Topic: CCG Lag

[THG-Zolofto]

I play CCG, and i always get a horrible ping! (500+)
But when i play my other games they are usally 100 and lower.
Im running of a cable line @ 112kbps.

[thudo]

Yeaa.. GENERALS is very poorly coded Net-wise.. I mean.. I can be playing Warcraft3: Frozen Throne with nasty lag or an iffy connection and yet it still plays fine with 2 other colleagues. LAN plays MUCH faster but how often can one "gather the troops" to play at one location whereas Internet is more practical?

Sincerely doubt anything will change with the impending ZeroHour addon but one can only hope.

Remember though: Generals' SAGE engine and latency preformance depends on what the slowest machine is being used on the connection, what kind of map (is it an urban map with lots of things going on), and, if using my advanced AI Skirmish scripts, how complex the AI routines are?

[gryphon]

Are you connected direct or via a router ?

Thought that the ping ou see in the loby is your computers ping, not one of the game itself.

[THG-Zolofto]

I dunno, i meet the requirements

2100 AMD Athlon XP (I believe its overclocked to 2.1)
512Mb Of DDR Memory
Geforce 440 mx 64mb AGP8x.

[gryphon]

I was refering to the way your computer is connected to the internet Direct or with a router between it. The ping you get has nothing to do with your computer or the speed of your computer. It's the time it takes for a TCP/IP packet to get from one host to another. It has got nothing to do with the computer itself or any applications on it.

It just means you have a bad connection to the Generals server [ or the host of the game you want to enter, depending if it is the lobbies ping or the ping in the game itself. ]
Not much you can do about that.. . .