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Article #26661Re: generals runs slow on lan?
From: Googilacki
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:11
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 16:11
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"Booch" <no@email.com> wrote in news:T-mdnbTjE-xHPQCiRVn-gA@comcast.com: > > "Nick (no dashes)" <nick-d@nick-inc.net> wrote in message > news:bnivpq$osl$1@otis.netspace.net.au... >> Margolis wrote: >> > "Googilacki" <ashe84@writeme.com> wrote in message >> > news:Xns941FA31A974A9ashe84writemecom@203.134.67.67... >> > >> >>I'm playing 1vs1 on 100mb lan and both pc's can run single player >> >>real fast, yet in multiplayer its running sooooo slow, whats going >> >>on? >> > >> > >> > yes, it is excruciatingly slow in network play, regardless of the > computers >> > or speed of lan. Not only is it slow, but it gets laggy at times if > there is >> > much going on, even when the slowest computer is an xp2000 with >> > 512mb of > ram >> > and the server is a p4 3.4ghz w/1gb ram ;o( >> > >> So that's just it? I just got the game and it runs brilliantly in >> single player on my 2.8c with 5900 Ultra but while online play seems >> fine, once a little action starts, it CRAWLS. >> >> I've got the 1.6 patch so i guess there is nothing more I can do. >> Anyone? >> > > I've played in huge 8 player games during our LAN parties, and it runs > just fine for us. > > Maybe it has more to do with your network setup than the game. I > would recommend removing any superfluous network protocols and make > sure none of the PC's are running anything that uses the network > connection (like P2P software, Firewalls, etc.). > > - Booch > > > I'm just running tcp/ip, static addressing and a default gateway of my router, could the gateway be interfering? dhcp is disabled and i dont think dns is relevant, what else is there?
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!text1.nnrp.aus1!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!news.primus.ca!news.primus.ca!nntp-post.primus.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer Subject: Re: generals runs slow on lan? From: Googilacki <ashe84@writeme.com> References: <Xns941FA31A974A9ashe84writemecom@203.134.67.67> <EUQmb.3507$X22.1974@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> <bnivpq$osl$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <T-mdnbTjE-xHPQCiRVn-gA@comcast.com> Organization: Your Company Message-ID: <Xns94281B69A9D11ashe84writemecom@203.134.67.67> User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.50.94.79 Lines: 47 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Date: 3 Nov 2003 03:11:46 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 X-Complaints-To: news@primus.ca X-Trace: nntp-post.primus.ca 1067979788 203.134.67.67 (Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:03:08 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:03:08 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit