Auto Adjusting Net_Lag Mod (Testing Purposes)

[Duck_42]

Yesterday, Zock asked me to look into coding something that would automatically reduce the net_lag value in FA games based on in-game pings. It seemed like an interesting concept to me, so I took a quick look at it and threw this together.

WARNING
This is a test version of this mod. It may not work right, so use it at your own risk.

Auto-Adjust-NetLag v0.3.zip

Auto Adjust NetLag v0.3

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Please post feedback and report any bugs on this thread.


The end goal is to incorporate this into FAF. The standalone version is merely for testing purposes and will not be needed after the change is added into FAF (unless you want to play vanilla FA with your friends in your own little corner of the Internet).

[Ze_PilOt]

Be careful that everyone has to use the same value. So you need to put the highest ping in the sync table so each client use the same highest one every XX seconds.

Decreasing it requires more bandwidth (as more command are handled per second) and so can lead to shuttering rather quickly on 4v4 and more. So you need a way to detect shuttering to re-increase it when it happen.

One way to detect it is to check the in game time and the real time : if it lower while the sim still run at +0, you shutter. But it can be induced by pausing the game, ... so ... I don't know, but it's more complicated than it seems.

[Zock]

do all players need the mod or only one?

[Ze_PilOt]

All players need it because all players need to use the same value (don't ask what happen if they don't).

[Ze_PilOt]

I guess nobody tested it?

[Zock]

When i tested with crazed, he got a blackscreen each time the mod was enabled. Everything fine for me though.

[Ze_PilOt]

Logs?

[Zock]

D3z4rC:
warning: Error running '/lua/ui/game/gamemain.lua:OnBeat': ...ed alliance\gamedata\lua.scd\lua\ui\game\avatars.lua(1029): attempt to call method `Hide' (a nil value)
D3z4rC:
stack traceback:
D3z4rC:
this is the error

does that help?

[Ze_PilOt]

A complete log would be better.

[CrazedChariot]

Logs