Lag & Stability

First, a clarification.

D20PRO is not a game. It is a tool that assists you in playing your game.

I have had 5 clients (and the judge) running at once; (someone just posted that their group consists of 7 players) and haven't encountered any system slow downs.

Also, while I have encountered some stability issues with very complex maps (over 6000 monsters and an extremely large and high resolution map), I think you will find that D20PRO performs exceptionally well - if you limit yourself to more realistic situations.

 

You won't have a 5 minute wait on things in d20Pro. Even if you have a large map say a 4meg map then players get gray boxes for the map as it loads, but you can see wall, doors, and creatures just fine. I have used pretty large maps and those only take at most 20 to 30 seconds to load, guess it depends on your connection speed.

d20Pro is very stable, I have not had it crash on me in years. If you exceed your the memory limit for the computer it will slow to a crawl, but so does teh whole coming. I have laptops that have only 512M and if I open up a bunch of maps and use 600mb of memory it is slow, but still functions. AT that point it is a hardware not software issue.

When it lags once your system catches up all the movement occurs.

I say give us a try, get a trial licnese and set it through its paces. I am sure you will come to love d20Pro.

 

I'll just chime in on the subject of d20Pro lag and say that I've been part of a game with 10-12 machines connected, both locally and remotely, without having any real lag problems.

I will say though that I think there is a definite possibility that there are other factors besides whatever VTT you're using that might be contributing to your lag. I'm certainly not a FG dev but I'm really surprised that the lag would be that bad with it. I'd take a little time and see if you might be able to track down anything else on your hardware/connection or the other player's hardware/connection to see if you can find something that might be causing this. Nothing we'd like more than a new user converted from a competing product honestly, but there's nothing we'd like less than for you to purchase d20Pro and find out you have the same problems.

I'd definitely recommend you and your group give our free trial a run through to make sure the lag problems don't persist. If you do still have problems with lag using d20Pro pop back in here and let us know and maybe we can help you work it out.