Unplayable connection over WiFi on new computer [Solved]

[james]

I’m asking about the UDP to TCPIP failover - which would be captured in the game log.

Basically - Boundless attempts to send player input to the server via UDP because it’s likely to be a little faster. But if this fails, then the client will fall back to TCPIP. The process of falling back could cause a little stall.

• We can see in the latency graph that there are periods of UDP traffic in green.
• Then there is a latency spike of ~1s.
• Then ~4s later the UDP traffic starts again.

So what is causing the UDP traffic to stall?

You could try disabling UDP and see if you still get these spikes.

Option to disable UDP

The config.json in game folder can add ‘enableUDP: false’ to disable udp use. Udp is realistically never going to be worse than tcp, but your shop scanner certainly seems to screw that up somehow right? With it disabled, occasional packet loss will cause rubberbanding much more easily. Udp is used for game inputs to server and will keep sending the last N frames of input until server confirms receipt, so any random packet loss only delays input by 1 frame, but the server is generally expecting…

But I would also suggest having a rummage in your router config for UDP settings.