game freezes in multiplayer

posted on February 15th, 2010, 10:05 pm

Hello,
This is my first time posting onto the forum.  My friend and I love this latest version.  While playing in multiplayer, almost every game will cause both our computers to freeze after about an hour into the game. I can't even exit into the shell so the only way to fix is by rebooting my computer.  Any ideas how to help?  Thanks!

[quaddmgtech]

posted on February 15th, 2010, 10:07 pm

Last edited by quaddmgtech on February 15th, 2010, 10:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Can you provide system specifications for both computers?

Does it freeze in single-player as well? If not it could be something to do with connectivity? or a large gap in the performance between both PC's.

Any info would help to point you in the right direction.



(edit) did it behave the same is earlier versions of the game?

posted on February 15th, 2010, 11:26 pm

I don't think it happens in single player mode... only played twice in single player.  We never had this problem of both computers freezing simultaneously until this latest version.  I'll provide system specs in a little bit... thought I would add this in first.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 2:20 am

    I'm the friend he has referenced in his post.  Our computers are of about the same caliber and we are running the same versions of the game (3.1.1) over Hamachi.  We play about 2x a week and only since the 3.1.1 upgrade have we had any type of connectivity/game freezes.  Windows does not tell us that there is an error running the game and it needs to shut down, but both computers freeze disabling even the ability to CTRL+ALT+DEL to stop the program.  Just seeing if other people have had any similar issues.  We love this game and will soldier on as dedicated followers.  Just would like to get a game that would allow us go past the 60 min mark.

    We play on a variety of maps and it seems to happen regardless of that.  We normally play co-op against 2/3 opponents of differing AI difficulty.  There doesn't seem to be any common threads on that front either.  Normally go against one Merciless Romulan AI and one Hard Klingon AI, but have had problems slotting Dominion in for either AI difficulty. 
Thanks for the feedback

posted on February 16th, 2010, 2:32 am

Any chance you two could try a >60 min game, but without any AI's? Just bog up the network with units and see if it crashes. I know that for some computers the AI tends to be demanding and causes small "seizures" when it makes a decision

Welcome the forums 

posted on February 16th, 2010, 3:03 am

Thanks for your help Dom, going to be on for the next 3 hours trying to get our fleet on and see what happens.  Take care all. 

posted on February 17th, 2010, 9:10 am

i have seen this once in a testgame back in 3.1.0 but weren't able to reproduce the issue. ctrl+alt+del worked for us though. what races are you playing with? any special game parameters?