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dd93
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Anyone else having lag issues anywhere in game? , been happening for about a day now, i thought it was my ISP, but my broadband is working perfectly, and with the speed i get, i should be having no issues at all!
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Speed has nothing to do with lag.
Well lets not generalize that way, speed does have a factor in lag.
2 people in the same location, one with DSL the other with T1 will have a difference in lag due to packet uploads.
But anyways this type of post should be in the Tech support section of the forums.
Ah sorry about that, if possible can a dev Move this post to Technical , or remove it completly, thank you.
Packet loss causes lag, not speed.
Take your antiquated T1 at 1.5Mbps, compared to a DSL line at 20Mbps. They both are fully capable of sending the 150kbps the game requires in order to play well. The data gets there on both connections. It's when the data doesn't get there that you notice lag.
It's like latency doesn't even exist.
Just a little note, I've actually been stuck this way without crashing my game for more than 20 minutes now. My party has cleared 2 bosses, I see damage numbers, boss health bars and everything in real time, but I rubberband back to the same position every time. I've tried unstuck, killme, running and jumping off cliffs, which I can run around under the map for a while before being rubberbanded back.
High latency is not lag, it's high latency. If you are overseas, and have a 500ms ping to the server, then everything you do will take longer for the server to realize it than someone with a 10ms ping. People with high latency get used to the feel of the game.
Lag is when you have a low ping, or a ping you are accustomed to, and expect something to happen in a certain amount of time, and it doesn't, caused by either packet loss, or an increase in latency (which is caused by packet loss and rerouting of data), thereby rubberbanding you as the server and the client get back in synch with each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= http://www.youtube.com/user/moegoodtime
I am not overseas. I am in the US Midwest. I have experienced the issue where i rubberband back and forth often in the last few days. Worse I have died a few times when i get a message that the server is not responding which generally lasts about 45 seconds. I have also had it where my toon swings his sword a half dozen times AFTER I quit hitting the mouse button and the mob is dead. I have also got several random disconnects. These are all issues I have never had except for over the last week. I have talked to quite a few people who have had the same experience over the past week and they are scattered geographically and have different ISPs. Based on that I would have to think this is something on Cryptics end.