I've been playing my bro w/multiplayer the last few days for the first time. We both have good connections (DSL and Cable), but the planes jump around horribly in the air.

Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening? Neither of us have installed any updates to FS 2004 at this point... would that help?

I haven't seen twitching this bad since FS 95 multiplayer on my dial-up connection YEARS ago. Also, for what its worth, other online games work flawlessly (half-life 2, etc.).

I'll try that out. The only thing I can think of is we were both running Skype (voice chat) at the time.

Is it normal to see some twitching? It would be nice to fly formations, etc., but its going to be impossible to do if this is occurring.

10_g's,

Go to one of the broadband throughput test sites and test the actual download AND upload speeds of your "high speed" connections.  You may be surprised at the ACTUAL speed of your connection........ despite what the company selling you the connection says it is.

Also............ some DSL has a fast download speed.....combined with a slow upload speed.  For multiplayer you need BOTH of them fast.  

The updating of the visual situation is influenced by the slowest connection.  YOUR computer only knows what the other plane is doing from the data sent by the OTHER machine to yours.

Also.... you can turn off some of the data stream in fs2004 in the multiplayer setup screen.... to minimize the amount of data throughput you have to support.  And make sure you don't have other stuff using net bandwidth running at the same time.

best,

.....................john