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Server down time, disconnected from server crashes, ATI compatibility bugs, huge lag, constant kicking from the log in screen, and now it would seem in europe at least a severe shortage of retail game copies leaving many players crying into their earl grey tea... For some reason I was hoping that today I would come home have a go on the game before the misses gets home and find my pre-order borg bridge officer code waiting for me, seems I was mistaken.

With launch a matter of hours away and servers that are practically melting under the strain of pre order gamers alone things are looking a tad bit grim... The sad thing is most of us want this game to succeed but just as I learn to accept one problem another pops up to add to the strain.

I've been at most of the big MMO launches over the past 9 years and have to say, whilst not technically the worse yet, as an overall experiance on all fronts its well up there with the worst of them. And there I was thinking SOE were terrible.

The sad thing is I find myself looking at the SWTOR website now whilst waiting in vain to log my character in... come on Cryptic, take a breath, big day tomorrow, lets not mess it up completely.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    what game are you playing?

    try getting a decent computer and broadband because things have been smooth as silk (more or less) since the update
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I have to agree with OP about access problems

    see my thread in feedback, spent 30 mins getting in, got in twice, soon as I zone I get booted from game, so can even leave the sector I am in :(

    not happy any more
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    swag-nyc wrote: »
    what game are you playing?

    try getting a decent computer and broadband because things have been smooth as silk (more or less) since the update

    The pc is a week old I7 920, ATI 5870, 8GB RAM, and current internet connection speed at this precise moment is 8MB. So not sure whats going on then?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No MMO is perfect right out the gate. In today's day and age of "I WANT NOW GIMME GIMME," the humblest of virtues seems to have been lost: patience.

    As to the Borg BO cancellation, Cryptic is looking into it. I get the feeling that they will offer compensation to anyone that had a borg bo preorder.

    Me, I'm actually impressed with this launch so far over games such as, for example, Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, EvE (if you logged into EvE on day one, good luck even undocking from the station), etc. And remember, this is just preplay. TOMORROW is when Cryptic has to deliver on stability (and I'm still pretty sure we're gonna have a couple server outages, but that's how MMO's go). So, honestly, grab a good book, grab a nice cuppa tea, and get some brain building done while waiting for the servers :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    i logged in just to test prior to my reply, i got right in, no problem

    perhaps you have upstream issues?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    swag-nyc wrote: »
    i logged in just to test prior to my reply, i got right in, no problem

    perhaps you have upstream issues?

    I may have to look into this...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No MMO is perfect right out the gate. In today's day and age of "I WANT NOW GIMME GIMME," the humblest of virtues seems to have been lost: patience.

    As to the Borg BO cancellation, Cryptic is looking into it. I get the feeling that they will offer compensation to anyone that had a borg bo preorder.

    Me, I'm actually impressed with this launch so far over games such as, for example, Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, EvE (if you logged into EvE on day one, good luck even undocking from the station), etc. And remember, this is just preplay. TOMORROW is when Cryptic has to deliver on stability (and I'm still pretty sure we're gonna have a couple server outages, but that's how MMO's go). So, honestly, grab a good book, grab a nice cuppa tea, and get some brain building done while waiting for the servers :)

    shut up, jerk
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    swag-nyc wrote: »
    i logged in just to test prior to my reply, i got right in, no problem

    perhaps you have upstream issues?

    this is what I am thinking too, disco when zoning ro even acessing game seems a bit..odd

    hmm need the IP address to ping
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Tomarxus wrote: »
    shut up, jerk

    Less trolling please.


    OP, it's more likely your GPU thats causing the graphical issues. ATI's and NVidia's latest drivers seem to be having problems witht he latest hardware. thats why theyre pushing out hotfix after hotfix.

    EU stock control is done by Namco/bandai/atari, not cryptic. However a dev has already said to be patient while he investigates.

    Lag is on your end. Whether it be your network seup or ISP. I have zero lag playing from the middle of nowhere in north wales UK on a pretty much crappy independent ISP, and mainly play on a low end dual core machine.

    If i can do that and run fine, it's not cryptic thats the problem. The only problem they seem to be having is server stability, i.e shards buckling under the sheer amount of players.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    pinging IP is fine, some latancy issues on XO Communications,
    100% packets getting through.
    so its def not my network at fault
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Badem wrote: »
    pinging IP is fine, some latancy issues on XO Communications,
    100% packets getting through.
    so its def not my network at fault
    Most of the times it's upstream, the most over looked factory. You could have a 1 gbps (gigabit/sec) connection but if your upload is only 512/kbps its going to severely limit you. That was a issue my friend was having during OB, lagged harder then a haitian internet connection, had him run a speed test, boom 70 kbps upload, problem solved once he called up his ISP and they got him going.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    a good place to start with working out if network lag or processing lag is whats causing the lag you're seeing is the following.

    in game use the /netgraph 1 command to bring up your ping
    use the /showfps 1 command to bring up your fps

    if lag is accompanied with a large spike in the ping (which will show up as a big spike on the graph in the bottom right hand corner) then the network is causing the problem and thats a whole heap of other troubles.

    if however the lag has no ping spike it could be a graphical or processing error, dealing with that depends on your system set up however.

    drop a post into the technical forums, they may ask for a DXDIAG from you to help them locate driver and software problems, or be able to give advice on network issues to help.

    i had similar problems with champs online, and followed the steps i mention here, i was able to see that 90% of the lag i was seeing was related to my own system, so i posted up a DXDIAG and that helped massively, both players with more technical knowledge and a dev were able to help me locate the problems and work them out. since doing that i've had no problems with champs or STO.

    hope that is of some help to you
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    MrSloane wrote:
    The pc is a week old I7 920, ATI 5870, 8GB RAM, and current internet connection speed at this precise moment is 8MB. So not sure whats going on then?

    Wow that sure is a fast internet speed, you sure it isn't 8Mb?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If you have a brand new machine, go into the Properties for your NIC and make 100% certain that none of the power saving/sleeping functions are activated. I've had other MMOs that choke when I've forgotten to fix this (including WoW on multiple machines)
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