Does lag in Guild Wars bother you?

Last night, I had another error 7 right towards the end of Gyala. It left the party w/o their MM.

These errors have been happening since the last weekend event to people all over our alliance.

Hi,

I have the following specs (laptop PC, 512 RAM, 40GB harddisk with > 2G freespace, 64MB graphics card, ADSL cable connection max 1Mbps)

My lag started once I got the Factions expansion...ESPECIALLY with the Cantha City maps. For the first couple of minutes I have horrible lag and then it lessens during time.

The Kurzick and Luxon maps though are just fine. A slight noticeable lag but nothing too annoying.

In PVP the dreaded Cantha City map has cost me many RA losses! I hate it.

I have almost never encountered any lag in the Proph. campaigns.

I don't know why the Cantha City maps lag so much but I am really hoping that it will not be the same case with the upcoming Nightfall release. If it is, I might have to consider upgrading my laptop.

Hi, Im not sure whether it's a Client side problem, or a Server side problem, but it can sometimes take me half a minute to get up a flight of stairs. Constantly getting warped back to the bottom when I reach the top.

I'm sure somone else out there gets this problem, and not just with stairs either, sometimes brushing the edge of a wall whilst running will have me warped back to it after I am 5 or so meters passed it.

I'm on ADSL in QLD Australia.

I'm also running that game on max everything, although I don't think it's a Computer problem.

It's been laggy for a few days now.

Saturday While attempting masters on my rit, my whole party and the Stone Judge just stood there for a few minutes before I got disconnected.

Last night While helping friends with Dunes of Despare, I missed 2 whole battles due to lag. They killed the worm and the Mesmer boss, while I kept running back and forth between the two locations with all eight skills flashing.

DSL user here.

Does it bother me? I think the main reason it's bothersome to me is cause my gaming experiance was lag free until factions was released. I'm worried that with nightfall it will only get worse. In fact, guild wars is the only online game I experiance lag with, and it never used to be that way. Ahhh! the good ol' days.

I dont have any lag... but then again non-technical people seem to mean all sorts of things by "lag".
I do often get err 7 these days. I can play for a half an hour just fine with no visible problems and then BAM! game freezes for about a minute and then err 7...
Seems like at some point GW server just abandons my session and client gets stuck thinking it should be logged in while it is not.

DSL - lag only happens at beginning of massive battles, but setltles 5 secs later

Had error 7 twice while solo farming in uw, did a mission in between with no problem, way to stop farming anet =.=''

No lag at 5-9AM? That is because most of us are either sleeping or driving to work. I wish I can play during those hours, lucky.

Country: Brasil
Time Zone: GMT -3:00
Internet Connection: 2048/600(kbps) downstream/upstream(kilobits per second)
Internet Service Provider: virtua www.virtua.com.br
likes to play Guild Wars: Yes
Loves to play Guild Wars: Yes
Addicted to play Guild Wars: Yes
Experiences Lag while playing Guild Wars: Yes. for a year on prophecies the game rolled perfect, and i even had a worse broadband, since factions release ive been havin problems with lag, but its not full time, i noticed when i leave afk to eat something or get phone when i come back its like somethins monitorin me lag sucks, i used to hit 15 hours straight conections now im forced out by 007 or simply lag enough to force my patience out, when i log again after spycheck (nofound) looks nice again. its been like this for some time now.
the worse part for me i got to say its the 007, cuz i got dropped from thunderhead twice on the same day with mission almost done, its damn anoyin, its a ruff and non pleasent mission, ad two vizunah and one unwakin waters and you get my old monitor broken lol

maybe i need some anger management.

I ask myself if this happend cuz anet wasnt ready to have so many players online ?
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I've been getting a ton of err7s in the past 4-5 days. I was fine before then.

East coast of USA here.

Sorry if I sound rude but who the hell would not be annoyed by lag?? Seems a stupid question to me.

I get disconnected from my ISP sometimes, but other than that lag is rare.

yes it bothers me.....I even MADE a new computer last month because of the lag from factions.............and guess what ....I have it again!!! BRAND newcomputer made specifically for this dumb game----no other programs on it (keep getting that annoying message from windows telling me I have no virus programs etc).....it has 100gigs free so no space issues....all my windows updates are updated......and last night was the worst!!! got dissconnected twice and then one of the people in our pug got err7......and then we had horrible lag trying to get to the next town ( hit skill.....wait for 1/2 minute, and gee guess what I am dead....happened during the lag my guildee says--you just stood there and died AAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!).
so yes, lag is really getting to me.

That's exactly right Ira. Things play fine for hours, then a huge lag-spike occurs for about a minute. You have about a 50-50 chance of coming out of the spike or getting an err=007.

It's like the GW datacenter has a server(s) that just drop existing connections from time to time. And the reason I KNOW it's not on my end, is that when I log back in, several people are also complaining on AC about an err=7 spike.

Canada, East Coast and Midwest are particularly hard hit.

It's either a GW datacenter issue or a internet backbone issue. Gotta be.

EDIT: Oh, and the err=007s have occurred equally in Cantha and Tyria.

Virtually no lag in PvE ever except if I go to an International District. In PvP however, that's an invitation to major lag-spikes and error=7s.

Have you people tried turning down your Graphics settings? If the issue started with Factions, it may be that your computer has trouble with the more complex graphics of Factions areas. I tried turning my graphics down once when having lag, it cut lag in half.

Since the last update I have around 30+ 007 errors and tons of near disconnect lag spikes. Before that update I recall one 007 error. I have seen 1/2 of a team drop out at the same time. So, I know its not my side that is the problem and wish I could go into a match/mission knowing that I can complete it. I hope they fix it before the event this weekend.

Canada, EST zone here...

Just like Zubey said, tons of err 7's in the last 4 or 5 days. GW ran great for me throughout the last thirteen months, now........ crap. Not the computer, not the cable company, not a virus. Seems to me like it started when this whole Germany thingie began. :S

I just did my first Alliance Battle tonight. With TS active, I was getting
constant lag. Once I shut it down the game ran fine. Wonder if it has
anything to do with your problem?

I'm going to fool with it and see if I can figure out what the problem is.
I have a USB headset now, don't remember having this problem before.