I'm not sure what's going on with most of this, and it wasn't noticeable until a friend was given the first controller to play with.
Two of my friends and I have recently decided to start playing Tales of Symphonia over Netplay, and we all made sure our settings were exactly the same and everything was 100% perfectly synced. We played the game a bit in order to set everything up, after having a huge issue with game lag, (resolvable by turning the Pad Buffer to a higher number,) we encountered another problem.
With myself being player two, and one friend being player one, the other as three, the friend playing as Player One had this issue where, if he were to type in the Netplay Message Box, it would still effect the game itself, as if the Emulation window was in focus, which it can't be in order to type in the chat window. Upon trying to solve this problem, we tested with it, only to have my friend point out that I, also, have background input problems as well, which was never noticeable (to me) until my friend had pointed it out. After that, I noticed that when I was to type in the box with the game out of focus, it also would effect the game as well, which is a huge problem for the two of us, who are using Keyboards and not controllers.
All of our controller profiles each have Background Input off, we are all using the Development of Dolphin 5.9-1311, and we all have the exact same game and the exact same settings. The reason we opted to go for the Development version of Dolphin was because we were under the assumption that the previous version of Dolphin that we had been using, (Dolphin 4.0-6554) was actually the culprit for the lag- that was resolved by changing the pad buffer to a higher number. We've tried everything we could think of, and we couldn't find a single thing to help out, so I finally cracked under the pressure, and came here.
If this could be resolved at all, or even a hint to a step in the right direction, it would be wonderfully appreciated. If downgrading to an older version of Dolphin that had this working is what is recommended, we will certainly do so, but I was told to ask here before we go crazy with trying to find other versions that might work better.
Many thanks to anyone who might have any sort of insight.
Here are my computer specs, if they're needed.
Operating System: Windows 10
Processor/CPU: Intel® Pentium® CPU G3258 @ 3.20GHz
Video Card/GPU: AMD Radeon R7 360 Series
Memory/RAM: 8.00 GB
Two of my friends and I have recently decided to start playing Tales of Symphonia over Netplay, and we all made sure our settings were exactly the same and everything was 100% perfectly synced. We played the game a bit in order to set everything up, after having a huge issue with game lag, (resolvable by turning the Pad Buffer to a higher number,) we encountered another problem.
With myself being player two, and one friend being player one, the other as three, the friend playing as Player One had this issue where, if he were to type in the Netplay Message Box, it would still effect the game itself, as if the Emulation window was in focus, which it can't be in order to type in the chat window. Upon trying to solve this problem, we tested with it, only to have my friend point out that I, also, have background input problems as well, which was never noticeable (to me) until my friend had pointed it out. After that, I noticed that when I was to type in the box with the game out of focus, it also would effect the game as well, which is a huge problem for the two of us, who are using Keyboards and not controllers.
All of our controller profiles each have Background Input off, we are all using the Development of Dolphin 5.9-1311, and we all have the exact same game and the exact same settings. The reason we opted to go for the Development version of Dolphin was because we were under the assumption that the previous version of Dolphin that we had been using, (Dolphin 4.0-6554) was actually the culprit for the lag- that was resolved by changing the pad buffer to a higher number. We've tried everything we could think of, and we couldn't find a single thing to help out, so I finally cracked under the pressure, and came here.
If this could be resolved at all, or even a hint to a step in the right direction, it would be wonderfully appreciated. If downgrading to an older version of Dolphin that had this working is what is recommended, we will certainly do so, but I was told to ask here before we go crazy with trying to find other versions that might work better.
Many thanks to anyone who might have any sort of insight.
Here are my computer specs, if they're needed.
Operating System: Windows 10
Processor/CPU: Intel® Pentium® CPU G3258 @ 3.20GHz
Video Card/GPU: AMD Radeon R7 360 Series
Memory/RAM: 8.00 GB