Strange Lag Problem

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Greetings,

 

A bit of background story: Since the game's release, I have been playing it in the offline-mode during my lunch breaks at work. In the past month I have started to play online (which is much more satisfying) - also at work. Well, I've really started to like the online play so much that I want to play at home... but I'm having a strange connection issue when on my home PC.

 

I am using a 16mb/s connection from Comcast with a Belkin Pre-N Wireless router. I am currently accessing the router via wireless (wired isn't an option) for the location of my home PC. Generally speaking, I stream HD media w/ my connection with ease, so it's a good connection.

 

So here's the thing. I am able to get into a Demigod lobby. My connection is green, and my ping in the 100's for US Demigod matches. But as soon as the game starts? It begins to chug... meaning, EVERYONE in the game has severe lag issues, like nothing I've ever seen. All players will move for 2 steps, and then lag for 10 seconds, then move 2 more steps, then lag for 10 seconds - and so on.

 

I know that this issue has to be my connection. It happened to me 4 times, and everyone in the match (needless to say) was pissed... erm, sorry about that, fellas.

 

Now, I have made sure that ports 6000-6200 are open on my router. I am running Vista, so I have disabled UAC and the Windows Firewall. I have followed the FAQs support about connecting to Demigod to a T.

 

I am a pretty technical guy too - I normally don't have any connection or computer issues, nor would I ever normally post on an open forum asking for ideas... but I am fkin stumped. Does anybody have any ideas as to what my problem could be?

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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Yuck.  Hey rwwalker7.  That is great info.  And you have a setup that resembles my own.  Also you sound like a pretty technical guy.  A bunch of us are having this same exact issue as you described so I can empathize.  Unfortunately, this has been an on-going issue for a few months now and there hasn't been any word on a fix.

I'll try to head a bunch of the usual replies off at the pass and say that 3 major factors of lag in this game are upload speed (DG requries you to have quite a bit of it http://forums.demigodthegame.com/358779), ports being forwarded (as you've already done), and simspeed (which is basically how fast your CPU + GPU is where higher is better and can be seen in the Tab window within a game http://forums.demigodthegame.com/348247).

But if all these are fine, then you might be in our boat (hopefully not!)  We've invested a lot of time looking for any fixes and eliminating a lot of possibilities ourselves and haven't gotten too much communication back from SD or GPG.  The most comprehensive post (I think) of this problem that we try to keep updated is here:  http://forums.demigodthegame.com/352593.  Maybe this inspires a solution for you or at least will save you some time/energy.  No fix so far, but GL to you mate!   :thumbsup:  

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

A friend of mine had the same problem with his WLAN (using WinXP) and found a solution:

http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/2000.html

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I still haven't found a solution to this problem. I've tried using different wireless utilities - but there is only so much a Realtek card will support.

 

I haven't been able to play the game online in weeks. Please fix this issue, GPG... It's obvious that something is really screwy with your wireless settings since there are more than just 1 person that is having this issue.

 

Or is GPG simply ignoring strange issues like this?