Does anyone have any ways to improve their Soul Calibre 4 online performance?

August 25, 2008 8:05 PM

Does anyone have any ways to improve their Soul Calibre 4 online performance?

I am playing it on the PS3 and notice that if I face anyone who has a connection rank lower then 5 the game is unplayable. Even for some people with a connection rank of 5 the game is just bearable. My internet is by no means slow, I can usually average a downstream of around 500kb and an upload at peaks at around 100.

(Asking for my brother.)

posted by chunking express to Technology (5 answers total)

Well, is the modem sharing anything else? Unplug any other consoles or PCs or similar devices perhaps. It might also help to give the PS3 a static IP address and double-check that all the right ports are open etc. This information should be easily found online (sorry, I only have a 360 but I'm assuming that as a networked device, the PS3 can be assigned IPs and so forth).
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:52 PM on August 25, 2008

If he's running bittorrent at the same time he should kill that or at least put an extreme restriction on it's upload rate.
posted by Science! at 10:00 PM on August 25, 2008

Is he using the PS3's wireless connection or is it wired? Is he using NAT2? Any problems with other games?
posted by swordfishtrombones at 12:47 AM on August 26, 2008

If you're okay loading a Linux firmware on your router (or have a router that supports it out of the box), try setting up QoS.
posted by Nelsormensch at 7:01 AM on August 26, 2008

Response by poster: Sorry for the late reply:

SC4 doesn't have any listed ports that it needs open. The only thing running on my pc while i play online is MSN. The ps3 is connected directly to my router. I can't set up QOS on my router.

posted by chunking express at 11:40 AM on August 27, 2008