Ever since Season 4 went live, I have been unable to play STO due to insane lag issues, that make the game unplayable, and at one point I even logged in floating out in space! Has anyone else had this problem, and if so how were they able to correct it?
Unfortunately, if I can't get the issue fixed, i'll have to cancel my subscription, which is something I really don't want to do, since I love the game and have subscribed to it since the game launched. unfortunately, if I can't play it, it's pointless to continue subscribing.
in same boat, massive lag after the downtime, game is now unplayable, has anything been changed with the latest patch?
also in the UK
Exactly the same for me after this latest patch, and I'm also in the UK.
Worst of the problem occurs while moving between zones for me. It's almost like you have to wait 10 - 15 seconds for the UI to catch up once you arrive in a zone. After that it's better but still a bit laggy.
Prior to this patch I had no problems at all with lag.
Same here.. UI loads, w/o my ship - then shows warp-in sequence, then ship shows up.. also happens on ground maps, shows transporter room for example at ESD.. then after about 20seconds my toon beams in.. :S
I'm also getting this insnane lagg too I'm in UK? I logg in everyone else moves fine, no mention on the chat of lagg and I'm stuck for a while then jump around. JUST SPEND £8 on some points and can't blooming use them!
I'm on the US East Coast and I too am getting some serious gameplay lag.
I'm not sure if it was the emergency patch or not since gameplay was fine when I played in the afternoon and when I returned later in the evening, the lag was so horrible it was literally unplayable. And right now, its not as horrible but it's pretty signifcant that it has moments of rubberbanding.
I can confirm it is no my DSL because my Internet provider gave it a clean bil of health. So hope Cryptic can fix this little technical problem later today.
I'm getting this as well. Once I'm actually in a map it's OK and playable but every map transfer is very slow and for 15 seconds or so after each map transfer I can see the map but everything is stationary and unmoving then it all jerks into the position it should be in as if it's catching up with itself. As mentioned above this has started only after today's patch, when I logged in this morning half an hour before the patch it was fine but I've just patched up and it's a nightmare, looks as though I'm going to be spending an hour or so on ESD before logging out as I can do little else.
Tracert result below
C:\Users\?>Tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com
Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 12 ms 9 ms 7 ms 10.19.140.1
2 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms wals-geam-1a-ge211.network.virginmedia.net [80.3
.146.253]
3 10 ms 8 ms 10 ms wolv-core-1b-tenge73.network.virginmedia.net [62
.30.254.73]
4 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms brhm-bb-1b-ae3-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.159.93]
5 12 ms 13 ms 18 ms nrth-bb-1a-as4-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253
.185.105]
6 15 ms 13 ms 16 ms nrth-tmr-1-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.159.30]
7 38 ms 27 ms 27 ms fran-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
185.81]
8 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms te0-7-0-7.mpd22.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.14.133]
9 39 ms 38 ms 33 ms te0-0-0-2.mpd22.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.0.133]
10 43 ms 42 ms 36 ms te0-0-0-2.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.37.102]
11 103 ms 101 ms 123 ms te0-5-0-3.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54
.44.189]
12 114 ms 115 ms 100 ms te3-2.ccr01.bos06.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.
130]
13 105 ms 106 ms 107 ms 38.111.40.114
14 99 ms 99 ms 100 ms 208.95.185.41
Trace complete.
I don't know what I'm looking at with the Tracert so I'll let those who can read it decypher it.
Ever since Season 4 went live, I have been unable to play STO due to insane lag issues, that make the game unplayable, and at one point I even logged in floating out in space! Has anyone else had this problem, and if so how were they able to correct it?
Unfortunately, if I can't get the issue fixed, i'll have to cancel my subscription, which is something I really don't want to do, since I love the game and have subscribed to it since the game launched. unfortunately, if I can't play it, it's pointless to continue subscribing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This has happened to me repeatedly. At one time I watched as my ship warped out and I was still in the sector for like a minute! Talk about your Mutiny on the Bounty!
I'm getting this as well. Once I'm actually in a map it's OK and playable but every map transfer is very slow and for 15 seconds or so after each map transfer I can see the map but everything is stationary and unmoving then it all jerks into the position it should be in as if it's catching up with itself. As mentioned above this has started only after today's patch, when I logged in this morning half an hour before the patch it was fine but I've just patched up and it's a nightmare, looks as though I'm going to be spending an hour or so on ESD before logging out as I can do little else.
Tracert result below
I don't know what I'm looking at with the Tracert so I'll let those who can read it decypher it.
EDIT; Forgot to mention, I'm in the UK.
What you are describing quite accurately matches my experience. Your tracert looks pretty clean, and certainly doesn't indicate anything that would explain the current problem.
Was fine yesterday, but then today while playing, was in the middle of a ground mission when all of a sudden my entire away team freeze as do all the mobs I'm about to start attacking, a second later my character warps back a few feet. I figured I'd give it a sec for the connection to timeout or something, but instead I'm now able to run around for 30 or so seconds firing my gun (not doing any damage, and with it pointing entirely the wrong direction) before it warps me back to where I was initially.
I figured I'd leave it for a while and come back later since I can't even get a proper response from the Log Out button. Couple of hours later I come back and parts of the character information are missing from the character select screen, such as the class badges, race and gender. Try to log on, sometimes it hangs there, sometimes it gets in and then just doesn't allow me to move... Essentially it boils down to the game being entirely unplayable.
I was having the same issues too earlier on (I'm in the UK also)
EU Proxy was the same as running on None, all laggy and practically unplayable BUT the US proxy seems to be working ok for me - map load times are a little longer than normal but the game plays fine otherwise.
Ran a tracert too and its very similar to the one shown above (we even use the same ISP).
Anyway try the US proxy and see if that helps any.
Cheers
Edit: to change proxy servers you need to exit the game completely and restart the launcher. BEFORE you login click on options in the upper right corner, you can the change the proxy in the box that pops up. Login and hopefully play
I was having the same issues too earlier on (I'm in the UK also)
EU Proxy was the same as running on None, all laggy and practically unplayable BUT the US proxy seems to be working ok for me - map load times are a little longer than normal but the game plays fine otherwise.
Ran a tracert too and its very similar to the one shown above (we even use the same ISP).
Anyway try the US proxy and see if that helps any.
Cheers
Edit: to change proxy servers you need to exit the game completely and restart the launcher. BEFORE you login click on options in the upper right corner, you can the change the proxy in the box that pops up. Login and hopefully play
well since im not getting any official answers I can only postulate theories. Im working on one now. Im thinking the on demand patching maybe slowing things down? Rolling with that I turned it off and im in the process of downloading three gigabytes of back patching. Thats pretty bad if all these updates havnt made it into the game with all the hours ive been playing up to this point where the game is now unplayable. Hopefully once im caught up itll stop lagging and bugging out. If there is no change ill just blame the whole thing on solar flares or somethin :-P
Todays patch has made the game unplayable for me i take a few steps forward then i get flung all the way back and space is just as bad the maps are taking forever to load. I'm also in the UK, this is the first time i've ever had lag issues on this game aswell
EDIT: i don't have on demand patching on i downloaded it in 10 seconds when i got back from work then it was just unplayable
since its not limited to eu/us proxys (sweden here) and it seems zoning/loading related, I´m pretty certain its related to server response timeouts. Seems like someone is either DDosed or they have some serious server issues.
hmm. interesting all you people in the UK having this issue,
I'm in Canada, this issue started for me last night EXACTLY as you guys describe.
Is it happenning to everyone outside the US? cause I play with a friend (i just came back haven't played since launch) that i recruited, we've been having a pretty good time all week, he lives in the US, not one problem with his connection, i can't play thru the lag and soon get disconnected after a bunch of connection warnings. Sometimes it seem ok, except for lag after loading screens, but then gets worse and worse to the point of a disconnect.
I've tried from both home and at work, and on two seperate computers with the exact same problem.
yeah, same here since the most recent patch the lag is horrible. and the load time are extremely long. and now suddenly after trying to play i keep getting server disconnected every 30 seconds or so.
so the game is unplayable. can we get a patch roll back and resubmit this most recent patch back to the qa people?
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I've had no problem with lag since S4 came out,ONLY started today,and it's made my game unplayable now...
What ya done this time Devs??
also in the UK
Exactly the same for me after this latest patch, and I'm also in the UK.
Worst of the problem occurs while moving between zones for me. It's almost like you have to wait 10 - 15 seconds for the UI to catch up once you arrive in a zone. After that it's better but still a bit laggy.
Prior to this patch I had no problems at all with lag.
Just started today after patch..
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I'm also getting this insnane lagg too I'm in UK? I logg in everyone else moves fine, no mention on the chat of lagg and I'm stuck for a while then jump around. JUST SPEND £8 on some points and can't blooming use them!
I'm not sure if it was the emergency patch or not since gameplay was fine when I played in the afternoon and when I returned later in the evening, the lag was so horrible it was literally unplayable. And right now, its not as horrible but it's pretty signifcant that it has moments of rubberbanding.
I can confirm it is no my DSL because my Internet provider gave it a clean bil of health. So hope Cryptic can fix this little technical problem later today.
Tracert result below
I don't know what I'm looking at with the Tracert so I'll let those who can read it decypher it.
EDIT; Forgot to mention, I'm in the UK.
This has happened to me repeatedly. At one time I watched as my ship warped out and I was still in the sector for like a minute! Talk about your Mutiny on the Bounty!
What you are describing quite accurately matches my experience. Your tracert looks pretty clean, and certainly doesn't indicate anything that would explain the current problem.
Was fine yesterday, but then today while playing, was in the middle of a ground mission when all of a sudden my entire away team freeze as do all the mobs I'm about to start attacking, a second later my character warps back a few feet. I figured I'd give it a sec for the connection to timeout or something, but instead I'm now able to run around for 30 or so seconds firing my gun (not doing any damage, and with it pointing entirely the wrong direction) before it warps me back to where I was initially.
I figured I'd leave it for a while and come back later since I can't even get a proper response from the Log Out button. Couple of hours later I come back and parts of the character information are missing from the character select screen, such as the class badges, race and gender. Try to log on, sometimes it hangs there, sometimes it gets in and then just doesn't allow me to move... Essentially it boils down to the game being entirely unplayable.
EU Proxy was the same as running on None, all laggy and practically unplayable BUT the US proxy seems to be working ok for me - map load times are a little longer than normal but the game plays fine otherwise.
Ran a tracert too and its very similar to the one shown above (we even use the same ISP).
Anyway try the US proxy and see if that helps any.
Cheers
Edit: to change proxy servers you need to exit the game completely and restart the launcher. BEFORE you login click on options in the upper right corner, you can the change the proxy in the box that pops up. Login and hopefully play
this worked for me, playable again ...
EDIT: i don't have on demand patching on i downloaded it in 10 seconds when i got back from work then it was just unplayable
Just my 2 cents.
I'm in Canada, this issue started for me last night EXACTLY as you guys describe.
Is it happenning to everyone outside the US? cause I play with a friend (i just came back haven't played since launch) that i recruited, we've been having a pretty good time all week, he lives in the US, not one problem with his connection, i can't play thru the lag and soon get disconnected after a bunch of connection warnings. Sometimes it seem ok, except for lag after loading screens, but then gets worse and worse to the point of a disconnect.
I've tried from both home and at work, and on two seperate computers with the exact same problem.
Living in The Netherlands,
Weird thing is, my 1st char works great.
A friend of mine who lives in the same country has massive lag.
When i logged out and back in, the lag started for me as well.
Does cryptic run the game on 1 server or do they have multiple? Because it really seems that one of their servers is running hot lol
so the game is unplayable. can we get a patch roll back and resubmit this most recent patch back to the qa people?