LLLLAAAGGG!!!!!!!

[die4honr]

Has any1 noticed that emperor has suddenly become laggy in the last few min?????????It has been doing that a lot lately...i guess the server is down

[SurlyPIG]

Maybe your antivirus came on or something. Either the server is down, full or up. It doesn't have anything to do with game lag.

[undsputed]

That's a good point Ace. You probably know this die4 but I have Norton Antivirus which updates automatically. On my 56k, going from one site to another really gets slow when it does its auto updates. Maybe it is updating when you have the game on. I could definitely see, especially on 56k, how that could cause lag.

[VigilVirus]

I always turn my Norton antivirus off when I go on WOL, or the lag is really crappy.

[DukeLeto]

Actually, people may not know this, but the amount of lag in a game has nothing to do with WOL, or B.net, or MSN Gaming Zone, or GameSpy, or whatever else you use. Those are just macth-making services. Once you start the game, they are out of the picture.

[Nyarlathotep]

No problem here while playing and I have my anti virus on (mcafee).

Heck, coming from Europe, I can even connect and play fine on the US server...

[Timenn]

I always used to have a little bit of lag in the beginning. What was over in a few seconds

[Avrillian_Sard01]

Alright, who flooded the map w/ a ton of units?

Thats the problem usually encountered when you build massed numbers of units on an RTS game...just a thought...

[DjCiD]

Thats very true. Also if you send lots of Fremen at one time it can cause massive lag.

[rigel6669]

Alright, who flooded the map w/ a ton of units?

Moving all your units at the same time causes major lag

[ethan]

the thing that causes the most lag is probably system specs. if you have low system specs and cant have YOUR own units run and not lag, and you do this in the multiplayer game, it slows down the other guy to keep him from having an unfair advantage even if his specs are much higher than the system requirements.

the other parts are (obviously) internet connection, but it has to be stable, and programs running.

defraging your hard drive and if you have norton, running disk doctor and speed optimizer is nice too for cleaning up the lag.

[Timenn]

Hehe, that lagging with too many units is also in single player. When I was bored and I built 100 Fremen and Sards, and I moved them... lag...