Dud grenades?

[Psyrus]

This has been happening for years... probably even in VBF2

Squad Leading Ghost Train PR 0.85 [3/3] - YouTube

Wow my mic [and voice] was horrible back then

[godfather_596]

Was happening to me a lot on various servers. First time my nade didn't go boom I thought it was a dud. After the 2nd one I knew something was wrong.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

A while ago we had this problem on the PRTA server <I can't remember why it went away but it was a server side issue that appeared then went away.

[Arab]

I know what causes it. An overload of LOD's on the map. It's part of BF2's optimization system when the clients are in stress.

Except that a dev said it's a server-side issue, and that makes more sense since it happens on different servers to different people. A sync issue.

I just wrote this post just in-case the dev's problem isn't server-side.

[Psyrus]

I know what causes it. An overload of LOD's on the map. It's part of BF2's optimization system when the clients are in stress.

Quick question, what's a LOD?

[Hulabi]

LOD = Level Of Detail, basically if you're loading a 10000 tri model at a distance of 1000 meters, you're doing it wrong. You won't recognise a difference if it's 200 or 10k tri model from that distance.

This is why you make LODs for game models, LOD 0 having most detail and being loaded at close distance while say... LOD 5 having the least detail and being loaded at long distances.

Don't know if that made any sense but basically that, yeah. ;D

[Rhino]

I know what causes it. An overload of LOD's on the map. It's part of BF2's optimization system when the clients are in stress.

Can't be a client issue otherwise it wouldn't be seen by multiple players and the players in the damage radius of the nade would still get damaged w/e.

I also can't see how it could be an overload of draw calls (overload of lods makes no sense so take it you mean draw calls) as all that would do is bottleneck the clients CPU (or GPU if that's worse than his CPU, but far more likley to be the CPU when it comes to draw calls) and will just cause low FPS, which drawcalls being a big problem on Fallujah and a few other maps in PR, mainly ones that use the Afghan v2 buildings since they are made out of lots of little pieces which results in a lot of draw calls for the CPU to process before it can tell the GPU what it needs to render, resulting in the CPU getting overwhelmed with stuff it needs reroute to the GPU and other systems, causing as I said above, an FPS drop. But as I said, this wouldn't result in the player, who has fine FPS (at least when ever this has happened to me I've had perfectly fine FPS) who also sees the throwing animation, the nade leave the hand and fly though the air etc all perfectly normally, just for nothing to happen after that.

LOD = Level Of Detail

I'm pretty sure Psyrus is well aware of what a LOD in that sense is, think he was questioning what Arab meant by LOD encase it was something different, as "An overload of LOD's on the map" doesn't make much sense, especially in terms of this

[Arab]

Can't be a client issue otherwise it wouldn't be seen by multiple players and the players in the damage radius of the nade would still get damaged w/e.

I also can't see how it could be an overload of draw calls (overload of lods makes no sense so take it you mean draw calls) as all that would do is bottleneck the clients CPU (or GPU if that's worse than his CPU, but far more likley to be the CPU when it comes to draw calls) and will just cause low FPS, which drawcalls being a big problem on Fallujah and a few other maps in PR, mainly ones that use the Afghan v2 buildings since they are made out of lots of little pieces which results in a lot of draw calls for the CPU to process before it can tell the GPU what it needs to render, resulting in the CPU getting overwhelmed with stuff it needs reroute to the GPU and other systems, causing as I said above, an FPS drop. But as I said, this wouldn't result in the player, who has fine FPS (at least when ever this has happened to me I've had perfectly fine FPS) who also sees the throwing animation, the nade leave the hand and fly though the air etc all perfectly normally, just for nothing to happen after that.



I'm pretty sure Psyrus is well aware of what a LOD in that sense is, think he was questioning what Arab meant by LOD encase it was something different, as "An overload of LOD's on the map" doesn't make much sense, especially in terms of this

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Server-side is Multiplayer, so the system of syncing and stuff is done on the servers.

[Rhino]

Server-side is Multiplayer, so the system of syncing and stuff is done on the servers.

LOD processing, which is part of the draw calls, is done 100% client side.