Well about this lag....

rashielangel

This is a fairly depressing situation, a good game made almost unplayable.
I have yet to find a good solution to it, while spending roughly 2 hours per day trying to fix it.

I have narrowed it down to my network, I hope...
Seems to me by looking at the nettest and the tracert:

contacting nettest server..
Local IP: 213.21.121.60
Ping: 115.4 msec
Port: 80: 156 KB/sec 11 KB/sec 172 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 135 KB/sec 10 KB/sec 148 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 130 KB/sec 10 KB/sec 159 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 144 KB/sec 10 KB/sec 159 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 125 KB/sec 9 KB/sec 147 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 120 KB/sec 9 KB/sec 146 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 133 KB/sec 10 KB/sec 147 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 132 KB/sec 10 KB/sec 147 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 151 KB/sec 11 KB/sec 168 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 166 KB/sec 12 KB/sec 183 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 132 KB/sec 9 KB/sec 145 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 148 KB/sec 11 KB/sec 163 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 147 KB/sec 11 KB/sec 164 KB/sec 500
Idle NIC bandwidth Send: 0 KB/sec Recv: 0 KB/sec
hit return to exit




Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 213-21-121-1.customer.t3.se [213.21.121.1]
3 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 88-83-59-126.customer.t3.se [88.83.59.126]
4 22 ms 2 ms 2 ms 88-83-32-73.customer.t3.se [88.83.32.73]
5 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 46-236-64-93.customer.t3.se [46.236.64.93]
6 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 46-236-64-174.customer.t3.se [46.236.64.174]
7 17 ms 23 ms 13 ms sthlm-s-10ge.core.t3.se [88.83.32.177]
8 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms ti3001b400-xe1-3-2.ti.telenor.net [148.122.8.77]

9 15 ms 13 ms 13 ms be2001.ccr21.sto01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1
4.97]
10 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms te0-7-0-21.ccr21.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.5
4.58.194]
11 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms te0-3-0-3.ccr41.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.73.49]
12 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms te0-5-0-7.ccr21.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.73.101]
13 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms te0-2-0-7.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.37.90]
14 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms te0-2-0-3.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.31.189]
15 115 ms 113 ms 114 ms te4-4.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.42
]
16 126 ms 125 ms 125 ms 38.111.40.114
17 112 ms 121 ms 115 ms 208.95.185.41

Trace complete.



... that there seems to be less juice in the game's network then what is possible.


This may be caused by several different things, probably their netcode for starters.

Second, it might handle different on different network adapters.
Currently i'm using PCIe GBE Family controller (I can't say exacly what chip I'm using since I honestly dont know)
And I've been tesing with my girlfriends stoneage laptop which uses PCIe FE Family controller for wired connection and Atheros AR9002WB-1NG for wireless connection.
On her computer the game runs flawless, except for the graphics ofcourse.
And this is with both connections.
On mine, which in most cases always been the stronger connection off the two comps is far behind.

This has also been tested with minimal graphics, direct connection to the isp (no router), disabled on-demand patching, different proxy servers, compability mode, fiddling with network settings to increase performance, tried through ipv4 and through ipv6, optimizing pretty much everything to get it to flow nicely.


So the question remains... what should I do?


There's a few stuff i haven't tried yet, since i read from some thread that there might be a second batch of files running at the same time that shouldn't be, and deleting them should fix it.
Sadly they didn't mention where those files were located.
Another one said that I should install the game in my users folder... allthough i don't see why it should make a difference.
The lag seems to vary from character aswell, as when i'm playing my guardian the game runs better, slow but no major lagspikes.
When I play my gwf it really depends if I try to do anything usefull, pulling off slam or unstoppable is a no no.
The lag also depends on what area i'm in, pvp is fairly good, foundry fantastic, protector's enclave horrible, dungeons or skirmish horrible (allthough some are okay like cloak tower and cragmire. Dungeons like frozenheart and karrundax being impossible)

Any advise would be appreciated, also from people who have fixed their problem.
Thanks in advance.

terrell396

same problem as u game plays smooth for a while then bam lag out of no where can barely move and i dont even think about entering instances i lag all over the place proteter enclave is terribble wonder when they will fix these problems for people who run the game with low settings and still get lag HAMSTER

ryvvik

Ding same here with gwf, aussie based, arc/circles/cones appear on screen, im out of it, but then taking dmge even though not in the arc/cone/circle.