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General Questions - tinfo

Anonymous - Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:30 pm
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What are you looking for when you do /*tinfo ?

Mine GO BOOM - Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:10 pm
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If the 'Diff' numbers change at a steady rate, thats bad. If the 'Diff' numbers are about the same, maybe off by a couple of numbers here and there, thats good.

Anonymous - Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:23 pm
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Thats bad as in they are cheating by lagging themselves?

Purge - Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:12 pm
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Yes, it's also good to check if they are speed-hacking.

Muskrat - Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:35 pm
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It shouldn't have too much to do with lag should it?

Mine GO BOOM - Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:34 am
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Anonymous wrote:

Thats bad as in they are cheating by lagging themselves?

Not always. Created a little wiki documentation on tinfo and what good and bad ones look like.

Default - Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:33 am
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Purge+ wrote:

Yes, it's also good to check if they are speed-hacking.

How do you know if they are speed-hacking, with /*tinfo?

Donkano - Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:35 am
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Default wrote:

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How do you know if they are speed-hacking, with /*tinfo?

Best way to catch a speed hacker is to let other players flood ?cheater

*tinfo is just a little back-up resource.

Mr Ekted - Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:31 am
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It's not just for speed hacking. I've had players with bad drivers that had bad looking tinfo. The drivers were causing some timer interrupts to be ignored, making their computers "tick" slower than they should (1% is a lot). This caused quite a bit of visible strangeness, but not nearly as bad as speedhack. Updating the driver fixed the problem.

A *tinfo that's basically flat, but with some large spikes (say +/- 50) is usually a sign that someone has maxed their badwidth, perhaps with a file sharing app.