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Title: Pilovali's guide on how to fix your lag and protecting yourself from viruses
Post by: Pilovali on 24 09, 2017, 04:05:57 pm
Pilovali's guide on how to fix your lag and protecting yourself from viruses

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Title: Re: Pilovali's guide on how to fix your lag and protecting yourself from viruses
Post by: Pilovali on 24 09, 2017, 04:06:37 pm
FPS lag

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What is 'FPS lag' and how to fix it?
FPS lag is simply having a low framerate or stutters.
Having a low framerate almost everywhere since you've bought the computer, is usually caused by a shitty/lowend computer. There are a lot of topics on the forum that helps with such issue. A few useful tips is to close all background programs, lower the quality, resolution of GTA SA and disable ALL mods by using the 'debug' feature, you can find it at Esc > Settings > Advanced > Debug setting and enable #6734 Graphics. You can also try to invest in better hardware (adding a cheap $50 modern videocard can offload the graphics stuff from your CPU and increase the FPS somewhat).

If you were always able to play on CIT without any issues and your framerate suddenly starts to lag or stutter, take a look at your taskmanager. There is a pretty huge chance that there are programs or services like Windows Updates (or even viruses!) doing stuff in the background. Try to reboot your computer and close all programs in the background. If that didn't solve it, check the computer temperatures with a program like Speccy (https://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard). Play some MTA and check the temperatures when you start lagging. If the temperatures are higher than 80°C/176°F, you should worry and consult a technician (or if you are tech savvy, replace the termalpaste and remove dust). If the temperatures are fine, please take a look at the 'anti-virus (https://cit.gg/index.php?topic=293248.msg4343876#msg4343876)' section, there could be something dangerous happening.

If you want to invest in a new computer, I highly advice you to take a look at CIT System Requirements (https://cit.gg/index.php?topic=267985.0) made by Claire. Computer shops in some countries tend to lie or scam.
Title: Re: Pilovali's guide on how to fix your lag and protecting yourself from viruses
Post by: Pilovali on 24 09, 2017, 04:07:05 pm
Network lag

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What is 'Network lag' and how to fix it?
Network lag is having random ping spikes, high packetloss or random disconnects. It's usually caused by slow internet, bad wifi or viruses. I'm going to copy-paste my tutorial from Ping/FPS/Network/Packet Loss issues solutions (https://cit.gg/index.php?topic=158399.msg3532814#msg3532814) because it's still relevant.

Before starting, make sure that your internet connection and ping is good enough for MTA. You can test your internet speed here (http://www.speedtest.net/). Select a server in Gravelines, France. For example this (https://share.pilovali.nl/0Me3bfQ.png) one.

Make sure that your speed is minimal 1024 kbps (1 Mbps) download and 256 kbps (0.2 Mbps) upload. Anything lower is not recommended. CIT is full with streaming online audio and billboards that loads from the internet. If you have 1024 kbps download and playing a MP3 via mplayer, your ping should only spike for a second and everything should be fine (I tested this myself with different speeds).

If your speed is below 1024 kbps download while you have a 1024 kbps internet package or higher, follow the steps below:



If you aren't able to get proper internet speeds (for example, you live too far from the exchange, using mobile phone, dial-up or don't have enough money), you can try the following to make your life a bit easier:



In /settings:

On your computer:

If you have a monthly/weekly/daily datacap, it's good to know that MTA will use maximal 100 MB per hour in very crowdy areas. It's usually around 50-70 MB per hour. Keep an eye on /shownetstat.



Title: Re: Pilovali's guide on how to fix your lag and protecting yourself from viruses
Post by: Pilovali on 24 09, 2017, 04:07:35 pm
Anti-virus

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Why do you need an anti-virus and how to get one?
Here is a small list what could happen if you don't have an anti-virus:



If you don't have an anti-virus, I recommend to scan your PC with HitmanPro (download (https://get.hitmanpro.com)) first, before installing a realtime anti-virus. If you don't know how to run a scan, please check this (https://youtube.com/watch?v=iX52-nw2n7U) video. It's very simple.
After you ran HitmanPro, I advice you to install Bitdefender Free (download (https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free/thank-you.html)). This anti-virus is very powerful (using the paid Bitdefender engine), but very light, has no advanced stuff and is extremely simple. Again, if you don't know how to install a simple piece of software, click here (https://youtube.com/watch?v=QOCDT25Kbk0) for a video.

Now your computer should be clean from viruses. However, if you keep downloading 'crap', disable the anti-virus on purpose and not updating your software (yes, that includes Windows Updates), then it's completely your own fault. An anti-virus won't stop users from being stupid.
There is one thing that's you can do, in order to prevent crappy software to be automatically installed because you didn't uncheck the "FREE OFFER AND TOOLBARS" checkbox. Install Unchecky (https://unchecky.com/). You only need to launch the setup, and that's it. Click here (https://youtube.com/watch?v=F52i0uxL-TU) for a video.

If everybody would do this, the world would be a much safer place with less DDoS attacks, smaller botnets and less people complaining about lag.