Join time

[lady-MGS]

Does it take anyone else forever to join? My husband is in a few minutes before me, sometimes longer. There's times that mcom's have been destroyed before I can get it. Also, I'm starting to freeze up a lot. If something gets blown up besides me, it takes forever to get away from it. I can't move, I can't do anything. Here is my system.

CPU: AMD Athlon?II X2 245 Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: Asus M4A78L-M AMD 760G Chipset DDR2/1066 mATX w/ Integrated ATI Radeon HD3000 Video, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, USB2.0, SATA RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI
Memory: 2GB (1GBx2) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express DVI-I & TVO

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

I think there was another posting on similar issues... and forcing it to use previous/earlier verison of directx was a huge improvement if I remember correctly.

EDIT: Here's the thread, this should help. http://www.cainslair.com/showthread.php?t=16311

[lady-MGS]

So it looks as if I'm not the only one with this problem and it seems to be a pretty big problem to the point of their being a specific update for it. I did get it but screwed up I got the 64 instead of 32. The game wouldn't even start. Anyways, hubby fixed it and went into the server for a min. I'll check it out more tomorrow.

[K PhaNTOM]

ATi ATi ATi ATi ATi ATi ATi ATi

It's all the ATi, it's a game bug. Just look at how long it takes Skud to join a game. I start on Isla, get to mCom, plant, blow it up and skud hasn't even joined yet. So much for squadmates!

[Dead_And_Gone]

HA... But Skud will revive you when he spawns on you and you get toasted. lol

I had the same issue of slow join, but lately has been doing great. And no, I don't have an answer, as i'm running the same versions in software as when i was joining and finding an MCOM already taken or destroyed.

[Skud]

HA... But Skud will revive you when he spawns on you and you get toasted. lol

I had the same issue of slow join, but lately has been doing great. And no, I don't have an answer, as i'm running the same versions in software as when i was joining and finding an MCOM already taken or destroyed.

Yeah, it works out ok that way. I get to spawn at the mcomm and don't have to run all that way...I'll let the young ones do the menial tasks. Plus it gives me a little time to get a beverage or catch up on my reading.

[lady-MGS]

For anyone else w/ the same problems running Win 7/Vista, it's a driver issue. I had driver 8 something and I jumped all the way to 10 something. I posted the link in another post but here it is again.

[URL="http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GraphicsDriverInstallationInstructionforMicrosoftW indows7.aspx"]http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GraphicsDriverInstallationInstructionforMicrosoftW indows7.aspx[/URL/]

It worked for me

[Rand{CLR}]

I have the same problem, also with a recent-model ATI card. The fixes didn't work for me.

I, of course, blame EA.

-Rand

[Pumpkin_Jack]

Server Full.

Good for the Lair

Bad for me

[lady-MGS]

Rand I know you probably did it but I'm going to ask anyways- Did you get rid of ALL the previous drivers before installing the new one?

[Rand{CLR}]

I did, but this link seemed to be to a new hotfix I hadn't tried. It works, but I may roll it back because it now seems very laggy. I can join as soon as everyone else, but I think I'm in a period of lag that lasts at least as long as the time I had to wait to get in.

-Rand

[{CLR} Cobalt]

I had the same issue. I fixed mine by going back to Nvidia.

[Skud]

I had the same issue. I fixed mine by going back to Nvidia.

My fix was a free download.

[K PhaNTOM]

My fix was a free download.

Your solution took 5 months of wasted gaming time.

[lady-MGS]

Your solution took 5 months of wasted gaming time.

Can't we just be happy it was fixed.. lol

I have always had a Nvidia up until this new computer. The card was a good one and it was included in the price. I never thought to check to see what games would work and what wouldn't.. haha

I would recommend Nvidia to anyone else