Curse

steelwill · Jan 04, 2007, 11:02 PM // 23:02

I think it's the way data is prioritized by the game engine and location seems to be dead last. If it was just lag all the damage you were taking while lagging would spike you all at once. Compound this with the bad collision detection this game has and bam, your rubberbanding all over the place. This happens too much and needs to be fixed, it's not a simple as a connection problem.

You just got tomahawked · Jan 04, 2007, 11:06 PM // 23:06

RA lag is being absouloutley horrible and Elonian lag is really bad too. Geuss what too.... Thats where i spend 75% of my thime on GW. So I'm Pi$$ed off.

VacantStare · Jan 04, 2007, 11:08 PM // 23:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coloneh

windowed mode makes you lagg. alot. and i mean alot alot.

Well, I guess a ping of 20k+ is a lot. I personally average about 80ish on ping, and going up to 20k+ really couldn't be the fault of window mode, could it?

Grais · Jan 04, 2007, 11:10 PM // 23:10

Am I the only one that notices the OP says the game used to perform fine for him, and now he experiences lag, its not like hes been getting laggy performance from day one, at least according to his post ?
I experience intermittent periods of lag, it started the day I installed NF. Seems to get bad when the server would seem to be on a high load. Other times the game performs great, big battles multiple mobs aggroed, trying to induce lag, and nothing,so I find it kinda strange, but it seemed to be worst when the event was running, so Im gonna put it off to server load, While I just squeak by with the reccomended(not minimum)req.s, I was worried that I wouldnt be able to fully enjoy NF, but the last couple of days have been relatively lag free, no more 10 minute zone into town at least, that seemed to be a short lived phenom thank goodness.

Bahumhat · Jan 04, 2007, 11:16 PM // 23:16

I've grown into a habbit of making sure that the little lightning bolt over your lag meter is gone before i do anything. That'll help a little as your bandwidth isnt being used to download things from Anet.

But usually i dont experience lag if i happen to forget to let it finish =]

Maria The Princess · Jan 04, 2007, 11:31 PM // 23:31

today, me rubber banding, killed my whole team in the end of a pretty long and anoying mision cuz i was the healing monk.

oh ya, my compy is brand new and my connection is good too. ya sometimes its laggy, but its ok, never rubber bandings!
i never had those before ~1 mounth ago.

GG wirelles!

Lord Natural · Jan 04, 2007, 11:43 PM // 23:43

I think it's more of a problem with the pathing system than server lag. If you see yourself taking damage when it looks like you're in the clear, stop and press c+space or use a skill and it usually snaps you back into synch. It doesn't make the problem any less annoying, but it at least shows you where you really are.

Xenex Xclame · Jan 05, 2007, 12:39 AM // 00:39

Yup same problem as OP played NF fine at start , when xmas update came with the winterdecorations and the ping dot and party search, i been laggin badly.

I give the blame to one of two things,
The winter season currently in GW ( means more people in game)
Something thats wrong in the last update thats causing us to lose packets.

After winter has passed in GW i will look again and hope the lag is back to normal.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercury Angel

When 4 unrelated people from different parts of the US disconnect simultaneously, and all the other party members complain of crippling lag, it's almost certainly not on our end. Mind you, that happened over a year ago,

Still we all got told it was our fault.

ForgeWhelp · Jan 05, 2007, 12:43 AM // 00:43

I didn't see this mentioned but you should defrag your main game file. After nightfall cam out I lagged real bad. But after defragging that file I run a lot smoother....

More Outrage · Jan 05, 2007, 12:52 AM // 00:52

Yup! There is definately a problem and it has got worse over the months.

Was in a "Grenth district" during the wintersday games and as soon as the little grenchies came out killing, everybody and I mean everyone was complaining or laughing about the lag and all were reporting pings in the region of 11k+ over local chat.

Not good and it needs looking at.

mr_groovy · Jan 05, 2007, 09:30 AM // 09:30

*thx alot for putting this in the tech corner. Now 90% of the forum users will not see it....

GG

Btw for the mods it's not only me who's having troubles here. If it was me I wouldn't make a thread about it.

Nkah Sennyt · Jan 05, 2007, 07:03 PM // 19:03

Ping ftfw.

Smile Like Umean It · Jan 05, 2007, 07:29 PM // 19:29

Holy crap. I didn't even know you could have pings that high.
And I thought mine was annoying.

LONGA · Jan 05, 2007, 08:06 PM // 20:06

Err maybe this might be an Explanation for those who live in/near Asia Region playing America Server.
About 30th December there is an earthquake in Taiwan causing continent to continent underwater communication lines broken.
Last time I checked from my nearest Internet new they said they its gonna be late Febuarywhen they gonna finish fixing those lines.
And due to GW PvP system run across all servers its not surprising that you might get LAG effect while playing RA which match you with opponet around the world.

DrD · Jan 06, 2007, 03:00 AM // 03:00

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12...hquake_taiwan/

Xenex Xclame · Jan 06, 2007, 05:05 AM // 05:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nkah Sennyt

Ping ftfw.

I also connect to that same server, i also happen to live in the Netherlands , which is where OP lives.

Dimitri_Stucoff · Jan 06, 2007, 05:13 AM // 05:13

I have gotten lag to. Heck everyone in my party had group lag together. We asked a few of our guildies and lo and behold they had lag too. Somehow I do not think this is on our end.

I should rephrase, I do not think all lag that happens is due to our connection, I do think there are some server-side lag issues which are becomming more prevelent.

Ms Utena Tenjou · Jan 06, 2007, 05:35 AM // 05:35

its so bad that u'm fine for 30sec.. then everything freezes.. and i have to log b-4 anything ....error all the time

Nkah Sennyt · Jan 06, 2007, 06:41 AM // 06:41

Playing RA tonight, my whole team [and a friend whom I was on Skype with] were getting constant stretches of lag. It was ridiculous. :/

Xenex Xclame · Jan 06, 2007, 07:09 AM // 07:09

People, just saying your laggin doesnt really help, would you all mind posting which server you are connecting to, where your connectin form etc.

Also to the guy that mention Tracert, i did it and got some numbers, what should i be looking for?