Who is hosting your game?

[psyops]

You know when you are playing MW2, and someone is hosting? I don't know about you but I get curious. Me and Gface chanced upon one methoding of knowing where you host is.

If you are playing with Xfire logged in, the server you are playing on is displaid for anyone on your friiends list to observe. They just click on your name and in the right pane what you are playing and the server you are connected to, and a little flag appears.

You need another person and computer to be connected withn xfire of course, which for me is easy as Gface and I sit in an 'L' shape at our machines, so we can observe each other's screens easily. (Needless to say we never play head to head)

FWIT which is bugger all, we're in southern europe, I have been observing the connections, thus far 95% of hosts have been in europe, mainly france UK spain portulgal and germany.

Since the last steam upgrade and 1.08 update of MW2 the ping seems to be consistantly reasonable. i.e. 3 or 4.

It is possible to change the pingometer so the resolution is better. I am going to try it out, I am reliably informed that making that adjustment is with in the VAC rules. I know the info has been on here before, but I will post it again shortly.

[Louis]

If i'm looking for a game i will get 4-5 bars. If i'm following someone, it can sometimes go down to 3 bars.

I'm guessing your going to change the bars to 10-15 or w.e the number is to see who has the most bars?

[MysticFire]

normally i have 4-5 bars.. i get laggspikes now and then tough.

[psyops]

If i'm looking for a game i will get 4-5 bars. If i'm following someone, it can sometimes go down to 3 bars.

I'm guessing your going to change the bars to 10-15 or w.e the number is to see who has the most bars?

I have not tried it yet, but as it is in the config file, VAC won't touch it. There were many parameters in the config one could change, they have all been locked down in the recent update other than ping meter.

The idea is to get a better resolution to the ping, aprt from anything else if you change it to 10 bars, the chances are only the host will get 10, max anyone else will get is 9.

It is nerdsville stuff really, for the curios.. this evening most of my pings have been three bars, which is pretty bad, and that is all europe, according to my trusty xfire monitor LoL

[brunexner]

My ping is usually good, but steam always loses connection