MP Ports guide & Technical Issues Help Thread

[FreezBee]

When i host a TCP/IP game with nobody else in it, why is it that sometimes i still lag(monsters teleport around)?

Because it's still client/server, even if the client and the server are physically the same. I occasinally play tcp/ip games and have made the same observation, so I suppose that there is the same lag in updates from the server to the client as on bnet.

- FreezBee

[Question]

But if i ping myself the ping is zero so why is there lag?

[SnickerSnack]

But if i ping myself the ping is zero so why is there lag?

I know this is old.....

Because ping is not a factor in self-mp games, but other sources of slowdown are. Not all lag is network lag.