GAMESPY Matchmaking Clarification

[DJ RRebel]

ummm ... does gamespy actually start itself when you open Civ3 multiplayer ???

I am experiencing exactly the same problem NeOmega is addressing, in that I can't actually start games with more then 2 people (1 vs 1) ... each time I try to host, no-one makes it to the 2nd set-up screen ... and on the other end ... when I don't host, I've never had a game where more than just me and the host made it to the 2nd screen ...

But I've never manually started the Gamespy software ... so the only gamespy tech running is the licented tech within Civ 3 ...

Unless, as I mentioned at the start, Spamespy automatically launches at the boot-up of your system, or when you launch Civ3 ...

How exactly does Gamespy work ???

Does it launch itself ???

[Inverse Icarus]

i'm putting my money on a memory leak. me and my friend were playing, and we got horrible game-lag. we rebooted and all was well.

[RealSpices]

I uninstalled Gamespy and all the crashes stopped...

[Panag]

Originally posted by RealSpices
I uninstalled Gamespy and all the crashes stopped...

hi ,

and many people have done so with you , all with the same result , in most cases there are almost no crashes

have a nice day

[Alexander's Horse]

I think the real point is many of us want to use direct IP - we don't want to use gamespy matchmaking at all.

[NeOmega]

1.14f has direct tcp/ip connections

[notyoueither]

Direct IP is working quite well.

[War4ever]

how does it do with a dial up, i have adsl but we played a guy with dial up and it was brutal....

also i hear something a bout another patch on the horizon...hopefully it will be as successfull as the latest one 1.14f

[notyoueither]

I have not played with modem users yet, so I cannot say.

I would expect several more patches, if the past is an indication of the future.

[petemajor]

Hi all. I've been playing on 48.8 dialup...

Yeah, it gets a bit laggy now and then... but when you think that, every now and then, you lose a second or two in a turn that takes a couple of minutes it's not really a big deal.

Instead, the thing I find frustrating is all the launch crashes. My experience is that the game seems pretty stable *if* you manage to play the first turn ( and that's a BIG if ).

Roll on next patch!

Pete

[Panag]

Originally posted by petemajor
Hi all. I've been playing on 48.8 dialup...

Yeah, it gets a bit laggy now and then... but when you think that, every now and then, you lose a second or two in a turn that takes a couple of minutes it's not really a big deal.

Instead, the thing I find frustrating is all the launch crashes. My experience is that the game seems pretty stable *if* you manage to play the first turn ( and that's a BIG if ).

Roll on next patch!

Pete

hi ,

so you have these problems with the patch

it seems that people with high speed connections have less problems then people with low speed ones , ....

have a nice day