Lag Issues?

[Backshot Becky]

My connection may not be the greatest, but I'm pretty sure that Stardew Valley is not more demanding for connection than Overwatch is. I am trying to play on my friend's multiplayer server, but I can never accomplish anything because of intense lag spikes... is this because I am a long distance away from my friend, or is it simply because of my connection? Any answers would help :D

[wirs]

it could be your connection
it could be your friends connection

What's you speed? Also never assume that Stardew Valley's netcode is less demanding as the one of Overwatch. Keep in mind that this game has been coded by 1 guy while overwatch had a whole team of experienced coders behind it with years of experience in multiplayer games

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by wirs:

it could be your connection
it could be your friends connection

What's you speed? Also never assume that Stardew Valley's netcode is less demanding as the one of Overwatch. Keep in mind that this game has been coded by 1 guy while overwatch had a whole team of experienced coders behind it with years of experience in multiplayer games

To add on to this, theres a difference between peer to peer connection and peer to server connections, in Overwatch you're connecting peer to server, and the server processes everything thats going on and responds. In this case, the blizzard servers are on solid internet that rarely has any problems, and they have strong routing options the whole way along between you and them

In peer to peer, both games are processing whats going on and communicating back and forth about it constantly, and this is subject to both your and your friends ISP, if yours is crap and his is acceptable, but the only routing option between you two is a potato with a few wires in it(My way of saying really really bad/congested/out of date), you're going to have a bad time.

[VattenKatt]

So I have a solution for the massive lag on multiplay that the host suffers from.
I felt that I'd seen that sluggish lag before in a very similar game Terraria.
So I tried the fix that I use for Terraria and it worked just as good for Stardew Valley.

1. Look up StardewValley.exe under Details tab in the Taskmanager
(Ctrl+Shift+ESC)

2. Right-Click StardewValley.exe and click "Set Affinity", Uncheck Processor 0 and click OK.

3. Game should run flawless now.

[Inny【🐭】Nazrin]

Please stop resurrecting old topics.

This issue was fixed by the developers. The "fix" you are posting is unrelated to the issue

[Savage]

unfortunately, no, this issue was not fixed. I still am getting this problem and it' 2020.

[Automati]

I tested this on two computer working side by side on the same local network so any connection should be flawless and almost instantaneous. Yet I experienced lagging. To me, it looks like the game has some weird lag compensation mechanism and its networking code is far from ideal.