CoH - performance 'bars' and maps

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Been playing a lot of Company of Heroes lately. It used to just be me and a mate but another friend has since bought it (Game + Expansion for £17? Bargain!).

Problem is, now he's involved, the game is laggier than ever. It was never perfect before, but its worse now.

Thing is, I've always had 3-5 bars on the "Perf", and Mate no2 always had 1-2 red bars. Mate no3 (new one) alyways has 3-5 bars also. Pings are sub 100.

So why the bad lag? Is it mate no2 with 1-2 bars in Perf? I've done some searching and it appears that the bars signify how you computer performed on similar maps in previous games, so does that mean he'll need to drop his GFX settings? Does his hardware lag cause the our games to lag??


And finally, maps - does anyone know of a good source for maps, and do you have any recommendations? We play 2v2 and 3v3 mainly.

Ta!
 
It's probably mate number 2 ruining it all tbh. Make sure the person with the best internet connection hosts it (and if possible the best computer), combination of both would be best.
 
We've just been chatting, and we've both just run performance tests - he averaged 51fps (Great) and I got 28fps (Average). Yet my bars are usually higher than his.

I'm hosting the games, we're all on 2mb connections.

I'm gonna switch back to DX9 and we'll give it another try (didn't even know it was on, tbh)
 
Turning off DX10, and Phyisics from Ultra to High = jump from 28fps average to 56fps average :rolleyes:

And I can't even notice the difference. DX10 for the win, eh?
 
Turn off any dx10 settings, OF (opposing fronts) with all its fancy rain effects puts quite a bit more of a drain on a computer than the original COH did so if a computer is running on medium for coh it might need to be dropped to low for OF

ps. the performance bars lie, they have never been an accurate representation of anything whatsoever and have never worked as they were supposed to
 
The performace bars dont mean anything, they dont work. OF also increased the hardware demands, try checking settings and lowering some of them as they are different to vanilla CoH

- Pea0n
 
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