504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Hi has anyone else had problems ? The 504th had a 1.1 COOP flight today and i hosted on a 3mbit/400kbit connection. We flew the Joint Strike COOP mission (A10/Su25T) mission and had no end of connection problems, members were ejected from the server and one player had a (timed) 11min load in to mission time !!! Its taking nearly 5 mins for my system to load in to the server by the time i get there my connection the server has timed out !! If i have to buy more RAM for this game then i willbe saying goodbye to the Lockon community for along time. In the weapon loadout screen my fuel tanks wouldnt show on my Su25T but where there in game (this also happened in the beta copy i tested). We also tried a mission freshly built in 1.1 and members would join then when they loaded in to the game wouldnt actually be on the server, so they had to quit then hit fly again to get in to the game. We had AI A2A CAP flying under the ground (screen attached). All on fresh installs on 1.1 and defragged HDD's no firewalls either. Not that impressed by my 1st online outing...and if you know me i only fly online. www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
Shepski Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Sounds to me like you had a player or two with an incorrect connection setting. Did everyone change the default client speed of 33.6 to a faster speed? Was the server speed also adjusted too?
coldcrew Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 I just finished hosting a su25t 4 player coop with zero problems. it run for about 2 hours and almost all the targets were destroyed. I think the weather textures increase loading times but even with 512megs it wasn't anywhere close to 5mins, a little over 1min perhaps
Merlin Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Last night I did some testing with another guy on the 120's and AIM 7's. everything went fine, but after about 90 minustes the we both major fps drops. we were flying over the mountains. man is that AIM7 a fast mofo now.
504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 i had the server set at 1024x256kbit (i think it is that) and everyone joined ad 128/128 www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 ok tried it again all players connecting at 128/128 5x player 1 - 2 gig of RAM all connected 2x player 512mb timed out everytime has a timeout limit been installed ?? www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 also the 2 guys who time out reviewed the BETA of 1.1 and dint have this problem flying together online ! We connect into the lobby fine but after pressing FLY the game takes ages to load and we think timesout the connection to the server ??? Somebody help !! www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 ok the player count has risen to 3 now each of us have 512mb of ram but use P4 3gig and AMD XP64bit 3200+ ! All get a timeout on server conection PLEASE CAN ED OR ANYONE HELP MONDAY MORNING AS IM GOING TO BURN MY COPY OF LOCKON AND GO LIVE ON AN ISLAND !!!!!!!!! :( www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
Nomad Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Maybe setting timeout limit to a higher value would help? its in config\network\config.lua [brag]European dogfight champion 2006[/brag]
504MrWolf Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 nomad** we have tried it but frankly why should i have too.....didnt in 1.0 or 1.01 etc and i see no docs for 1.1 where it says i might have these problem.....let alone 3 of us with the same problem. ok more info = S77th Dedicated 1.1 Server = join as Su33 = conected 44th Dedicated 1.1 Server= join as MiG = timeout join as F15 = conected Seems to be pointing towards certain planes (Su25T and MiG havent tried A10 and dont care) ive bought 1.1 for the Su25T end of story, and now i cant fly it....... www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
Maj_Anzac Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 im one of the players having the problems wolf describes. could anyone describe what i have to change in that file, and who should change it? the server or the client? i got 1.1 to play it online with my squadron and now i cant join them at all. there must be a way to fix this. VVS 504th Red Hammers Bomberwing CO
504MrWolf Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 S77th Dante has had the same problems with 512mb of RAM and then they fixed themselves.........i spoke to a player on HL called SaltyBalls who said he could connect and host with 512mb of RAM....its very strange ive changed nothing with my PC from 1.02 to 1.1 and ive been testing and playing with 1.1 BETA for months and have had no problems..................im realy frustrated as i have just bought a game that is totally useless to me. I wouldnt be surprised if Starforce had something to do with it :( www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
Guest Cali Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 ok the player count has risen to 3 now each of us have 512mb of ram but use P4 3gig and AMD XP64bit 3200+ ! All get a timeout on server conection PLEASE CAN ED OR ANYONE HELP MONDAY MORNING AS IM GOING TO BURN MY COPY OF LOCKON AND GO LIVE ON AN ISLAND !!!!!!!!! :( 1024MB of ram for LOCK ON is a minium in my book. Another 512mb's of ram only cost $50, you can even get deals where it cost $20. I saw that at tigerdirect.com the other day.
Maj_Anzac Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 1024MB of ram for LOCK ON is a minium in my book. Another 512mb's of ram only cost $50, you can even get deals where it cost $20. I saw that at tigerdirect.com the other day. well thats just your personal preference, and using 512 megs ram is mine. I have played this game since release on this rig and to me it have always worked well, i have got used to having some settings a bit low but its not a problem. the problem is that i was able to play online with 1.02, and the 1.1 beta, and now i have spent money on a pruduct that i wont be able to play the way i intended to. and i havent seen any posts about having set the recuirements higher for multiplayer in 1.1. VVS 504th Red Hammers Bomberwing CO
504MrWolf Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 cheers cali but im on a budget here and im cant afford anymore for this game. They said it was CPU power so i just spent £150 on a P4 3gig prescott 1mb cache etc i already bought a the best card i could afford, and to upgrade my RAM im going to have to buy Corsair XMS XL TwinX 3700 CAS2 to match what i have.....i can get 512mb of RAM for £20 but it wouldnt work to good with what i have. So it looks like i have to sell my current RAM and spend between £150-220 on new gaming RAM because im not sticking cheap RAM in my PC !! So if i cant get this problem to go away then i will have to go away until i can.....and that means the death of CAW and Lockonskins.co.uk :( www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
355th_Paulie Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 So if i cant get this problem to go away then i will have to go away until i can.....and that means the death of CAW and Lockonskins.co.uk :( Let's not get too carried away on a sunday mate, we will work this one out, no matter what :D
Kula66 Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 1024MB of ram for LOCK ON is a minium in my book. Another 512mb's of ram only cost $50, you can even get deals where it cost $20. I saw that at tigerdirect.com the other day. Have you done any perfmon testing to support this theory? 'cos on my machine (768Mb) ... even that is not streatched! So I don't know what else you have eating your RAM, but it aint LO! james
Han Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 May be this will help: MP timeouts may be tune in D:\11-fr-2\Config\network\config.lua gameTimeout = 10; pingPeriod = 1; maxPacketSize = 500; playerName = "noname"; idleTimeout = 120; Rise these parameters for a server and client (timeout kick may be caused both - from a server and from a client). With Best Regards! Daniel Tuseyev Il-2: Battle of Stalingrad and Rise Of Flight projects manager
504MrWolf Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 why would the devs set it so low are they the same as 1.02 settings ? Do i have to take a degree in LUA scripting to play Lockon now ?? :P:D Well myself and Anzac have tried it and it seems to work so we will have to test this online now. www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
44th_Hitnrun Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 Min requirements Windows®98/ME/XP/2000 Pentium III 800/AMD Athlon 600 or better 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended) 3D video card (DirectX 8.1 compatible) w/32MB RAM (128MB recommended) Sound Card (Direct 8.1 compatible) DirectX 8.1 or higher (included on disc) 4X CD-ROM or better (Not recommended for use with CD-RWs) Internet connection (56 kbps or better) or LAN for multiplayer Hard Drive Space 1.1 GB This is the requirements listed for Lockon, If the system requirements are higher then this they should have said that you need 1 gig of ram for multiplayer.
Maj_Anzac Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Thanks for the help Han! customer service at its best!! I have been online with the squad all day and i have to say: Thanks for a SUPER GAME! VVS 504th Red Hammers Bomberwing CO
Guest ruggbutt Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Windows®98/ME/XP/2000 This is the requirements listed for Lockon, If the system requirements are higher then this they should have said that you need 1 gig of ram for multiplayer. Read the requirements for Flaming Cliffs. XP/2000 only. It's changed.
504MrWolf Posted April 11, 2005 Author Posted April 11, 2005 yeah ive used XP exclusivly since day one www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
Guest Cali Posted April 11, 2005 Posted April 11, 2005 Have you done any perfmon testing to support this theory? 'cos on my machine (768Mb) ... even that is not streatched! So I don't know what else you have eating your RAM, but it aint LO! james Yes I have played Lock on for a while with only 512mb of ram. And when I added another 512 it was much smoothier and didn't acess my HD.
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