[ISSUE] Strong lags and graphical bugs during only matches

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Hi everyone :)

I´ve waited a little bit before posting this. Thought it´s maybe just the fault of my provider.

The problem as mentioned in the title is that I´m having massive and strongs lags while playing online with other people.

First I´ve played a few games against the AI only. You can see the result on this screenshot:

http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=singleplayertt8.jpg

You have to divide 1000 through the number displayed in the upper left to get your current frame rate (thanks to TheBigOne for the information :) )

You will notice, that the framerate is good enough for playing.

On the upper right you have the sim time. Not sure what´s the deal with it, TBO asked about it (so I think it´s quite helpful for you, too)

 

So, now I´ve played a few games online, via hamachi, too. I thought: Ok, maybe I will get a little bit delay because I´m from Germany but it will be not that hard. Ok, seems like I failed in this point X|

The result of playing online is the following (screenshot taken in a match with TBO only, he´s from Germany too):

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/310/multiplayerzs2.jpg

Once again, take a look on the numbers in the upper left and right. You will notice, that I´ve lost near 10 frames 8C

In addition to that, in online games I´ve got graphical bugs, too. In places the model of the demigods isn´t displayed, only the colored circle around them (but this circle keeps on moving when I´m clicking around).

And it doesn´t seem to be the connections fault (because it also appears in games with europeans).

 

My computer is maybe a little old, but I think it´s enough for Demigod. I´ve posted my dxdiag in this topic.

Some rough facts:

¤Pentium 4, 3GHZ (HT)

¤7600GT 256mb RAM (updated the driver on thursday)

¤1536mb RAM

¤I´m using onboard sound

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

That's very odd, I don't know why you'd get that much lag, and the graphical bugs are even more perplexing.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Ok, tested a little more (not easy to find full games).

Here are the results:

Still, while playing with AI only on 1280x1024, everything on high, even with 2xAA I´ve got a very smooth framerate.

But when I´m going to play a hamachi game with 5 other people (no AI included) I get the following (short note: pings were around ~80ms normally, you see ~235ms because ... don´t know, maybe hiccup):

Multiplayerparty with 6 people playing

Don´t know what I´m doing wrong :pout:

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

 

Could be a port problem.. connection problem... firewall?

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

If you're spiking like that, it's usually because your connection upload cannot keep up. What is your upload limit?

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I have ~125kb/s upload.

If this isn´t enough for Demigod, I´m not sure if Demigod will be the next Counterstrike for games like this (as it was announced by Stardock).

Port problem: very funny, the damn "auto port" function always choose a different port. Don´t know what´s the use of this cr*p |-O

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