The lagging/choppiness

[Sdot]

Is this just something you all put up with? I'm trying to see if maybe this is on my end. 2 min after launching app all movement is so choppy. looks like I'm Farming in slow motion. I'm on iPhone 4. I killed all other apps so nothing else is running. And I have over half of free memory left so my phone is not full. Any suggestions? Also playing on home wifi so speed is good

[Tramp Stamp]

It's not you. I have a 4S and performance is inconsistent.

[Ghost818]

Tramp is right, its not you it happens to me too one moment its good, the next is all choppy and laggy; I too wonder what its from.

[downrange]

ditto that. It's better on the iPad 2 vs the iPhone 4, but is annoying whenever/where-ever it occurs.

I am thinking of buying a couple thousand bottles of this, in case it helps.
http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/






(banging you upside the head with a clue-stick just in case, this is a joke)

[AppleMacGuy]

It's a long standing bug - months old in fact and we're all still waiting for it to be fixed :mad: The only resolution is to quit and re-launch CC. I'm doing it 10-20 times day and I suspect many others are too. To say this state of affairs sucks is a gross understatement :mad::mad:

[schlumpf]

What I noticed on every update of Crime City and Modern War, it that both start to get extremely slow after accepting a mafia request, until you close the program.

[willydpooh]

im watching gunfight on slow motion, wewwwwwwww!!!

[Amber_]

Yeah, this is soo annoying. I've noticed that it depends a lot on the time of the day. In the morning and during the night here in Sweden, it works great. Almost no lagging or slow motion. In the afternoon and especially the evening on the other hand, it's terrible. It's been extreme since the last update, I can't even play during that time. Almost every player on my rivals list is "too beat up" when I try to visit them, and when I'm finally able to visit a player it's so laggy that it's not even worth robbing them (takes too much time).

I think it's really strange that the top grossing game on app store isn't able to fix this.

[Max Power]

Yeah, this is soo annoying. I've noticed that it depends a lot on the time of the day. In the morning and during the night here in Sweden, it works great. Almost no lagging or slow motion. In the afternoon and especially the evening on the other hand, it's terrible. It's been extreme since the last update, I can't even play during that time. Almost every player on my rivals list is "too beat up" when I try to visit them, and when I'm finally able to visit a player it's so laggy that it's not even worth robbing them (takes too much time).

I think it's really strange that the top grossing game on app store isn't able to fix this.

That would suggest to me that it is a "volume of players playing" issue. Maybe their servers cant handle the volume.

[AppleMacGuy]

Yeah, this is soo annoying. I've noticed that it depends a lot on the time of the day. In the morning and during the night here in Sweden, it works great. Almost no lagging or slow motion. In the afternoon and especially the evening on the other hand, it's terrible. It's been extreme since the last update, I can't even play during that time. Almost every player on my rivals list is "too beat up" when I try to visit them, and when I'm finally able to visit a player it's so laggy that it's not even worth robbing them (takes too much time).

I think it's really strange that the top grossing game on app store isn't able to fix this.

As soon as you see the lag bug you should restart the game - that is the only solution currently, since the in-game lag never resolves itself in my experience.

[Amber_]

That would suggest to me that it is a "volume of players playing" issue. Maybe their servers cant handle the volume.

Yeah exactly.


As soon as you see the lag bug you should restart the game - that is the only solution currently, since the in-game lag never resolves itself in my experience.

Yes it works sometimes, but for the most part it doesn't.

[Swifty]

Restarting the game usually does not fix it for me.

[Nudie]

Not had any problems on iPad

[AppleMacGuy]

That would suggest to me that it is a "volume of players playing" issue. Maybe their servers cant handle the volume.

I'm not so sure - if that was the reason surely Funzio would just add some more game servers? They will be running load balanced servers and it is not so hard to add more servers as the load increases.

I think the issues are entirely client-side, i.e. in the app. The game only needs to connect to the server to get the data. After that the only comms. will be to send to the server your attack request and get the returned attack result.

The way a player moves in the hood isn't determined by the server, it's just an random motion effect created in the app itself. There is some app memory management or coding problem at work here.


Yeah exactly. Yes it works sometimes, but for the most part it doesn't.

This I can't expain! For me, 100% of the time any slowdown is rectified by killing and re-launching CC. Sometimes the slowdown occurs again almost immediately but that is only 10-20% of the time. Normally it will be some tens of minutes up to an hour or two before I have to re-launch CC.

[2Legit]

They are "testing" on crashes. I dont know for how long it will take them to figure it out, but with the data given to them, the devs should "figure" them out sometime soon.

Such a painful time, you just wanna throw your device at somebody...

[mongorie]

Slowdowns only occur when you (1) get a mafia request or (2)you visit your own mafia member.
After that you need to : (1) accept/decline all requests then restart app (2) restart app

I find that news feeds do not slow the game thank god, but leaving requests will, which is a bummer if your're not maxed.

[Nudie]

The problem I am seeing with the iPad version is trouble connecting with the server. Sometime I can connect on the first try, sometime only on the tenth try, spmetime I give up if it take too many tries/time to connect. Seeing on both the HD & non HD version.