Hi,

I <3 this game but everytime I play online, it's way too laggy to handle. I have a cable modem, a high end computer, and Half-Life 2 multiplayer, for example, plays perfectly smoothly online. Can anyone offer any insight either as to why this game seems so laggy or what I might be able to do to fix it?

Thanks

poor connection on other clients can cause a lag on your machine. maybe you were just unlucky with the opponents you have played against.

I'm gonna attempt to play online at whatever various increments in the day that I can find time to, in order to test the possibility of my just having been unlucky with the opponents I played against. However, right now there seems to be an even worse problem: the game lobby (where the rooms can be seen and the things chatters say appear at the bottom of the screen) freezes before I can get anywhere. Sometimes it freezes at the intro message, sometimes a few seconds after I click 'OK.' This is the first time it does that. My *guess* is that there were a lot of rooms and people online at that particular time, which is why it was too much for my computer/internet to handle? But then the question would be why, since my computer's powerful and my internet cable. Any insight would be great. Thanks

there are other possibilities. it could be a bug in the game itself. wouldn't be the first. it could also be your isp. sometimes, they slow down connection over certain port ranges. you can probably call up your isp and just ask about it. if they do, you can solve this by connecting through a proxy. you just need to find a proxy that would be sufficiently fast. since you don't need it to be anonymous, it might not be so hard.

I'm not sure what proxys are about. Are they easy to deal with?

I have a router, so I checked the Mayhem Support site, and upon finding that I don't have every port listed opened, I inserted them one by one. My router said 'Invalid Action' for every single one except for TCP 80, so I couldn't open them...