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iokomo

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

24 Mar 2007 at 17:52 - 1

Hi all,

my guild has been noticing, or suffering, from hardcore lag coming from the US servers. It has been a real pain to even play the game in terms of pvp. I really hope that this server issue can be addressed and fixed asap because many people I know, including myself, rather play some other game that do not lag that bad. E.g. I have a T1 connection and last alliance battle game all our ping did not go below 400. This is also true for the pve gaming as well.
I have an high-end computer with an high-end internet line and I sure hope that some maintenance will be done on our servers. I feel that I am being cheated out of my gameplay because I can not play the game.
Oh yeah, this all appeared with that Nightfall thing.

PLEASE FIX THE US SERVERS SO WE CAN PLAY TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TY kind

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

24 Mar 2007 at 22:12 - 2

Same on Eu servers.. 500+ ping

Brian the Gladiator

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Michigan, USA

Us Are Not [leet]

E/

24 Mar 2007 at 22:44 - 3

I remember this happening right before nightfall and factions came out and then once they came out, it fixed itself so...

Possibly with the coming of hardmode and all the new content, this lag could be linked to it somehow. I am not very knowledgable in how the servers work but maybe once hardmode is released we will see a decrease in the lag, or at least i hope.

iokomo

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

25 Mar 2007 at 00:53 - 4

I really hope so because GW is not as much fun as it was prior to the release of NF. It is nothing but a lag-fest and hard to play when you run somewhere and *smack your dead all of the sudden because of your bad ping.

Matsumi

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

25 Mar 2007 at 05:49 - 5

I'm not sure if my problem has something to do with this, but it's becoming unbearable. I've checked all my temps, voltages, drivers, connection, I mean EVERYTHING. It seems to just boil down to guild wars entirely. I'll get periods of extreme lag where I won't even know what I'm doing and the next moment I'm dead, or my computer will just completely freeze up. My computer has been running the same as it has since 4 months ago, and no problems at all until like a month or so ago. I can't even play in a PvP battle without this happening randomly, or where I'm forced to reboot. I'd really like to know what is going on, because the guild I'm in now wants to start GvG and I can't have this crap happening so frequently. My cpu overheating isn't a problem, nor was it before, but I put some arctic silver on there, and it runs a lot cooler than before.

Sorry, just really mad right now.

Enko

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

VA

Mo/

25 Mar 2007 at 06:27 - 6

does Guild Wars ever shut down their servers just to run some server maintenance or even do a simple restart? I know CoH used to shut down every morning at 0600 PST for about 30 minutes just to do a little bit of server maintenance.

Rakeris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Illinois

Feners Reve

25 Mar 2007 at 08:56 - 7

Well the way GW works is they could be taking the severs down every day to do maintenance and if they did it right you would never notice...

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

25 Mar 2007 at 09:25 - 8

WoW got server maintenance too. I can't understand why GW don't. I would really help.

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

25 Mar 2007 at 11:02 - 9

Because GW uses several servers. WoW uses 1 server for everyone(realm).

GW can take a server down, but not an entire cluster of servers.

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

25 Mar 2007 at 11:05 - 10

I think it's due to the Free UW/FoW access weekend, most Americans want to take advantage of this, thus more people online and playing than usual, since you guys rarely have the favor.

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

25 Mar 2007 at 11:50 - 11

Quote:

Originally Posted by daraaksii

WoW got server maintenance too. I can't understand why GW don't. I would really help.

A guild wars cluster node is "taken down" every time entire party leaves instance. When a party enters an instance, the node is "brought up".

As such, it doesn't need server maintainance, since there is no global world data.

The only instances which live for extended periods of time are the district 1 of outposts.

What I find funny about this, is that everyone hates server maintainance. And here's a game that has 0 downtime, and it's not good again.

iokomo

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2007

25 Mar 2007 at 19:21 - 12

No No Ivy, it has been like that since Nightfall came out. I remember the first day when I was roaming with my noob lvl in Nightfall and I was laggin in pve so bad that I died all the time.

I really hope they do some server maintenance or get new servers or so, because I am not gonna take this any longer.

Perkunas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

In my own little world, looking at yours

Only Us[NotU]

E/

26 Mar 2007 at 04:46 - 13

The lag is terrible this weekend. I havent been able to get much playing time in because of it. But I was told its not ANet's nor the weekend event's fault.

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

26 Mar 2007 at 10:08 - 14

It was lagging for me after Nightfall was released, but I guess anet weren't as prepared as they thought for the launch, a week after I've notice that my ping has increased to 80-150ms.

With the exceptions of occasional spikes, I'm not seeing any lag. I'm from Northern California.

Elnai

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Top Rating Loss Guild 5/25

Maybe.. I don't really know.

R/

26 Mar 2007 at 11:04 - 15

<---Not getting any lag at all. Not during the weekend, not when NF came out.

Only problem is rubberbanding but, thats something different entirely.

Drizdee

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Me/

26 Mar 2007 at 11:26 - 16

I'm a european player, norwegian actually. And I play on US servers because the EU ones are CRAPTASTIC!

Praise yourself with the ones you have, theyre 10 times better then EU ones......

Drizdee

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Me/

26 Mar 2007 at 11:29 - 17

And on a sidenote GW uses server clusters (or something) so they restart servers in a cycle. I think they have 28 (?) servers for EU, dunno about US. And lag is still better then WoW...

evil joo

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Joo Will Always Love [mini]

Mo/Me

26 Mar 2007 at 12:56 - 18

I have been noticing the major lagg on the US servers as well ...

What is going on & please fix

*(-.-) ?

Zeph

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Wales, UK

Expect Extreme Violence [EEV]

26 Mar 2007 at 12:57 - 19

I'm on Euro servers and the ping has gone terrible in the last month or so. The perf monitor is almost constantly orange these days. 180ms-340ms seems the norm of late.

therangereminem

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

R/Mo

26 Mar 2007 at 15:07 - 20

ok i dont know where you get the thing about us never having favor we get favor everynight about 8-9 pm til 8 to 9 am everyday thats half the day then sometimes we getit for a hour at about noon my time with the lag thing onlytime i had problem this weekend is when my allince was doing foundry friday night/saterday morning but that was it right now my average ping is about 32 mms and fps is 127 when i was getting the lag though my server for vent was filled to the top i had limwire downloing music and 2 pages up on the internet plus my vent going lol so maybe that was why lol

Tetris L

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Germany

Servants of Fortuna

26 Mar 2007 at 15:21 - 21

There are a lot of misconceptions about the server in this thread. Everybody, if you want to learn a bit more about how GW servers work, read these articles:

http://exe.gotfrag.com/portal/story/32316/?spage=2
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=14931

When you've understood that there isn't one server, but a whole server farm, try to read up about internet connections in general. Lag can be caused anywhere between server and client. The server may be perfectly okay, including his internet connection, but if the peering between the server and your ISP is bad, or any major backbone between the two is choking, you're f*cked.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drizdee

And on a sidenote GW uses server clusters (or something) so they restart servers in a cycle. I think they have 28 (?) servers for EU, dunno about US. And lag is still better then WoW...

Actually, the number of server boxes is much larger, and the number is adapted dynamically depending on load. Read the two links I posted above.

Heimdallw32

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

United States of America

The Seven Deadly [Sins]

26 Mar 2007 at 22:51 - 22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antheus

The only instances which live for extended periods of time are the district 1 of outposts.

Just a quick comment...I -have- encountered a "No districts available" error or something of that sort (Not sure on the exact wording) once or twice, specifically the International districts. That's right, wasn't able to enter that particular outpost. XD

Dex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Chicago, IL

Black Belt Jones

R/Me

27 Mar 2007 at 01:34 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by therangereminem

ok i dont know where you get the thing about us never having favor we get favor everynight about 8-9 pm til 8 to 9 am everyday thats half the day then sometimes we getit for a hour at about noon my time with the lag thing onlytime i had problem this weekend is when my allince was doing foundry friday night/saterday morning but that was it right now my average ping is about 32 mms and fps is 127 when i was getting the lag though my server for vent was filled to the top i had limwire downloing music and 2 pages up on the internet plus my vent going lol so maybe that was why lol

Good god, man. Have you ever heard of punctuation?

I'm in Chicago, IL, USA, and I never have any trouble with lag. I'm on a Comcast cable connection (about 6 megabit downstream). That doesn't even really matter, though. Guild Wars doesn't need a lot of bandwidth. What you folks are experiencing is latency, which is most likely caused by a routing issue...not the server. My ping ranges from about 60ms to 350ms, BTW.

As far as the US having favor...well...pretty much every time the mood strikes me to hit FoW or UW the US has favor, so I don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps it's because when you're online in China we yanks are all sleeping, eh?

C2K

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

28 Mar 2007 at 03:36 - 24

Think it can be the server. I usually have no lag issues during the day, but after 10pm till about 2am, I start getting ping spikes up to 10k.

Maybe too many people hit the servers at peak hours??

Dex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Chicago, IL

Black Belt Jones

R/Me

28 Mar 2007 at 08:16 - 25

Quote:

Originally Posted by C2K

Think it can be the server. I usually have no lag issues during the day, but after 10pm till about 2am, I start getting ping spikes up to 10k.

Maybe too many people hit the servers at peak hours??

Could be the server, but it could also be network traffic, which can change throughout the day. If there's a hop somewhere between you and the server that's getting slammed with traffic it can cause latency issues.

Heimdallw32

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

United States of America

The Seven Deadly [Sins]

30 Mar 2007 at 20:59 - 26

I'm on 56k...yeah, that's right, -dialup-. And I rarely experience noticible lag unless the servers are packed (weekends, event weekends, primetime during the day, afternoon to early evening on weekdays), and even then it's hardly "unplayable". GW definatly manages bandwidth well; I'd say 90% of the time I play it's perfectly fine. And my ping averages 250ms-380ms...occasionally peaks to 400ms+, but that's not that often. And it's still playable.

If you ask me, I think some people have gotten spoiled by broadband. >_> "Ohnoes, my ping is over 80ms! WTF"

And yes, I am in the US. Illinois, to be exact. I'm not saying people arn't experiencing worse latency issues than I do, but I also don't think it's anything on Anet's part.

There are a thousand things that could happen inbetween your computer and the Anet server which could cause lag.