GW servers getting worse by the day.

Yes i know there has been a lot of topics concerning this issue. But to me it seems to get worse by the day.

No matter which server i pick, euro, american, international i keep getting massive lag spikes. And it's not only me. Sometimes whole teams lag or dc at the same time. Yesterday a guildie of mine complained about the fact that he couldnt play a decent ranger anymore because the lag killed his interrupting. I dunno if every area zone has the same problem but it surely effects a lot of players who live in the euro zone.

I would like to know from you if you're experiencing more and more lag spikes these days and from what area you're from. This, to get more insight into the problem.

I can live with the fact that ANET is using servers for GW2 or for any other good reason. But stating they didnt change a thing and pretending it's just as it used to be is pissing me off. I RARELY encountered lag spikes in the 2,5 years ive been playing now but these days it just a normal phenomenon.

i agree to this....lag used to be pretty much unheard of for me, but now its on a regular....all i can pretty much do nowadays is barter....and i know its not just me since my guild has be chirping up about it as of late.

Yea, its bad. It used to be that international was good enough to play. American is out of the question. But recently, even euro is bad. moving on to asia. After that I dont know what i will do. Weekends are the worst though. Most times dont even bother to try to play on weekends because I cant keep connection. I sometimes think something goes wrong when they put in the short term weekend crap. But yes, I fully understand what your saying and yes, it can be horrible.

me and my friend were doing Frostmaw's in hard mode...was a bit hard since we got disconected(yes we counted) 13 times. i didnt take a screenshot of everything but here is a little exemple..

I think there already have been several lag/dc threads the last weeks.
For example, yesterday I was playing and suddenly lost connection, ending up with 007 (first time in a long time).
When I got back several members of the alliance were talking about their d/c, one team ended up with 3 d/c's in one team.

Same for lag, when I have lag several others have it but some others don't (mainly spikes, no constant lag).
Seems to me it's somewhere in the infrastructure and possible outside the influence of A-net. However, it's annoying and I would rather play without lag or d/c (think that goes for everyone)

It is getting terrible peeps lag out at the same time i run dungeons and if someone DC's other peeps tend to DC aswell.
I also get completly random lag spikes i suppose its because of all the peeps playing GW now what is it 2 million players now?

im haing no problems it might be your PC is geting worse by the day (stay off the pron, LOL)

check and see if more and more of ur PC's memory is being used, if more resources are being used due to malware and crap like that it will certainly slow ur PC down

i had lag last time in 2006.. all fixed after spent 1500euros on new Computer..
so no lag for me

Download less porn, dont use other services (downloads, msn, wiki etc) while playing online.

Im having a hard time going over 100ms in the weekends (late night or early mornin i even get as low as 13ms..) so i doubt its the servers. I can also play america/int/asia without problems (except the language, i really do NOT know what those symbols mean..).

Have you tried running a virus scan lately? Lot of new trojans have been popping up lately.

Agreed.
Lately ive had huge laggs, i dont know whats wrong.

How do I change servers eg to Asia outside outpost?

Or is it if I set it to Asia in an outpost it will remain as it is outside?

Same. I never had much of a problem with lag, but over the past weeks or so I've gotten a lot of it...and a lot of 007 errors. -_- Took me 3+ tries to get one mission done over the course of a few days (I got annoyed and just figured I'd try again later) because every time I would get close to the end, I would dc and get 007'd. Very, very frustrating.

Very funny, haha........

This has nothing to do with system specs. If you cant even tell the difference between lag spikes and a bad fps or any other system/programming failures please dont post.

I'm currently not suffering lag on Euro servers... and most of the times I've had lag problems, it was due to problems at my own ISP, or faulty routers or other hardware somewhere between me and A-Net's servers. ie. it's usually NOT stuff that A-Net has direct control over. (Remember "The Frankfurt Incident" last July?)

Note the IP address of the A-Net server you are on, run tracert. Run "gw.exe -diag". Log a support ticket, and include the -diag and tracert results. If there's a general problem, and enough people do this, A-Net should be able to find where it is, and even if it's outside of their direct control, they may be able to "lean" on any third parties that are causing problems.

If you're familiar with tracert, you may be able to figure out for yourself where the problem is.

Good advice. Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea that the problem could be in your own PC. If you are infected with malware it's likely to make your games lag, as it eats up your bandwidth - by sending out spam email, distributing pron, breaking into government computers etc etc... :-D

A whole team disconnecting at once o/e having lag at the same time eventhough not in the same party or district ---> nothing to do with systemspecs or any kind of mallware.

Next to that im running a top of the line internet security here. So please stio the "uhuhuhu check your sytem specs, you got spyware stuff"

Last night my guild was doing uw. One d/ced 5 min within it. Then we tried again and someone else d/ced at the smites. Also, someone else d/ced at the smites but was able to come back. I was lagging a little too, but my guildies were lagging also ><

While doing eotn stuff, my friend kept d/cing over and over again and could not come back. You know how annoying it is to run someone who d/c's right before you zone? Or at the end of warband? Come on Anet jeez. And my friend NEVER lags, helll I lag more then him....I know it isn't our side when the whole team in uw is lagging -.-

So what you are saying is that every single person's lag issues can not be traced back to something they might fix?

Obviously there are things a user can try to do on their own.
And these are the things that the user should try first. And because the users here normally do not provide info on whether they took those steps - it's always welcome to list them. If not for the OP, then for additional users that might also be experiencing the issue.

Now if a person KNOWS that the steps they can take will not help (in the best of cases because they actually tried them already!) - they should state this because it clearly helps the person that can do anything about the issue since they get the full picture that way.

I mean, don't get me wrong - I LOVE pointing the finger of blame towards A.Net (Bring back the red crane you bastards! ) - but if there is a chance that the problem will resolve itself if the user takes certain actions - what do we have to lose?



On-topic:
Weekends are quite laggy - weekdays fairly normal.
And yeah - that is when I am not dl-ing porn.
(But then again - I am playing considerably less then I used to - so I could be just lucky ...)

I usually wouldn't post about this, but, last night I was lost connections at least 10 times. I was trying to do the new MOX missions. It seems I was getting kicked at the peak of the battles. Doing NOX was especially frustrating becasue just as I was getting his health down to below 30-50% I woud lose connection. Each time it took 3 tries just to get back in and by the time I resumed connection, my party would be dead and I would have to start again. I, actually, beat NOX by positioning myself away from the exploding Golums, so that when I lost connection I would survive. It worked and when I reconnected, I was standing there and NOX was disabled. Fortunately, when I did POX, I only disconnected once during the fight. I would have been really upset if I had to have started the whole thing all over again because that trek to find the secret lair is a long one.

For all those who are suggesting that the issues are with the persons computer, I have a brand new system with a dual boot. I have an OS set up on a partition for games only. It's a very clean OS, with nothing running in the background. I don't even have a virus scanner running. I don't access the internet from this drive so there is no need for spam filters or spyware filters. However, just to be safe I have portable apps that I can run just to make sure I don't pick up anything by osmosis. So, in my case it isn't the computer.

No im not saying that at all. I'm saying that a massive lag spike, which strikes different teams at once, has nothing to do with systemspecs or any kind of spyware. Or are some here trying to say that all those users are downloading porn at the same time and that all the users have the same kind of spyware on their computer?

I know how to keep my computer clean, and i got a system here which is FAR above the systemspecs required for GW.

It is true however that users should check their own systems first, but the facts (people lagging at the same time, people lagging during the weekend, people dcing at the same time) are so clear that it's easy to state that this is not a problem which lies at the users end.

Hmm funny you should say that, the last 3 times I've done guild UW outings (not farming speed runs just guild get togethers) I d/c'd at the smites every time. Strange really, exactly the same spot 3 times in a row.