LAG!!! About to throw GW in trash!!

Maybe someone is going ramapant with the skill from my Avatar

<--- Best skill ever


But yes, I have had some strange lag recently.

Thanks Gaile!!!

I have read alot of posts where you get involved and know you are "on it" but wow!! (no not WoW) Thats FAST!!!!

(Tips hat to Gaile....Gota be the best PR Boss on the rock!! Bar none!!!)

I assumed a portion of the farm was pulled offline to test the Nightfall preview before going live (better than doing a server rollback over 5gp ecto)
But being in the IT industry myself I can hardly imagine having to pull so much of the farm for testing. Maybe a % of the farm is slated for testing updates anyway. But then that % is not figured into the main mix at any time.

The lag continues as I type this.....just got E7 standing in Senji's FTW!

Ugg even if I did try to toss the game it would lag me away from trash can and kick me outa kitchen lol.

LT

P.S. Gaile....know of any new code being tossed onto game? maybe some new anti farm/bot stuff is killing process power. Server logs FTW!

Gaile for President!!!

On the contrary; some of us would love to see a reduced server load.

Just got dropped from a forge run - go figure. I've been err'd out about 10 times the last couple of days.
Thanks for quick response Gaile.
Wondering if the heat and subsequent sporadic power outages has anything to do with this. maybe not Anet servers but providers, etc.
Just hope it clears up soon.

Same here. I had the problem for last 2 days and freezing would last for 1-5 minutes (!!!) at the time which made some GvG sessions quite frustrating. Connection was working perfectly during that time. I even check if my Gw.dat file was fragmented which seemed to cause the similar problem before but it wasn`t so it`s definatelly a server issue.

we got 2 guys err7 during a gvg tonight...

Depending on the queue....a ton lol. The server I am on has a queue of 250-600+ at random times, along with all the older, larger servers. Nice wait time of anywhere from 5 mins to 1 hr. Yes, we do have a lot of time to spam it up on the forums ^^

i've lagged my fair share too. It's not too bad, but by the time i start almost every mission the others are already ahead and getting themselves killed before i have a chance to heal them. The worst case was Sanctum Cay, where first off, i lagged at the start while the others wandered off, and then, there was more lag while i was trying to get off the boat, so i kept missing the entrance every time. I eventually got out and fortunately everyone else was perfectly fine ^.^ but yeah, that and loading levels that are completely new to me are my lag downfall. imho it's my RAM (i have dual slot RAM, currently totalling 384MB, which is a 128MB and 256MB ram chip in those slots). to me 384MB isn't enough, and i'm planning on getting a 512MB chip to put in place of the stupid 128MB chip. then hopefully my lag problems will be solved.

Also, i guess with these new events there could also be lagging ^.^

Why do people always say this is a free game? I paid for it, and my internet connection isn't free either. Unlike you, I really bought the game.
My necro and assassin lost the chance on survivor title, because the game was freezing in spikes.

yea i have been getting a lot of lag lately, just seems to be getting worse and worse, and the people i am on a team with when i experience this lag are getting it to so i know it is not just my connection.

They say it's "free" because unlike WoW you don't have to pay ridiculous monthly fees
you do have a point though, we do have to pay for the game. But only once, then it's ours. kinda like Xunlai Agents ^.^

Haven't had any kind of lag in the past month, and i play on average 2 hours a day. yes, yesterday too.

Maybe I'm just being sinical, but it's just a selling strategy. I'ts a product, and products need to be sold with profit. When lots of people buy the product, someone makes a profit. WoW is a product too, but with a different strategy. It is not like one is free and the other one is expensive.
Just like WoW players, Guild Wars players should not accept flaws in the product. Period!

hehe, i'm not saying one's free and the other's expensive. but you do have to pay a lot more in the long run for WoW, both games are roughly £30, however WoW also requires a monthly fee of something like, i dunno £20 a month? that's ridiculous! GW on the other hand requires that all players (even if they're other family members) buy the game to get their own account, which is understandable, because ANet's not using extortional monthly pay methods to gain their cash ^.^

haha i got error 7 so many times its not funny, and my crappy comp (might not be lag) has a habit of lagging so hard that it loses sound until i reset the computer

I personally believe, but I might be just naive, that both companies provide a service worth what you pay for.
I don't remember a game where weapons are nerved every week, making the average pve player weaker and weaker. WoW has a steady income, so one could expect a service for that money, while some gullible GW players think their game is free, making them believe that service is less important.

Without doubt GW has been lagging more since Factions. The lag has been mentioned more frequently in guild chat too.

I sign that.

Lag in gw is horrible. Sometimes I error7 if i run thru a portal, really fustrating !

I can't PvP atm, when I jump into a game its all fine n dandy for about 20 seconds then while I can see what's going on I become unable to send any commands, move, talk, or activate skills, this happens for about 2 mins then I error 7 (or I'm dead by that point).

This only happens in PvP but its undeniably the most irritating thing ever. Touch ranger comes at you, try to kite, stop being able to move, see touch ranger come up to you, watch your health drop steadly.

PvE is more or less fine, lag happens but noway as bad as PvP.