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hammergil

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[lack info] LAG!
« on: 1 March 2011, 04:58:49 »
bummer.  played several games in a row with my son on a LAN.  when we get up there in number of units, messages start in informing us that the game is paused because of LAG.  keeps producing more of these errors until my son is finally kicked out of the game, then the computer takes over for him.  I have tried hosting from several computers with the same result.  we are running ubuntu 10.04 and MegaGlest 3.4

anybody else experience the same?  everything is fine for quite some time until we get lots of units produced on both sides and then it's over. 

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Zoythrus

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Re: LAG!
« Reply #1 on: 1 March 2011, 05:18:58 »
well, how much is "lots"? in an ordinary game of Glest, i never have more than 40 units at one time (including buildings and workers).

oh yeah, welcome to the Glest forums, hammergil.
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #2 on: 1 March 2011, 05:39:28 »
Well, first of all I'm pretty sure "lots" would be a lot more than that...
Anyways, this is LAN? This must be something with your own computer or network...Not with megaglest.
Most people only get lag warnings because of their bad connections or huge distance from the server...but that's real multiplayer. LAN should have no problems :/
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #3 on: 1 March 2011, 06:03:23 »
I wouldn't rule it out as a bug, considering my network is pretty good and I lagged out today when there got to be a lot of units, similar to your experience, and if it's happening over LAN then that's definitely unusual.
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #4 on: 1 March 2011, 14:01:30 »
This LAG occurs if one computer is too slow to handle the game. Its quite cpu intensive if the number of units get bigger and bigger, but it can also be the graphics card!

How you see it:
I think at least on one of the computers  the game will get very slow/choppy after a while. This means your hardware is not good enough to handle MG.
Typical problems are onboard graphic cards ( especially intel ones ).

Hints to see a bit more whats going on:
Toggle debug on off while playing with "?" key while playing
Show network state on server can be toggled with "n" key while playing. This shows the lag of teh clients too! The display 5(3) tells you that the affected client has fallen back 5+3/4 seconds now....

( beside of this the way the communication also takes some time in 3.4.0 which sometimes causes choppy gameplay also with fast computers, but thats very rare. This is fixed or better improved in the latest svn version, but this is not really ready to play at the moment.
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #5 on: 4 March 2011, 18:21:10 »
Topic starter just said "My computer needs upgrade, but that costs money so im gonna ask the devs to rip the game down to fit my computer".
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hammergil

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Re: LAG!
« Reply #6 on: 14 March 2011, 03:30:37 »
don't think it's a computer upgrade prob.  dual core amd 2.0ghz processor, 2 gb memory, geforce 8400 gs 256mb video card...other computer similar...hmmm.  didn't have problems with previous version of megaglest.
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #7 on: 14 March 2011, 03:53:38 »
Latest public version seems a bit taxing than it use to. I believe this stems from a pathfinder problem which they are trying to fix.

 Just as a note just because the computer hardware is on par with the expectation there are other factors that slow down computer, background programs, registry errors(windows), spyware, adware, and other malware to name a few. These problems may be wasting your system resources.
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #8 on: 14 March 2011, 05:49:22 »
By public version you mean SVN HEAD, right? Because, 3.4.0 is fine, but for HEAD I think we're still dealing with lag that may have came from pathfinder improvements or something...
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Re: LAG!
« Reply #9 on: 16 March 2011, 05:52:09 »
Quote from: Ishmaru on 14 March 2011, 03:53:38
Latest public version seems a bit taxing than it use to. I believe this stems from a pathfinder problem which they are trying to fix.

 Just as a note just because the computer hardware is on par with the expectation there are other factors that slow down computer, background programs, registry errors(windows), spyware, adware, and other malware to name a few. These problems may be wasting your system resources.

that only leaves background programs.
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