Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Ping readings
Don’t you just hate the lag-o-meter in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Four bars? What the hell does that mean?
“What is your ping? Four bars!”
“Is four more than two?”
“Yes!”
“So you are lagging more than me?”
“No!”
Those bars aren’t all that accurate. Each bar represents 100 milliseconds, so four bars is 100ms of ping time. Two bars means from 200ms to 100ms ping time. Now, if you see just one red bar it meas that your ping time is more than 300 milliseconds. That’s bad, even for people that generally suck at FPS gaming and lag doesn’t affect them much1.
With a little bit of tweaking you can make your lag meter more accurate.
Open folder
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Then locate file config_mp.cfg and open it with Wordpad or some other text editor that supports Unix text files. A backup of this file could be a good idea if you have the habit of breaking things.
There are two configuration directives that affects lag-meter in game:
seta cg_ScoresPing_Interval |
seta cg_ScoresPing_MaxBars |
They have the values 100 and 4 by default. Four bars with 100 milliseconds each. Change the value of MaxBars to 102 and the value of Interval to 25. Save and close the file.
Now your readings will be a little bit more accurate. One red bar will mean more than 250 milliseconds of ping time and five yellow bars will mean from 100ms to 125ms of ping time.
For the hardcore foaming-at-the-mouth-i-m-gonna-kill-ya-all-n00bz gamer this is way too much and you’ll probably want to disconnect. However, if you just wanna have fun and don’t mind dying, because it can be fun and hilarious too, then you are alright with it. Until enemies aren’t warping here and there while they’re running around, you’re good.
Good Hunting.
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if you go into a dedi server…for example im gonna use Modern Warfare 1…and you had a high ping would it be you who had to leave? yes it would. so why is it that all these players think they have a right to tell the host to leave? surely it means that the person who is receiving the bad ping should leave.
Yes, but if EVERYONE has a bad ping it’s usually the fault of the host. MW2′s host picking system is so terrible that when a bad host (everyone but the host has 200ms+ ping) leaves, after it picks a new host people have a much more normal range of ping.
If only the host has low ping then I ask them to stop downloading porn. :>
In MW2 if everyone else has bad ping IT IS the HOST’s fault! And have to leave so a better host can take over!
IWnet suck big time! Give dedicated servers to the PC players now! TY!
It’s retarded to blame the host for having a bad ping.. You should be pissed at IW for designing a system that assings someone who doesn’t have a good enough connection/computer as the host. It’s not their decision to host the game.