cannot play any more, since I am nearly out for the month.

If bf2 works by the same netcode "standard" as other fps games, then you can by lowering your fps, perhaps try it?

 

[dabean]

Quake 3 has been capped at max 125fps online (not on listen servers) since the 1.27 patch or there abouts. Besides the obvious physics bugs there are also problems with hits not registering at insane fps (the "Blue bug"). Other settings also affect your bandwidth, like rate, cl_maxpackets and snaps.

Haven't checked in a while but 20-30 meg per hour sounds about right for typical adsl settings. *Edit: ...looks like 40-60 is more accurate