Justin and all ~
My son has been playing with three of his friends online with one of
the friends setting
up his PC as a server. We're on the edge of my knowledge base here,
have never set
up a Mac as a server. But maybe the gameplay lags have to do not only
with our
setup but with the friend's setup, connection speed, etc. as well?
We'll run all this stuff and then perhaps up the RAM. Looks dead
easy to do and the RAM seems cheap for the moment - Crucial
has sticks for $35.
I did google connection speeds and got a couple results - seems
generally
the download is 5mbps and the upload is 1mbps. We can't afford the
next package up, in fact I'm going to have to downgrade something as
the bills are too much for the income ...
On Mar 6, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
On 3/6/11 6:50 AM, Dan wrote:
Easy enough to verify: Run Activity Monitor. Set it to update less
often. Display the system memory pane. Watch the size of the
Inactive
list and the page in/out rates. If the inactive list is tiny, then
you're low on RAM. If the paging rates are going nutz (changing
rapidly), then the system is slowed because it's busy paging
instead of
running the game.
How much lag and latency is tolerable in this game? If Anne's 'net
service is only 1 Mbps downstream, her upstream is apt to be horribly
low. Is there a specific server she could run some traces to?
Not really. There isn't one particular server that is considered 'the
best', and the multiplayer code is even buggier than the single
player.
Plus, many servers are running 3rd party plugins for various added
functions, they might be hosted on a shared server, and so on.
I tried running the single player on my machine just now, and here is
what I have (this is after running for a while, I really could use
more
memory for everything I do on my machine):
Free: 962.5 MB
Wired: 645 MB
Active: 1.12 GB
Inactive: 506.8 MB
Used: 2.25 GB
Page ins: 43.75 GB
Page outs: 2.90 GB
Swap used: 1.29GB
Right after launching the game:
Free: 629.1 MB
Wired: 647.1 MB
Active: 1.43 GB
Inactive: 590.1 MB
Used: 2.63 GB
Page ins: 43.77 GB
Page outs: 2.90 GB
Swap used: 1.29 GB
Right after connecting to my internal multiplayer server and playing
a bit:
Free: 19.2 MB
Wired: 632.3 MB
Active: 1.76 GB
Inactive: 877.5 MB
Used: 3.24 GB
Page ins: 43.77 GB
Page outs: 3.04 GB
Swap used: 1.39 GB
It's a bit of a pig. I think the problems the OP is having is a mix
of
low memory on the machine side and general lag from the connection and
the server.
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