[soulkeeper]

Hi

while people play it in my cafe on network the game suddenly laggs like hell . and other times it just disconnect and these numbers that shows someone is lagging out starts to count .

System is win xp sp2 ,

Intel pentium D 3200 , 1 GB DDR 2 , 2600XT 256 mb , 250 GB HDD sata .

Help ?

 

[Aus_Karlos]

Its probably because your Cafe's internet doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to support all the people on that game at once.

 

[soulkeeper]

hummm man i have Assus switch 24 port 1gb and on the lan cards on the pcs are also 1gb , knowing the lan cards are internal built in from asus board , i wanted to ask if having an independent card is better ? and also the switch is 24 port , 14 ports for the gaming pcs and 8 for internet pcs including the adsl router that i connect directly to the switch, the switch is not managed .

do u think that seperating the internet pcs from games pcs by installing a new switch can make a different ?

Ty for responding

 

[Aus_Karlos]

Asus boards are great including the built-in NIC (Network interface card).
If its on WAN and you lag then there could be a firewall issue or you need to static IP all of the PC's from the router and give each IP access to the gaming ports..
This is a good place to start.. http://portforward.com/

 

[soulkeeper]

all the pcs got a static ip , the switch is not managed and i got no firewall runing , its disabled on all the pc . do i still need to forward the games ports even tho they works but suddenly sometimes they lagg or disconnect , specially Fifa 08 , fifa 07 and C&C generalz .

 

[Golgor]

Me and a couple of friends had this problem for pretty long too. And while we were experimenting with different ways to get rid of it one of us minimized the game and all of the sudden all others got no lag at all. We tried some more and figured, maybe its about the full screen support?

Anyways, we tried it in window mode... and everything went great. No mismatch, no lag at all. Still pretty early in testing this method but if you tried everything else this might be worth a try.

How to:
Create a shortcut to your generals.exe and append "-win" to the "Target" of the shortcut.
http://www.tjofraes.se/generals.jpg