IVE BEEN HIT WITH LAG OVER 20 TIMES IN PAST WEEK AND DISSCONTED WHEN IN MIDDLE OF IMPORTANT THINGS SUCH As: 1.GvG. 2.last battle of HoH. 3.right when about to buy my FoW armor 4. UW 5.tombs
6th the one i got most pissed off by. IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAILE GRAY MEETING WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO ASNWER MY QUESTION!
Lag must stop
SPIRIT OF THE SEA
Knightsaber Sith
I haven't had any problems. It might actually be because of your ISP in which case it would be just silly to quit GW.
Nexus Icon
It's not just him Mr. Sith, there have been quite a few of us complaining, from all over the world...
Enchanted Warrior
Try opening program and sit at login and see if lightning bolt appears in upper right corner. If so let it go until it stops. Then see if the lag ends.
lacasner
I agree, lag and err7 has become so bad, my char teleports regurarly and rubberbands all over towns. I wont quit, that would be a stupid reason to, but it is getting quite annoying.
Warrior1986
Yep, it's starting to get rediculous. But from what I've read and seen, apparently Anet is working on it. Though how long it'll take is anyones guess...
Carl Butanananowski
Yeah, lag HAS become a problem lately >.> try restarting your modem when it starts, it might save you (ive done it, it takes a few mins for it to get back to normal, but you wont err7).
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Very minor lag here....
and the reason he wants you to wait until the lightning bolt stops is because thats constantly streaming downloads and so that can cause some of your lag =/
and the reason he wants you to wait until the lightning bolt stops is because thats constantly streaming downloads and so that can cause some of your lag =/
Eviance
Simply said - go read - tons of people are having lag and err7 issues, not just the OP. It "might" be his connection but I know for a fact that isn't the case with mine. It may not dirrectly have anything to do with the game, but with their servers, however it prevents gameplay for those of us who are suffering the effects severly and its beyond annoying for me. I haven't gotten to really play GW in 2mths because of it - its just getting worse.
JAFO2RHh
go into your guild wars folder and rename your gw.dat file. Restart the game and let it rebuild the entire .dat file before logging in. Works for me.
milias
If you're having lag issues, you need to email ANet/NCSoft support, instead of posting a non-constructive post here. Their tech support is usually very good at solving these types of issues. Ranting about it here will not solve anything.
Parson Brown
I understand lag can come from anywhere in the pipeline, but GW (and GW alone) has been increasingly laggy for me during the past couple weeks.
It has been so bad as to be unplayable for the past couple days.
It has been so bad as to be unplayable for the past couple days.
Xenex Xclame
Not this one milias,They will tell you one of two things ( or both) Its a problem on YOUR end ( along with the other hunders of people suffering from it) Or they know about the problem and they are doing everything they can to solve it.
Things i noticed or Thought about.
This 10 time worse lagg and error 7 started after one of the events, cant remember which but i kno very good that after one of the events i started to get this a lott (Err7 which i had never gotten before that!)
What i think is they dont really know what they broke in one of the updates,they basicly have to backtrack all the way back counting from about when they received the first hunders of complain about it.
At that moment they thought it might just be something on the isps,which i can believe,i mean if they dont have a problem it must be at your side right?
But then after more complains post on forums of fansites and all that they started thinking maybe IT IS us.By that time maybe 2/3 weeks had passed,also means atleast 2/3 events/updates.
So they have quite some dirt to go sniff tru.Lets just hope they can find it soon (before Nightfall please) and please dont say its our end, 1 or 2 or even 10 people out of 3 million is ok, but when it starts going in the hunders it might be a possibility its your end.
Things i noticed or Thought about.
This 10 time worse lagg and error 7 started after one of the events, cant remember which but i kno very good that after one of the events i started to get this a lott (Err7 which i had never gotten before that!)
What i think is they dont really know what they broke in one of the updates,they basicly have to backtrack all the way back counting from about when they received the first hunders of complain about it.
At that moment they thought it might just be something on the isps,which i can believe,i mean if they dont have a problem it must be at your side right?
But then after more complains post on forums of fansites and all that they started thinking maybe IT IS us.By that time maybe 2/3 weeks had passed,also means atleast 2/3 events/updates.
So they have quite some dirt to go sniff tru.Lets just hope they can find it soon (before Nightfall please) and please dont say its our end, 1 or 2 or even 10 people out of 3 million is ok, but when it starts going in the hunders it might be a possibility its your end.
Angelus of Silence
There are a lot of people having lag in Game this week more then last week, Our guild has lost 3 players in GvG at the same time from lag and each player in a different area. Also in missions, UW, FoW, Alliance Battles and more.
It not just one player or a few there is a lot of people facing this problem at the moment and it doesn't look good.
It not just one player or a few there is a lot of people facing this problem at the moment and it doesn't look good.
achilles ankle
Ive made countless posts about this and have not had any answers, it is getting very annoying. Ive lagged out in misisons. during pvp such as arena's and AB. Its very annoying, and no its just not me before someone says that, which i know someone will. My whole guild has had problems, the rubberbanding as they call it is happening very often. More often is the lag where u stand still, move in a circle while the game continues around u, and i die. and plz 007 notice STOP TELLING ME TO CHECK MY CONNECTION.
seut
I'm in an international guild and players from three continents experience lag spikes and disconnects simultaneously. This is definitely not a client issue!
I had more err7s in this week than in the whole year before. It's nearly as bad as the summer of lag on euro-servers in july 2005...and that was a problem closer to Anet's side.
I had more err7s in this week than in the whole year before. It's nearly as bad as the summer of lag on euro-servers in july 2005...and that was a problem closer to Anet's side.
Misc Merik
Yeah the lag and consistant err7 for the last week and a half or so is just unbearable ive run all the checks and troubleshooting techniques I can think of and still this continues to happen. All I can really think of is maybe anet might of shifted something out of place when they setup for their tournament.
Inde
I'm going to chime in here, and while no I don't think leaving idle threats such as "I'm quitting" are productive, I have to say that this has become an increasing problem over the last several weeks. I have thoroughly read the PlayNC Support FAQ's on Err07 and talked with many people. They say it's your issue, that there is an interruption somewhere on your side but with the sharp increase in this error I truly think there is more to it then this. I can't imagine that this many people complaining can be dismissed by ArenaNet as soley being the user after it's been reported so frequently.
grikdog
I have to concur I have played for over a year and never had an issue until recently. It is really annoying when your screen freezes or you run into a wall and stay there and by the time you have control again you are dead.
I can totally see why someone would quit if it happend all the time. Fortunately it isnt happening so often to me that I cant enjoy playing. I wish what ever changed though would get fixed.
I can totally see why someone would quit if it happend all the time. Fortunately it isnt happening so often to me that I cant enjoy playing. I wish what ever changed though would get fixed.
tomcruisejr
i was hit by 6-7 err7s yesterday. one err7 had me when i was chest running. i opened the chest and a gold blood necro Idol r8 dropped for me was about to pick it and i got f'in err7.
what if that idol got +5 armor (while health is above 50%) and improves skill recharge by 10%? that's like my dream offhand for my level 10 necro.
Error 7 sucks.
or maybe 1 day, we'll see in Guild Wars Store
On Sale
Reconnects - $10.01
what if that idol got +5 armor (while health is above 50%) and improves skill recharge by 10%? that's like my dream offhand for my level 10 necro.
Error 7 sucks.
or maybe 1 day, we'll see in Guild Wars Store
On Sale
Reconnects - $10.01
heist23
I've had ridiculous amounts of lag lately, too. Ragefests galore as my character wouldn't use her skills in GvG, bouncing off walls and teleporting everywhere...
What COULD be the problem is that all the DL'd files over the year have gotten fragmented and such, causing all this stress on your computer and things. Here's a link with a better explanation and how to fix it.
http://forum.sof-guild.com/showthread.php?t=5100
<3 those Servants.
Anyway, hope this solves your problem. If it doesn't, your ISP is borked or there's something that ANet's not telling us. Probably the latter, though.
What COULD be the problem is that all the DL'd files over the year have gotten fragmented and such, causing all this stress on your computer and things. Here's a link with a better explanation and how to fix it.
http://forum.sof-guild.com/showthread.php?t=5100
<3 those Servants.
Anyway, hope this solves your problem. If it doesn't, your ISP is borked or there's something that ANet's not telling us. Probably the latter, though.
aeroclown
Mmm
So instead of complaining about it like I see lots of people do how about you find the gw tools set to trace the connection. Submit the report. You are not the only people that expierence lag. Latency can only be resolved to a certain extent at a content provider level. All the hops in your route must work correctly, quickly, and with virtually no data loss for lag to go away.
Check the route
Contact YOUR provider
Contact Area Net
That are your options. That is all there is to it, making threats to leave the game help no one, if your problems effects a subnet, by helping yourself you are helping others. You however cannot expect other providers to just hop to when you say jump.
Before I hear anything either about how you can play other games without lag like fps. Lets take a look at how things work, Guildwars automatically select the closest node regardless of packet stats or latency. In other games you load a MSL, and Pick the most optimized server to play on, that makes all the difference in the world.
So instead of complaining about it like I see lots of people do how about you find the gw tools set to trace the connection. Submit the report. You are not the only people that expierence lag. Latency can only be resolved to a certain extent at a content provider level. All the hops in your route must work correctly, quickly, and with virtually no data loss for lag to go away.
Check the route
Contact YOUR provider
Contact Area Net
That are your options. That is all there is to it, making threats to leave the game help no one, if your problems effects a subnet, by helping yourself you are helping others. You however cannot expect other providers to just hop to when you say jump.
Before I hear anything either about how you can play other games without lag like fps. Lets take a look at how things work, Guildwars automatically select the closest node regardless of packet stats or latency. In other games you load a MSL, and Pick the most optimized server to play on, that makes all the difference in the world.
Curse You
I would believe that it was Anet having issues, if it weren't for one thing.
I have two houses, and as such, two computers. They both are on LAN connections through the same ISP. Yet, one has lag, the other does not.
The one that works is a rather new HP computer with an AMD 64 bit processor and 2 Gigs of RAM, running off a built in video card. This would make sense that the computer works fine.
The one that has lag is a 3 year of Dell computer with a Pentium 4 processor and 1 Gig of RAM, running on a NVidia GeForce 4000 card. The system should be able to handle Guild Wars (it can play BF2).
Now, I have some suggestions about why there might be lag.
1. Your computer is old. Sorry, but you may need to update your computer if it's a Pentium 3 or lower, or the video card may just be too outdated.
2. Your Drivers are outdated. You need to make sure your computer is running at it's best.
3. Your modem/router is old. This is a rather simple thing. Many people overlok the fact their modem may just be old.
4. Your computer needs a virus scan and a Defrag. You need to make sure nothing unnessicary is using up your resources.
It's doubtful that so many people have overlooked such simple factors, but then again, many people keep holding on too their old stuff.
I have two houses, and as such, two computers. They both are on LAN connections through the same ISP. Yet, one has lag, the other does not.
The one that works is a rather new HP computer with an AMD 64 bit processor and 2 Gigs of RAM, running off a built in video card. This would make sense that the computer works fine.
The one that has lag is a 3 year of Dell computer with a Pentium 4 processor and 1 Gig of RAM, running on a NVidia GeForce 4000 card. The system should be able to handle Guild Wars (it can play BF2).
Now, I have some suggestions about why there might be lag.
1. Your computer is old. Sorry, but you may need to update your computer if it's a Pentium 3 or lower, or the video card may just be too outdated.
2. Your Drivers are outdated. You need to make sure your computer is running at it's best.
3. Your modem/router is old. This is a rather simple thing. Many people overlok the fact their modem may just be old.
4. Your computer needs a virus scan and a Defrag. You need to make sure nothing unnessicary is using up your resources.
It's doubtful that so many people have overlooked such simple factors, but then again, many people keep holding on too their old stuff.
Carinae
Another Error 7 right at the end of Raisu.
yesitsrob
there's not really much point in contacting support about it sadly. Since they lie, and tell you it's you. When it bloody well isn't 
.
I know I've been suffering with way too many error 7's and some horrible lag issues ever since the GWFC went on observer mode. (not that this has anything to do with it, this is just when it started happening ^^) - and it's been happening to half of my guild... and half of the players in the game...
.I know I've been suffering with way too many error 7's and some horrible lag issues ever since the GWFC went on observer mode. (not that this has anything to do with it, this is just when it started happening ^^) - and it's been happening to half of my guild... and half of the players in the game...
Bane of Worlds
jeez well I guess I'm a few lucky ones that don't suffer from this 
Dien
I got some random lag sometimes but havent got a error7 im months but still W T B Reconnects.
Thallandor
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Originally Posted by seut
I'm in an international guild and players from three continents experience lag spikes and disconnects simultaneously. This is definitely not a client issue!
I had more err7s in this week than in the whole year before. It's nearly as bad as the summer of lag on euro-servers in july 2005...and that was a problem closer to Anet's side. |
I have a high speed cable internet connection without any downloading and from what i seen this lag and amount of DCs is really getting out of hand.
Arturo02
/signed
This is not a problem on my end. Been playing the game for fourteen months, rarely got an err 7. Now it happens every night. I'm not dumb and I know enough about computers to know what to fix on my end.
I won't freak out and yell I want to quit the game, but as a consumer of the product I feel strongly that this issue should be properly addressed. It is hindering the enjoyment of the product for me and has the potential to detract me from buying future expansions if it continues unchecked.
So, please Anet fix this problem. For the consumer. All of us.
This is not a problem on my end. Been playing the game for fourteen months, rarely got an err 7. Now it happens every night. I'm not dumb and I know enough about computers to know what to fix on my end.
I won't freak out and yell I want to quit the game, but as a consumer of the product I feel strongly that this issue should be properly addressed. It is hindering the enjoyment of the product for me and has the potential to detract me from buying future expansions if it continues unchecked.
So, please Anet fix this problem. For the consumer. All of us.
Rok
Let's see.
I have err7'd 0 times in the last 8 months (Jan1-Aug31)
The only time I have ever err7'd was during the Winterday event in a overloaded district waiting for Antlers/Santa Hats.
I play on the American server with a cable connection. I would guess the Aerican server is located near if not inside their Bellevue, WA headquarters. Being the case I can see why I don't err7, since I live less than 100 miles north in Bellingham.
So it can't be their server. It is a router or something else causing your problems.
Contact support and work it out, quit whining on the forums.
I have err7'd 0 times in the last 8 months (Jan1-Aug31)
The only time I have ever err7'd was during the Winterday event in a overloaded district waiting for Antlers/Santa Hats.
I play on the American server with a cable connection. I would guess the Aerican server is located near if not inside their Bellevue, WA headquarters. Being the case I can see why I don't err7, since I live less than 100 miles north in Bellingham.
So it can't be their server. It is a router or something else causing your problems.
Contact support and work it out, quit whining on the forums.
Isil`Zha
I've been having same problems - my connection never cuts out or anything, GW will either suddenly give me horrible lag, or just drop my connection with Error 007.
Tonight it's really bad. Was playing AB, with absolutely no lag whatsoever. Suddenly, everything stops and I'm dumped to the character screen with an error 7.
I get back on, no lag, running fine... then out of nowhere lag spikes to literally 60+ seconds... before dumping my connection. I can't even play it tonight it's so bad.
I have never error 7'ed until this last week. I've never had these kind of lag issues until this last week either.
Oh, and to head-off what's already been said:
1) My all-in-one Modem/Router indicates when a connection problem arises, none have.
2) I've been playing GW on this computer since I got GW back in December, these problems haven't shown up until this last week.
3) I tested my connection with a download and upload running (not using all bandwidth) and went and ran GW. It ran without any lag until I was randomly error 7'd - my downloads and uploads showed no indication of a connection disruption.
4) Three of my friends have the same ISP, one of them has these problems, the other two do not - it's not the ISP either.
And finally, 5) All signs point to an Anet problem that they need to fix.
Tonight it's really bad. Was playing AB, with absolutely no lag whatsoever. Suddenly, everything stops and I'm dumped to the character screen with an error 7.
I get back on, no lag, running fine... then out of nowhere lag spikes to literally 60+ seconds... before dumping my connection. I can't even play it tonight it's so bad.
I have never error 7'ed until this last week. I've never had these kind of lag issues until this last week either.
Oh, and to head-off what's already been said:
1) My all-in-one Modem/Router indicates when a connection problem arises, none have.
2) I've been playing GW on this computer since I got GW back in December, these problems haven't shown up until this last week.
3) I tested my connection with a download and upload running (not using all bandwidth) and went and ran GW. It ran without any lag until I was randomly error 7'd - my downloads and uploads showed no indication of a connection disruption.
4) Three of my friends have the same ISP, one of them has these problems, the other two do not - it's not the ISP either.
And finally, 5) All signs point to an Anet problem that they need to fix.
Inde
Please, to those trolling and doing the insults... in case you haven't clearly noticed there are a number of people experiencing this problem. You haven't? Good, great! Rejoice. For those people who are experiencing the problem I can tell you that I have had them as well. I play other MMO's besides Guild Wars, surf the net, IM's, IRC, Skype, VNC, FTP (no not all at the same time... usually :P) and am not experiencing this problem of being disconnected from anything. So somehow "magically" just when I play Guild Wars this is affecting me. There is quite clearly a bigger issue going on here that SO MANY people are experiencing Err7's.
Oh, and Curse You I have multiple computers so to answer the questions:
- I've experienced Err7's on old and new.
- My drivers are not outdated.
- My router is not old. I have played from a direct connection and a wireless connection (as well as from 1 or 2 other people's homes).
- I regularly virus scan and defrag. I just tried the suggestion that Heist gave earlier in the thread to defrag that gw.dat file (since clearly a lot of defrag's will not even attempt to defrag the gw.dat file) and have not tested since then. If I can play for a few days and receive no Err7's then this just might have been it so I'll give an update to see if that may have helped.
Also, I changed the title of this thread since too many people seemed to be focused on the title and not the issue. There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread and I don't want people who are trying to resolve them to overlook this as another rant thread.
Oh, and Curse You I have multiple computers so to answer the questions:
- I've experienced Err7's on old and new.
- My drivers are not outdated.
- My router is not old. I have played from a direct connection and a wireless connection (as well as from 1 or 2 other people's homes).
- I regularly virus scan and defrag. I just tried the suggestion that Heist gave earlier in the thread to defrag that gw.dat file (since clearly a lot of defrag's will not even attempt to defrag the gw.dat file) and have not tested since then. If I can play for a few days and receive no Err7's then this just might have been it so I'll give an update to see if that may have helped.
Also, I changed the title of this thread since too many people seemed to be focused on the title and not the issue. There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread and I don't want people who are trying to resolve them to overlook this as another rant thread.
tomcruisejr
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Contact support and work it out, quit whining on the forums.
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that post is appropriate if only 1 or 3 suffer it. but no.
misthero
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Originally Posted by Curse You
I would believe that it was Anet having issues, if it weren't for one thing.
I have two houses, and as such, two computers. They both are on LAN connections through the same ISP. Yet, one has lag, the other does not. The one that works is a rather new HP computer with an AMD 64 bit processor and 2 Gigs of RAM, running off a built in video card. This would make sense that the computer works fine. The one that has lag is a 3 year of Dell computer with a Pentium 4 processor and 1 Gig of RAM, running on a NVidia GeForce 4000 card. The system should be able to handle Guild Wars (it can play BF2). Now, I have some suggestions about why there might be lag. 1. Your computer is old. Sorry, but you may need to update your computer if it's a Pentium 3 or lower, or the video card may just be too outdated. 2. Your Drivers are outdated. You need to make sure your computer is running at it's best. 3. Your modem/router is old. This is a rather simple thing. Many people overlok the fact their modem may just be old. 4. Your computer needs a virus scan and a Defrag. You need to make sure nothing unnessicary is using up your resources. It's doubtful that so many people have overlooked such simple factors, but then again, many people keep holding on too their old stuff. |
I have another simalar example, a bit more strange: me and my girlfriend are connected to a router, so different pc, same connection, she always lags or get disconnected, me almost never. I've checked her pc, cleaned possible virus, spyware, tracking cookies and whatelse but nothing seems to solve the issue. Maybe a pc or ethernet card problem, surely not A-Net.
seut
Problem seems to be the routing from Limelight Networks.
Sometimes when lagging out you get an IP in the error msg. I did a traceroute and got the following:
$ tracert 216.107.240.197
routing to 216-107-240-197.plaync.com [216.107.240.197]
1 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms (censored my local german provider)
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms
3 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms
4 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms (major european internet hub)
5 33 ms 39 ms 33 ms ve1317.ge1-9.fr1.ams.llnw.net [80.81.192.221]
6 29 ms 27 ms 28 ms tge1-16-1.ar1.ams.llnw.net [69.28.172.86]
7 248 ms 97 ms 97 ms so1-5-1.ar1.lga.llnw.net [69.28.172.161]
8 102 ms 128 ms 96 ms tge1-4.fr3.lga.llnw.net [69.28.172.2]
9 129 ms 129 ms 128 ms tge2-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net [69.28.171.193]
10 169 ms 168 ms 169 ms tge1-2.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [69.28.171.66]
11 177 ms 178 ms 194 ms tge2-3.fr3.lax.llnw.net [69.28.171.117]
12 timeouts from here on
My err7 disconnects coincide with the disconnects of guildmembers in the US doing other stuff in GW and random people in my pugs.
Sometimes when lagging out you get an IP in the error msg. I did a traceroute and got the following:
$ tracert 216.107.240.197
routing to 216-107-240-197.plaync.com [216.107.240.197]
1 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms (censored my local german provider)
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms
3 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms
4 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms (major european internet hub)
5 33 ms 39 ms 33 ms ve1317.ge1-9.fr1.ams.llnw.net [80.81.192.221]
6 29 ms 27 ms 28 ms tge1-16-1.ar1.ams.llnw.net [69.28.172.86]
7 248 ms 97 ms 97 ms so1-5-1.ar1.lga.llnw.net [69.28.172.161]
8 102 ms 128 ms 96 ms tge1-4.fr3.lga.llnw.net [69.28.172.2]
9 129 ms 129 ms 128 ms tge2-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net [69.28.171.193]
10 169 ms 168 ms 169 ms tge1-2.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [69.28.171.66]
11 177 ms 178 ms 194 ms tge2-3.fr3.lax.llnw.net [69.28.171.117]
12 timeouts from here on
My err7 disconnects coincide with the disconnects of guildmembers in the US doing other stuff in GW and random people in my pugs.
milias
Gargh...just lagged out of Abaddon's Mouth after clearing the path and completing the bonus. On the way back to getting the ghost, I lag out. This is most uncool
manaleak34
I haven't got any lag at all latey.
Course I'm only a couple hours away from Areanet Headquaters
Course I'm only a couple hours away from Areanet Headquaters
ShaneOfMach
My friend told me this to help me with error 07
Open Start and click Run
type in cmd
then type netsh winsock reset and press enter
restart comp
Open Start and click Run
type in cmd
then type netsh winsock reset and press enter
restart comp
Chicken of the Seas
The only lag that I have experienced (luckily) is an annoying skill lag, where I click on the skill I want to use and I have fun watching it just "ripple" as I wait for it to acually begin casting. I can run around and everything fine, its just those darn skills that lag sometimes for me.
Curse You
I forgot to point out something before.
I WAS having lag in Guild Wars on my older computer, but I have somehow managed to reduce it down to almost nothing. The only things I have done are:
1. Defraged
2. Re-installed Video and Sound Drivers, and updated Direct X
3. Moved a bunch of games to my secondary hard drive, to giving me 16 GB of free space
4. Put in a new modem
5. Cleaned my PC (the physical unit)
Somehow, doing those things has helped to reduce my lag in game. The most likely thing that did something was making 16 GB of free space and putting in a new modem.
I WAS having lag in Guild Wars on my older computer, but I have somehow managed to reduce it down to almost nothing. The only things I have done are:
1. Defraged
2. Re-installed Video and Sound Drivers, and updated Direct X
3. Moved a bunch of games to my secondary hard drive, to giving me 16 GB of free space
4. Put in a new modem
5. Cleaned my PC (the physical unit)
Somehow, doing those things has helped to reduce my lag in game. The most likely thing that did something was making 16 GB of free space and putting in a new modem.