Curse

mazza558 · Sep 16, 2008, 08:03 PM // 20:03

I'm on the verge of stopping. Let me explain my situation...

I get rubberbanding, pauses and error=07s every time I play, getting worse the further I get into a mission. This means I can no longer run people, play PvP, play in PuGs, or complete a mission quicker than in 30 mins. This has been happening for about 6 months now.

- I play on the nearest servers to where I live.
- No other programs have this problem. I don't get lag in any other games online.
- I have a 3mbps connection. It's nothing special, but it's plenty fast enough for everything else.
- I use wireless but no other app has this problem, so there's nothing wrong with it.
- I have no viruses or spyware.
- I don't run anything else that could eat up bandwidth.
- My PC is plenty fast enough for GW.

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What I'm asking is whether anyone else has had to stop playing regularly because the lag made things unplayable? GW never used to be like this.

auch · Sep 16, 2008, 08:06 PM // 20:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazza558

- I have no viruses or spyware.

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i dont believe that. everyone has super secret spyware by the government monitoring us

yes gw is lagging alot and sometimes dc and get err7 when i try to reconnect when theres like 2 foes left on a vanquish pissed me off
now im done with vanquishing though but still anoyying

Darkobra · Sep 16, 2008, 08:09 PM // 20:09

I was fine on the double faction reward weekend, but the day after, it was just constantly disconnecting. I thought it was just me until everyone else seemed to reconnect right after me.

russiansteven · Sep 16, 2008, 08:13 PM // 20:13

I am having no lag at all

Idk why other people are complaining about lagging or other lag problems. I live in the USA in the centreal part and I havent experinced any lag except for when I am playing another MMORPG. I have no idea why I am not experincing lag or why other people are experincing lag

Shadowspawn X · Sep 16, 2008, 08:14 PM // 20:14

Yep, I stopped death leveling my LDoA candidate because of the lag and disconnects over the weekend in addition to the four straight days of thundershowers I experienced. Tried again this morning. Hopefully when I get home tonight the game is still running.

keli · Sep 16, 2008, 08:15 PM // 20:15

no .. . .... .. . .

Ferret Deathsquad · Sep 16, 2008, 08:17 PM // 20:17

I had some problems on the double faction reward weekend that I didn't even bother signing back in until it was over. I do get the rubberband treatment every once in awhile.

Winterclaw · Sep 16, 2008, 08:18 PM // 20:18

Recently, the game has been lagging a lot more for me than usual. I'm not going to stop playing altogether, but I am going to play a little less while there are bad lagging problems.

Spiritz · Sep 16, 2008, 08:24 PM // 20:24

I dont seem to get lag as often these days tho i do make sure several things ..
Only have minimum amount of processes running in gw - yes it makes a difference as compared on 2 identical pcs setup same but 1 was fresh install of windows and other had a lot of programs running - fresh install ran better with barely any lag.
Ram .. make sure you have at least 1gig - windows is memory hungry and wont leave much to gw to use.
Video card - make sure u have up 2 date drivers and a supported card.

And as far as im aware tho never checked you dont neccessarily connect to same server ever if its closest - my wife and i play on home network ( 2 pcs ) and sometimes her server ip is different to mine.
Sometimes she gets lag when i dont tho you`d assume we`d both get lag at same time.

Lag isnt always anets fault , phone line faults/telephone exchanges playing up an so on can give problems or contribute.Phone companies are not really helpfull when you ask if theres any line problems in your area - BT even before managed to change my phone number to a different one without realising and my actual number was making calls to ireland and it took them 2 days to discover what happened and sort it out - they also kindly rang the irish number and appologised and took the blame for any nuisence calls.

introspectionx · Sep 16, 2008, 08:25 PM // 20:25

I've been having more problems with lag than usual.. but nothing serious enough to annoy me for more than 5 minutes.

Grunntar · Sep 16, 2008, 08:33 PM // 20:33

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Originally Posted by Spiritz

Lag isnt always anets fault

True. It's sad that some people always blame the guy at the far end. It's kinda like...

It takes 10 minutes to drive to the store. If you have bad traffic, and it takes 20 minutes, do you blame the store?

Sindy · Sep 16, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Yeah...over the last three weeks i've encountered game-breaking lag. I'm not going to say it isn't on my end though because there have been waaayyy too many people who say they have no problems only to find out that yes, it was them all along.

I'm currently on many boards looking at similar problems and in talks with both NCSoft and my ISP...I'll get it figured out but until then, yes, i've stopped playing.

Another Felldspar · Sep 16, 2008, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Recently I have been having very bad lag problems with rubberbanding, delayed text, graphic freezes and slow load times, but without disconnects. Last night I counted off 12 seconds before my character finished casting a 1 second cast spell. It's a good thing I'm a mesmer and specced into Fast Casting...

Yes, last night I stopped playing in frustration because of the lag. Doesn't mean that I'm quitting GW or anything extreme like that, just waiting for things to come back to normal.

Stolen Souls · Sep 16, 2008, 08:55 PM // 20:55

I rarely have lag issues. But when I do, it becomes unplayable. It is always absolutley no lag, or absolutely unplayable. Never any inbetween for me, lol.

CronkTheImpaler · Sep 16, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

i have no lag or massive lag as stated above. most of the times its really bad when i log on then mellows. im in the US midwest so im not sure if that even matters. anyways i use wireless which imo sucks arse BIG TIME and its still ok most the time. weather seems a major factor in wireless for me anyways.

Cronk

Masao · Sep 16, 2008, 09:29 PM // 21:29

Over the last few days, I've had lagspikes of up to 6k-8k ping. They last for approximatley 5-10 minutes at a time and I've literally been rubberbanded back through outpost changes.

Example, I switched from Kodonur to Desolation, noticed it loaded slow, then was in Desolation moving around just fine but with 6k ping. 007'd, relogged, bam I'm back in Kodonur.

It happens maybe once a day and lasts a very short amount of time. Still, not a good thing to have when VQing or doing timed missions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dunky_g

No.

I quit because the game is shit.

QQ moar.

the Puppeteer · Sep 16, 2008, 09:32 PM // 21:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by mazza558

- I play on the nearest servers to where I live.
- No other programs have this problem. I don't get lag in any other games online.
- I have a 3mbps connection. It's nothing special, but it's plenty fast enough for everything else.
- I use wireless but no other app has this problem, so there's nothing wrong with it.
- I have no viruses or spyware.
- I don't run anything else that could eat up bandwidth.
- My PC is plenty fast enough for GW.

don't waste your time on GW with that kind of connection

Arcane Spark · Sep 16, 2008, 10:13 PM // 22:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by russiansteven

I am having no lag at all

Idk why other people are complaining about lagging or other lag problems. I live in the USA in the centreal part and I havent experinced any lag except for when I am playing another MMORPG. I have no idea why I am not experincing lag or why other people are experincing lag

Same w/ me but i live in new england.
Lag-free 99% of the time.

Joseph Rejekt · Sep 16, 2008, 10:17 PM // 22:17

I've not had many lag issues except for during the late night hours here and there. I know its not me because it happens to several in towns i'm in as well as friends at the same time who are in different states and countries.

Computer/Connection lag = When everything is pausing and skipping

Server Lag = El Rubberbando Lag-O

Great way to cut down on computer lag, turn off the most useless feature in Windows... System Restore!

If you keep an eye though, lag issues are usually consistant during certain times of the day.

Ekelon · Sep 16, 2008, 10:19 PM // 22:19

Check to make sure that nothing is hogging your bandwidth (like Limewire). Rubber banding, pauses, and Err 07's are all caused from a faulty connection with the GW server. I do personally have a hunch that anet has slowed down the gw servers as I remember I used to average 150 ping while playing and now I only average 200 (I have a 10mbps connection and I haven't modified anything in the past couple of years). But aside from that little conspiracy theory, your internet connection is really the only thing I find wrong. A slow/virus infected computer won't cause you to rubber band.