Obfleur

Hello!

(this thread applies to both FM07 and FM08).

Me and my mate always play FM at my place.
I sit at my computer - and he sits at my other computer.

I am the one that loads up the game - and he connects to me.
The game runs fine on my computer, but it's always really slow on his computer.
Like, he clicks a player and then a second or two later the player screen loads (some times it'll load immediately).

Is this common?
Has anyone else been playing some network games and can tell me what experiences they have with network play?

robertodibaggio

Best to go on the online forum, but I know it's not uncommon for the other player, who isn't the host to have some delays, be thankful it's only a couple of seconds, I've heard about it being upward of 30 seconds for each page that's loaded!!!

gianps

sadly this is common

Obfleur

Oh, okey.
Well, we've been playing like this for the past seven years, so it's not like it's hindering us from playing

Thanks for your replies!

NepentheZ

Its common, unless you have super computers. For years me and a friend had this problem, and sometimes I (or he) would have to wait up to 8 or 10 seconds to get the screen.!

Now however, Internet connections are much improved, as are computer specs, and its instant for both of us always.

Dunga99

Your lucky it only takes a second or two, some people suffer a lot longer loadind screens playing online.

Sadly SI never seem to have improved the online part of the game since FM05.

Serpico

If you have a good connection then it's barely longer than playing the single player game. But always remove logos and pictures from preferences. Sending all that extra data can cause slowdown..

gianps

remove logos and pictures from preferences.. server or client?

wonderblue

It definitely chugs more. I'm not convinced that 08 is actually any faster than 07 in terms of multiplayer games.

Serpico

remove logos and pictures from preferences.. server or client? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Both.