alright so im new to pc strategy games and even pc games in general but im really interested in real time strategy games. Theres only one problem, i have wild blue satellite internet and i know satellite internet is bad for gaming but will i be able to play any rts games on pc? or will they all be too laggy?
alright so im new to pc strategy games and even pc games in general but im really interested in real time strategy games. Theres only one problem, i have wild blue satellite internet and i know satellite internet is bad for gaming but will i be able to play any rts games on pc? or will they all be too laggy? N_W64
Any game that you will play online with satellite internet is gonna have huge latency.
FPS games are a no-go pretty much, on satellite. RTS games aren't so bad, mostly because commands sent through you net connection only consist of positioning commands... (IE sending troops, building locations, etc etc). Aside from click commands, there aren't many commands in between that you net connections have to bother with. But when it comes to FPS, its a totally different story. Your position, angle of fire, movement speed, your position in relation to others, etc etc... are all factored in. Net Graph on CSS is a constant 115-175k down and 75k up depending on how many players your are playing with at that given time. All we can tell you is to (like every post involving a question like this), is to try it out. Latency from the dish mounted to your roof, to a satellite orbiting the planet is obviously going to be quite high. just try it out... i personally wouldnt game on it though.
[QUOTE="Vlaimir_Lem86"]FPS games are a no-go pretty much, on satellite. RTS games aren't so bad, mostly because commands sent through you net connection only consist of positioning commands... (IE sending troops, building locations, etc etc). Aside from click commands, there aren't many commands in between that you net connections have to bother with. But when it comes to FPS, its a totally different story. Your position, angle of fire, movement speed, your position in relation to others, etc etc... are all factored in. Net Graph on CSS is a constant 115-175k down and 75k up depending on how many players your are playing with at that given time. All we can tell you is to (like every post involving a question like this), is to try it out. Latency from the dish mounted to your roof, to a satellite orbiting the planet is obviously going to be quite high. just try it out... i personally wouldnt game on it though. You misspelled Razer in your sig(unless its on purpose)
[QUOTE="Vlaimir_Lem86"]FPS games are a no-go pretty much, on satellite. RTS games aren't so bad, mostly because commands sent through you net connection only consist of positioning commands... (IE sending troops, building locations, etc etc). Aside from click commands, there aren't many commands in between that you net connections have to bother with. But when it comes to FPS, its a totally different story. Your position, angle of fire, movement speed, your position in relation to others, etc etc... are all factored in. Net Graph on CSS is a constant 115-175k down and 75k up depending on how many players your are playing with at that given time. All we can tell you is to (like every post involving a question like this), is to try it out. Latency from the dish mounted to your roof, to a satellite orbiting the planet is obviously going to be quite high. just try it out... i personally wouldnt game on it though. You should not post stuff you have no clue about.... Sending a position is a vector3, which consists of 3 in or float values. In a RTS game there are way more units. The move speed is just a simple int for velocity and another vector3. No you don't have to calculate the angle of fire (wich is just a normalized vector3) but in RTS you have to sent all the information to which unit shoots what, all there positions and what abilities they using. Simply said, a FPS sends a LOT LESS data over the network then a RTS. Thing is, with an fps you shoot realtime, hence with a 250ms delay you will miss that headshot because your target is slightly ahead of you. With a RTS you sent over what units you attack and if that gets a 500ms delay it does not matter that much, at least on amateur levels.
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