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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How to calculate ping?

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MummyKillerSLO
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Posted: 10th Aug 2010 17:53
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Hello!

I am making one game and now I don't know how to calculate ping between clients and server. I am using Multisync for networking.

Happy to having and using DarkBASIC Professional...
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Hawkblood
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Posted: 10th Aug 2010 21:43
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Are you talking about latency? If you are, use a time-stamp. Syncronize the clients to the server's "game-time" when they log in and each time the server sends out an update, send a DWORD time stamp at the beginning of the frame. You could do this EVERY update or you could do it periodically in a "latency" check.

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KISTech
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1. Grab the value of the timer.
2. Send it in a packet to the server.
3. Have the server do nothing with it, just send it back.
4. Compare the value in the packet to the current timer value.

That's your round-trip ping.

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