Missions fine in sp and preview - not mp

[Bricktop]

I have searched for answers on this and cannot find any, I have made several maps (and used others) and they all run smooth as silk in SP and in the preview mode. The minute I get into Multiplayer the FPS is down to below 15 and it is very choppy. Why is this? I don't understand. I am hosting on ADSL 7 Mbps, which is definitely enough for the 3-6 people I am hosting. What gives guys. Can someone help me out??

Bricktop

[RalphWiggum]

depends on many factors such as how closely AIs are to each other...so it's really hard to tell given little info about your mission and PC spec.

anyone else help here plz?

[Bricktop]

There are quite a few units in the mission, but none of them are that close together, except in one place.

My PC is :

Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz
1.5 GB RAM
SB Audigy
Geforce 4 Ti4600
2 x 120 GB WD HDD

etc
etc

Like I said this ONLY happens in Multiplayer. The m
ission runs smoothly in Single Player or Preview.

Cheers

B

[bn880]

Yes, dedicated server is the way to go. Really.

Maybe you have some sort of problem with Network Card conflicting with some sound card or something else. ?

[Suma]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bricktop @ Aug. 21 2002,17:46)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Like I said this ONLY happens in Multiplayer. The mission runs smoothly in Single Player or Preview.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Running multiplayer is almost always slower than SP, as there is more work to do. Besides of the game there is also commuication and need to decide what should be commuicated. This is especially true for server.

This is also main reason why dedicated server option exists, because dedicated server has no graphics to calculate, and it can do communications instead.

[Bricktop]

COol, can I run a dedicated and join it from the same machine (Like half Life) I tried this before and the mission was doing 1 Frame per sec. Is this a Port conflict??

Thanks for all your help BTW

Cheers

B

[Suma]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bricktop @ Aug. 21 2002,20:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">COol, can I run a dedicated and join it from the same machine?[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
While you can do it, from performance point of view it is always worse than running normal server. (The only exception is dual-cpu machine, where running dedicated server could sometimes be slightly better than running normal server). To benefit from increased performance with dedicated server you need a machine dedicated to it.

[Bricktop]

Thanks for your Help ..... Awesome Game BTW ...

Cheers

B

[Harnu]

It also seems that with all these people with super top of the line PC&#39;s like his 1.5 GB RAM, always run slow. My 512 DDR RAM and I run quite fine.