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Reply to Why is it I can connect to players perfectly fine in the lobby with nice pings, but when game starts its a lagfest? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Ok :). The only thing I could suggest here is to temporarely uninstall the antivirus completely, just to rule it out (even if deactivated, the antivirus might have done something "bad" to the network stack). Do you have any other software installed, that might have some influence on networking? Netlimiter or any Software from your cable ISP.

Reply to Why cant Demigod work like listchecker? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Yeah, listchecker only announces the game on Battle.Net too and does nothing else. No real network trickery there. It's just to make the default net lag go down from 250 ms to 100 ms (Demigod's default net lag is 350 ms btw.). Listchecker would not help Demigod's network issues in any way.

Reply to Why cant Demigod work like listchecker? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Why do you have to use listchecker in the first place?

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Hollow Man" reply="5" id="2190680"]I love you Stardock, but there is no other RTS out there where I have to forward 100 or 200 ports. That seems beyond unnecessary. Even via your own post you indicate that in Supreme Commander people only needed to forward ONE: 6073 (UDP I assume). Why does Demigod need a range of at least 100, if not more? I assume these ports are UDP, but unfortunately, most of the time this information is omitted in posts explaining what we need to d

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[quote who="Protocept00" reply="14" id="2190652"]Well Spooky, I just got off the phone with Verizon, I just upgraded to the fastest speed they have in the area, but isn't super fast but should be a huge improvement. @ 6pm tommorow I'll be getting 3mb download and 768kb upload... would this help some more in Demigod?[/quote]Yes, it probably will :) [quote who="Dead Ghost" reply="16" id="2190684"]Please tell us tommorow, when you get the upgrade, if that improved the situation. As i've

Reply to Why is it I can connect to players perfectly fine in the lobby with nice pings, but when game starts its a lagfest? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="6" id="2190503"]Haha, just because I assume does not mean I understand, which an be said about anyone. lol.[/quote]Well, my point was, that you were right with your assumption. You get lag spikes in the game, because there is lots of data transferred from you to every other player. And yeah, that's really terrible upload speed. I think you need about 25 kbit/sec per player in the game. So for a 2v2, you need 75 kbit, but for a 3v3 you already need 125 k

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="12" id="2190292"]Spooky: That's what I'm saying you need to port forward port 6000 to your IP. I bet you have a Dlink right?[/quote]No, it's a Zyxel P-2602HW-D1A with a custom firmware from the ISP. Forwarding port 6000 won't change anything, since I already tried being directly connected to the Internet (DMZ of the router modem), but it doesn't change anything (same thing happens, according to the ImpulseReactor.log). Also, the current beta update connects o

Reply to 1280 by 720 resolution? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Yep, but keep in mind, everytime you change anything in the video options, it will be overwritten with another resolution again.

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[quote who="tassox33" reply="10" id="2190239"]Ok your right i misread what you were saying. If you cannot connect to someone through the NAT, does that also mean that you cant get info from the NAT for direct connect also? [/quote]The problem is not that I can't connect to someone through the NAT facilitator. I do not even get to the point where the game would actually try to connect to anyone. I am simply unable to connect to the NAT facilitator (or, more correctly, I can co

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[quote who="tassox33" reply="7" id="2190195"]Im not so sure about that Spooky, if you are direct connecting it should be pretty fast like within seconds. I dont think the NAT resonds that fast.[/quote]Where would Demigod get the connection information from, if not from the NAT facilitator? This is the first thing that Demigod connects to, when trying to connect to a game. There is no fail safe for that. The NAT facilitator would provide you the connection information and then Demigod will try

Reply to Why is it I can connect to players perfectly fine in the lobby with nice pings, but when game starts its a lagfest? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Hm, I can't edit my posts in this thread. The long original thread title seems to break that or something. Test your bandwidths at speedtest.net .

Reply to Why is it I can connect to players perfectly fine in the lobby with nice pings, but when game starts its a lagfest? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="3" id="2190185"]But why is that I can get into the lobby, connect with so many people with nice pings and then as soon as I enter the game it's extremely laggy, and my connections with everybody shoot up to the thousands? That's the only part I don't understand.[/quote]But you do understand:[quote quoting="post"]I've assumed now, that when you enter a game itself it takes up more bandwidth.[/quote]:D

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I have the ports forwarded and the current beta build of Demigod is already using step 1 (direct connect). However, in order to be able to direct connect, you first need the connection information of the other player in order to directly connect them. You get that info from the NAT facilitator.

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// bah, forum was weird again

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="25" id="2190147"]In that case it should route you to a proxy which will be able to connect. But if you can't connect to the proxy.. [/quote]I am not sure if that will be the case. As far as I understand it, every player must connect to the NAT facilitator at some point, to get any connection information in the first place. Be it for direct connect, NAT faclitation or proxy connect.

Reply to Why is it I can connect to players perfectly fine in the lobby with nice pings, but when game starts its a lagfest? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Ping spikes can be caused by insufficient upload bandwidth. There are quite a few people out there with low end DSL connection for example who have very limited upload bandwidth, and they can only play with 3 other people (2v2) and nothing more. Those people who said, that you wouldn't have been able to get into the lobby due to insufficient upload bandwidth do not know what the are talking about ;). Also this has nothing to do with "the slowest user".

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

And what's with the people that cannot connect to the NAT facilitator in the first place? :( I know that CariElf is on my case, but I am still worried if this will ever be resolved for me.

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// nvm

Reply to Simspeed ALWAYS 0? in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

Do others really see it as 0 as well? Because since the recent update(s), your own Sim Speed will always be displayed as 0.

Reply to StarTrek VS. StarWars (The one thing no one should bring up) in Everything Else Demigod Forums

Star Trek isn't necessarely more realistic. Star Trek is just pure science fiction, whereas Star Wars combines science fiction with fantasy.

Reply to Any news on Supreme commander 2? in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="regabond" reply="5" id="2188209"]Where did you find this information and that pic?[/quote]Someone posted it on the GPG forum after we asked him to finally scan the article. [quote who="regabond" reply="5" id="2188209"]First it's not june yet[/quote]Have you ever bought a gaming magazine? ;) The June issue comes in May, the May issue in April, etc. [quote who="regabond" reply="5" id="2188209"]and second I've looked all over the internet and haven't found anything cl

Reply to Port Forward with multiple players in Demigod Demigod Forums

Sorry, I was wrong, ImpulseReactorOptions still work perfectly fine :).

Reply to Rook's Shoulder upgrades useful? in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

I completely agree with Daikaze. Archers and Tower of Light are very important in the beginning. But I do find the Trebuchet a bit useless. Especially since it misses most of the time, when your rook is moving.

Reply to unplayable in week 3 in Demigod Demigod Forums

Ok, first of all[quote who="trindermon" reply="8" id="2187787"]Peer to peer gaming was largly popular and functional in a environment that does not exist thesedays except for a segment of users are are able to configure equipment.[/quote]there are plenty of modern RTS games who use a peer-to-peer solution, including WarCraft 3 which is not just a small "segment". [quote who="trindermon" reply="8" id="2187787"]i am making a number of assumptions here about how the networking in the

Reply to My only complaint about DG... in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="17" id="2187641"]They aren't talking about aliases, though, they're talking about multiple logins on the same account so people can play online at the same time with only 1 copy.[/quote]Actually no, that's exactly not what they are talking about.