So, I've been trying to get a few of my friends in the mood for playing Sins in preparation for the beta.  Unfortunately, the desynch bug I used to hear so much about is now happening to me - usually about 4 hours into the game.  At that point everything lags, then I get a message that one or more human players have disconnected.  And then everyone is playing in their own single player game.

Sins is a pretty cool game, but this desynch business is really harshing my mellow at the moment.  While there does seem to be a bug underneath this whole problem and I hope that the devs eventually resolve it, in the meantime I'm more interested in getting recommendations on what I can do to minimize the likelihood of this happening.  Any hardware or driver tweaks that seem to help keep the desynch bug away?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Edit: Wow, mispelled my own title.  Hopefully fixed it now.