Oh how i hate teh...

Oh how I hate how Garry's Mod makes me lag for no reason.

Every other game I play, involves little or no lag at all. However, when going onto Garry's Mod, it's an entire different story.

Like, here is a scenario:

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Originally Posted by Story

So here I am, playing in Jetboom's Zombie Survival server. I get many a kill in the beginning of the game, I get up to the Inferno (lol) gun.

Can you guess what happens next?

While I was walking toward our soon to be cade, all of the sudden...

I stop. I am like what the fuck, then it puts me back 4 to 5 spaces back, and plays me walking forward slowly. This is what is known as "Phantom-walking". You see yourself replaying yourself walking, while other people see you standing still. This is lag at it's finest moment.

And then what happens?

I get mauled by ONE HEADCRAB.

Seriously, not cool.

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I never had any bad experience with lag on any other game, except the online games from Steam.

Any ideas why it happens?

get better servers bro

duder i think it's my AT&T internetz

I have DSL Xtreme, they say it's good for gaming.

They wouldn't lie, right?

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First off, yeah, they would. But that's not really it in this situation. Gmod is just a naturally laggy game, at least from my experience. If more than 1 person is on a server, the ping usually goes straight to 500 for everyone, whether they're on dial-up or T3. With all the crap that usually gets dumped from spawning, it's not entirely surprising, but it is a problem that hasn't been acknowledged by anyone who could help it.

not laggy form e.

It's fine for me and I'm on 512kb/s :downs:

In gmod all I do is barrel spam, and then blow them up.

I would do more, but I don't actually know how.

Find a server.
See somebody building something cool.
Ask them to teach you how to do it.

People in Gmod are generally pretty happy to teach newbies, even if it's only to show off vOv
(after all, that noob today is all to often teaching you crap in 6 months :C)

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Originally Posted by Selentic

In gmod all I do is barrel spam, and then blow them up.

I would do more, but I don't actually know how.

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Learn how to script with Lua and make scripted weapons (sweps).

e.g.

Better yet, make a gamemode!
Or learn to make planes, or mechs, or tanks, or boats, or hovercraft, or cars, or I DON'T KNOW IT'S GMOD GO NUTS

eg: Elmo recently learnt to code with Expression2. He made explosive barrels that flew to whrever he aimed and flashed rainbow colours at a rate which would give anybody a fit. He made many of them and sent his LEGION OF LOVE BARRELS flying into anybody who DARED OPPOSE HIM.

shit was so cash