Well that's a quick out of sync, likley it is the result of so many players in one game (ai and human) In my experience multiplayer games that go on for too long in complex will eventually go out of sync. The time that it takes for this to happen relys on more than one variable: connection speed of all human players, connection speed of host, host computer specs ect.

We have both very fast machines (Ryzen 3600, 16GB ram and good GPUs 1070 and 1080). I have 50MBit and my friend 16MBit internet connection. Is there anything we can do? I mean it is not playable if the game crashes in multiplayer :(. But so far I like the mod a lot.

Originally posted by Bertrand Tolbert:

We have both very fast machines (Ryzen 3600, 16GB ram and good GPUs 1070 and 1080). I have 50MBit and my friend 16MBit internet connection. Is there anything we can do? I mean it is not playable if the game crashes in multiplayer :(. But so far I like the mod a lot.

Try playing with fewer ai???

Me and my brother are also getting this issue: Two AI, always desync ~40 minutes in. Nothing we change with graphics helps.

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

Me and my brother are also getting this issue: Two AI, always desync ~40 minutes in. Nothing we change with graphics helps.

Are you playing in the same room with lan or are you playing over the internet?

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

Me and my brother are also getting this issue: Two AI, always desync ~40 minutes in. Nothing we change with graphics helps.

Too bad. This is a gamebraker for us because we want to play at least with 2 AIs.. better more.

Originally posted by Firestorm:

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

Me and my brother are also getting this issue: Two AI, always desync ~40 minutes in. Nothing we change with graphics helps.

Are you playing in the same room with lan or are you playing over the internet?

We play online

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

Originally posted by Firestorm:

Are you playing in the same room with lan or are you playing over the internet?

We play online

How's your connection? Any lag?

Originally posted by Firestorm:

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

We play online

How's your connection? Any lag?

Perfectly Fine for both of us hosting.

Originally posted by K. K. Slider:

Originally posted by Firestorm:

How's your connection? Any lag?

Perfectly Fine for both of us hosting.

Odd... You should have no difficulty with two ai vs two human players, I can do this fine.

I get this too when playing with a friend online , he will always desync after about 40 minutes, (im hosting so i assume i cant desync from my own game) about 40 minutes in there are a lot of dead ships floating about and a lot of fighting going on.

Both have stupidly fast internet (300mb+) hes on a Ryzen 7 1070 and im on a I7 6700k 1080ti

ive seen that it can desync due to frame drops under 20?

Originally posted by TomNewDelhi:

I get this too when playing with a friend online , he will always desync after about 40 minutes, (im hosting so i assume i cant desync from my own game) about 40 minutes in there are a lot of dead ships floating about and a lot of fighting going on.

Both have stupidly fast internet (300mb+) hes on a Ryzen 7 1070 and im on a I7 6700k 1080ti

ive seen that it can desync due to frame drops under 20?

You said there are a lot of wrecks around and a lot of fighting going on? Well I am sorry to say this but you may have to try turning down the wreck lifetime and fleet cap a notch or two. This may seem absurd to you on your machines, but I have deduced that Complex requires substantially MORE processing power than the base game, and I guess finding this out now makes a lot of sense to me, given how much I can lag on certain maps (Moonrise and Sunset on Mars I am looking at YOU). I had previously thought that the reason why I used to lag really bad on those maps was due to the extremely high-textured surface of a celestial body on the floor of the map that is physically there, not part of the skybox which of course would seriously affect me because I do not have a dedicated GPU, but I have come to the conclusion that this is not the only thing that makes people's machines tank sometimes and make games desync, even with super internet speeds. I shall use the overall visual effects of this mod as an example: Everything looks prettier than vanilla. I am sure we can all agree on that. That of course means more processor power gets eaten up, and your internet connection feels more of a strain when playing multiplayer. Since this is true, it is safe to assume that there are a lot of things that complex adds that make people's computers and internet connections tank... When playing MP with this mod I NEVER host the game myself as with my internet everyone desyncs super quickly and with my potato specs that gets accelerated further still... I shall consult Killroy and ask him to post his specs and internet speed, this should shine a light on the issue and potentally confirm my suspicions...

@firestorm,

I shall try turning the wreck times and fleet cap down and see what happens, you are right tho, it does seem silly to me to have to turn options down on a game that first came out in 1999 and 2003!

I run the game at max settings, the only setting turned off is Motion Blur because it's unnecessary.

Specs:
AMD FX-8350 Processor
24gb DD3 Ram (16GB Dual channel for gaming)
Nvidia GTX 1070 SC2 8GB GDDR5
1.5 TB SSD

Run the game at 1440p, get 60-144fps

Originally posted by KillroyIsHere:

I run the game at max settings, the only setting turned off is Motion Blur because it's unnecessary.

Specs:
AMD FX-8350 Processor
24gb DD3 Ram (16GB Dual channel for gaming)
Nvidia GTX 1070 SC2 8GB GDDR5
1.5 TB SSD

Run the game at 1440p, get 60-144fps

Could you also give us your internet speed?