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Josh780
10-02-2007, 02:04 AM
Other than some occasional lag here and there, this is the only other issue I've run into and it's been driving me crazy.

I've been playing the game pretty frequently the past three days and the game is great during the day with no issues other than some lag. Each night I've played, right around 1-3am Eastern time, when I go to attack, the game freezes. If I wait, nothing happens and I end up having to End Process and once the game closes out, my wireless net connection drops suddenly...this is the only time my connection drops.

My comp specs:
Windows XP Home w/ SP2 and all critical updates
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
Asus A8N-SLi SE Mobo
2 GB DDR400
Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS 512MB RAM
250GB WD Caviar HD with over 100GB free space
Netgear WirelessG Router and Netgear WirelessG PCI Adaptor (WG311v3)
Realtek AC'97 Audio

I noticed tonight that the chat features weren't working when I was having trouble. I was able to see other players attacking repeatedly and they kept going. I live in OH if that helps, I read somewhere the game server(s) are located in CA. Before downloading and installing Fiesta about a week ago, I made sure the computer had all recent driver and firmware updates for all devices and the most recent BIOS update. The router is setup with WPA2-PSK(AES) for security on the wireless connection. Signal strength is always 98-100% with a link speed from router to adaptor of 54Mbps. I'm connected to the net via DSL with a consistent available download speed of 1.3Mbps and upload of 370kbps. The router's firewall and XP's firewall are both enabled. I connect to the Teva server. No restart of my equip was necessary for the game to run okay again. Any help or fix available would be greatly appreciated.