Siaron Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 After many years of playing single player i finaly tried network (tcp/ip) multiplayer with a friend. I hosted the game with a public adress, he joined the game, as he has router and no public adress to join. We connected just fine, but GUI on his turn was a bit laggy. Worst of all, the data transfer at the end of turn took very long. It took about 15 sec at the end of my turn (which is yet acceptable, but about 2 minutes, when he finished his turn.) Both of us have fast broadband connection. I dont know how the game handle the end of turn synchronization, but since all actions all visible immediately to passive player, there shouldnt be so many data transfered to justify such time (even the whole savegame file is only about 1M large and it shouldnt take more then few seconds to send ... in fact, playing PBEM game would be faster then waiting for data trasnfer at the end of turn now, so i hope this is not normal behavior, and there is some problem, i just dont know where. Can you help us ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Hi Siaron, The only thing I can think of is perhaps a firewall setting or anti-virus setting that might be causing the delay in transfer times. You can try temporarily disabling any of these, both you and your opponent to see if it helps or adding an exception in case one of these 3rd party programs might be slowing the transfer of the data. Hope this helps, Hubert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siaron Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Just want to let you know, that we identified the problem in the router settings. We still struggle with it, unable to host the game from my friend side, but at least we are able to enjoy the game without client lags and the transfer rate usually falls within reasonable margins (at least for Patton - its so addictive, both of us immediately bought Global and all expansions, and we hope it wont be much different, but i think we will keep Democracy HUGE map for PBEM instead as turns there would take TOO long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Great to hear and happy gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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