Sluggish Network play but smooth single play

[schoo006]

Recently i upgraded one of my 3 pc's with a "new" graphics card (Asus V7100 deluxe combo 32 mb SDRAM g-force2 mx 400)to enable it to run Quake3 Smoothly (the processor is 500 mhz p3 and the chipset is the famous 440BX). I have three Pc's connected by a 100 Mbit Full Duplex Switch ...in which one pc acts as a server. The pc i had to upgrade is the ONLY one that's running Win98 ....the other two use Win ME (i'll fix that some day in the near future ;D) The strange thing here is: that it now DOES run Quake3 very smoothly in SINGLE player mode...but the gameplay gets MAJOR -JERKY and bouncy as soon as i want to play on my OWN server (right next to it) OR on the internet...Even the sound starts hicking real bad. The ping is'nt bad at all. I already switched the network-card, reïnstalled the drivers, placed the card in another PCI-slot and switched ports on the switch itself,...but NOTHING seems to help. Anybody have ANY idea what this could be??

 

[Cerian]

Try changing out the cables. I've had a choppy network communication that I couldn't fingure out until I found a cable that was bad. Just an idea.

 

[jihiggs]

did you install the drivers that came with the card or nvidias reference drivers?

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

 

[schoo006]

nvideas reference drivers....but i had kind of the same problem (huge difference between single- and multiplay-preformance) when i had an old voodoo2 card and an ati-rage 128.