Persistent lag/delay since May 26/16 patch

tribbulater

I've had persistent lag/delayed response since the patch on May 26. Played the first week of CC event fine, no issues. Thursdays patch involved something like a 640Mb download, so when it was laggy after I logged in, I assumed it was because a lot of people were DLing a large patch.

What I get is delays/pauses while moving, delayed response to clicking on menu/UI items (like DOff mission buttons, R&D choices etc). I even get delays between characters while typing in the chat box. No disconnects, and only the normal amount of SNR countups when changing maps (usually to fleet starbase or docking at same). Just, persistent, frequent, delayed response to key presses or mouse clicks.

This happens on Q'onos, ESD, sector space, during the crystalline battle, while typing in chat, pretty much everywhere. The delay can be up to 2-3 seconds although usually it is just .5 second or so (brief but noticeable). Even while simply walking, I get brief pause/move/pause/move jerkiness.

It isn't affecting any other games, it isn't affecting my connection, and it started directly after the May 26 patch. I ran the various tests set out in the sticky, results posted below. The pathping gave 100% packet loss to my local ISP and to hop#11 on the route, but I am unsure how to interpret this since the game plays, it just plays with frequent delays. I would say about 5-6 delayed response per minute, though they aren't spaced regularly that I can tell.

(Note: At times, when I mentioned it in chat, sometimes 2-4 people said 'oh yeah lag's pretty bad right now', other times no one at all replied about seeing lag but several people said 'lag? there is no lag' so I assume it's not a server-wide problem. I have not changed graphics drivers or anything else on computer, just updated/patched the games that normally patch on Thursday.)

C:\Users\Aries>tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com

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

1 3 ms 1 ms 2 ms d67-193-205-80.home3.cgocable.net [67.193.205.80]
2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.90.64.1
3 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms 53-12-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.12.53]
4 22 ms 19 ms 18 ms 13-6-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.6.13]
5 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms te0-0-0-7.rcr21.yhm01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.122.17.21]
6 27 ms 26 ms 25 ms be2762.ccr22.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.142]
7 31 ms 29 ms 29 ms be2302.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.13]
8 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms te0-0-0-0.rcr11.b002133-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.130]
9 29 ms 31 ms 32 ms 38.111.40.114
10 30 ms 42 ms 30 ms 198.49.243.253
11 32 ms 36 ms 35 ms 10.251.192.21
12 30 ms 35 ms 28 ms patchserver2.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]

Trace complete.

contacting nettest server..
Local IP: 67.193.205.80
Ping: 34.5 msec
Port: 80: 594 KB/sec 22 KB/sec 624 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 563 KB/sec 21 KB/sec 592 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 433 KB/sec 18 KB/sec 489 KB/sec 500
Port: 443: 418 KB/sec 17 KB/sec 453 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 465 KB/sec 21 KB/sec 493 KB/sec 500
Port: 7255: 501 KB/sec 18 KB/sec 536 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 499 KB/sec 20 KB/sec 533 KB/sec 500
Port: 7003: 637 KB/sec 27 KB/sec 748 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 396 KB/sec 17 KB/sec 436 KB/sec 500
Port: 7202: 430 KB/sec 17 KB/sec 462 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 495 KB/sec 21 KB/sec 533 KB/sec 500
Port: 7499: 349 KB/sec 14 KB/sec 372 KB/sec 500
Port: 80: 337 KB/sec 15 KB/sec 362 KB/sec 500
Idle NIC bandwidth Send: 0 KB/sec Recv: 1 KB/sec
hit return to exit

C:\Users\Aries>pathping patchserver.crypticstudios.com

Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 Aries-Corsair [192.168.0.2]
1 d67-193-205-80.home3.cgocable.net [67.193.205.80]
2 10.90.64.1
3 53-12-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.12.53]
4 13-6-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.6.13]
5 te0-0-0-7.rcr21.yhm01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.122.17.21]
6 be2762.ccr22.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.142]
7 be2302.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.13]
8 te0-0-0-0.rcr11.b002133-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.130]
9 38.111.40.114
10 198.49.243.253
11 10.251.192.21
12 patchserver2.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]

Computing statistics for 300 seconds...
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Aries-Corsair [192.168.0.2]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% d67-193-205-80.home3.cgocable.net[67.193.205.80]
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% 10.90.64.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 53-12-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.12.53]
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 18ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 13-6-226-24.rev.cgocable.net [24.226.6.13]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 20ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te0-0-0-7.rcr21.yhm01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.122.17.21]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 29ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% be2762.ccr22.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.142]
0/ 100 = 0% |
7 33ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% be2302.ccr22.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.13]
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 33ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te0-0-0-0.rcr11.b002133-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.130]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 30ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 38.111.40.114
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 34ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 198.49.243.253
0/ 100 = 0% |
11 --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% 10.251.192.21
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 29ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% patchserver2.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]

Trace complete.