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sagon
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just got dc'd for the 3rd time this morning and now game wont load or connect. did the server crash or something ? been laggy all morning also
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Normally, I only get very very occasional lag spikes at around peak times coinciding with DD or in very specific parts of dungeons like certain locations in Spellplague where there is a lot of blue spell fire and mobs. Other times I've had some noticeable but not gameplay crippling lag was during the end of beta event.
But today was just weird. Through much of the dungeon, I would either press a key and see an effect like 2 whole seconds later or I would be trying to avoid damage, clearly avoid it on my screen, then get rubberbanded back and take that damage or I would try as usual to compensate early for the game's hitbox auto-targetting while using a spell to single out an enemy between targets and it would fail far more than usual and hit the wrong target.
So, something weird is going on. Either my ISP or on the servers, more likely. My ISP is an unusually extremely reliable cable provider (like something wrong, including dropped connection, once a year if that) and I never use wireless.
It doesn't occur all the time, but sometimes when I change to an instance, pvp or dungeon for example... I get super laggy and sometimes d/c. The only workarounds are to close and reopen the game, so that you get into a different instance, or go to the map and click "change instance" in the lower right corner of the map. Pick the least populated instance and switch to it. Sometimes it takes me 5-10 minutes just to do this because there is so much lag.
Something is really FUBAR on their side.
I switched to fullscreen and did pvp for a couple of hours and the problems with lag and disconnects went away... maybe there's a bug with the video settings.
To answer vegasone, I've been using fullscreen mode for a few weeks now. After taking a good look at the video options, I found the default setting had me on maximized windowed mode. I might try switching back to windowed and see if there is a difference.
that is what happen to me, sometimes I get dc'd and many times in dungeons or foundrys for some reason I get 3fps (it cant be my computer tho, because when the mobs disappear it takes about 1min to get back to normal fps, that has no reason to happen
what makes you think we play in windowed? I don't and this happens!
This post wasn't about getting 3fps video lag. This is a post about getting high latency and disconnects in certain instances. You have a different issue.