Problem with savegames and research in mp

[Rogue78]

i've searched the tech forum for similiar problems but without any luck :/
so i've decided to post this here since it is an mp problem and i'm not sure if it is a real bug - if it justifys a bugreport mail.

2 player mp game (germany/italy) on lan. all works quite well except that the client sometimes cant research a tech despite meeting all requirements for it. in addition already researched techs seem to vanish after loading a savegame at random

what bugs me too is that i can _only_ load the autosave and not any other savegame in mp. that means for us if we called it a day mid-month and i saved manually. the next time we play i have to rename my manual save 'autosave' in order to be able to load it.

addition: the reserach "bug" occurs in auto- and manually saved games.
we are using HOI2 1.1 with the no-timelimit mod (note all "bugs" already occured before we installed the no-timelimit mod)

is there any fix or workaround for this except waiting for 1.2?

 

[unmerged(22728)]

i've searched the tech forum for similiar problems but without any luck :/
so i've decided to post this here since it is an mp problem and i'm not sure if it is a real bug - if it justifys a bugreport mail.

Íve posted and i think 2 others also posted about host-cliet out-of-sync in tech research. If you want to se how much do a test in your environment but with two as co-operative. Strange i thought this was more a internet phenomen than LAN. And i suppouse both of you had same date&time? speed not above normal?

About auto-save i cant tell.. i never use auto save. Random manual saves works fine in our MP games.

 

[Rogue78]

this is on a 100mbit LAN and we never had day/time mismatches between host and client even on fast.

yes i do manually save too but when i try to host the saved game i only have the option to load the autosave and have to manually rename my savegame to autosave.xxx to load it :S

EDIT: i've found some related topics and read that it might be related to host-client sync problems (the client finishes a research and assigns a new one while the host notices the client canceling a research at 99.XX%)

is (as the client) waiting 2-3 days after a research is finished a workaround for this until a real fix arrives? has anyone experimented with this? i will try it and post my experiences later - lets hope the best

 

[unmerged(22728)]

yes i do manually save too but when i try to host the saved game i only have the option to load the autosave ...

try to scroll further down in list.. does the manual saves appear then?

It would be intresting to hear about your testing/resolving desync problem with host-client in your LAN game.

 

[Orthank]

There is not much that can be done in Warsaw's Lan Group Germany couldn't produce some units so we decided to unload, it was a total mess, Germany was out of any resources with dissent and low ic - of course on players screen all looked superior. So dyssynchronisation is a problem in both net and lan games. With your save it is as Tangens write u have to click to scroll it down, normally saves in MP mode are hidden (do not ask me why).

 

[Rogue78]

yes the other saves appear after i click the scroll bar again _after_ reaching the bottom already odd but no real problem - thx for the tip

my experience from one session with 1 crash (2nd in total thats pretty good compared to even the latest hoi1 version ):

no lost researches so far due to the client always waiting at least 1 day before he starts a new one.

the "bug" with missing resources happened to us too but only once so far and i compensated for it with my res. but thats a serious gamestopper if it happens in a game human vs human (we were playing both in the same alliance so it didnt affect us that much)

 

[Orthank]

no lost researches so far due to the client always waiting at least 1 day before he starts a new one.

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This might be a good tip, waiting a few hours before picking next tech, it is also important not to alt tab without pause - it causes serious problems.