What we’re seeing is that as our Terran‑playing friends develop more trade routes, things start getting buggy, choppy, and unstable. If more than one of us is playing Terran, the problem basically doubles. The wild part is that this does not happen in single‑player at all, which makes it feel less like a hardware issue and more like a problem with how the game handles data in multiplayer.
From our perspective, it looks like there’s some kind of cap or bottleneck in how much the game can process and sync between players over the network, regardless of the fact that we all have high‑speed internet and solid PCs. Once we hit late game, one or two of us will drop to 1–2 frames per second, which makes it basically impossible to play or micro anything.
In our most recent match, two of us were stuck at a literal 1 FPS slideshow while the third friend managed to push through and beat the AI. The desync or slowdown was so bad that the two of us at 1 FPS didn’t even get a clear indication that the game had ended or that we’d actually won. For a game this good at its core, these late‑game multiplayer performance issues are incredibly frustrating and really hurt the experience for groups who want to play big, extended matches together.
6-22-26 Stardock has been very helpful in communicating with me on this issue. I should have updated this a while ago. They accepted copies of my game data and much of this issues i reported are resolved. There are still occasional latency issues but we regularly enjoy playing together without significant issue. Changing to recommend!!!
