LAG/DC....GREED...enough is enough

It is not insufficient RAM... I very much doubt the last patch was so complicated it will require a hardware update (maybe for a machine using the bare minimum requirements, but definitely not for ALL players... the disconnection problem is happening with everyone in my faction, also. Players with a variety of machines, ISP's and locations across the world.)

If you have been attempting to play for the past few hours, I would be very surprised if you haven't experienced 4-5 disconnections.

...oh and... how about the ENTIRE Perfect World website being inaccessible during the times we are unable to log in... this is not an issue with user's machines.

TameThat - Sanctuary wrote: »

For the lag I would suggest you to go thread this thread I started. This is gonna point you what could be wrong about your computer.

How to know what is making the game lag for you

"Some people will say it's my system/computer? Well no it's not...this morning the whole faction kept getting disconnected, and we are players from all over..."

Your whole faction ? Hum, how many people is that and how many are playing with insufficient amount of RAM ?

"Many of us are asking PWI to fix things...and apparently it got out of their hands....because the problem is just getting worse...and many people are now leaving this game."

They are actually working on the problem, the last patch has fixed some memory leak problem and I have notice some different on the RAM consumption. So it isn't going worse.

http://www.mercuryserver.de/sv-chk/index.php?service=ipw&subname=LostCity&lang=en

lawl this alone told me it wasn't my computer.
Your server status shows green on the perfect world web page.
About time you included a script that actually worked and showed when the server was having problems, like the above one does.

Patch HTTP Patch Server HTTP --- offline

Just make a clear difference between disconnection, lag and crash.

- Lag is cause by your hardware.
- Disconnection is due to the server or your connection to the server.
- Crash is due to programm error.

I am pointing out that lag (not disconnection and crash) is purely related to your hardware.

i beg to differ

you misunderstand lag, and framerate, like most ppl do.

Framerate = is your computer having issues.; too slow to handle all it has to handle. (CG to slow to generate all the sprites on screen, HD too slow to read all that is needed in memory ... )

Lag = a network lag, is when an information ( a packet/ or many packets) takes time to come back from the server, or to reach it.

What most ppl do have for the last 2 days is :

they do an action, and then.. mobs stops to attack, your actions dont act/take effect. Like when a movie director has all the actors ready but hasnt say "Action !"

when the packets finally reachs both ends.; its like you look at a movie in fast forward.

If the packets dont reach the end (server or computer) after a certain TTL ( time to live) it will simply die. And after some lost packets due to TTL you will be disconnected.

But, you continue to live on the server, has do the mobs, till the server considers you ve been disconnected, because there are too many lost packets

Still countless crashes, also after that useless downtime earlier

I know what I am doing with computers as well.

I know for a fact my computer is more than suited to run PWI. I know because I went through west archo with maxx settings and didnt lag. AT ALL. Except for mabe a spike that was like...1/2 a second long, and my FPS didnt even go down much. In other words: My comp can handle even west archo normally. Without any lag to speak of.

Now, when the genies first came out, lagg went up, alot. I had to start switching to the performance mode thing to reduce lag to almost nothing normally. But that was only in west archo, it was annoying, but that in itself was acceptable. Graphics requirements went up because there was more to load. Ok, fine, I can accept that. But it was lagging me to the point of crashing at random intervals, even with all settings down to minimal. Thats quite a huge jump in system requirements.

The next update toned that down, ALOT. I lag like crazy to the point its annoying, even in performance settings, (or manually shutting it all down as low as possible to be sure,) but I was actually able to go through without taking like 5-20 minutes just to walk through without stopping in a straight line. That helped, and I much appreciate it. Its still laggy but acceptable.

However. Now its gotten worse again. I dont crash, but I come very close to it. Also, your servers also started disconnecting pretty much everyone at a certain time of day, though the past day or two I havnt seen that happen again yet, not sure if issue was fixed. Or it was while I wasnt on, dunno.


Now, I dont mean to bash the PWI developers. However. I dont see the reason for this. I'v played games with a lot more activity in 1 place and much higher graphics, and a lot more computation needs, and had no lag. So dont even try to tell me its my computer. Dont blame your failings on everyone else.

As I said, my intention isnt to bash. But I'm kinda getting tired of seeing all of you link ppl to a thread to telling them "Its your computer, get over it and shut up." bassically. Firstly, I find it rather rude, secondly, I find it rather insulting.

Now, would all the bashers please shut up? All this hostility isnt going to get anything done. Why dont we just calmly talk and resolve this peacefully, and quit throwing around "you suck!!!!!" statements.

And to avoid sounding hypocritical: I'm providing evidence to back my statement. And I dont mean it to say you suck, if your honestly working on it, then say so instead of hiding it by telling us our computers suck. Its rude, and insulting. I mean this as CONSTRUCTIVE critisism, (sp?), I dont mean any ill will. I would just like to see this issue resolved peacefully, and see an end to all the insult tossing-around.

Well, network lag and disconnections have basically vanished for me in the last month or so Just crashes here and there.

been lagging and dcing for 2 weeks already, cant safe grind anywhere cant lvl up b:cryb:cry

In defense, the client's side is more likely to be the problem. Whenever I have a technical problem on Warcraft, they always spend most of the time telling me what could be wrong on my end, and what I could do to stop it. They just want to make sure the problem is solved in a simple way, because it takes less work to adjust your personal settings than it does to fix a problem with a server or the game on it. If more and more people report the same exact problem, then it is more likely that it is the server's side.

About the original comment: it took me probably an hour to run from one end of the West side, to the other and back. Etherblade was never that bad, but there are more people in Archosaur.
My suggestion is to suspend PVP in the major cities. That wont really fix the problem, but should reduce it, since I notice the game performed better when there were not fights all over the place.
Otherwise, major lag issues like this could just be the server being full. It happens.

Ok, i've been playing Pwi a long time, and never had problems with lag, except a bit in Arch, which i already gotten used to, but 2 days ago while i played and i have been suffering major lag, not only in arch, but anywhere i go.

so i tried everything i could think of to fix it, i got rid of programmes that took lots of space, i tried increasing virtual memory, i tried re-installing my router, i checked my internet connection, i checked my RAM memory, reduced the computer's activity, i lowered the graphics and quality of the game, i checked if the game files were corrupted, i tried playing with another user, and i tried playing on another computer (with the same connection) and i tired playing with other characters... etc

so it's not my computer, what i've been going through is the following:

my character gets stuck, and i become a treat for mobs, and i've been losing lots of exp, and can't lvl, so i'm stuck, beside i can't talk to ncps nor buy things from cat shops, i can't chat, when i reply my reply appears 5 min later, and my skills gets stuck while i performe them, and i can't summon my pets nor fly, i can't feed my pet either (it's becoming wild on me) and i can't log out unless put forced log out.

i'm going crazy, please help me to fix this!!!

hi.. is good know that im not the only player with this problem.. i writed a post yesterday with this problem in this section.. and you can see that 4 players more have the same problem and not only in sanctuary..

and many players in sanctuary have lags, but not many have dc..

i hope that gm can fix this problem u.u

see you..

I havent been able to even log in. Ive unistalled and reinstalled the game twice and verified files numerous times. I just got a new CPU with 4gig ram and dual processors so Id think my system can handle it. But it says ever single server is down. Has said this for 5 days now...its really friggin aggrivating I havent been able to play. Ive made posts and filled out a ticket but have gotten no response. Ive been playing for a whhile on heavens tear and never had this problem. Ive spent a lot in cash shop and have gold to still spend, but cant get in game to spend it. I jsut want some answers...