MW2: Online ping monitoring

[Schlup]

In competitive gaming circles, having greater than 30ms difference between teams on a server was ruled an "unfair server", so it is interesting to read the truth about pings in the online MW2 experience.

The truth was supposed to be that the IW.net experience was going to be far superior than the one getting on dedicated servers. Far from it in my opinion. Now we have some numbers to back up that opinion.

SarahB on IW's official forums (source) has given us all a way to better monitor your online ping. Here is her technique:

Navigate to the folder: 'program files\steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2\players' and open the file config_mp.cfg

Change scoresping_interval from 100 to 20, and maxbars from 4 to 10 (10 is the max).

This means that each of the 10 bars represents 20ms, with full green being 20ms or lower, and 1 red being 200ms or higher.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

MW2: Online ping monitoring

[tehfunk101]

sweet find, i just changed the .cfg, im going to go try it out!

[HashBrowny]

Nice Schlup thanks for this Post. i have already changed the file and it is working. it is very helpful in scaling the ping like that and is much easier to read the 10 bars compared to 4

[64m3]

well i did this and confirmed what i feared, i never get above 3 bars out of 10. the ping difference affects the gameplay more than any other game i have ever played. if your ping is that low then you litterally are aiming at players that are not in that exact spot, you can tell by the killcam you will see your character shooting away from the target if you are really shooting at all, sometime the lag is so bad that your gun never really fires. makes it unplayable imho.

[Schlup]

That complaint needs to be brought to IW's attention.  I'm still not sure where to voice your opinions for support but you might do a bit of looking and see if you can find it.

[64m3]

good idea

[AngryYankee]

EDIT

figured it out.

[Schlup]

You figured what out?