Load times have skyrocketed for me

bcvapor

In the last few days, my load times have gone from a mild few seconds as expected (always, no issues) to now basically never loading, about 5 minutes to enter an instance. Dungeons are off limits to me, since the grp assumes I'm not coming.

It's one thing after another with this game.

Every weekend your servers fail.

jfromdahizzhouse

Open Launcher -> Options -> Disable On-Demand Patching.

drinkingclock

Yeah, everytime I enter an area I have never loaded before, it says patching in the top left and it shows my speed (which stays solid at 0b/s) and I can still watch videos in 1080p and my internet isnt lagging out. I live in Kansas City I have google fiber (it's 1gbps). Don't say I need better internet or a computer, cuz I can guarantee I have a better computer than you.

charononus

This is another players post that should be stickied as it has a screen shot that shows how to fix your problems. The game tries to stream a lot and at high server loads or if you have a slow computer or bad connection you get dc'd. The full game requires about 1.5gb more in data to download.

zafian wrote: »

It's a patch-as-you go type thing. On the launcher in the options, there is a setting to turn it off and then it will patch everything before letting you play again.

bcvapor

I said in the other thread, but here too, thanks, I'll give this a go.

hycinthus

charononus wrote: »

This is another players post that should be stickied as it has a screen shot that shows how to fix your problems. The game tries to stream a lot and at high server loads or if you have a slow computer or bad connection you get dc'd. The full game requires about 1.5gb more in data to download.

What does on-demand patching mean? And what does disabling it do? And why is it enabled now? Will I lose anything?

clcmercy

hycinthus wrote: »

What does on-demand patching mean? And what does disabling it do? And why is it enabled now? Will I lose anything?

Basically, it's only loading the basics of the game to your computer. Starting zones, etc.
Once you access a part of the game that hasn't been loaded to your computer, that's when it'll take the time to load that part over from the servers to you.

Disabling on demand patching just means you now get the ENTIRE game. All zones and content. Last I knew, it was around a 2.32 gig "patch".

Disabling it will not make you lose a thing. Except those long load screens.

hycinthus

clcmercy wrote: »

Basically, it's only loading the basics of the game to your computer. Starting zones, etc.
Once you access a part of the game that hasn't been loaded to your computer, that's when it'll take the time to load that part over from the servers to you.

Disabling on demand patching just means you now get the ENTIRE game. All zones and content. Last I knew, it was around a 2.32 gig "patch".

Disabling it will not make you lose a thing. Except those long load screens.

So if I disable it now, the next time I logon, I will be encounterred with a 2.32 gig patch? But then after that, I won't need to wait on any loading screen anymore?

clcmercy

hycinthus wrote: »

So if I disable it now, the next time I logon, I will be encounterred with a 2.32 gig patch? But then after that, I won't need to wait on any loading screen anymore?

Quite right.
You're bloody well right.

*starts singing Supertramp songs*

bcvapor

I can report this solved my issues with load time. I appreciate the help, thank you.