Major Lag in Raid Instances (4000+ms)

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The Viper base in Canada
Stronghold in the Desert
Dr Destroyers Lab

Every single one lags to high heaven. Framerate in these instances is fine, 80-100, but whenever my group starts fighting ~anything~ my latency spikes up to 4000ms or higher and I just rubber-band on the spot endlessly until they've moved on. Dr Destroyers Lab was the worst for this, and all players in there experienced some network lag but not quite to the detrimental effect I did.

:mad:

Makes it utterly pointless to play group content at the moment. If I exit back to the main zone instance my ping will drop back to normal (300-400ms as I'm form Australia).

But there's defiantly something very broken with the group instances, at least for me.

System Specs:
Intel E8500, 4870X2 2GB, 4GB DDRII 800 RAM

Network Specs:
ISP: TPG (clicky for their website)
Type: ADSL2+
Modem Router: Dlink DSL-2740B (Firmware AUS_2.32)
Sync Speed: 21847kbps downstream & 1020kbps upstream

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Me and my brother both had that in the in the Open Beta. Seemed to be really eratic when we'd get it, sometimes you'd be able to clear a whole instance other times not a chance. Reported this 6 or 7 times each on separate occasions but got very little back I'm afraid. Annoying to see that it hasn't been fixed yet.

Edit: We're playing from the UK same line.

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It's a very strange issue indeed. I get this same issue and I am within the us. Also use ADSL2+
Only seems to happen in some instances and mainly with a full party.

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Bump.

Still happening. This time it lagged out so much the game eventually just crashed to the desktop, all the while I was chatting to my guild mates over Ventrilo (a US vent server no less) and it was lag free (200ms). One of my group members was connecting from Australia also and he wasn't having any issues. As neither of us were having issues on Ventrilo and I never have these problems in world zones the logical conclusion is that there might a problem with the game client no?

As other have suggested, this happens with full teams, and others in my super group have said they've experienced similar problems.

Can someone please look into this. Every ticket I create for it is closed with "we are unable to reproduce your issue" which is really quite frustrating. I'm normally not a forum troll but I think I have a legit issue and it's being ignored. If my voice keeps endlessly echoing off the walls I'll resort to posting youtube videos of lagtastic champions play, but I'd rather this just get acknowledged and worked on.

mara0sunh

I encountered some annoying lag in The Coil, that VIPER base in the Canada area... it seemed like it was due to the steam vents or something... yet smoke and steam elsewhere in the game works totally normal. No lag whatsoever! So this is just something with that base. So I can confirm that this bug is still a thing, sadly.

bluhman

You just responded to an eight-year-old thread.

The thread is so old, the names of the people who posted in them have been forgotten.

It's so old, the computers of today have anywhere between twice to four times the amount of RAM that OPs computer had at the time they posted their system specs. It's so old the manufacturer of the graphics card they have technically doesn't exist anymore (they got merged into AMD early into the 2010s!)

To answer the question though, the main thing you want to do is to turn off Soft Particles under advanced video options. This makes a huge difference. Even then though GPUs have gotten way more powerful and advanced over eight years.

In the future please create a new thread about your issue rather than going back in time, as this will be more liable to get current people to answer your question.