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Old 06-25-2009, 04:46 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Massive slowdown on Oblvion.

@thedarkwolf25

Lag is lag and can contributed to a game depending on a multitude of factors. If you are playing on a onlinbe game like Crysis and have it cranked up the setting and only have a 1mb/s internet speed then you may have a insufficient PSU, slow ISP provider, not enough CPU power, maybe not good enough video card. Lag is this definition

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In computing and especially computer networks, lag is a term used where the computer freezes and then continues some time later when an action is performed, for example clicking a mouse button. If there is different latency, such as distance between computers connecting, the term used is delay although many get it mixed up with lag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag

You're thinking about high latency where it takes a long time to send packets to a gaming server and you get a high ping.
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