I'm sorry to report that I've had 2 desynced games out of about 15 games that I've played in Beta 3!  The first one resulted in a minidump, thus no saved file or replay.  But I do have a replay & save of the second occurrance.  What is interesting is:  if you watch the entire replay from different player's prespective - you can actually see different end games occur! (From 1 replay file)!  Very weird.  Anyway, if it helps, I can upload the files somewhere if someone tells me how to do it.

Just letting you know I'm trying to get our version to go out of sync. Once it happens we can fix it. 

Hey, I have seen some desyncs too.  It seems like people who don't restart their clients between games, or have played a couple games already without restarting, are more likely to go out of sync with those of us who do.  Not sure if that helps.  The desync eventually leads to a crash.

When everyone has just logged on or restarted their clients, I haven't seen a desync.  A lot of us are in the habit of restarting, because this 95% protected against crashes in earlier versions.

I had one of my opponents send me their saved game...I was going to look at it, but it is kind of a drag without speed controls.  Would it help to send someone my version and their version of the same game?

Otherwise, to try and capture the error,  have one person never restart his client and the other person restart between each game.  And play larger games with multiple players and maybe an AI thrown in.  It seems more common on bigger games.

Blair, do you [or anyone] have any insights as to what causes desync?  Is there something I can do to minimize the possibility of it occurring again?  It is frustrating to play a 2 hour game, only to find out that the last hour wasn't 'real'. 

I sure hope my desync problems aren't something that is specific to my system/version?  I see enuf people mentioning it, to make me believe that it is not!

PS. I have reduced all my video setting set to the minimums, altho I've never noted my system lagging.

Right now, the best way to minimize desyncs, is to make sure everyone has completely exited the game before starting a new multiplayer game. We know its a variable not being reset properly but it takes an extrordinary amount of effort to track it down. We'll get it though!