Multiplayer lag

[llamadog903]

Hello,

My friend and I are experiencing lag when playing together online. We do not experience any lag while playing single player and only the person joining the multiplayer game gets the lag, not the host. We both tried hosting and noticed this. Is this a known issue/is there anything I can do to fix this?

Thanks!

 

[Stones]

I have the same problem. No lag singleplayer, but the joined player lags behind in mp. The save transfer is also incredibly slow. This could at first glance look like a network problem. But nothing else is going slow :/

 

[Capt.Picard]

@Stones you should upload your game save files so the devs can take a look at it.

 

[sebasti161]

We have the same issue, the people are lagging behind and we have tried different hosts but it doesn't fix it. We all have good internet. Even on normal speed the game stutters.

 

[Copperfield]

i am having exact the same issues with the game currently..

I bought the game 3 days ago... enjoying it.. but the mp games are messy... since i get kicked all the time because i lagg behind 3/5 days

both my pc and internet are high end.

Does anyone actually knows what the cause of this problem?

 

[Darnisa]

We had this same issue last night and tonight. But earlier my friend and I played for about 4 hours with no lag stuttering or anything. then we took a break for lunch and came back about 4pmEST and we started to get the same lag again. when I went out and checked there were like 57k people playing just on steam. I noticed later the lag got a bit better I checked it was at about 42k so I am guessing it High server Traffic as it seems worse in peak hours.

 

[AndrewT]

If Steam is really the issue, you could have all players opt into the stellaris_test version now in the Steam Betas tab for the game. This uses Paradox MP services instead of Steam's.

 

[Copperfield]

would be nice to have a some sort of response of the developers here..

 

[sebasti161]

If Steam is really the issue, you could have all players opt into the stellaris_test version now in the Steam Betas tab for the game. This uses Paradox MP services instead of Steam's.

We were using the stellaris_test when this happened to us

 

[KaiEkkrin]

A friend and I were trying to play an MP game this afternoon and I think we have the same issue.

• Guest is regularly lagging 2-3 days compared to the host and has a very choppy experience
• Disconnects every 3-5 years
• Very slow save game transfers when reconnecting
• We're both on the 2.6.1 "testing and crossplay" branch
• Neither of us has the dreaded "restricted network" warning
• We tried both with the crossplay box checked and the box un-checked, and with both of us taking a turn at being the host
• We both have the Steam version of the game and are in the same download region (UK London)
• We're both on the same ISP (Zen Internet) and neither of us has had any general internet trouble

It felt like our network packets were always being forced through some overloaded Steam proxy, even though I thought having the crossplay box checked was supposed to make it make a direct connection (? - we both have the correct port forwarding set up on our routers). I haven't checked this with wireshark, though.

 

[HeartAttackPatty]

Bumping this because this exact problem has been happening on the Unity beta test

 

[AndrewT]

Bumping this because this exact problem has been happening on the Unity beta test

Please don't do that. Report it to the beta support team, thanks!