Multi-Player Mode in NR2003

[H2MikeO2]

I hope that I am not the only one to have experienced this but when I am playing in Multi-player mode and hosting a race, the person or persons that join tend to experience brief periods of "cut-out" for lack of a better word. While driving in any part of the event, happy hour, race, ect., cars around them will dissapear and then reappear making for a very umpleasent race experience. I have tried many things on my end hoping to resolve this, from turning off all antivirus applications to having the person who's joining add a port address to the end of the ip address they connect to but no luck. Has anyone gone through this whom might be able to assist? Essentially its just one person who's connecting and we have 41 ai drivers so I do not think that not connceting to a seperate computer/server should be the issue but could be wrong. Really could use some help here.....:twitcy:

 

[Swillis]

It sounds like I've had this problem before...

Basically, I ran XP with my friends for the longest time, then I got a new computer which was Vista. It worked fine for the most part, although there were times when cars would disappear, and sometimes laps wouldn't count.

I couldn't find a fix for it, persay, I just had to either dual boot my computer to XP or get rid of Vista altogether, and then I never had the problem after that. I'm not sure if it's a Vista problem or if it's the difference in operating systems that does it.

It seems to be a lag issue, but I'm not good enough with computers to tell you WHY this happens. I just know what fixed it for me.

PS: I think it only happened to me in a race once when I was leading by a large amount. I guess I was too separated from the pack.

 

[H2MikeO2]

Thanks Swillis. I am running Vista, should have mentioned this, and the person whom I race with uses XP. Could that really be the difference? I do not have my Vista "dual boot" ready. I installed Vista over XP, do I have re-install XP or just enable the abillity to boot it? Looking on-line for information so not sure.

 

[Swillis]

All I can tell you is that's the only variable I had, and it made the difference. It was the same installation on Vista and XP because I just copied the folder from my external. So, the installation wasn't "correct" though the game worked. Thus, operating system was the only difference.

 

[H2MikeO2]

Thanks Swillis! Ok. I can understand the problem. But before I go and install XP and create a duel boot, there's the ability to run a program within in Vista as XP "Backwards compatible" option that allows for this. I noticed that I did not have this option checked (right clicking on the icon on the desktop and choosing the compatibility tab) as I thought that my installation was working correctly. By checking this option, can this be an easier fix? Can anyone else confirm as well? I will try this and see. More to come.

 

[dwp0124]

This effect was called 'warping' when Sierra had their multiplayer host site up. You could jump on and play with whoever was avalilabe unless it was a closed session. I always thought it had something to do with connection speed, not our operating systems, since we were using Windows 'Stone Age' edition back then. I am very familiar with what you are talking about, because I accidently took out the entire field at Daytona once because of it. Not a pleasant experience for any of us.

 

[Swillis]

Yeah, I don't claim to know what it is or why it happens. I know it's warping, but I will say connection speed was not a variable. I had a solid DSL connection and ran good quality before and after Vista.

Actually, there was only 3 of us and I think we all had similar connections, if not the same company, etc. so the only difference was they had XP and I had Vista.

There were times I was leading by a sizeable margin, then the field would appear in front of me. It was pretty sketchy.