Phoenix session now

[machasm]

Just wanted to let you guys know that my session was pretty much full the whole time it was running.
Not to say that there isn't a prob with the online sessions, just that in this instance all looked OK from my end.
Adrian.

[Bauerjack]

Ditto, there was a few stammers following my head on crash into two of you, but other than that it was ok..

You lot have got some moves!!

[Made2Fade]

Adrian i take it yours was the rcheliaddicts session? on my list it was showing as having 1 person in pretty much all the time i was trying. So maybe this is a clue to why we arnt getting in. Maybe it was full but not actually showing or something??? Either way i distinctfully remember it showing as having 1 person in only on my system.
Cheers
Lee

[Chippy]

Adrian i take it yours was the rcheliaddicts session? on my list it was showing as having 1 person in pretty much all the time i was trying. So maybe this is a clue to why we arnt getting in. Maybe it was full but not actually showing or something??? Either way i distinctfully remember it showing as having 1 person in only on my system.
Cheers
Lee

Exactly the same problem I get here when trying to join.

[machasm]

Perhaps that is the case Lee.
Most of the time there were at least 3 people and some of the time it was full.

[Made2Fade]

very weird... yip i distinctly remember that it only showed 1 person in because i instantly though well no one else must be getting in your session too. I tried for ages throughout the night too. Ah well nothing we can do about it, lets just hope they sort it real soon.
Thanks
Lee

[tourerjim]

very weird... yip i distinctly remember that it only showed 1 person in because i instantly though well no one else must be getting in your session too. I tried for ages throughout the night too. Ah well nothing we can do about it, lets just hope they sort it real soon.
Thanks
Lee

Lee I manage about 9.30 last night to have a session 'heliaddicts' lasted about 10 mins & only showed 1 person, heliaddicts does often seem worse than most others, althrough I seem to drop out of other sessions at times.

[HiltonSteve]

I have hosted online sessions recently with not too many problems, even left one running all night with one or two people in there.

I did notice one thing though, i run twin screens and while Phoenix is running one the first screen i have my desktop on the second screen with a CPU usage monitor on there. In single player Phoenix use's quite a lot of processing power but in multiplayer it uses 100% constantly on all four cores!

I have a pretty high spec PC,

Quad core running at 3.0Ghz per core (overclocked and water cooled)
4Gb of DDR2 memory
Nvidia 9800GTX+ 500meg graphics card.

Now if it needs 100% CPU usage on this spec machine how is it supposed to perform well on a much lower spec machine?

I run the odd game on my PC and for something like Brothers in Arms Hells Highway which is much more graphically demanding but the CPU usage never gets to anything like it does with phoenix, lucky if it hits 50% on just one core occasionally either in single or multiplayer mode.

Seems to me that it could be badly written code but I am no expert on writing software so won't start ripping the phoenix guys to pieces (yet)!

[jboweruk]

It can't be one person, I tried the night before last, and last night, nothing, zip, couldn't join any session at all.

[heliTV]

Here's the reply I got from Phoenix today:-

Hi Graham
We are sorry that you are having problems with the online aspect of Phoenix.

Connection problems when both parties are behind NAT-enabled routers are very common across all online software, and quite often can be fixed if both parties forward the correct ports on their routers to their internal computer’s IP address.

Hundreds of customers use the online service daily from all over the world without an issue, but we can assure you that we are currently expending a great amount of effort and resources into completely reworking our online aspect with a brand-new network engine, faster performance and masses of new features, to improve connectivity for those customers who are experiencing difficulties.

This will form part of our next update, which will of course be a free download to our customers in the near future.

In the meantime, you may find that forwarding the correct ports (UDP 9000-9005) on your router, or placing your router in a DMZ-mode (this is not recommended) will fix the problems you are having.

Best RegardsPhoenix Support

I've fiddled with my router so will have another go...

Roll on the next update!

[StuSmith]

Sounds a bit like the problem on xbox live. If your router internet connection is moderate then you can't join certain people's lobbies or hear them.

[Made2Fade]

Well ive already forwarded those ports and still having difficulties. See what happens in teh next update i suppose.

Cheers
Lee

[Smoothound]

Sounds a bit like the problem on xbox live. If your router internet connection is moderate then you can't join certain people's lobbies or hear them.

That's still a bit of a smokescreen when everything else you do and try works except for xbox live. It's obvious it's a Phoenix and Xbox live problem not a local problem. Everything I do here via Mac, PC and PS3 works fine and with multiple things at once over a 10Mb Cable connection, fire up Phoenix and it's poor to middling straight away That is with and without other traffic at the same time. No brainer in my book. That std Router problem email shit is just a whitewash as far as I am concerned

[tourerjim]

Think I'll give up on these sessions cos when I did manage to get on to one then for no reason heli would crash had no control.

[adieuk]

hi bob go into view and at the bottom it says message click on it and your done,
and as to speed i think it is phoenics server not working right

hope this helps
adieuk (on the sim)