Lag question

[conjotter]

Hi folks ... Played my first MP game last night and had a blast. What fun!

My question is about lag times. Does the number of players playing at once affect the amount of lag? There were lots of people playing last night and at one point the game sort of froze up for a minute.

This wasn't really a problem, but would the game run more smoothly against fewer opponents and units?

Regards, CJ

[Little Powell]

Hi folks ... Played my first MP game last night and had a blast. What fun!

My question is about lag times. Does the number of players playing at once affect the amount of lag? There were lots of people playing last night and at one point the game sort of froze up for a minute.

This wasn't really a problem, but would the game run more smoothly against fewer opponents and units?

Regards, CJ

The game does start to slow up some when you have a lot of players, but the big thing to remember is; it will only run as fast as the slowest computer. So if someone is only getting 5 FPS, everyone else will get 5 FPS. So it's important to have the Host lower the MP Graphic Options is someone has a slow computer. It also helps for the slow computer to lower their graphic settings so they don't slow everyone else up.