Hi all. Im posting about a packetloss problem in DeusEx. (and unreal for that matter).
We had a power outage, and upon power returning went for a game of DX.
50-80% packetloss at all times. Its only on this PC. Its wireless is fine, but with ethernet it does this. Im starting to think a small surge may have trashed the ethernet card (please no, onboard the motherboard).
No other faults have occoured. I dont have a spare ethernet card to try, (an old ISA one, but NO ISA SLOTS HERE!). Voice chatting is also extremely dodgy, assuming because of lost packets. This PC i built myself,not a single problem until today. I do take the following precations:
Surge protectior, Ground fault interrupter outlet (the protecter was like £40 itself), Good quality powersupply, phone line surge protection. (my parents dont know crap about this, i do all this stuff )My server machine is showing no ill effects, and DX works without flaw on it. Narrowing it down. P.S The motherboards warrenty expires in feb. I can replace it, but i dont want to waste time unnecisarily. Also ive tried Clearing CMOS, removing all non essential expansion cards. Any other stuff you suggest i try?
Many thanks.