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KANE OG · Jul 20, 2007, 12:20 AM // 00:20

Seems like the European districts are starting to come around just in time for the American ones to go belly up. What happenned? Did we get a "new" server from Germany, or something?

KANE

AlienFromBeyond · Jul 20, 2007, 12:48 AM // 00:48

Thankfully, my lag seems to have settled down except for the odd hiccup. A week ago it was unbearable and I had to stop playing Guild Wars, but now I can finish up my Legendary Guardian title now

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Joobers · Jul 20, 2007, 02:31 AM // 02:31

For the last few days GW has been unplayable. I still log on to chat with my guildmates but that is really all I can do.

LumpOfCole · Jul 20, 2007, 05:55 AM // 05:55

Minor spikes here and there. Nothing unplayable but noticable and bothersome every now and then.

Small Purple Raisin · Jul 20, 2007, 07:05 AM // 07:05

Voted: Significant latency issues. (North America)

All of my best game friends from North America and I have been having ongoing problems with lag affecting playability for something like 2½ weeks. We live all over the USA, including Washington State, Illinois, and Washington D.C. It seemed like we all started having this problem at around the same time.

We usually play during "prime time," in the evenings (North America time), and we usually play Alliance Battle games. I'm not sure if the lag lets up at other times of the day or not, 'cause I usually don't play at other times.

I love the game, but I'm pretty convinced that there's something pretty serious going on here, and it's definitely affecting the fun factor for us. I'm hoping you'll be able to get to the bottom of things like you did with the Europe server connectivity problem. Thanks, Gaile and ArenaNet!

declan · Jul 22, 2007, 05:19 PM // 17:19

does not matter what time of day i try to play lag is too high for any type of playing-pvp or pve. i live in florida,usa. last and ave ping under 400 ms and i look like im running in place.green dot and im stuck. cant even keep up with conversatioins in guild chat.
IGN: Ethan Dragonheartbtw ive also placed a diag with anet support and no responce from them in 2 days.

NeCRoS · Sep 08, 2007, 06:23 AM // 06:23

I'm located in Australia and I've had terrible latency issues since the EoN preview weekend. I have sent several reports to support and they've told me to do the usual (reboot modem, reboot system, disable AV/firewall/UPnP) to no avail. I can get decent pings through other game servers in the U.S as I play DoD:S through Steam but it's only when I play GW I get shocking lag spikes continuously regardless of when I play (anywhere from over 1,000 to over 42,000!)

ShadowStorm · Sep 08, 2007, 08:13 AM // 08:13

I put down severe latency issues in the above poll because my ping tends to hover between 250 ms and 400 ms, according to the little dot in the corner of my screen. Occasionally it will spike up into the 1500 - 4000 ms range while fighting enemies, but this doesn't always happen, so I can still play.

I have a 2Mbs Cable connection, so this shouldn't be the case.

However, I do have an explaination for this. It may just be my video card. About 2 weeks before the GW:EN preview weekend, my video card died on me, and I had to replace it with with my old Nvidia 5600 XT card that I haven't used for a couple years. I'm only getting 10 - 15 FPS in explorable areas and as low as 4 FPS in some of the really populated outposts. So some of what appears to be latency issues on my computer could just be my computer struggling to update the FOV on my monitor.

I plan to get a new video card by the end of this month, so if this thread is still active around that time, I'll let you know if it was just my video card.

Edit: P.S. I live on the West Coast in USA. So my poll answer affects the North America region.

Winterclaw · Sep 08, 2007, 08:17 AM // 08:17

I saw a red lag dot for a little bit earlier today (I play afternoon-evening EST), and orange happens from time to time, however recently I haven't too many problems but it comes and goes. Weekends, particularly with big events tend to be the worst.

Juicey Shake · Sep 08, 2007, 08:26 AM // 08:26

I voted that lag stops me from playing (euro)
but I live in the US
and I don't play

woops

Spax · Sep 08, 2007, 08:27 AM // 08:27

Voted severe lag europe.

GMT, late evening (10-11pm).

Seems only to be in GW:EN areas and major hubs (Lions, Ascalon). Seeing fluctuations between 70ms and 2000ms. Seeing some odd game behavior too: Fighting stopping then damage catch up 5 secs later and running the same 10 metres repeatedly.

Thought it could just be extra strain on the GW:EN servers as they stream out new content to players but the latencies have shown no signs of abating

Roo Ella · Sep 08, 2007, 09:07 AM // 09:07

You know this poll was wanted for last month right?
But anyway am having some problems but i think just due to high player activity since gwen

M1h4iL · Sep 08, 2007, 09:35 AM // 09:35

My ping averages from 400-500, from Perth, Australia. Its playable but interrupting and occasional jolts are no fun, but I am not surprised considering how far away the servers are.

-Loki- · Sep 08, 2007, 09:39 AM // 09:39

Australia, American servers. Latency has been relatively decent lately, only a few spikes here and there. What a pity I don't PvP anymore. It would have been wonderful.

Vanquisher · Sep 08, 2007, 01:21 PM // 13:21

I know myself and various Guild Mates are having massive problems with lag. It's been so bad for some of us recently that playing is almost impossible, and one member of my Guild can't play any role except a Paragon effectively.

Croco Clouds · Sep 08, 2007, 02:32 PM // 14:32

I always have lagging or orange ping status since I have cheap DSL, so it's tough to judge if that's a server lag or not

Witchblade · Sep 08, 2007, 03:31 PM // 15:31

why bumping this topic?

anyway, about this... pretty laggy as always

the green dot is just a dream ^^

Karmakin · Sep 08, 2007, 04:00 PM // 16:00

Oops. I thought this was put up this last Thursday

Actually, I was having horrible lag problems during prime-time for several weeks now. (It was fine in the early morning), with spikes and freezes of over 20 seconds. I put in a support ticket on Thursday, but the update Thursday night seemed to have fixed it. Me and my wife played last night without issue.

leprekan · Sep 08, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05

This is exactly what is wrong with Anet.

You are polling a microscopic percentage of players .. many that rarely actually play the game.

Put these same kind of polls on the login screen PLEASE.

If you were to put a vote up for the actual general masses you would have fewer complaint threads and people that just give up and leave your game. You might *gasp* get an accurate sampling of how the community not just fans actually feel about the given poll.

On a side note ... which ever artist did the art work for the dungeons ... tell them thank you and give them a raise. Absolutely beautiful in some areas best of all 4 chapters.

Corwin_Andros · Sep 08, 2007, 10:48 PM // 22:48

Yay for thread Necromancy.. But than again, LAG is immortal.

Playing in Florida... Getting some odd spikes that starts me rubberbanding and the mobs and heroes/henchies teleporting around the screen. Usually only lasts for a few minutes at a time, even after my pings settle down to the 200-250 range. Weird but occasionally annoying.