Beta 12, partys resync often?

[hunter_hunted]

When I'm in a party with beta 12 release 1 it trys to resyncronise every about 5 steps i take and looses focus on whatever i'm attacking, and doesnt heal properly with bandages because of this. I'm on a pretty bad con (~400 ping) but parties worked fine with beta 11. It does this even if the automatic party chat thing isnt chatting

(is there any way to turn the targeting auto party chat off? I cant find it in the macros or commands lists...)

Also, for the record, I get the lag spikes every 2 seconds others have complained about but mostly it's only a slight delay so hasnt bothered me much, just slows me a bit when running sometimes
Athlon XP 2200+
512 MB ddr ram
GeForce 4 ti4600
Win xp home
Edit: gameplay window size is 1024x768, much bigger and the spikes stop me playing properly
tried with different quality/performance settings and old/new drivers, no effect that i can tell

How many players do you get on average?

[hunter_hunted]

First party had about 8 players, but i tried a party with just one other player and it had the same problem, just as bad. It happens even if they're outside update range...

[ballsofsteel]

This happens to me a lot, it doesn't matter if there is 1 or 9 people on my party, or if I'm theparty leader or not.

Excellent client, by the way.

[krrios]

Make sure protocol extensions aren't turned on (Config.exe).

[ballsofsteel]

Krrios, it is turned off. The options I have are as follows:

Encryption Fix: False
Incoming Fix: False
Old Movement: False
Old Char Create: False
Send Update Range: True
Extend Protocol: False

By the way, don't know if this is related at all, but if I run your client for more than 20 minutes, when I close it, it takes a lot of time to free up the memory or something, and it uses the processor to 100%.