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Well, the only driver they have available for it is the USB driver, and I tried that before with the same result. And this is not a global problem. I've played other P2P games, and client-host games such as your general online FPS, and WW2OL ie, just fine. Those games play just as expected. It's just Sins. I think that gaming karma has realized I've found one RTS game I've truly come to like, and denying me the option. Piss off enough RTS games with your constant FPS and flight simulati

Managed to have my ISP monitor my signal/ping my modem while I was connected in a 6 player game (I apologize to those players). She said my packets were fine, getting an average round trip of 45ms.... and the kicker? My ping in game was 2,000 milliseconds, and I was causing everyone to lag out. Maybe this is a problem beyond just my ISP/modem. But I just reformatted. The system is squeaky clean. A bios problem, maybe. An OS problem, perhaps. This is driving me absolutely insane.

Well, I'm not on a router, just a modem. For the sake of the testing, I turned off the windows firewall, (not sure about QoS setting). I have a Motorolla Surfboard 5120, so I suppose I could try updating the drivers for it. I'll give it a go.

Yep, I'm located in Northeast Connecticut. Metrocast is my ISP.

Nope, I've reduced all the background tasks/processes to a bare minimum. This doesn't happen in single-player, as I can run the game for hours with decent size battles with no strain on the CPU or the GPU. The game runs pretty smoothly. I think it just has to do with my ISP/connection. Maybe my modem? I reformatted a couple of hours ago, and I'm back at square one. No program/background task that would cause this I think.

I've tried lowering them all the way, or putting them on max - the video settings don't seem to matter. Thank you though for your input. I also don't see how the graphics load would be relevant when I'm already experiencing the lag in the setup screen before the game (ie, 20 seconds just to change my faction or team/icon?)

Well, I've run out of ideas. I really enjoy Sins, and I want to dive into the multiplayer aspect of the game. But I've encountered a problem that's disrupting that. Before I explain, let me note that I've read the numerous threads on hosting issues, opening ports, router issues, P2P protocol, etc etc. My problem seems to be of a different breed. I can use ICO. I log in. My displayed ping is about 30ms. I try to host/join a game (doesn't matter which), and here's where the problem starts