I finally took a couple of shots of my gaming area today.

This is running on an InFocus DLP (entry-level) projector, 95.5″ hand built screen, ScanSpeak kit speakers with handbuilt outboard crossovers, Adire Audio Rava 12″ powered sub all driven by a Nakamichi AV-8 receiver (not pictured).

Here’s the bigscreen:

A shot of the left channel and sub sans grills:       A quick look at one rear:

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has been a headache for many gamers playing online multiplayer. Dropped connections, inability to join friends’ games, and lag in general have plagued quite a few avid fans.

I have done a bit of research into this problem, and have corrected it on my setup, for the most part.

Firstly, this game is not necessarily bugged or broken, it just has inefficient network code. It works, but you need to have a good connection, and the game host needs a good connection. Even when everything is working properly and the stars are in alignment, the game will drop ranked matches. However, it wasn’t really designed to host consecutive ranked games from the same lobby.

Also consider that you have a PIP hud view of a teammate, as well as map tracking. That video feed to every player doesn’t come cheap in bandwidth. This game would probably require more bandwidth to run than any other 360 game, even with better net code.

So, the game could use some better network code, but we’ve got what we’ve got, and when it works this game just rocks. Here is what you need to do to get the most reliable online play out of GRAW:
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