Curse

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 06:15 PM // 18:15

ive lately been having this intense lag in gw. and its definetly not just me.

last night, half our team was lagging so badly they couldnt move/use spells. then this morning i made a group which had like 2 people lag out per map, until we got owned with like 3 people and 5 hench.

then i joined a group, and i lagged out.

the kind of lag you get is like this: extremely slow loading time, you use a skill and you just see it pulsating the image, and once i joined a map so late i saw the death of my entire team in fastforward while it was loading up to the present. i didnt get to see too much because i error 10ned before :x

anyone else having this? i heard gw was having problems with their servers...anyway its horribly annoying.

relaxed · Oct 20, 2005, 06:24 PM // 18:24

i had the same issue last night. it seemed to happen all of a sudden and then, little to no responsiveness. i tried restarting the game, then tested my connection and firewall and finally rebooted only to have the same "connecting" screen and terrible lag.

Celdor Nailo · Oct 20, 2005, 06:29 PM // 18:29

me too. same problem last night. very bad. luckily i just finished a mission so i simply logged off.

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 06:32 PM // 18:32

whats cool about the lag is that some battles were like survival of the best modem with people dropping out en mass on both teams. memorable fight ill tell ya

AncientPC · Oct 20, 2005, 07:09 PM // 19:09

Last night it was servers.

If you ever want to test this in the future go to Start -> Run and enter:
ping www.yahoo.com -t

Keep it running in the background. Basically what this does is constantly monitor your latency with Yahoo. If you ever see it spiking or timing out you know the connection is related your ISP, otherwise it's the server's fault.

Orchid · Oct 20, 2005, 07:19 PM // 19:19

Well not had any issues up until a couple of hours ago...

Checked around by asking others if they had the same problem... as I have been having some ISP problems recently... checked the usual connection fine rebooted machine logged in and out of GW.

What I get:

20 second or more lag spikes, both in outposts and when fighting - click on a skill it just flashed and then 10-15 seconds later activates... Highly irritating.

On the plus at least it isn't my connection by the sounds of things. Just wish ANET would sort it out.

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 07:22 PM // 19:22

its definetly not my connection, im running aim, loading this page and others just fine.

this is what you get for free servers :x

Tactical-Dillusions · Oct 20, 2005, 08:30 PM // 20:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by smurfhunter

this is what you get for free servers :x

What you get from ArenaNet is a first class service...an update has been applied which explains the latency.
After a while you get to distinguish between the lag types and you learn when it's the servers being tinkered with.

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 09:21 PM // 21:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tactical-Dillusions

What you get from ArenaNet is a first class service...an update has been applied which explains the latency.
After a while you get to distinguish between the lag types and you learn when it's the servers being tinkered with.

the update managed to make it impossible to create characters. i went to remake an ele and i came back with my shitty pve character LOL.

i dont call this 'first class service' if you know what i mean...

stoop14 · Oct 20, 2005, 09:21 PM // 21:21

i just started getting lag about 45min ago

X-Bomb · Oct 20, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51

Got the lag just now, says connecting for a while @ login, says connecting after character set, loading tombs takes 2mins with the loading screen saying 100% and 0 files remaining, changing to international districts to play with guildies takes years as well, same thing. Once i actually load i can move for about 2 seconds before running into a halt.

The exact same thing is happening to a guildy of mine and its not a ISP problem, we are different ISPS and we can talk freely over vent while this "lag" is happening.

Having said that, the problem seems to have been fixed now, i can now load and move around as normal.

It happened twice like this since the latest patch.

Zaklex · Oct 20, 2005, 10:54 PM // 22:54

The update had nothing to do with the lag issues, those are network related.

Zexion · Oct 20, 2005, 10:58 PM // 22:58

Well, I started lagging 2 hours ago but now... It stopped!
Though I only have 200 Bytes/Sec with -perf...
EDIT: Damn, it just returned

_Zexion

Hakira · Oct 20, 2005, 11:08 PM // 23:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaklex

The update had nothing to do with the lag issues, those are network related.

I disagree. I was playing earlier today, and all of last night, with zero lag. I come home, find an update has been applied, and poof, serious lag issues. I dont think they applied their latest patch correctly server-side, as this is the first time since beta that its ever had this much trouble.

On a side-note, what's up with the blue henchies? Why blue?

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 11:08 PM // 23:08

yeap right as the update finished i stoped lagging completely. its back now :x

Tactical-Dillusions · Oct 20, 2005, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Apart from the few bits of rubber banding before the update...i have now just had the most spectacular latency ever. My PC almost had a burn out

Looks like they're tinkering again IMO.

Tak-Hunter · Oct 20, 2005, 11:15 PM // 23:15

Same here, yerterday I played with no lag at all, just fine as always and today, got in the game, did one quest, they released the new build, so I got it and done, lagged as hell, no way to play.

And I got a 800kbps connection...

I hope they fix it, I wanna play really bad this weekend.

see ya

Diablo™ · Oct 20, 2005, 11:51 PM // 23:51

oh thank god, i thought it was just me...

been worried that my GW gots the h4x0red!

smurfhunter · Oct 20, 2005, 11:52 PM // 23:52

seriously, anet, fix this. i cant play gw

ronnietsunami · Oct 21, 2005, 12:05 AM // 00:05

I have had the same problem as well, for the first time too I might add. All I seem to get is the loading screen 100% - 0 files

Please hurry and repair!