Lag!

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Nexus Icon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

Okay,what the hell is with all the sodding lag on the Euro servers at the moment?
I keep rubberbanding, and combat is a deathtrap.
It only seems to be this bad during the daytime, but it has been like this for a few days now.

Seriously, not funny any more.
I think someone needs to take a look at their servers, make sure they haven't been replaced by older, dodgier PCs.

I've never had such consistently bad lag whilst playing GW before, although I will say that when I was playing on US servers they were noticeably less laggy than Euro servers.
Is ANet taking the cheap route or something?

M1h4iL

M1h4iL

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Perth, Australia

Try going onto international districts, that could solve the lag until it fixed. I had some lag recently too where it would take up to a full minute to load a map.

Count Feanor

Count Feanor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Hellsing Organization or... RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!

The Royal Priesthood

N/W

I also am getting very sick of all the lag. It's irritating when support keeps saying look at my own internet connections when I know for a fact it's not me. Last couple of days it's been affecting me and people in my guild accross the country at the same time. Don't tell me it's my internet connection. I'm a little irritated, can you tell?

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Count Feanor
I also am getting very sick of all the lag. It's irritating when support keeps saying look at my own internet connections when I know for a fact it's not me. Last couple of days it's been affecting me and people in my guild accross the country at the same time. Don't tell me it's my internet connection. I'm a little irritated, can you tell?
Its what they told me as well. :\ Its pretty widespread and global, not local.

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

It's making almost anything impssible to do at the moment.
I can't group with people as I'm sure I'll let them down at the wrong moment, I can't run anywhere because I'll get lag killed by mobs whilst I'm rubber-banding, I can't do ANYTHING.
It damn well ain't my connection either as Fear plays fine as do other games, and I have no problems loading web pages.

Are more people online because of the school holidays and ANet didn't take that into account when building their European server farm?

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

Just had a 007 error, and was checking my network usage tab in the task manager whilst it was happening. Whilst it was happening, my internet connection was still active but network usage dropped to 0.17-0.12%.
And that was after I connected to the international districts :|

Addone_Abaddon

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

wait, is rubberbanding where your character bounces about everywhere?

if it is, I get that alot, one time I bounced in the UW and got the party killed for aggroing everything

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

It's where you jump between locations whilst not able to do anything.
Any skills that you're activating take forever to activate, and you can continue running, but you may bounce back 100 feet or so completely at random, then back to where the bounce started, etc.

Count Feanor

Count Feanor

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Hellsing Organization or... RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!

The Royal Priesthood

N/W

For me and my guild this has been happening a lot more just in the past week? What's up ANET? I don't usually have problems with lag. Rubberbanding is the most annoying thing in the world.

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

Yup, I can confirm that too Feanor, definitely the last week it's been worse.

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

I was having it last night in Raisu Palace (American Server). I was seriously thinking I was going to err 7 out and warned my team mates. Turned out they were having it too. We managed to finsh with Expert and missed Masters by 40 seconds. Imagine if we hadn't been lagging so badly.

Addone_Abaddon

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexus Icon
It's where you jump between locations whilst not able to do anything.
Any skills that you're activating take forever to activate, and you can continue running, but you may bounce back 100 feet or so completely at random, then back to where the bounce started, etc.
Sort of what I ment lol, and also you type something, and text appears a few seconds after typing.

Occasionally you freeze, you can still type, everyone around you is frozen, when you press enter after typing no text comes out, you use a skill, it swirls, then you hear an error click, I hate that, but you can move, but just spin round, no moving forward.


Anyone ever had that?

It happens alot round beacons perch and this PvP arena I've been in in random arenas once.

Drow Lor

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

California

SBD

The lag has gotten worse, no doubt!!! Just hang in there people.

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Last night, tried to do eternal grove 2 times. I lagged out both time, once i was so close to finish the mission but the lags kicked in and i got booted. Also was standing in LA waiting for teammates and got lagged out.

Michel Longshorts

Michel Longshorts

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Yeah I remember when the lag first came...
It wasnt just my own internet connection.

Was playing AB with a few of my guildmates on TS, and at some point my friends said over TS that they were lagging out while I was fine. Then I watched that WITHIN ONE SECOND 8 people simultaniously disconnected from the AB. Somehow a few of us were left, but Im not sure why.

I think ANET wanted to increase the difficulty by having 007 agents working round in the shadows of GW >.>

Ventius Hozza

Ventius Hozza

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

London, UK

Powerpuff Boys [PUFF]

R/

A friend of mine lost Survivor title at 900,000~ exp due to lag. Oh how I laughed.

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Can we get a comment from Gaile/Alex on the lag since the last weekend event? Something is clearly happening on the Anet side.

achilles ankle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

USA

The Primevil Spartans

A/

This is becoming absolutly rediculous...i can pin point it back to that so called "weekend of double fun"...try weekend of double/triple insane lag issues.

I have Never had problems lagging in guildwars as much as i have in the past few weeks. Yes maybe i got a 007 once a week but now i am getting the 3-4 times a day. U lag wen u walk..u warp back to ur start location when u are running, u sit there spin around in circles while ur skills are activating, or u just drop and it tells me to check MY internet connect. It is becoming a huge hassle just to play this game now, and if this continues into nightfall release idk if im going to buy it. JUST FILL US IN ANET, is there a problem with your servers and if so.... update the guildwars website with the lag issues.
Ive had enough of this and its becoming stupid to me to even start something because i will either lag out or warp around the map and aggro everything. PLEASE HELP US

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

not to be rude but i think its time for another server restart to get all the bugs and craps out of it?

Omega X

Omega X

Ninja Unveiler

Join Date: Jun 2005

Louisiana, USA

Boston Guild[BG]

W/Me

Report the lag issues to ANET.

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Natis Ignigena

Me/

I'm sorry, but I stopped reporting stuff to ANet a long time ago when it became evident that their support department couldn't tell their arse from their elbow.
And what do they always end up telling you to do?
"Post it on a fansite™".

I've stopped playing GW today, it's got so awful.

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

The problem is that this is CLEARLY an issue on their end or possibly a backbone issue. But the tech people are just programmed to tell us to 'check our network settings, unplug your cable-modem for 30 seconds, etc'

And until we do these things 424 times, to their satisfaction, they aren't going to escalate the matter.

It just is so CLEARLY not an issue on the user side.

Beginning the weekend before the GWFC, people from Europe, East Coast USA, Midwest USA, and Canada began experiencing the same 60 second lag-spikes, with a 50-50 chance at Error=007. Often multiple alliance members get disconnected at the same time, even whole teams!

So unless everyone's network cards suddenly crapped out in the same way at the same time, it's an Anet issue.

saphir

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

doa

Mo/

I've had serious lag issues since last friday. Really, I've never had as many err 7 disconnects since starting this game over a year ago than I've had in the past week! It makes it fairly unplayable now. The best part is the predictability of it all. Sometimes I'll lag out right after logging in, sometimes after almost completing a mission, last 2 times it was while healing on the chaos planes, and right before I picked up my obsidian shard in fow.

My lag spikes last up to 60 sec or more.. the worst part is sometimes I can see everything happening in real time around me as the other players teamchat, cast spells and get killed, but I'm helpless to do anything. I can move/etc/send stuff to the server, but there's no response to my client so I'm never updated. Yet I still receive packets that update where my fellow players are and what they are doing.

Other times it just locks up and I can't move like the connection has just been completely lost.

In countless parties I've been in, lag has affected the warrior and caused them to aggro huge nearby mobs, usually resulting in complete party wipes as the rest of us start rubberbanding.

The saddest part is that I know its not my machine or my connection having dealt w/ both in the past and yet anet is saying nothing. I always test my net connection real fast in my browser when I start to lag to see if my router, modem or isp connectivity has gone down.

Y.T.

Y.T.

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega X
Report the lag issues to ANET.
alrdy did... they cant fix it tho

Eviance

Eviance

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Eh I forget... o_O

Biscuit of Dewm [MEEP]

R/

See Anet and such want to blame it on our connections - but the majority of us KNOW when its our connections and when its server side. THREE err7s today! And two of those that were less than 30mins apart

First it was lag to the point of 2min delayed messaging and then it all came up in a flash, then it booted me... I'm so sick of it >_<