Curse

Bob Slydell · Jul 18, 2009, 04:34 AM // 04:34

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Originally Posted by Devastating Flames

and ur fps does get effected by ur connection not just graphics cards

No... No it doesn't. You might be thinking of when your screen freezes up while still loading a zone. Because of this freeze during a loading process, the game really isn't responding very well while loading so it's obviously going to struggle. And even then, its client side.

Your connection to the arenanet GW servers consists of data packets that contain chat text, your character's movement, blahblahblah. Graphics of your character or a zone aren't "shipped" through your internet pipe, your computer instead gets several....thousand..packets which contain data that tell your client (on your hardware like your CPU) to build that zone's polys and textures of the zone and NPC's and pretty much everything IN your computer. All the internet connection does is let you move a polygon around inside a virtual map built by your very own computer. You could technically view all this with out an internet connection. But that goes into a gray controversial area.

Simply it is that though.

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Originally Posted by Ghost Dog

Actually no it's the opposite of that, your fps can effect your connection to a server.

Actually I tested GW on a very old pc at 1 FPS, I was able to keep a connection up to their servers the entire time and talk in chat perfectly.

talon994 · Jul 18, 2009, 04:49 AM // 04:49

When the event had just started Rata Sum was chaos.....every single district was packed, but then 3 hours in everything settled down

Copenhagen Master · Jul 18, 2009, 06:24 AM // 06:24

Yea raptor area was horrible earlier was getting 2k ping finally gave up and logged off

cosmic massacre · Jul 18, 2009, 07:10 AM // 07:10

i was playing fine until the event and then ....bang,you expect some glitches before events but that severe.

Twisties · Jul 22, 2009, 12:00 PM // 12:00

Had the oddest problem just now, can't connect with my second account, it just hangs at 0% before giving me an error that there seems to be a problem with my Internet connection. But the main account works fine and am able to browse Internet OK.

June Bug · Jul 22, 2009, 12:09 PM // 12:09

Can't connect either. Probably a server issue, maybe it gets resolved soon.

Biggus Shlongus · Jul 22, 2009, 12:41 PM // 12:41

I think alot of people were getting it, but Guild wars is now back up!

Brute of Balthazar · Jul 31, 2009, 02:29 PM // 14:29

I've come back to Guildwars after a year of not playing it, and for 2 years previous to this I've never had connection problems. I never had a single error 7 in 2 years, and now I get them as often as 5 times an hour or more. It's got to the stage where it's so consistently laggy, that Guild wars has become un-playable. I can rarely pve and I can't even go near pvp outposts without Dc'ing. My internet provider is the same, and I ran tests to find out the speed... and that's still the same.... any ideas what's going on? I can't imagine it's due to over crowded servers.... if anything they'll be less people now.

any help appreciated :/

Silent Coyote · Aug 02, 2009, 10:42 AM // 10:42

Welcome to the club Brute. I've been playing GW since almost release and never had connection problems. Stopped playing for about a year and came back mid April and have been having bad lag, to the point it's impossible to play, ever since. I usually log on once every one or two weeks for a few minutes to see if its cleared up, but hasn't yet.

stuntharley · Aug 02, 2009, 11:06 AM // 11:06

Pro lag in HA for the past week(quit for 18months) now a constant 400+ ping... cant play my mesmer or a ranger anymore, so pro

wh1t3y · Aug 04, 2009, 04:34 PM // 16:34

Hey i havent really read most of the replies to this thread out of laziness, but i have been d/c many times to the point where its disrupting gameplay..

Its not my internet, this only only happens during guild wars. I d/c in the worst positions too, mostly in the middle of a mission. Apparently many other people are as well, or else this thread wouldnt be so big. I hope there is a reason for it and anet is working on it.. I cant find anything wrong with my setup! All other games work fine for as long as i play them.

So yeah thats just my 2 cents, hopefully things get worked out!

edit: oh yeah i dont get any lag at all, besides right when im about to d/c. Also i found theres 2 kinds of d/c for me, ones where im logged out and ones where i can regain connection and resume play. The first happens like this: The game basically lags and goes into a sort of frozen state, the game attempts to reconnect, but the connection to the server has failed and logs me out. pain in the neck. The 2nd type is when the same happens, but i DO regain connection to the server. That is a very relieving feeling.

Also i played GW about a year or 2 ago, never had any of these problems. ever.

Stop The Storm · Aug 04, 2009, 04:40 PM // 16:40

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Originally Posted by The Pandit Bandit

Im from the UK too and usually get between 80 and 200 ping

the last few days ive been gettin pings ashigh as 3-50k

whose your isp btw?

with SKY who i believe go through Usenet.

been getting these lag spikes again lately. so have most of my guild, serious pain in the arse.

what makes it worse is that anet wont even acknolegde its their end and that when 4 people in a team of 8 in DoA get a lag spike all at the same time, that its purely coincidence and down to our pc's, not their servers :S

Stop The Storm · Aug 04, 2009, 04:43 PM // 16:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by wh1t3y

Hey i havent really read most of the replies to this thread out of laziness, but i have been d/c many times to the point where its disrupting gameplay..

Its not my internet, this only only happens during guild wars. I d/c in the worst positions too, mostly in the middle of a mission. Apparently many other people are as well, or else this thread wouldnt be so big. I hope there is a reason for it and anet is working on it.. I cant find anything wrong with my setup! All other games work fine for as long as i play them.

So yeah thats just my 2 cents, hopefully things get worked out!

edit: oh yeah i dont get any lag at all, besides right when im about to d/c. Also i found theres 2 kinds of d/c for me, ones where im logged out and ones where i can regain connection and resume play. The first happens like this: The game basically lags and goes into a sort of frozen state, the game attempts to reconnect, but the connection to the server has failed and logs me out. pain in the neck. The 2nd type is when the same happens, but i DO regain connection to the server. That is a very relieving feeling.

Also i played GW about a year or 2 ago, never had any of these problems. ever.

exactly the same situation as me.

ive been playing since day 1 and have NEVER experienced lag on guildwars, its always been superb. But these last few months, ive been getting terrible lag spikes.

The only advice i can give which seems to be working for me so far, is when you lag and you disconnect and it asks you would you like to reconnect, unplug your internet and turn off your PC. Turn your pc back on and reconnect your internet. Everytime this has worked for me and ive not left a game yet, it always allows me to reconnect.

i used to just click yes to try to reconnect and quite a few times it said failed to reconnect and threw me out the game, possibly due to the lag spike still happening.

Si Mana · Aug 08, 2009, 06:23 AM // 06:23

Terrible consistent lag spikes for the past week. Not only me, but near everyone l know, especially from Australia.
Near whole of HA was 007'd a few days ago, including our whole team.
Thought it was just in HA, but a pve friend in Aus pm me as he had also been 007'd.
And yes, its so bad the game is near unplayable at certain hours, particularly in the late evening AEST. Constant disconnects and lag for players makes pvp impossible.
I've just run a -n 100 ping to one GW server in the states and is fine atm. I'll run the test again later tonight and send to GW support.
I think in the evenings GW is switching to Euro servers so it's never been good for us in Australia, but lately its far worse.
How can we compete in PVP with pings in excess of 500ms while Euro friends have pings of 15-50ms, its a joke.
Honestly they need to do something about it.

russiansteven · Aug 11, 2009, 02:30 PM // 14:30

Rubberbanding and disconnecting.

USA

wh1t3y · Aug 14, 2009, 04:07 PM // 16:07

So has anyone figured out the d/c situation or heard anything of it from Anet? Its really.. demoralizing when you are in the last 3/4 of a mission and get disconnected. And it always seems to happen in the just perfect times, not when you are idle in town or even outside of town for 6+ hours.

Raku Clayman · Aug 15, 2009, 12:48 PM // 12:48

This is a funny thread simply because it's like asking to post every time you eat or go to sleep. This problem is so common that it is now acceptable behavior when playing GW. I assume that I am going to either lag badly or get d/c'ed. Fortunately, I hardly ever get booted so I eventually get back to the same point in a quest or mission.

Throm · Aug 15, 2009, 02:58 PM // 14:58

USA- E. coast from 76- 17000 ping, dc'd 2 or 3 times yesterday. but... My browser is hanging on "waiting for" a good bit when I visit sites... maybe a bad hub somewhere?

Dreikki · Aug 16, 2009, 05:36 PM // 17:36

My average ping is always 300+ and I don't think I've never had a ping under 200, which is quite funny since I've been playing for 4 years.

I'm from Finland and I've got a 24/2 connection so is this normal?

rb.widow · Aug 16, 2009, 05:54 PM // 17:54

Ive been playing for 4 years, and i usually play in the US districts with friends etc, ( from the UK i normally got a 180-250 ping ) now its like 40k all the time.

The UK districts are not alot better to be honest, they start off great when in a town or explorable area, then after about 5 mins WHAM 30k huge rubberband then usually d/c,

I have only started getting these connection lag issues in the last 3 weeks, everything before that was fine.....

If i was 1 person getting this i could see it being my comp/ISP, the fact that it seems to be all UK users, and even American users getting shocking lag issues, suggest ANET need to get this looked into.