DSL, oh yeah...

[NeoDevilbane]

Finally, I can no longer say I have to resort to dial-up... I'll see you jabronies online a lot more now, and no longer can I be pointed at for the source of lag. :)

Fucking dial-uppers... :)

- Neo

[Navaros]

dialup doesn't lag WOL

i've only found 2 things that can ever possibly lag WOL (more so than the default lag level which will always be present due to shoddy WOL coding, that is), and 56k is NOT one of them:

1. Graphix set to High

2. Ppl d/l ing while they are playing ::)

[GUNWOUNDS]

and a 56k modem

people who play on a 56k modem and think their games are fast.... dont know what fast is.

when me and drnknmsta play 1 vs 1 .. our games are blazing fast.. i mean i can make 1 chem per second !!

some poeple just dont know what fast really is due to the fact they have never had a fast game

[SurlyPIG]

Dial-up can be a factor if your service is atrocious but its the least important system feature in terms of game performance when playing emperor. Dialup is usually only a problem when it's compounded with an inferior system and great distances.

[IxianMace]

Well ok, tell me if you think I would lag on WOL.

Gaming specs:

AMD Athlon 1800+ XP

64MB GeForce II Graphics Card

256MB DDR RAM

37GB Hard Disk capacity

56k modem (usual connection speed at 44000bps)

All graphics on high, except for colour, which is at 16 bit, textures at medium, and landscape at medium. Resolution at 1024x768.

Location: Australia

EDIT: I don't download things when I'm playing. ::)

[Darkrul3r]

Some times 56k lags and other days it dosent, If you 1vs1 someone with 56k it wont lag.

[Apollyon]

56k modems running at peak efficiency will never lag as emperor tends to use about 16k/s on 4 plyr games.

[Navaros]

56k modems running at peak efficiency will never lag as emperor tends to use about 16k/s on 4 plyr games.

yes that's true. 56k is not what's causing lag ever. it's always something else. sometimes you'll get two 56ks in a laggy game, but that has NOTHING to do with the fact that it's two 56ks.

btw maybe in this thread we should also correct the other myths that n00bs all over WOL keeping spreading like the Bubonic Plague. ie: LW causes lag, FOW causes lag

LW and FOW do not cause lag.

[Darkrul3r]

If your in a game with 3 56k's it does tend to lag a little, but not much.

[Elite47]

no, not when you have 56k's... when you have a slower computer like mine(800mhz,crap video card), even if you have DSL like me... the game WILL lag up more than it would without LW and FOW on. Same with super weapons.

[Apollyon]

no, not when you have 56k's... when you have a slower computer like mine(800mhz,crap video card), even if you have DSL like me... the game WILL lag up more than it would without LW and FOW on. Same with super weapons.

I think you mean *with* LW and FOW on, and this must be true as these are memory using functions. Of course, if your computer is able to run emperor without any problems at all then these will obviously not cause lag.

[Elite47]

u misread ;)read again

I say 'if you turn LW,FOW,or SW it will lag more than it would if u had them turned off'

[Apollyon]

Ah but you omitted the "if you turn LW,FOW,or SW" so that it reads more along the lines of "The game will lag more without LW and FOV on"

[Elite47]

no, it made sense the first time. I just re worded it the second.

[Apollyon]

you wrote:

the game WILL lag up more than it would without LW and FOW on.

This can also just as correctly be written:

the game WONT lag up more than it would with LW and FOW on.

See yet?

[GUNWOUNDS]

Well ok, tell me if you think I would lag on WOL.

Gaming specs:

AMD Athlon 1800+ XP

64MB GeForce II Graphics Card

256MB DDR RAM

37GB Hard Disk capacity

56k modem (usual connection speed at 44000bps)

All graphics on high, except for colour, which is at 16 bit, textures at medium, and landscape at medium. Resolution at 1024x768.

Location: Australia

EDIT: I don't download things when I'm playing. ::)

yes u will lagg alot due to high graphics and resolution..... try putting all graphics to low and setting resolution to 800 x 600

[IxianMace]

I lag a lot due to that? The game has always seemed to run at an acceptable speed online when I have those settings on. ???

If I turn everything down to as low as it can get, the game goes so fast online that I can't even control my units properly. :P In fact, it goes even faster than when I play the game offline with all the graphics maxed out.

[zamboe]

Time ago I played both with dial up and broad band, with the same system several times, no diference at all. Not a single bit.

[SurlyPIG]

Well ok, tell me if you think I would lag on WOL.

Gaming specs:

AMD Athlon 1800+ XP

64MB GeForce II Graphics Card

256MB DDR RAM

37GB Hard Disk capacity

56k modem (usual connection speed at 44000bps)

All graphics on high, except for colour, which is at 16 bit, textures at medium, and landscape at medium. Resolution at 1024x768.

Location: Australia

EDIT: I don't download things when I'm playing. ::)

No problem. You'd be one of the fastest guys out there. BTW if you're going to stick something on low, it should be shadows (unless you really like them). They are the achilles heel of game speed in emperor. I don't even HAVE a video card and I can max out everything except shadows and still play single player at a respectable speed. The only time when 56K might be a problem is when you get an extremely low connection. Anything over 14000 and you'll be fine. Uploads are slower but the emperor packages aren't very big.

[Navaros]

. BTW if you're going to stick something on low, it should be shadows (unless you really like them). They are the achilles heel of game speed in emperor.

you're wrong there. what's far worse is landscapes. if you bump up the landscape settings to max to the point where you see light shining thru the cracks in the rocks etc. then Emperor is gonna run like an elderly turtle in SP and *especially* in MP

[SurlyPIG]

Oh no, it's the shadows. Landscape is RAM-sucking graphics, shadows are high video drain. Unless you happen to have something like a GEForce 9 million and 8mb PC66 ram, shadows will hurt more than landscape.