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Trouble Shooting / Re: Bandwidth
« on: May 31, 2021, 01:00:02 PM »
With wireless the primary cause of jitter is co-channel interference on the WiFi link. Your kids video streams compete for the right to transmit and receive. The contention can cause dropped frames and lag of real-time streams like the Q2 protocol. The same thing applies to the radio channel connecting your tether device to the WAN, LTE, 5G etc., all suffer from the same problem. Geography also matters. Larger cells suffer from more traffic and contention. Your gaming life will suck for a while but it won't be because of texture detail.

Yeah, I thought that seemed kinda whacked about textures and bandwidth.  I think losing the gun model, footsteps, and even gibs (q2pro) saves a bit but at 20 kbps t'aint gonna matter. My connection's been okay, faster than my wired one in fact, but there are moments or hiccups every so often. The problem is after 15 gb of data, they kick it down to 2 Mbps till the next cycle. Anyhow, t'will just be me on this tether, kids are gone now (for now) - guess I am dating myself here...heehee. And if it doesn't suck so bad I may just stay wireless after summer is over. Again, thanks for the replies.

Cheers,

That 20kbps is only the server-client protocol needed for tracking the player movement and actions. Those are the frames that the server sends to tell the client what's happening inside the map and for the client to send your player movement, line of sight and shots. Graphic objects, maps and sounds are not sent except at client connect or intermissions. Those downloads can be from the server or from the http redirect servers. They consume more bandwidth and go much faster than 20kbps (That's 20 kilobits per second, not bytes) Quake 2 protocol was very economical because it was invented when modems were the dominant life-form on the planet.

The client is presenting you with a view of the map based on your client information and a bunch of numbers from the server. The server communicates the positions and movements of the other players but there is no concern about content like sounds and graphics, those are all computed internally in your client. The view you see and hear all comes from the client code and the maps and models on your disk, nothing like that flows between client and server while the game is played.

20kbps is an average rate, assuming you already have all the entities, maps, skins and sounds on your client. If you are already an established player then downloads will be rare and your gaming bandwidth consumption will be minimal. At an average of 20kbps it will take you 7,500,000 seconds to transfer 15GB of data (1.5x10^11 bits of data / 20,000 bits per second). That's 2083 hours of playing. :) If you're hitting the 15GB limit it's not from playing Quake 2.

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA
« on: May 31, 2021, 12:36:00 PM »
It was not my intent to address pilot observations. Only the radar tracking and the physics of radar.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Bandwidth
« on: May 29, 2021, 06:09:07 PM »
With wireless the primary cause of jitter is co-channel interference on the WiFi link. Your kids video streams compete for the right to transmit and receive. The contention can cause dropped frames and lag of real-time streams like the Q2 protocol. The same thing applies to the radio channel connecting your tether device to the WAN, LTE, 5G etc., all suffer from the same problem. Geography also matters. Larger cells suffer from more traffic and contention. Your gaming life will suck for a while but it won't be because of texture detail.

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA
« on: May 29, 2021, 05:53:59 PM »
There are lots of reasons a target can fall off radar. This is why transponders and IFF exist. To enhance the availability of target signals.
A small target, especially something like a drone is nearly invisible to some radars. The familiar circular radar being displayed is called a search radar and the antenna is the familiar rotating one that sweeps 360°. This is typically UHF and has a wavelength of 70cm, a target smaller than that cannot be easily detected, or once detected, it cannot be maintained. Targets these days are not dots of glowing phosphors, fading until the next refresh but they are icons on digital displays based on a computer database created by a range-rate gating system that attempts to pick returns and predict their angular position and range from one scan to the next. If a target moves quickly enough or "jinks" out of the range gate it can disappear until the next scan and the time interval is a function of the rotation of the antenna, which, for aircraft control radar is about 12 seconds. At higher frequencies like C, X or Ku bands, there is the phenomenon of tropospheric bending which can bend the beam downward and cause it to see far targets that would normally be over-the-horizon. This bending and refracting can also make false targets and clutter that can appear to speed off in strange and wonderful ways. A radar operator cannot conclude too much about a target, which is why CAP is sent out to put eyes on a target unless that target is on a bee line toward the ship. In that case CIWS is engaged that has a targeting radar that sends out a conical raster on a narrower beam at very high PRF that can profile, range and keep the target illuminated continuously until it is identified as friendly or terminated.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Bandwidth
« on: May 28, 2021, 09:35:14 PM »
If you already have the textures then they don't consume any bandwidth. The video display doesn't consume any network bandwidth at all.
The bandwidth you use gaming depends on the game and the mod, Quake2 for instance consumes about 20kbps per client. Hardly anything by today's standards.
The only time you will consume significant bandwidth is while downloading maps (the biggest files in Q2), textures and sounds.

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The number of errors you get in Visual Studio builds depends on the age of the mod and whether you are getting the old sources or something more recent. The original idSoftware code was written for an older version of C and upgrading that code in VS2019 isn't trivial. It also doesn't help when VS wants to bitch about "unsafe" functions and does so by throwing an error instead of just a warning. Look around on GitHub if you're interested in pursuing mod source code as there is lots of good work being done there that might save you some time.

Extracting from older source zips and expecting to build in VS is not going to work very often.

Yes Visual Studios likely isn't ideal for older source code come to think of it, I was hoping for some shortcuts but something as specific as "changing weapon attributes in Quake 2 (24 year old game) with C/C++"  isn't going to yield much with a search engine. Oh well. I'll swing around GitHub at some point to see if some of the work's been done.


Visual Studio 2019 is perfectly capable of converting the VC++ 6.0 projects to Visual Studio 2019 format. In fact, it's better at upgrading them than VS2008 or 2010 ever was. It's just that the libraries have evolved and you'll initially get a lot of warnings and errors until you tailor the projects to suit the new environment. Most of the settings are trivial but there are a few things that prior experience can help with, especially the whining in the compiler about "unsafe" functions but it does explain itself.

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The number of errors you get in Visual Studio builds depends on the age of the mod and whether you are getting the old sources or something more recent. The original idSoftware code was written for an older version of C and upgrading that code in VS2019 isn't trivial. It also doesn't help when VS wants to bitch about "unsafe" functions and does so by throwing an error instead of just a warning. Look around on GitHub if you're interested in pursuing mod source code as there is lots of good work being done there that might save you some time.

Extracting from older source zips and expecting to build in VS is not going to work very often.

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The weapon classes and their fire rates are controlled by the game code, so yes, you'd have to mod the source and recompile.

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/dev/random / Re: Hot bitches
« on: April 25, 2021, 06:46:34 PM »
I thought you were bullshitting, but... WOW. REALLY? What kinda asshole...


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Pingel said he was notified Sunday evening by Roberts' partner, Lance O'Brien, that Roberts had died.

In a phone call Monday evening, O'Brien told CNN he was distraught after saying goodbye to Roberts at her bedside and left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center believing it would be the last time he saw her.

Your "wife", the other half of YOU, is dying in the hospital, and you LEAVE??? Are you shitting me? Ya know, your grandma, maybe even your ma is dying in the hospital, maybe you run home for a shower after a few days of not going anywhere, sleeping in the same clothes, and then you come right back. But if your WIFE is dying, and you think she won't survive until morning... you don't leave.

What the fuck, man?

After I a little more looking around...

https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/tanya-roberts-still-alive-partner-lance-obrien-mid-interview/18fe70dc-968d-4fc1-91fc-a0cd74eb01be

He gets a call WHILE BEING INTERVIEWED BY INSIDE EDITION...


I smell something. You smell it?

COVID rules at the time forbade visitors but because she was terminal he was permitted to visit. The hospital expelled him after whatever interval they allowed him at the time but she didn't pass at that time. They invited him back later for the removal of life support. She passed away from sepsis due to UTI. She was susceptible organ failure due to a prior hepatitis C infection. Liver impairment leads to generalized organ failure.

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Jokes / Re: Funny videos
« on: February 11, 2021, 08:44:10 AM »
It ended too soon. I found it hilarious that the judge was going to attempt to talk him through turning off the filter. Yay judge!

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Quake / Re: Console Text size
« on: December 12, 2020, 01:29:29 PM »
If hud scaling doesn't do it for you I found a yellow conchars.pcx helped me a lot.
Just drop it into baseq2/pics to override the green one. If that doesn't do the trick then you might have to copy it to the mod/pics folder for whatever mods you play.
The physical file in the tree overrides the green one in the pak0.pak but if the mod distro has a green one in a pak somewhere I think it overrides it back.

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It used to be on 192.184.95.192:27910 but I don't see it at this time.

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Jokes / Re: Funny videos
« on: August 23, 2020, 09:06:14 AM »

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Racism With Player on DM
« on: June 09, 2020, 09:04:04 PM »
If they’re standing and typing they’re easier to frag.

 :rocketright:

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