Massive amounts of lag and loss on ICO

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When playing online, if the game gets at all big, like when there are more than 2 players, or if more than 30ish minutes have passed, I often start getting massive amounts of lag and loss. Maybe one out of every 4 orders I give are not registered by the host -in addition, it seems to often take around 6 seconds for my orders to register (if they're registered at all). It's lost me many ships and games. This is despite having a good connection, low ping, and an OK computer. Anyone else have problems like this or ideas on how to solve it?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Take a look at the Network Window (F5 by default, I think) and see what it says for your CPU and Ping.  That should provide some hints as to whether it's your rig or your connection to ICO.  One thing you might try to do, assuming you have a dual core or multi-core processor, is to lock all processes to one core and to lock Sins to its own dedicated core and then give it High Priority.

I play on an older rig, a Socket 939 dual core Opteron 185 overclocked to 2.8 Ghz, and I set non-Sins programs to have Affinity for Core #0 and then set Sins to Core #1 and assign it High Priority.  I generally don't lag much unless it's late game (1:15 in) and there are large fleets around.  Normally someone else has CPU lag before I do.  At that point I do close most of the other programs that are running on Core #0 and it seems to help--MagicJack and often Firefox.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I've been planning to join the online scene for a while now. How do you do this core assignment Mr. DirtySanchezz?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Open up the Task Manager.  Right click on a program and you should be able to set the core Affinity and assign the program a certain Priority.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Triming your empire tree will do wonders for your FPS.