How do i stop the game having delay,lag spikes

[Superhooper01]

Guys ive played this game since it came out. I know a lot of u and until recently i had no problems with This game. Steam has always been a fucking useless piece of shit with it kicking people almost everyday i play and having messages that say the game is down for maintenance, when u can clearly see people still playing the game. When i saw that relic was putting the game on a server i was literally dancing as i figured no more steam problems and at last i wont have to moan about people having lag in my games or having the graphics to high causing every 1 to suffer due to their selfishness or lack of knowledge. Was told if u have lag u will solely get delay but seeing as my graphics are on lowest and i have a pretty good internet with a excellent signal strength i was like im sure i wont get problems...

Well guess what not only is the game still at the mercy of steam with it still dropping u from games for no good reason having maintenance at peak times and just general crap but the servers seem to be a curse instead of a blessing.
Its getting to the point were i dont want to play the mod,not due to a unit or problem with the game (not counting fucking sound bug )

I want to know if every people are having problems or simply share my disgust at the problems with the servers (NOT THE MOD!)

I dont play many games but i sometimes play the star wars mmo. The reason i bring this up is my connection on that game is great with no lag and a general stress-less at least with the connection.

The problem i have on elite atm wherever it is 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 is a constant delay every 3-5 secs which lasts between a second to 10 and makes the game unplayable. u click throw frag grenade and by the time it is thrown the enemy has moved due to delay or u click retreat on units but that time it took to move causes units to die. Can list a 100 ways it makes u want to scream. I've made sure no 1 is using the internet no downloads are on and the graphics are lowest.

Can any1 share some info to help as im really starting to dread playing, if it was due to my internet being shit would understand but im not sure if its the servers, my computer, my internet or a bit of all 3? is it certain people still cause the game to lag due to their nat type being not open or for every reasons?

I dont want to quit the game but without some help and info i simply will say enough is enough. Again nothing to do with what u guys do here but it is linked with the mod so can some 1 help.

[oh my!]

Not just you. I'm Australian, but I regularly play with people from Europe, and I now suffer from massive lag spikes in the games. It doesn't quite make it unplayable, but I do have to be better than my opponent to win.

[Dark Riku]

I have these lagspikes too... It's very frustrating in 1v1, causes you to lose games. Not enjoyable at all like this.

[Ven]

the new servers can be described as a turd. no really, there isnt really all that many people playing and yet the servers still die.

i think the problem is that these "battle servers" as they're called are running DOW2, DOW1, CoH AND CoH2 on them at the same time, on the same servers. this is stupid.

hopefully it'll start to get fixed in the coming weeks as the new expansion is out for CoH2 so relic can focus on other things, we might even get news of DOW3 if we're lucky.

[Ace of Swords]

Play coh2 :^)

[Ven]

Play coh2 :^)

cba, played it a little in the free weekend, waiting for the winter sale.

[Swift]

Play coh2 :^)

CoH 2 is a more magical story. I get random lagspikes in that game in base, just sitting doing nothing, no explosions, no gunfire, but the game decides a good bit of lag might spice things up. It also sometimes fails to catch up when thei lag happens, so i get stuck with ten second delays on everything for about three minutes until it realises something is amiss.

Anyway to answer your question. I don't have a good computer, my internet is generally awful, I mostly stick to 1v1 because of these things. But I don't get much lag at all, it is very strange that I don't, but I have experienced a few times when my units have lagged and suffered delay as a consequence. All in all I like the servers but they just run too much stuff.

[Myrdal]

My first advice would be to get a wired connection. Wireless regardless of signal strength is (more) lossy which means poor latency. Second, some tcp tweaks for lower latency: http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-g ... -or-vista/.
There might be some programs that can do this for you, i believe "leatrix latency fix" is one. This won't solve all the spikes you get though, nothing on your end can prevent that.
Third, don't listen to trolls like Ace

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[Old World]

Haha, I would love to follow up on a CoH 2 discussion, but that would be a bit abusive of what this discussion is about, so maybe we should stick to topic.

Thanks for helping Hakon, wired connection isn't something I can do due to where the router has to be placed and various internet ports over the house, but any advice is good advice.

[PhatE]

If you're still using wireless my suggestion would be to get off it and consider Cat5 instead. They're inexpensive and my hunch is this is still causing you issues.

Surprisingly though I haven't seen the "steam servers are going down for maintenance" message since the new battle server inception.

Whilst I hadn't played CoH2 all that much (if at all in the past 2 months), perhaps someone could enlighten us on whether CoH2 has a similar message.

I'm curious if it was actually a form of error recovery (which fails given whatever set of variables that are present). Although booting you out of replays makes you wonder what it could be recovering from exactly, if that were the case.

[Phoenix]

I may sound like a broken record but upgrading my pc to highest standards solved ALL lag issues.
If you could mention your hardware here we could at least sort that factor out.

For reference, one of my ram stripes broke two days ago so I went down to 4 GB from 8 GB ram which immediately caused a massive starting lag for me.

[Myrdal]

This may be a big factor actually. The game seems to taken a huge performance hit with
latest updates, at least for me.

[Superhooper01]

Cheers for info it seems hit and miss for me atm with some days fine some a nightmare sigh going to chalk this 1 up as relic servers