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I Jonas I · Dec 13, 2009, 12:53 AM // 00:53

Besides the obvious "Move to europe, lol", "try lowering your graphics?", and "buy a $3,000 computer" posts, does anyone have anything specific that I can do to get a better average ping? thanks

Del · Dec 13, 2009, 01:28 AM // 01:28

get a better isp, or a better NIC

mathiastemplar · Dec 13, 2009, 01:32 AM // 01:32

Stop downloading pr0n...

Move to other districts and cut off all connection consuming stuff..
Or get a better internet provider

Cheers.

Bob Slydell · Dec 13, 2009, 01:32 AM // 01:32

Time and time again graphics have nothing to do with your ping. It's quite unfortunate there are people who believe this.

Really there is no way. Your ISP, your distance from anet's servers..etc. Most of it is out of your hands.

You could look up the windows registry pingfix, but take extreme caution when doing so.

drunk n angry · Dec 13, 2009, 02:04 AM // 02:04

also here is a thing that i have noticed...

when i run gw from my hard drive i have a 10-15 FPS and sometimes that falls down to 3-7.... this is horrible and makes playing the game impossible some times.

but i noticed when i run it from a 2.0 usb 4gb thumbdrive it is up in the 40's. i'm guessing that with this being the case my hard drive takes longer to read and disperse the information then what the usb drive does.

as for the ping yes sadly there is really nothing you can do for it since that is the time it takes for the information to go from your pc to anet and then back to your pc. so lowering graphics will only help things like your fps> frames per second.

hope this helps mate its helped my gameplay out a lot to use my jumpdrive. good luck to you mate and merry christmas!

Del · Dec 13, 2009, 02:25 AM // 02:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by drunk n angry

also here is a thing that i have noticed...

when i run gw from my hard drive i have a 10-15 FPS and sometimes that falls down to 3-7.... this is horrible and makes playing the game impossible some times.

but i noticed when i run it from a 2.0 usb 4gb thumbdrive it is up in the 40's. i'm guessing that with this being the case my hard drive takes longer to read and disperse the information then what the usb drive does.

as for the ping yes sadly there is really nothing you can do for it since that is the time it takes for the information to go from your pc to anet and then back to your pc. so lowering graphics will only help things like your fps> frames per second.

hope this helps mate its helped my gameplay out a lot to use my jumpdrive. good luck to you mate and merry christmas!

do you ever defrag your hard drive?

Bob Slydell · Dec 13, 2009, 02:35 AM // 02:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apathetic Tom

do you ever defrag your hard drive?

It might not be that..HDD's being mechanical and notoriously slow COMPARED the flash memory world (alone, a 10k-15k RPM HDD isnt slow but still...compared to flash, no moving parts) would mean a big difference in speeds for some systems.

moriz · Dec 13, 2009, 04:26 AM // 04:26

errr, actually internal SATA II hard drives are MUCH faster than USB drives. we are talking about a order of magnitude here. the USB 2.0 interface simply does not have the bandwidth necessary to act as system drives, let alone play games on.

i don't know why his system acts that way, but it's more likely to do with a broken hard drive than a really fast USB key.

Sankt Hallvard · Dec 13, 2009, 04:49 AM // 04:49

But Jonas. Considering you are on the brink of ragequitting GW maybe you shouldn't go to extremes just to get a better ping. I say this with the best of intentions. If you have changed your mind and are now obsessing with ping there really is no better solution than to move closer to an anet server. That means germany or somewhere on the west coast of the USA. (They have a really messed up timezone there, but at least you get good ping.) Cheers!

Kerwyn Nasilan · Dec 13, 2009, 05:01 AM // 05:01

Not wearing pants reduces lag....

Try polish districts, SCs seem to think it works.

Braxton619 · Dec 13, 2009, 05:15 AM // 05:15

1. Clean your PC with this app: www.tune-up.com
2. Get a good antivirus such as NOD32 Antivirus
3. Make sure you enable all ports in your router's firewall.
4. Dust out your PC.
5. Get a good ISP with good high speed internet
6. Defrag your HDD

All I can think of.

I Jonas I · Dec 13, 2009, 07:43 AM // 07:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sankt Hallvard

But Jonas. Considering you are on the brink of ragequitting GW maybe you shouldn't go to extremes just to get a better ping. I say this with the best of intentions. If you have changed your mind and are now obsessing with ping there really is no better solution than to move closer to an anet server. That means germany or somewhere on the west coast of the USA. (They have a really messed up timezone there, but at least you get good ping.) Cheers!

Remind me who you are before you troll again

to everyone else: thanks

gremlin · Dec 13, 2009, 08:35 AM // 08:35

Its mostly been said

All you can really do is make sure there are few if any slowdowns your end.

Systems didn't used to be configured to connect to the internet efficiently they were set up for networks or for old dial up connections.

Keep a check on what you have running in the background, msconfig is your friend here.

Check directx has no problems, goto start run and enter dxdiag that will check all is well there.

Check your hard disk isn't nearly full as that will slow you down.

As for usb devices well you can use one for extra memory if you are running vista but the improvement isn't startling.

They work pretty well as a cache and so can speed boot up and while they are faster than some hard disks that is only with accessing small files larger ones in my experience run better off the hd.
Vista is supposed to know this and use usb sticks intelligently, I remain to be convinced.

Check your internet connection your isp may have you on the wrong speed.
Mine had me on 1 gig when I was supposed to be on 4 I didn't know to check as I hadn't been told of the upgrade.

Cantos · Dec 13, 2009, 10:08 AM // 10:08

99% of what determines your ping is the distance from and the route to the remote host you are pinging. The other 1% is determined by load on your machine and the remote machine.

If you get mysterious spikes of network latency, the only thing you can try is a different ISP, or moving to a different location.

If you get mysterious spikes of rendering load, you should try some cleanup of your windows install, then try reformatting your windows install, then try replacing individual hardware components or your entire machine. $3000 computers will not improve your network latency in any way.

Hope this helps.

jonnieboi05 · Dec 13, 2009, 10:19 AM // 10:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leet Tankur

1. Clean your PC with this app: www.tune-up.com
2. Get a good antivirus such as NOD32 Antivirus
3. Make sure you enable all ports in your router's firewall.
4. Dust out your PC.
5. Get a good ISP with good high speed internet
6. Defrag your HDD

All I can think of.

I second this completely.

Sethellington · Dec 13, 2009, 11:59 AM // 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by drunk n angry

also here is a thing that i have noticed...

when i run gw from my hard drive i have a 10-15 FPS and sometimes that falls down to 3-7.... this is horrible and makes playing the game impossible some times.

but i noticed when i run it from a 2.0 usb 4gb thumbdrive it is up in the 40's. i'm guessing that with this being the case my hard drive takes longer to read and disperse the information then what the usb drive does.

as for the ping yes sadly there is really nothing you can do for it since that is the time it takes for the information to go from your pc to anet and then back to your pc. so lowering graphics will only help things like your fps> frames per second.

hope this helps mate its helped my gameplay out a lot to use my jumpdrive. good luck to you mate and merry christmas!

hence solid state drives

CE Devilman · Dec 13, 2009, 12:56 PM // 12:56

fun...got GW-folder on a SSD..
can do 600 Ooze easy on yellow and red ping

first to load..better interrupt...raly bodyblock...its nice...so SSD it

I Jonas I · Dec 13, 2009, 01:17 PM // 13:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by CE Devilman

fun...got GW-folder on a SSD..
can do 600 Ooze easy on yellow and red ping

first to load..better interrupt...raly bodyblock...its nice...so SSD it

Wat?

(twelve characters)

Kaon · Dec 13, 2009, 03:46 PM // 15:46

Faster internet.
Play with people who live in the same continent as you (USA in your case).
Move to Seattle.

Krill · Dec 13, 2009, 04:02 PM // 16:02

Copy down the IP address of the game server. Open a command prompt, in windows that's start -> run -> cmd. In the prompt type tracert the server ip, in my case that's tracert 216.107.245.100. The last few hops won't resolve but you can see if there are any bad hops before then causing problems. All this will tell you is if it's a routing issue beyond your control or maybe something locally like a poor wireless connection or covert p2p porn downloads hogging all your bandwidth.