Multiplayer battles Not quite working

**ThatRandomGuy** · May 01, 2012, 07:09 PM

First of all this applies to both Medieval 2 and to Rome (not tried multiplayer Empire yet), but since I enjoy multiplayer battles more in Rome I am posting it here.

The problem is that the majority of the time I enter a multiplayer battle all of my unit's animations are frozen, just the units, all the grass is waving about, the flags are waving about, trees etc. The sound also plays normally. But the worst thing of all is that I am unable to enter the deployment stage. The only thing I can do is exit the battle.

There seems to be no reason for this to happen, I can sometimes play very large battles with no problems. The problem is not because of my computer as I have had the some problem across 3 computers.

**ThatRandomGuy** · July 05, 2012, 12:55 PM

Sorry for necroing old threads but i still have this problem but with some new info.

the problem is definitely not from my internet as i have the same problem with a different internet connection (I'm on holiday using the internet there and still have the problem)

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

**ThatRandomGuy** · July 14, 2012, 03:41 PM

So does no one have any idea of what might be causing this or how to fix it?

**Brusilov** · July 15, 2012, 02:40 PM

Try turning down the graphics including unit sizes to the minimum and see if the same thing happens. This will only remove the possibility that the load on your PCs is too much.

In some on-line game I 'lose control' over units - this seems to be caused by packet loss. So, data is being lost somewhere along the line (like a bad telephone line). In order to see if that is happening you need to work out the address of the target and run a path ping or similar.

The following shows that I was getting 100% packet loss in step 5 which was a BT owner server. It was only solved by switching internet providers (as BT India were not helpful in resolving the issue and even suggested during one on-line conversation on my PC that I should 'reset my Hub' which I'm fairly sure would have resulted in the on-line conversation being terminated).

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