Ghost

Very nice post Dead Ghost! 

This is an issue that is incredibly annoying and seems to be affecting more and more people.
I did not have this happen until the last patch (the one before the 18th).  I can currently play 3v3, 4v4..  not sure on 5v5..  but you never know when it is going to strike.  Internet goes down!  I tried to just ipconfig /release and then /renew..  ni dice.  I tried to Repair my conenction.  Nope.  Rebooting my system DOES fix this without touching my modem/router..  but it is annoying as hell.  Also accompanied by the game freezing and requiring a forced close.

+1 for some serious data on this!

still the same problem nothing changed yet. i will wait until tomorrow's proxy servers if there is no improvement, it's refund time !

keeping in mind that everything worked fine until the update on May 15, 2009, its time for me to go MAD!

getting really angry now... was a hell of a time since release date when i bought it! and now you just banned me from online gaming!

i have nothing more to say!

One other thing, how long have you been running into this issue?

i tried to explain everything in this thread : lag spike since last patch (~1000ms) for some seconds

i have these problems since the patch @ May 15, 2009. i try to play an online game once per day and its always the same with lag spiking (fewer players= fewer lag spiking / more players = more lag spiking)... ill try it again now with the overlay file fix.. lets see if this helps

edit: no games from europe open at this time. ill try it again in a couple of hours!

I am having a similar issue.  80-100 ping for maybe a minute or so then a big spike up to 1k for a few seconds then back down again for a while.  I dont know if this was caused by the most recent (not the proxy one, if that is out yet, but last weeks latest) or the fact that it was the first 3v(x Ai's) I have played.  Recently a 3rd friend of mine got the game so we were playing around in a normal game.  The only games I play really are against AIs and in a 2v4AI I had played earlier with this new player I had normal ping, and I have played many normal 2vXAI games with the non new friend before this (but not after the patch.)  Next time I play ill try the overlay thing and see if it helps at all.  In any case if I have the same problem, it isnt caused by 3v3 games but 3vanything games it appears.

What i've also tried today:

•  Install the game on a completely different PC, a laptop with Vista 32. Used the same connection as before: the result is the same, still spikes!

• Took the laptop and the game to a friend, so i can test the game on another internet connection. He has the same ISP as me, same modem, cable net connection, no router, and same internet package as me, but one that is a bit lower in speed (just 1mb/s dnl and 512kb/s upload). Tested a game of 3v3, with players from Germany, i had ~110 ping to them in the lobby. But when in game, same story as before: spikes to ~1000.

So far, i've completely eliminated two causes:

1. It's NOT a software problem (OS, programs in memory, etc)!
2. It's NOT a specific PC hardware  problem!

It's either the ISP (but i don't know what exactly, as everything else works ok, including torrent traffic) or Demigod itself. Or both.

It seems like this is the place to be.  I'm copying my post from here.

My PC:

Q6600, 8GB RAM, Radeon 4780 512MB, onboard sound and network

Same problem here, have had it since Launch. However, I'm in an even bigger fix, as it spikes up immediately to 1000 or so even in a 3v3, and stays constantly. Other than that, it's identical to what Dead Ghost has described.

for an excellent post, Dead Ghost!

Edit: Frogboy, you mentioned changing the name of the overlay file. I assume you mean both the DLL and the LNG?

UPDATE (May 27):

Today i've tried DG on a completely different ISP: You can see in the pic the speedtest result of this connection:

It's much slower than my regular connection (at least at upload speeds).

Well, in short, i don't have spikes on this connection. I have high ping to anyone in lobby and the same in the game (around 300-400), but it doesn't spikes (tried 3v3 and 4v4 matches).

So, it seems it's a ISP problem, 99% sure of this. I've tried to talk to the ISP, but it's futile. They're idiots, plain and simple. And i can't switch to another ISP, because i'm limited to them in my area.

What i don't understand is why all p2p traffic works (like torrents) on my connection. How is this game different from what torrents do? If someone from SD or GPG could explain it to me, maybe i could find a solution...

Dead Ghost, is that the same machine on two different ISPs?

I forgot to add it in my last post,, but this is my speedtest result:

And Across the Pond:

TheBird:

1. I never said i had this problem after the update. I had this problem from the beginning, long before that update. I have this problem on Gameranger too.
2. In my case, it's not an insufficient bandwidth problem, as you can see from my speedtest screens. More, as i've said in post #18, i've tested DG on another ISP with a much slower connection than my default one, and it doesn't spikes at all.

AdmShatan:

As i've said in post #12, in my case it's not a hardware problem (router or pc). But to give you an answer, yes, it was the same machine. Two different ISPs, two different connection speeds, one works, one doesn't.

So my case is this:

• Same machine, ISP 1 (0.90Mb/s upload), game spikes in 4v4 matches.

• Same machine, ISP 2 (0.30Mb/s upload), game doesn't spikes in 4v4 matches. (yes, it works on the slower connection! ping ~300, but no spikes)
  

• Tried on two very different machines (one desktop and one laptop), same results.

• On both ISPs, p2p torrent traffic works 100% and it isn't throttled.
  

Just want to add as an update, I just tried a game with the /serverproxyonly switch, I get the same results, intermittent spikes >1500.