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Mychal B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 02:34
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Hey everybody,

The problem I'm having is that when I have my laptop on a wireless connection as the client the server computer will eventually virtually "freeze" by only playing 1 frame every 3 seconds, but the client still runs perfect.

If I have the client on a wired connection everything works perfectly. Anyone have any idea why this could be happening?

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-using built in commands for multiplayer, only using LAN. Plan
on switching to multisync later

-all information sent is in memblocks

-signal strength on wireless is excellent

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Indicium
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 03:47
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You'll have to be more specific. What do you actually do serverside, is there any 3D graphics? Do you run physics?


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Mychal B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 04:57
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its a very simple 3d tower defense game. The server is responsible for creating all bullets, updating enemy positions/state, and starting waves. Both client and server sends messages when a tower is built. That is pretty much the extent of it

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MrValentine
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 09:59 Edited at: 15th Jun 2012 10:03
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I think... Interpolation events? I believe Dark SOURCE has something for this...

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Dark Source not Dark Data... lol its too early my brain is just warming up I went to bed for once last night lol

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Found it I think
Quote: "AnySpeedMachine - demonstrates how to create machine independent timing for games"
might do the trick

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Mychal B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 11:03
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hmmm.. I don't understand. How would the timing effect my scenario?

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Indicium
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 21:57
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It might be that you have a memory leak, you could try monitoring the memory usage of the server.


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Mychal B
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 22:27
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but if it was a memory leak then it would still happen on a wired connection, right? That is what I'm really having trouble with. I don't understand how having a wired/wireless connection makes a difference

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