Terrible lag even in LAN games

[Moshanu]

Hey,

Is someone else experience terrible lag in any MP game against AI?

After a few minutes in everything just stops responding and I noticed that even AI is not working as expected and it falls behind with its tasks.

Any help to make the game playable?

[Andeddu]

PC specs? Your system may not be powerful enough to run the game smoothly.

[Moshanu]

Hey, thanks for the reply. Definitely not related to PC specs. Both computers passed the benchmark rank test and we never had this issue before.

I noticed that, after we gave up trying, one of the PCs was finishing up windows updates when we shut it down. I'll update the thread if we see this happening again. I doubt windows updates will break the game, but fingers crossed

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Moshanu:

Hey, thanks for the reply. Definitely not related to PC specs. Both computers passed the benchmark rank test and we never had this issue before.

I noticed that, after we gave up trying, one of the PCs was finishing up windows updates when we shut it down. I'll update the thread if we see this happening again. I doubt windows updates will break the game, but fingers crossed

-You are 2v2 AI in MP? Do you lag in SP? Do you get a red or yellow clock by your name when it starts to happen? Which AI are you playing against?

[Moshanu]

Hello, I am right now in a 1vs1 in MP against AI (the default one from DE). Again, same symptoms after a few minutes or so in game everything starts lagging. Funny thing is that the AI falls behind as well to the point he stops actually playing.

Also, we were seeing the red/yellow clock next to our names in the 2vs2 LAN game against AI

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Moshanu:

Hello, I am right now in a 1vs1 in MP against AI (the default one from DE). Again, same symptoms after a few minutes or so in game everything starts lagging. Funny thing is that the AI falls behind as well to the point he stops actually playing.

Also, we were seeing the red/yellow clock next to our names in the 2vs2 LAN game against AI

-That signifies either something on the PC or the internet is causing a bottleneck and cannot keep up with the game.

-I would definitely try to rule out some items! It's especially telling if it always occurs within ten minutes of the game starting.

-The last few threads that reported this issue turned out to be a background VPN, or a background injector hogging resources.

[Moshanu]

Cool, thanks for the tip I will be trying to see what shows up in task manager as draining resources.

Here is a video from this weekend when we first started seeing the issue.

Lan game 2vs1 against AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKbDu5a_U0

[Moshanu]

Hmm...is this normal for AoE processes?
https://imgur.com/a/IFGynWE

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Moshanu:

Cool, thanks for the tip I will be trying to see what shows up in task manager as draining resources.

Here is a video from this weekend when we first started seeing the issue.

Lan game 2vs1 against AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKbDu5a_U0

-Very interesting video. I didnt see any yellow or red clocks though. For that specific video it didn't really look like lag rather your clicks just didn't commit. If you tried using the keyboard hotkeys instead of manually mouse clicking when that happens, does it work by any chance? Just trying to troubleshoot.

Originally posted by Moshanu:

Hmm...is this normal for AoE processes?
https://imgur.com/a/IFGynWE

-It looks like your PC only has 4GB of ram. That probably is your issue. 4GB is the minimum specs needed but doesnt really mean you're going to have great performance.

[Moshanu]

I usually play with hotkeys, I just clicked to make it obvious that I am trying to queue some commands.

Keep in mind that AI also falls behind and it's definitely not playing normal. Almost like the AI faces similar issues. I am really intrigued by the fact that I never had issues since last weekend.

[Moshanu]

I am running on 8GBs of RAM. It's definitely not the system as the issue was not here until those past days.

[Moshanu]

I just tried re-installing the game and lowered all graphical setting to minimum. Still no luck, game still seems to have everything not responding after a couple of minutes of playing.

Will try to uninstall latest windows updates.

EDIT: Uninstalling windows updates had no effect.

At this point I am inclined to blame the latest hotfix/patch

[Moshanu]

One more note: signing out of Xbox live and stopping all services related is not making a big difference. Game still gets into stuttering and becomes unplayable.

I watched a game record of one of this lagging matches and it seems like the AI gets stuck on attempting some actions when the game starts falling behind.

Unfortunately there is no improvement so far.

[Moshanu]

After the latest patch the problem is still there.

However I enabled V-Sync before starting the match and it seems I get more stable gameplay.

The game is no longer stuttering just moving a bit slow from time to time.

Without V-Sync the stuttering was happening when FPS dropped from 120+ to 60.

Now I just keep it running with 60 FPS

[Fallenhall]

Exactly this happening to us too. Coop 2v1AI, unit not responding or responding very slow after 10 minutes of gameplay. This started to happen 2patch before.

[Moshanu]

Originally posted by Ladis:

Exactly this happening to us too. Coop 2v1AI, unit not responding or responding very slow after 10 minutes of gameplay. This started to happen 2patch before.

Let me know if using vsync helps you guys.