Posts made by samikool

Well, weirdly enough, after a few more tests last night, and looking at the f11 menu to monitor, everything was running smoothly. Very minor stutters here and there, which is expected from any RTS. However, nothing like what my friends and I were experiencing the first night. We didn't have time to play through an entire game, but I'm optimistic things will work tonight. It's possible that since my friends had fresh installs, simply restarting their computers smoothed things out, but who knows. I'll reply one more time after we play a full game tonight with an update.

@deletethis said in Massive Stuttering in Multiplayer w/ AI:

You can check both of these things in game by pressing f11: the simspeed should be at least +0 for everyone at game start (this will depend on cpu), and you can see if someone is having network issues by checking the behind tab.

Great. I didn't know about this, I will check this tonight and see if either of these seem to be the problem. Thank you.

Interesting. Looking at your topic there, it seems you've added some pull requests that have been merged into the FAF develop branch. If I choose the FAF develop game mode in the lobby does that mean I, and my friends will have those fixes, and do they make a noticeable difference?

Also I just want to be clear, but your video shows late game stutters which I think my friends and I could deal with. However, for us it starts stuttering the moment the game starts, and seems bad if not worse than the video. I just want to make sure that, that behavior is also expected? I guess possibly because we are using AI, and that video is from a PvP match?

In any case, glad to see it's being worked on. I have never done any scripting with lua, but maybe I could start looking through things, and see if there is any low hanging fruit I could help with. Thank you.

Hey Guys, I've been a big fan of this game, since I found it about a year ago.

I recently got the game for my friends when it went on sale, so we could play together. We mostly do comp stomps when we do RTS's, until we figure things out.

We tried to play last night in a 3v3 vs 3 easy AI's on Seton's Clutch and were having massive stuttering problems. This wasn't like the occasional hiccup that happens in most RTS games, especially towards end game, it was noticeable the moment the game started, and only got worse. This is something I've never experienced, since I've only ever played single player. We tested a few variations, but it seemed like the amount of stuttering was directly related to how many AI we had in the game. Also, it was affecting one of our players more than the others.

4 Players, 2 AI -> Stuttering but not quite as bad as below
3 players, 3 AI -> Massive stuttering
3 players, 2 AI -> Stuttering but not quite as bad as above
2 players, 0 AI -> Smooth
1 player (me), 7 AI -> Smooth

I guess my question is pretty simple, is this expected? Is this a known problem or am I setting things up wrong somehow? We don't have any UI mod's except the one that gives you better icons on the mini-map, so maybe that is causing the issue? I've searched around a little bit, and I haven't found anyone saying they are experiencing this, but I didn't know if that was because nobody even tried AI matches or not.

Any help would be appreciated, I really want to get my friends into this game, but if we can't do AI matches, they probably won't give it a fair chance.