Problems with local connection

what are you use for your local connection Wifi or LAN cable? This is not over the internet correct. Also what are the size of your maps \hard drive space they are taking up? are all drivers on your computer up to date? are both version of JAVA the same. Are both 64bit. you could be having ram issue with both computers. due to large maps. When I run games at my house I don't hit any lag until It hit a map that is is over 60megs in size png.

how much ram does your machine have and what about ram on video card? is your os 64bit version of windows? if all your system resources are devoted to loading maps and kill your connection. default for d20pro is 32bit java and running the 32.bit exe of d20pro has memory limitations. install 64bit java from java. then run d20pro in 64bit


for how to run 64bit version this is a bat file in the d20pro folder. called d20Pro-64.bat. this will start 64bit version but with default memory size you can change it by right clicking that bat file and pressing edit. changed it to below. this will up it use 1.5 gigs of ram.

@echo off
setlocal

REM By default, we locate java in the path.
REM If you do not have a valid 64bit JRE found first in the path
REM then update the below with a full absolute path to a javaw.exe
set JAVA=javaw

start %JAVA% -Xmx1512m -Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=false -Dsun.java2d.noddraw -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -jar d20Pro.dat


then save it and run the bat file, it will start d20pro in 64bit you can replace your short cut with short cut to the bat file and even change the icon of the short cut to match the normal d20pro icon.

if you are using wifi this tend to be the real issue with most lag, face it wifi is nice but it is unreliable and is interfered with very easily, the number of people on a wifi can kill the speed and connection. I am network admin at my job. I see wifi issue come up all the time, and cause problems that are easily fixed with lan connection. There is nothing for direct connection via lan cable. Any VIDEO GAMER will tell you this you don't want to be playing Halo or any other high speed based game over wifi, it just cause to much lag. The same two computers I use at my house for gaming I have no problems with the connection dropping, because I have two wifi routers in my house bridged together via cable, so my whole house is covered equally with N based wifi. but when we take them to my friend house for game over their because distance from router it drops to speeds slightly below G based wifi but well above B. We get lag and dropped connection all the time. Also frequent drop connections over wifi is a sign your wifi router may be going bad. That is more then likely your issue if you are using wifi. Try if you can try taking your wifi router in the same room as computers just for testing and see if you get you don't need internet for wifi to work. you can even try direct lan connection if router has the ports and is not wifi only. If it works well on lan after the move and and not wifi your wifi is going out and i would suggest getting new one. If it works well in wifi, then you know you have a range problem. then you can look into other option of extending it. such as extenders, running cable to close room and installing another router like it did and so on.