DDraceNetwork - developer

Posted in #general aswell. Yeah so basically i'm having extreme lags. I have no noticable delays whatsoever throughout the entire playtime. It just goes from 0-100 and then back from 100-0 (If even..). No high ping, steady ping of 48 even throughout the entire lagperiod. As mentioned it behaves like a DDOS attack, if i press space then i twitch on the spot until whatever grabbed me down finally releases me... Then i can normally move a couple of blocks before my Tee races off like a freaking ferrari when i as much as look at A or D. Inbetween those lag-attacks i can move fine as i said and i don't have delays nor high ping or anything. For the most part this doesn't stop at all. I usually stop playing entirely for a couple of days because it gets frustrating. It can happen at any time, unprovoked. Everyday and like up to 2 weeks without lag. So i did a reddit post on this and i got some answers there. Some that didn't work out and one solution i'm trying out atm. However, since the lags come so unfrequently its hard to test things out. Another thing came to my mind today though which is that it sometimes takes AGES to load onto a server. Not the download of a map but the actual loading onto a server. Took 3 minutes today. This also happens randomly. Same thing goes to connecting my dummy. Takes up to 1 minute to connect my dummy sometimes aswell. It just says "Connecting Dummy". If it takes too long it will revert to "Connect Dummy" and i have to press again. I don't know if these problems all relate to same thing, or if they're happening independently. I would love to play this game again, but it just won't let me

Dunno if it's essential to know but i'm having 500mbs fiber via cable, NOT Wifi. Also good to know: I don't lag in any other game, ever. Always got a steady ping, at all times. Even when the lag starts at Teeworlds. I hope someone can help me here, never had this problem before Q_Q

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@Learath2 what's the talk about, roughly?

Could it be that you lose tele weapons due to saving? probably happened to starkiller & me at brainduck 2 tournament

@heinrich5991 the guy made a program to find hidden/undocumented x86 instructions and ended up also finding various software/hardware bugs

@WeezMe to make sure whether it's your ISP or your PC you could try connecting your PC to another internet connection, or connecting a friend's computer at your home network connection

06:36

and if it turns out to be the ISP, complain to them. If it's your PC, remove stuff until the lags stop

06:36

it sounds like your ISP is blocking a few packets though

06:36

so you get dropped packets and that's why it feels like DDoS attack

@heinrich5991 the talk I sent? Fuzzing the x86 instruction set to find undocumented instructions and a couple odd quirks found along the way

06:54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg this one from the same guy is even more interesting

Black Hat

The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Unive...

ive never watched a 40minute+ youtube video before the first x86 one o_o

FreezestylerToday at 03:41 Could it be that you lose tele weapons due to saving? probably happened to starkiller & me at brainduck 2 tournament

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07:27

idk why it doesnt work

07:28

https://github.com/ddnet/ddnet/pull/1588

Save telegun on /save by Ryozuki · Pull Request #1588 · ddnet/ddnet

I don't know if the if statements below are correct, please tell me if they aren't as i don't know much what they are about.

07:28

this should work

07:28

maybe num is incorrect?

I see there is not just HasTeleGun, but also HasTelegunGun

07:29

is that something different?

where is HasTelegunGun?

probably you have to set m_Core.m_HasTelegunGun/Grenade/Laser too

07:30

see TILE_TELE_GUN_ENABLE in character.cpp

07:30

it sets both

ok found it

or even better, remove one of them

07:31

having two values that do the same thing seems like a great way to get bugs

ye idk how it ended that way

Will you provide a fix?

im trying

Thanks

i see why, core wasnt setting telegun status when loading but char did, now im removing char and using only core

07:56

this doesnt seem to be my fault

07:56

is there something wrong with console format?

07:57

hmm

probably a null pointer being passed in

i added a check on pStr on Bind and now i get a segfault here

08:00

this is also weird

08:01

it fails to load files

try a debug build and debug?

maybe its a problem on my end