Lag???

bwowmp · April 2015

I saw tons of griping on here about lag, rubber-banding, etc after Mod 6 came out. The complaining seems to have tapered off a little. Is this because everyone is just resigned to it, or is it actually getting better for everyone except me?

At first, after the new mod came out, I could at least travel around in PE and do PvP smoothly with little to no lag issues. Now I find that just tooling around in PE on my 110 mount is stuttery and glitchy, and even Domination PvP (which should have minimal environment and player activity for the servers to process) has become way too lag-tainted to be enjoyable.

So is it just me experiencing frustration over this, or has everyone just figured they'll deal with sub-par gameplay until Cryptic gets this thing hosted on some better servers?

If it's just me, does anyone have any tips as to how they managed to reduce or eliminate their previous lag issues.

If I can't fix it on my end, I'm just going to take some time off I guess. I hate disappear and only spend time just logging in to invoke and keep up with professions, but gameplay has now REALLY become frustrating beyond reason. It's just not worth it anymore.

Anyone else care to chime in?

Thanks all...have fun!

kirkcaldy · April 2015

I tried everything to get back to pre mod6 gameplay, to no avail.
I lag everywhere in the game since mod 6, not just the new areas
and that is with all video options on low or Off.
Prior to mod 6, I was able to play fine, not at maxed out settings,
but enjoyable gaming for me.
Sadly that has been taken away now, I can do no more.

Really only logging on to invoke now, as cant do much else,
Been happily playing since early days, but this mod 6 is the killer for me.

nubgamer · April 2015

I personally never really experience lag, but between mod 6 release and last patch I had a lot of intermittent lag that could last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. Right before Mod 6 there were major lag issues nightly to the point that I quit playing. After this patch yesterday I was able to play lag free.

kurtb88 · April 2015

I do not experience much if any lag in the low level areas. But in the new zones there is constant lag.

instynctive · April 2015

It's because all the threads that get started on lag are nerfed into the great abyss.

bwowmp · April 2015

kurtb88 wrote: »

I do not experience much if any lag in the low level areas. But in the new zones there is constant lag.

I have heard that from a few folks. But in the past several days, I've been getting lag in PE and in PvP where I have NEVER had issues before...seems a little weird. Maybe all the new Xbox traffic is creating problems? Or is that on different servers? I thought it was hosted separately, but I wonder if the might be some bleed-through.

Anyhoo. Invoke...keep up with professions...don't' buy Zen...wait for it to get playable again, if it ever does. I guess this is my only realistic course of action at present. The game is becoming more unplayable every time I attempt to do anything.

What a shame. I love this game.

comaetilico · April 2015

I never experienced lag before pathch except when my isp had problem (and I already made sure that is not the problem atm...) now:

t1 is a lottery... you can do all the dung fine only to get struck by absurd lag at the last boss... with rabberbandin in and out of AoE... that is no nice

t2 is a littel better... lag only come in short spike rather than being consitent fo a whoule boss fight... but you also need just a single lag spike to wipe ^^'

GG... was fine before the last patch... now it's lagging there as well

not as consistant as pve but still present...

PE... is an hell... I had started not to queue form there because I got booted out of queue a few time due to lag (queued as a party... we all got in the queue confirmation but i got kicked out during loading screen and got teleported back to PE... it happened a few time to both me and guildmate that was in PE as well we ported out of the city and didn't had any problem after that (well untill we got lag in the dung itself ^^')

I don't even want to know how the situation is in spinward... it was a lagfest before the last patch... now... I don't really want to think about it...

bruceifer · April 2015

I have played the game on and off for 2 tears, I have never had a consistent problem with lag, connecting, or being DCed, until the last mod. To me the lag and connection problems are my biggest issue. Yes, I'm not a fan of the higher overall difficulty, but having no in combat healing, and harder hitting mobs, is VASTLY compound by the rubber banding and general lag. The basic game combat is based on effective and timely dodging and blocking, the lag makes that virtually impossible when it is at it's worst.

dgimp · April 2015

I've never had any problems with lag, but since mod 6 started my ping raised, both on new and old areas. Now I'm playing with 300+ ping, with spikes of 2000. I'm still able to play PvE, but with this lag it is not possible to play PvP...
I can say I've tried some tips (like renewing IP address), with no success. Also, I don't have this problem with other online games.

So, is someone looking at it?
Cheers.

instynctive · April 2015

It's been nearly unplayable this morning.

Yes, I've done all the troubleshooting tips.

My crappy little laptop has twice the power this game supposedly needs (per the sys reqs on the arcgames.com page), ping times are pretty good (all under 100ms), so in THEORY, there shouldn't be any FPS or lag issues. However, they exist and persist, so now I'm stepping back from the game and going to go outside and do yard work instead... because raking up dog <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> is preferable than rubber-banding in dog <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.

gramps5scorpion · April 2015

I've come to the conclusion that this game is no longer fun or playable due to the lag. I have blown through more potions in the last 2 weeks than I have in the entire 2 years I've played. Worst yet is everytime I use a potion it starts the timer on my slotted stone of health so I can not recover using it if the potion isn't enough. There is at least a 3 second delay on EVERYTHING I do in reclamation rock. I try to fire my aimed shot when the mobs are grouped together and by the time it fires they have moved and nothing gets hit. This game has become a joke and I feel that Cryptic just doesn't care about their supporting members anymore.

Last night I finally got my main to 70 and received the adventurers helper pack that included a 50% off the Ruby refinement pack (3 ruby's) so I decided to use it. I had 2136 Zen and when I went to buy the 3 pack, it said it would cost 1000 zen so I clicked the purchase button only to have it take 1600 zen from my account. Filed a bug report but have heard nothing back. This blatant lack of testing prior to releasing any aspect of the game has become a joke..... nothing works the way it should anymore. Super tired of being frustrated instead of enjoying the game like I once did!!!!!!! I'm not spending another dime supporting this company until they show some improvements in their product. As it is, the game is not playable unless you don't care that it gives you high blood pressure due to stressing you out! Really too bad as this was at one time by far the better of the available games to play.

Lag???

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