Unexplainable ???

I have a pentium III
1.2ghz
512 mb
geforce 6600 256mb

2 months ago i was on AOL dial up and did not experience ne lag or slow loads when entering a town.

the upgraded to dsl, Verizon DSL now im lagging when i enter a town the loading time is around 10-20 seconds (no matter what town) and it lags for like 10-20 seconds once i get into town.

Talked to everyone in my guild and alliance and they dont have an answer. i have done the -image, defrag, power contig disk clean up, virus and spyware scans etc.

Any suggestions?

I know what it seems like, but loading times have nothing to do with your internet connection, unless you are downloading something. Did you install any software on your computer for your DSL? Also, is your hard drive light blinking or turned on the whole time while you are lagging?

I have Optimum Online cable with a decent computer and I still get more lag than you do. Try doing some virus scans and cleaning out your hard drive, and contact NCSoft if you still experience any problems. Defragmenting your computer helps too.

http://www.plaync.com/
Go to help
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Click on: "Not finding what your looking for?"
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Actually it does make quite a difference. As loading times include connecting to the "town" or "outpost". I normally play on dial up. (Back to the future?) But playing on a broadband connection my load times are even faster, usually a second or two. Where on dial up they are around 5 or so. Very populated districts take longer to load as well, where on broadband there was little difference. For me at least.

But anyhow, are you sure your connection is set up properly? Ports forwarded on your router (assuming you use one) and all that jazz? Make sure it's not your router, try another or a friends, or take yours to a friend house and give it a shot.

I'd give ya more, but supper is on, soo if that doesn't help...

NC support would be not be a bad idea either.

For a bit of information. NEVER TURN OFF YOUR FIREWALL. Doing this can cause major problems with unwanted people hacking into your computer. A properly set-up firewall will not impede the game client. I asume that you know how to do the port forwarding so i wont go into that. If doing that doesnt work then contact your isp to get help. I do not believe NC-Soft can help as this sounds like another isp issue. good luck.

Mega Mouse

I have no idea on how to port forward , besides that i have done everything except contact NC. Can neone explain to me how to port forward?

For people to be able to help you with port forwarding, you will need to determine your firewall situation. Also are you the Admin of the system ? I assume it given the defrag and other steps youve taken, but just checking, you'll need to be, or you should need to be(Admin), to do anything to the firewall.
Sooo, find out what the deal is with your firewall. Is it software only, or hardware, or both ? When you know what firewall(s) you are running, someone will be able to offer more concrete help with the porting. Good luck.

In theory this is good, but the fact is that there are known issue with a large number of Brand and non Brand Firewalls that are available to windows based computers. Firewalls can and do in some cases impede your ability to use applications that require network services. Many of these firewalls are automatic in their configuration, as are most windows security applications, that assume a user knows next to nothing about network security and unfortunately in the majority of cases that is how things are. That being the case firewalls are very often configured incorrectly. Many of the windows based, software based, systems rely not only on stateful packet inspection which is a good thing, but also rely on application verification by means of a Checksum. If the application fails to recognize an application change and request user input to verify that change has been authorized by the user, that application will be denied network services. It is also not uncommon for these firewalls to employ secondary services that continue to protect your system even after you have disable the firewall with in its application GUI. The easiest way to determine if this is the case is to delete the program access information from the firewall if it is possible, if it is not you must disable the firewall and its services to ensure network availability. You typically have between 5 to 8 minutes of unprotected safety unless the system has already been compromised in which case it really makes no difference because no firewall will really save you. Most firewalls including those that are hardware driven are usually smart enough to know that if you send information out of a port to expect information back on that port. If you are compromised your system will no doubt already be sending information through various ports.

That is just an aside from the topic. Granted Never turning off your firewall is a good recommendation, however I would say there are quite a number of exceptions to that rule. Thats my take on it, that of course may not jive with your previous post. Though in most circumstances Firewalls no matter if they are hardware or software driven impede that ability of a service provider to provide support.

I am the admin and my firewall is software based Trend PC Cillin or the Windows Firewall.

I did noticed that since Nightfall updates came out, the memory requirements for gw did go up. I had 512mb of ram and I noticed that the computer was hitting the swapfile more often when going into a town. I ended up upgrading 256mb more ram and the problem disappeared.

Well i Would like to say TY all for your advice, I FIXED it. No more Slow Loading or Town Entrance lag. I reverted back to the old Nvidia Driver 77. something instead of the newest one and it fixed it. I did not install or add in any programs (just to let you guys know). It's really weird how it fixed my problem.

That's not weird at all. It's fairly common for new driver releases to cause problems with certain applications. Although the manufacturer is likely to tell you that their newest driver is always the best, this is simply not the case for every application. This is especially true for incremental driver releases, as they often do not go through a full testing cycle.

77.? The latest is 93.71. I've been running GW with it for a while and not had any problems. Or did you revert to the 77(something) drivers?

There are 93.81 beta drivers. Is there a 93.77 beta driver release? If so, I wouldn't expect 100% stability out of beta drivers...

Glad to hear that you got it fixed. As far as Beta drivers go I realy do not trust them as they can still contain bugs that even the manufacturer hasn't found yet (that is why they release them in beta so we as the consumer become testers). I will look at the release notes on a new driver and if it says beta I will not get it. I usualy stick with the original drivers until I realy need to upgrade them, or something is going crazy with my computer due to the old ones.

Mega Mouse

Same here, why cause myself possible extra headaches when I don't need to. ^^

I was meaning release drivers btw, not beta ones.