Connection Problems

Assmaster_Kronk

Anyone else having huge connection problems? The game ran fine for me last week but its just been getting worse and worse since, now its basically unplayable. On the off chance i actually manage to log in i just get a lag spike about 15 minutes in and i just cant connect for about an hour afterwards.
I'm running Vista which i think is part of the problem, all the right ports are open and i've turned off the windows firewall altogether, but apparently theres some other issue with the connection.
Any ideas?

Assmaster_Kronk

Actually from going through 70 pages of a thread on the official forums it seems, for the moment at least, there is no solution....
There goes my free month:(

Cunny-Funt

Maybe it's your server? Things are fine for me (battlescar)

Static M.e.

yeah Ive no problems on Fury, I played on Monday off a USB Datacard connection going from GPRS to EDGE and I never lost the connection.

Try and do some basic PC checks like Defragmenting your harddrive, check your Network Card drivers and that kind of thing.

I run on Vista with my firewall on with zero issues.

Assmaster_Kronk

Static M.e. wrote: »

yeah Ive no problems on Fury, I played on Monday off a USB Datacard connection going from GPRS to EDGE and I never lost the connection.

Try and do some basic PC checks like Defragmenting your harddrive, check your Network Card drivers and that kind of thing.

I run on Vista with my firewall on with zero issues.

Yeah i'm on Fury too, tried updating all my network drivers and the machines brand new so dont know if a defrag would do much.
I was going to "upgrade" back to XP professional at some stage anyway so i'm gonna do that over the next few days and see if theres any difference:)

Art_Wolf

the majority of the lag issues stem from some people getting routed through level3 who have a busted router somewhere there - people are only getting a return from in 1/3 etc.. There was mention of a vpn that if you set it up would clear these problems, you will have to search through the lag thread on the offical fourms

Assmaster_Kronk

Art_Wolf wrote: »

the majority of the lag issues stem from some people getting routed through level3 who have a busted router somewhere there - people are only getting a return from in 1/3 etc.. There was mention of a vpn that if you set it up would clear these problems, you will have to search through the lag thread on the offical fourms

Yeah read most of the lag thread a few days ago, a vpn isnt really practical since i dont want to be paying extra fee's on top of AoC's monthly charge.
Just got a clean install of XP on my XPS 1530 so i'll reinstall AoC tomorrow and see if i can tweek the network settings a bit, could never get my head around the vista's maze of network settings anyway:p

Static M.e.

The AOC install and build folder is massive so a defrag would help depending on the state of your machine before the install. Its always worth doing anyway, just hit the defrag button and let it run overnight

Triangle

A defrag is always worth doing - but in cases of Lag it shouldn't solve anything. Sorry Stat - not meaning to start a defrag war here or anything!

PS. your guild sucks!!

Bring on Block wars!!!!

Assmaster_Kronk

Right been playin for a few hours now and absolutely no problems, graphics are far smoother in xp too, hopefully thats the end of that:D

Triangle

Good to hear Kronk.


Hopefully the game behaves itself now for you!

As most of the others have said, it's a stable enough game (i've had no desktop crashes so far or any other problems with the exception of a few disconnects every night)