Star Trek: Warp 9

[Fuzzybunny]

Not sure if everyone is experiencing the same, but I have noticed increased "warpage" of myself and others since v1.08 came along. I have notiiced that more players seem to be on and surely this affects it, but it's almost unbearable at times. My isp is earthlink, and I have never had this bad of a problem, so I don't think it's on my end... Frame rates down as well, but still 30-40 at 1280x1024. Anyway, still enjoying the game. Anyone else having severe lag problems?

[Vermillion]

Lag is always bad for the first few days after a new version comes out.

Give it a few days, and if its still bad, run a traceroute to the servers, and then post the results over in the Internet Connectivity forum

[Skuzzy]

Fuzzy, with all the downloads, it does take cause an unusually high load here for the Internet connections.
I would suggest to everyone to use the downloads site instead of useing the auto-updater to get the patches, as we have provisions for that site which will not impact gameplay.
I just noticed the second patch is out and everyone appears to be using the auto-updater.  The download from the HTC download server will be much faster than the autoupdater.
Just FYI.

[Fuzzybunny]

thx for the responses!

[Saintaw]

Originally posted by Skuzzy:


I just noticed the second patch is out and everyone appears to be using the auto-updater.  The download from the HTC download server will be much faster than the autoupdater.
Just FYI.

Skuzzy, why not replace the autouploader with a popup pointing to an ftp |  http location ? When you auto-download a patch, it needs to be installed and you need to relaunch the application anyway... so, why bother clogging the bandwith ?  

Wouldn't this work to lighten up connection, at least for the days when a patch comes out ?

[Skuzzy]

Well Saintaw, I do not write the code, but we did have a plan to move the autoupdater to the new download server, but ran into some last minute problems we have not had an oppertunity to resolve.

[Saintaw]

Damn,
should have suspected that either someone had beat me to it again  or that I had forgotten some realy obvious part  

Where are my calcium pills again ?...

[rickod]

FUZZY BUNNY
I used to work in the dallas network operations center for Earthlink
so believe me when I say it can and may be on earthlinks side

Get the server ips there here somewhere on the board and next time you see lag or warps doa  tracert ip#### from a windows command prompt   watch which hops fall out then go from there .

[Ripsnort]

I affectionately address my ISP as EARTHSTINK since my connects are always questionable, ESPECIALLY between the times of 6pm-9pm EST when they do something funky with the long distance thing-a-ma-bobs...Earthlink *used* to be a fine, stable ISP 7 years ago, but now that their bigger...sucks!