Preliminary results are now up for the fifth round of Monday Night F1 Racing. Race write-up and selected driver quotes still to come (hopefully), so stay tuned.
If Codemasters ever release a dedicated server for the game, it should fix the random disconnects caused by the peer to peer nature of the game as it is.
At the moment we are averaging about one disconnect a race, which is a pain. The only way we can improve the situation is if everyone connects using the best possible method available. For example, if everyone uses wired connections (instead of wireless) from their PC to their modem / router / switch, this will reduce the overall latency of the network and improve gameplay.
Some other options to improve network performance are to close all cloud syncing apps, downloads, torrents and other chat / game clients, just in case they are wasting bandwidth. But the biggest network bottleneck is everyone’s upload speed. For example, I’m limited to about 1.2Mbps on uploads and a lot of that is used by the Teamspeak server (when people are talking).
Other performance improvements can be made through improving the frame rate of the game. To get the best possible experience, everyone needs to be sustaining a frame rate greater than 40fps at all times (50+ recommended).
Shame about the disconnect :(
ReplyDeleteIf Codemasters ever release a dedicated server for the game, it should fix the random disconnects caused by the peer to peer nature of the game as it is.
At the moment we are averaging about one disconnect a race, which is a pain. The only way we can improve the situation is if everyone connects using the best possible method available. For example, if everyone uses wired connections (instead of wireless) from their PC to their modem / router / switch, this will reduce the overall latency of the network and improve gameplay.
Some other options to improve network performance are to close all cloud syncing apps, downloads, torrents and other chat / game clients, just in case they are wasting bandwidth. But the biggest network bottleneck is everyone’s upload speed. For example, I’m limited to about 1.2Mbps on uploads and a lot of that is used by the Teamspeak server (when people are talking).
Other performance improvements can be made through improving the frame rate of the game. To get the best possible experience, everyone needs to be sustaining a frame rate greater than 40fps at all times (50+ recommended).