Synchronizing game!

I have a couple of racing games (rfactor and Arca 08) that whenever I play them, every 10 seconds or so my game says "synchronizing game" and it lags out. It only does it online and I also play COD WAW and it does not affect it. I'm running windows XP with an ASUS P5ND2-SLI motherboard. Please help!

 

man i have the same problem on same game. if you find something out please let me know.

 

Here's what a brief search turned up:

"Another thread stated his error started after he did some video editting (which I do as well)

So I uninstalled ffdshow and any other codec packs I had installed and it resolved the problem."

-Courtesy johncampbell on the Speedgeezers forum

Have you tried running a LAN game? Does it do the same thing?

That same brief search turned up a lot of other people who have the same problem.

 

not just online..... and i do no video editing at all

 

So when you say "not just online," what do you mean?

Do any other games do this?

What's the internet connection you're using?

Is this a new problem?

 

My computer runs the games just fine on Lan. It is only on Arca and rfactor. I can play BF2 and Cod WAW just fine online. I have 1.5 dsl and run a 8800 gts 512 video card. I did use fraps to record some clips from Arca but I unistalled it and it did the same thing.

tsanders, I will definatly let you know if I figure something out. I've missed 3 league races now.

Someone suggested trying a bigger power supply, I have a 500 watt one now.

 

Are you using a router? If so, what kind and have you forwarded the ports necessary for the game?

Do you have BitTorrent or any other large piece of software (Antivirus) running in the background?

And finally, I should have asked this first, is the game fully patched?

-GSZB

 

Yes, I'm using a router. I've had the game for over a year and it just started doing this about a month ago. I've used end it all and still does the same thing. The game runs on a client so it automatically patches it. Could fraps be messing it up? I appreciate your help!

 

Unless you're constantly running Fraps, it shouldn't be. Last time I used Fraps, yeah, it messed up my framerate, which could mean that your computer is trying to catch up to the other computer playing. However, that's probably not the case since that was a number of years ago.

If you're constantly running it with Fraps, try running it without. If you still get the problem, try these things:

1. Try connecting directly to your cable modem.
A. If that works, use http://portforward.com/ to select your router and the program to set up port forwarding.
2. Uninstall Fraps (make sure you have a backup of all of your stuff!)
A. If that works, try GameCam. If that does the same thing, well.... Don't know what to tell you.


Also, what's your ping to the server you're trying to connect?

-GSZB

 

My ping is the same as it was when it worked. I'll try your suggestions, Thanks

 

not gonna be a power supply problem. i have a 1000 watt ps. i was running 2 295s vids. took one out only running 1 now. im on a 3 mg dsl line, dont use a router. just a modem. no fraps no video editing nothing.

 

not sure what the deal is. but if i unplug my steering wheel reboot cpu. start game then hook whhel up my sync issues are gone.

 

intresting, I'll try that tonight.

 

hope it works for u it did me. let me know bro.

 

That didn't work for me:cry.

 

Dude! I had the same problem and stupidly but my sollution worked Just turn ON the V-SYNC in your game settings. Somehow it turned off on me and I had this problem like for a month

 

Here is another solution: try pinging the server you are playing at.

In cmd type: "ping xxxxxxxxx -t" to ping the server indefinitely. (xxx could be the name of the server or the actual address) My problem was that I was getting 4-6 good pings and then i got one time out. This kills your connection to the server. And this is the problem of your provider