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| 668305 | 2008-05-11 08:35:00 | Hi, I'm having difficlulty with several games (eg crysis) over a lan, I manage to start the games/server and get both players joining the same game but only one player can move at a time, as soon as the second player moves the first player freezes until the second player stops. AOE works - it just seems as thought the first person types struggle. One computer is xp pro, the other vista home 64. Both on the same groups and can swap files etc. Any ideas???? thanks RF |
rfast (13739) | ||
| 668306 | 2008-05-11 21:35:00 | Please supply a little more info on your LAN setup Switches, hubs, what kind of LAN cards, how recent are the drivers etc would all help |
kersonan (13264) | ||
| 668307 | 2008-05-11 22:12:00 | Welcome to PressF1. Yep, as kersonan said we need a little more info. The card in the XP machine, it's 10/100 or more? And your using a 100mbit or more switch? Any firewalls? Distances....etc etc. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 668308 | 2008-05-11 23:30:00 | also basic system specs, crysis for example is very resource intensive and it's possible the machine hosting the game can't handle the load | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 668309 | 2008-05-12 03:49:00 | thanks for your replies, Specs are as follows machine 1 intel duo 2.66 xp pro 2 gig ram 800mhz graphics nvidia 8600gt on board lan on a gigabyte p35-ds3 board machine 2 intel duo 2.66 vista home premium 64 4 gig ram 800mhz graphics nvidia 8800gt on board lan on a gigabyte p35-ds3 board windows firewalls. Distance 3 metres. all drivers recent, vista sp1, xp sp2 - all current windows updates installed (except sp3 on xp) both are connected through an unmanaged switch 100 Mbs As stated AOE3 works well, Blazing saddle, Crysis and Deadly Dozen ( a low spec game) all exhibit the problem that only one machines character can move at a time. NB the xppro machine takes precedence when both attempt to move gaming characters at the same time. thanks RF |
rfast (13739) | ||
| 668310 | 2008-05-12 04:02:00 | Can't remember exactly how to check off the top of my head, but is your lan running in full duplex mode? if it isn't the lan can effectivley only send data in one direction at a time. Just a random thought. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 668311 | 2008-05-12 04:08:00 | Can't remember exactly how to check off the top of my head, but is your lan running in full duplex mode? if it isn't the lan can effectivley only send data in one direction at a time. Just a random thought. LOL, great work......wouldnt have thought about that, however they are both new mobo, unless the switch isnt up to the task!! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 668312 | 2008-05-12 04:11:00 | Yeah lol... Maybe try a crossover cable and set up a straight P2P network. See if that works. Or try a different switch. IT's a good thing more than one game is playing up, makes it easier to diagnose. :thumbs: I'm assuming these games play fine in and of themselves? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 668313 | 2008-05-12 08:25:00 | looks like maybe a vista problem, tried with a cross over cable and firewalls off, no change, tried throttling back the nic to 100Mbs full duplex, still no change. Installed Blazing Saddles game on a slightly older winxp box and ran successfully over the lan with the other xp box.!! Didn't test Crysis - machine probably a bit old. Next mission dual boot the vista machine and try again. RF |
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