Lagging . . almost unbearable.

Akuma

Akuma

IRC W H O R E

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australian Trolling Crew HQ, rightful leader and administration

Yale University [Snow]

W/

I hate this. I always lag in GW. Now when everyone else lags, I play fine. How weird.

scrinner

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Ive been lagging bad for the last 2 weeks, enough to force me not to play the game. My average frag per sector is 88 files, and this was after a fresh format, I dont have any routers, My firewall is configured, My connect averages around 3.2 mbps with a max of 6 mbps.

Kit Engel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Lords of the Sacred Chao

E/Me

It's pretty bad right now, I can't even seem to log on!

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

So the lag is back again?

Stolen Souls

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Seems to be. Just got hit with two spikes. Average ping around 4000

Xenrath

Xenrath

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Me

It would probably be more helpful to post which zone you play in (e.g. Euro or America) as well as the approximate time it happened and the server IP (the little round dot bottom right corner ingame)... that could help pin down where things might be going wrong....

Dervish Gnome

Dervish Gnome

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Northern America

Unlikely Heroes of Yesterday

Mo/

My lag didn't start until the Celestial Pig Event was removed. Now I'm lagging during missions and when playing my MM I'm not making my groups too happy. *Oops* ^.^ Is this a sign that the event should continue? Lol! Kidding.

Mesmer in Need

Mesmer in Need

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

[ToA]

well, it so many people are lagging, freeze lagging, and getting err 7's, its not us, its anet. Gaile needs to get on and do some explaining.

Blackest Rose

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

OK so lets start the rumour that anyone who got a bad luck fortune gets lagged for a year!!!!

Lag FTL!

Seriously - I think it's time Anet dusted off the network maintainence page and gave us some sort of an update.

I say dusted off because the uptime of GW is awesome! but these lag spikes are really killing the enjoyment for the last few days.

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenrath
It would probably be more helpful to post which zone you play in (e.g. Euro or America) as well as the approximate time it happened and the server IP (the little round dot bottom right corner ingame)... that could help pin down where things might be going wrong....
Good idea. Unfortunately I didn't record all that info at the time, so I can only say that, for me, it was yesterday evening (EST) in American districts/explorable areas. Haven't been on today to see if it's still lagging for me.

Kit Engel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Lords of the Sacred Chao

E/Me

I'm an American player. I don't get a server IP, GW starts up (as in, it gets past the patcher), but the login screen doesn't show that news box on the right side, and it reports that it can't find any login servers.

No, disabling the firewall doesn't help.

For what it's worth, I'm near San Francisco, using Comcast... anyone else running into similar problems?

Jeff Highwind

Jeff Highwind

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Grenth's Rejects [GR]

R/Mo

This is the best thing ever:
I got an Err7 in Grenz Frontier after swapping out Storm Djinn's Haste for Gale.

savage vapor 33

savage vapor 33

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Regems Basement

The Malevolent Wolfpack [tMw]

i keep getting err7 when i move skills in explorable also....Dunno whats going on....could be a bug?

Ferret

Ferret

Elite Guru

Join Date: Jul 2005

England

Ferrets Unity of Rogues (FUR)

R/Mo

Lag and error code =007 are making the game almost unplayable on Euro servers for the last few days and at the weekend.

Not good at all

prism2525

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

E/

higher latency than usual here. sometimes i just d/c out of the blue. no idea y...

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

Right now is not a good time to be working on your Survivor title...which I am on one char. I don't think I'll be playing her until this clears up.

blood4blood

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Comcast has reportedly been having problems in my area (central Virginia) for the last several weeks, so it's been pretty much impossible for me to tell whether my lag spikes have been due to ISP issues or GW issues. I did have enough 4000+ ping spikes and rubberbanding incidents to give up on rollerbeetle racing after about 5 races over the weekend, and plenty of rubberbanding since then as I've opened the edges of maps, especially in towns and near NPC's.

Tyrnne

Tyrnne

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

USA

Swords of Honor (Officer)

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackhearted
Yep. Severe delays in doing just about anything. It's hard enough trying to monk for bad pug players without this added on. I wonder what anet broke...
Yeah, had trouble monking the other day in TOPK. The lag was bearable, but it was as if the skill recharge was set to quarter-speed. No complaints from the group, but I know the lag made me way less effective.

pazu

pazu

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

Brazil

Battle Comrades [CCCP]

W/Mo

It's been lagging like crazy for me the last few weeks. It works fine most of the time, but I get huge spikes (30k ping) every 5 minutes or so. This kills any chance to properly complete a mission ≥.≤

Knightsaber Sith

Knightsaber Sith

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2006

Few Fallen Heroes [FFH]

W/E

I lag slightly every now and then, but generally bearable. At least we have those reconnects now

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

I think the lag stop for me. Last night, while I was doing mission with friends. No lag spikes happened nor did I got disconnected.

Fox Reeveheart

Fox Reeveheart

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Michigan

none q.q

D/

I have played quite a few online games and guild wars has THE WORST LAG OF ANY GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED

And it has been this way for me ever since day one when prophecies was released. And these last few weeks I wont even play the game because its so terrible. it takes 5 whole minutes to zone sometimes!

I say they need to cut the number of people in a district in half, districts with less people lag less.

flamegrilled cheese

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Genesis Knights

E/Me

Does seem worse in busier districts. Its always a struggle to run through kaineng center or kamedan. Hopefully A-net will sort it out soon as its starting to majorly effect gameplay.

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

Last night in an American district, I got huge lag spikes while in Ice Caves of Sorrow (outpost). While there were some people around, it was by no means as busy as LA/KC/Kamadan.

I hope the new update is a lag fix.. *crosses fingers*

Thallandor

Thallandor

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Singapore

Seers of Serpents [SoS]

R/

Anet did promise free online play, but never said anything about it being lag free.

Maybe they should import the DoA/RoT mob stats and envirnoment effects to the whole game along with more nerfs to skills and farming. I am sure this will make more players leave the game freeing up more bandwidth for others.

Gordon Ecker

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2006

Vancouver, BC, Canada

N/

The lag seems to have cleared up. I haven't had any problems today.

Jeff Highwind

Jeff Highwind

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Grenth's Rejects [GR]

R/Mo

Got booted out of FoW at this moment. 7 reconnects and they are still shafting me.

Li Tian

Li Tian

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Hero

E/R

It is just getting worse and worse...bang on 8pm GMT today, event starts and I get disconnected...

No guild (again), alliance chat not working, I know anet have put a thread to discuss but frankly I am not here to help with their housekeeping, buy a proper server...

The game sadly has become unplayable...