Hey all, I enjoy playing Civ G&K multiplayer with either my brother or my roommate, but we end up with some strange and annoying errors that seem to absolutely plague the game in multiplayer, and I was wondering if anyone has a fix or something they've found that improves it.
First, when loading the game up, after inviting and getting the other player in the lobby, occasionally the game seems to de-sync on the initial loading. The host will load, and everyone else is stuck looking at Cpt. Schnozz Mcfunnyhat until they eventually just end civ V through the task bar. The host will eventually pop into a single player game while Civ MP grins and pretends nothing's wrong. We SEEM to have found a fix, that is waiting for a minute or two once everyone's in, just in case they aren't fully connected, and that seems to reduce the occurrance, but occasionally it'll just keep happening several times in a row and it's getting really annoying.
Second, when in the game, every once in a while the game will go into a loading screen and both human players will get dumped into their own single player games, disconnected from the other. Any attempts to reconnect are impossible, and trying to start the game again often leads us to experience a 'chain' of these errors every couple turns from then on, forcing us to abandon the game. We have other games, however, with the same internet, same players and even the same factions where this error never occurs, or the desync does occur and both players wind up back in the game just fine. it doesn't follow any logical pattern we can figure out. Does anyone have ANY idea about this bizarre little error? seems like every patch (I've been playing since the release of CiV) they claim to have fixed it, but it's always there.
First, when loading the game up, after inviting and getting the other player in the lobby, occasionally the game seems to de-sync on the initial loading. The host will load, and everyone else is stuck looking at Cpt. Schnozz Mcfunnyhat until they eventually just end civ V through the task bar. The host will eventually pop into a single player game while Civ MP grins and pretends nothing's wrong. We SEEM to have found a fix, that is waiting for a minute or two once everyone's in, just in case they aren't fully connected, and that seems to reduce the occurrance, but occasionally it'll just keep happening several times in a row and it's getting really annoying.
Second, when in the game, every once in a while the game will go into a loading screen and both human players will get dumped into their own single player games, disconnected from the other. Any attempts to reconnect are impossible, and trying to start the game again often leads us to experience a 'chain' of these errors every couple turns from then on, forcing us to abandon the game. We have other games, however, with the same internet, same players and even the same factions where this error never occurs, or the desync does occur and both players wind up back in the game just fine. it doesn't follow any logical pattern we can figure out. Does anyone have ANY idea about this bizarre little error? seems like every patch (I've been playing since the release of CiV) they claim to have fixed it, but it's always there.
