Game pauses for host after a while of playing

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My friend and I love to play this game, we play on a team against unfairs, but we've had to cut down our graphics to min., and our fleet sizes to min, and our maps to one star and max of 50-60 planets.  Before we did this the game would slow down so much that one second in the game was around 10 seconds real time.  Now it still slows down but not as much and whomever is hosting the game pauses, not slows down, it pauses for 5-10 seconds, then firebolts back into the game, not sure why it does this but it gets extremely frustrating just like when the game slows down.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

This: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/378149

Might help untill the next patch.

 (your are playing the most updated versions of sins, yes?... )

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yes, i'm playing the original with version 1.191, ive not downloaded the sins optimization project, im gng to go ahead and do that, and the same with my friend.  Both are computers are 2 ghz+, and 3-4 G ram, we both play with minimal settings with graphics and user interface and effects, one star system with two computers and about 50-60 planets, i know its not our computers, and we've done everything to increase performance but when we get an hour or two into the game it slows down and pauses for the host, so like i said im gng to try the optimization project, im HOPING its gng to work! if not, it's a shame, GREAT GAME! I LOVE THIS GAME BEST ONE I'VE PLAYED YET! just not fond of the performance which just ruins the whole thing.

Keeping my fingers cross, thanks for the link Pbhead!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Are the processors in these computers single cores?  What fleet size are you playing with?  (If you're playing with Large, try Normal, and if you're playing on huge multistar maps try Small.)  If you have dual cores, open up your task manager, close any unnecessary programs (especially any bloatware) and lock Sins to a single core and give it high priority.  Then take any other programs you have open (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) and lock those to the other core.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Both computers are dual core, we play with small fleets sizes, i just downloaded the sins optimaztion mod and installed and we tryed again, and it still pauses for the host, and we play on a single star with around 60 planets.  We don't play with any other programs open. 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Did you continue a game with the optomization? or start a new game?

Either way, it is starting to sound like a lag issue.

Cause that behavior is often around when at least player has a high ping...

You using wireless?

Lan, or ICO?

You know how to ping your friends comp? how long is it taking?  more importantly, any lag spikes or lost packets?

 

They are using vanilla, so they are missing some of the streamlining that entrench and diplo brought (along with the extra burdens of more stuff to keep track of...)  an the upcoming patch is diplo only... hmm...

 

As a last ditch thing, you could try hardwiring both comps to the same router.  From there, go one step at a time back to your previous set up, and see where the weak link is in your connections. 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

We started with a new game after i did the optomization project, and it still pasuses for the host but the other computer just slows down a little bit, not as much though.  We play on Lan, we don't have a network so we just hookup an ethernet cable to both computers and play on Lan.  Is there a better way of doing this, because i do have a router, would that help?  In the game i did check the pings and his ping would jump up and down, and a crazy thing happened in the game where there was different things going on in the game on one computer and something else was going on on the other, but i know they were still connected because you could ping planets and move ships and they would show up the same on both computers, but then there would be an enemy in an ally plantet on one computer, but not on the other at the same planet.  Wierd, never seen that happen before.  I have just the orginal version of the game, but i was thinking about getting entrenchment, but I really don't want to if i'm going to have the same problem.  I've heard great things about it, but the pauseing drives me crazy!!!