Ridiculous lag
Seline Nerlim
In connection with the error 7 - ive found that it might be that windows firewall has decided to start blocking the gw.exe- therefore you should go to the settings of firewall (this goes for your antivirus as well) and add gw.exe to the allow list (in effect unblocking it). Also as Arenanet has mentioned it is best to send support your error - Ive visited the support site and searched the codes - they tell you how to fix the problem, if it doesn't work you should contact them.
ShadowsRequiem
I was actually able to play perma yesterday so my lag has gotten a lot better. Anyone else notice the lag isnt bad anymore?
I got 1 spike yesterday but I never rubberbanded over the whole screen and stuff.
I got 1 spike yesterday but I never rubberbanded over the whole screen and stuff.
Wish Swiftdeath
Yeah it isn't so bad for me(hence i stopped posting 
). I still get the odd error/lag which causes me to dc or lag out for 5 to ten seconds but it tends to be once or twice a day max if at all which tbh isn't that big of an issue.
coil
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I was actually able to play perma yesterday so my lag has gotten a lot better. Anyone else notice the lag isnt bad anymore?
I got 1 spike yesterday but I never rubberbanded over the whole screen and stuff. |
odd but not reassuring enough to play my survivors.
Ewa Kirch
I've been getting bad lag spikes for the last couple of weeks, still as bad as ever.
ss from this morning.....
ss from this morning.....
Wish Swiftdeath
I had 100k a couple days ago, i took an SS of 66k ping (100k ping was too laggy).
Stolen Souls
Maybe anet sent all their bandwidth to me, because I haven't been lagging at all for a very long while.
None of this 100k ping or constant disconnects I am reading about. Maybe I'm just lucky.
None of this 100k ping or constant disconnects I am reading about. Maybe I'm just lucky.
pumpkin pie
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Done.
Now, i wander if i'd send the file to the correct email.....
paranoia.
Asplode
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Also,
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Originally Posted by Ewa Kirch
Location: Europe
Last Ping: 46ms |
You... have NOTHING to complain about. I get 340ms ping on American servers, 500ms+, or 15sec lag spikes on Euro servers, and I'm on 26mbps private cable.
Wish Swiftdeath
Yeah i'm lucky to get 280 ping...
Infusing would be sooooo much easier with 30 ping :P
Infusing would be sooooo much easier with 30 ping :P
Ewa Kirch
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Gee, and I thought I had it bad.
Also, Excuse me, last ping 46ms? You... have NOTHING to complain about. I get 340ms ping on American servers, 500ms+, or 15sec lag spikes on Euro servers, and I'm on 26mbps private cable. |
scarface319
I still have some lag but not as bad as it was.
funkytoejams
ive had terrible lag ever since that last big update, a couple weeks now, im in the US (washington state), i have checked with my isp, defraged the computer, ran 3 diff antivirus, like 5 diff anti malware apps, uninstalled and reinstalled gw (used -image so the client wouldnt have to d/l any updates and slow me down more), and even with 4 gig of ram, no other programs running and core duo athlon 64 bit, good video card, etc, i cant get the lag down, after 4 years of playing this game is just un-playable now due to the lag and amount of dc i get, doesnt matter what district i map to, same thing every time, i know 2 ppl that have already quit bcoz of this, and i'll prolly give it another week before i /uninstal too, before that update, i had no problems, would never lag or disconnect, now even loading into an outpost is like a 50/50 gamble, ive just had to totally give up on pvp, my average ping pretty much stays between 2-4k.
funkytoejams
could putting all the korean accounts on NA servers have something to do with this?
FengShuiDove
I dunno but I've been seeing spikes consistently for the last two or three days. It's becoming unplayable.
Wish Swiftdeath
I've started getting it again but i reckon it's more about double noob weekend than anything else...
pumpkin pie
It took me 15 minutes to finally be able to log in earlier. lol
Arena Net's support regarding this issue is the same as what my IP would ask me to do, frankly, i am tired of doing that, make a direct connection to to the net and blah blah blah... they think I haven't done that before making any accusation, its useless to push the problem to the client's side. I've done the direct connection bit hundreds of times, no survey for you
I think I'll just have to live with it and enjoy the good connection from time to time and curse something when the connection is bad.
Arena Net's support regarding this issue is the same as what my IP would ask me to do, frankly, i am tired of doing that, make a direct connection to to the net and blah blah blah... they think I haven't done that before making any accusation, its useless to push the problem to the client's side. I've done the direct connection bit hundreds of times, no survey for you
I think I'll just have to live with it and enjoy the good connection from time to time and curse something when the connection is bad.
QueenofDeath
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Perkunas
Lag has been a pain for me again. Switching districts doesn't help anymore. I contacted my provider before contacting support. My upload and download times are at max for my connection speed.
Got 3 quick responses from support, telling me different things to try, no help. This was their 3rd response:
Thank you for the update.
I am escalating your ticket for further assistance. Once your ticket has been reviewed someone will be in contact with you as soon as possible.
Regards,
Robert
Guild Wars Technical Support
Still waiting.
Meanwhile, our guild activities go by the wayside this weekend.
Got 3 quick responses from support, telling me different things to try, no help. This was their 3rd response:
Thank you for the update.
I am escalating your ticket for further assistance. Once your ticket has been reviewed someone will be in contact with you as soon as possible.
Regards,
Robert
Guild Wars Technical Support
Still waiting.
Meanwhile, our guild activities go by the wayside this weekend.
talon994
Ever since the first update after the anniversary i have had enormous lag.Trying to farm raptors i sit there frozen with MoP flashing and 4-5 sec later I'm dead.....Yeah it's been bad
Burst Cancel
Latency and bandwidth are not related. Some of you need to stop talking about your XX Mbps connections as if that number actually mattered.
funkytoejams
hmm, 3 people in my guild that have also been having lag problems are telling me their computers are running REALLY hot after that update a couple of weeks ago..
anyone else notice this? my computer has a lot of cooling so hard to tell on my set up.
maybe a bug on the client side, making the game use a lot more resources and cause local lag on ppls computers?
anyone else notice this? my computer has a lot of cooling so hard to tell on my set up.
maybe a bug on the client side, making the game use a lot more resources and cause local lag on ppls computers?
QueenofDeath
I have a window air conditioner cooling my computer so not much chance of overheating. I got a new I7 X58 3.0ghz with 6gb of memory ana 9800GT vid card. No lag either on anything so far.
Abedeus
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I have a window air conditioner cooling my computer so not much chance of overheating. I got a new I7 X58 3.0ghz with 6gb of memory ana 9800GT vid card. No lag either on anything so far.
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You have absolutely no idea how irrelevant your PC is to lag, unless you are using a wireless connection, in which case only location matters. You can have even 1.0GHz single-cored Pentium III, you won't get lags if your Internet is good. But if your Internet connection between your PC and GW servers sucks, even i7's and triple-SLI 280GT x3 won't help.
Lag =/= FPS problems.
warcrap
for me the game becomes somewhat of a slideshow, i get around 25k ping in general.
nkuvu
I'm not sure what the cause is, but all evening I was running into problems.
Heroes and henchies not running anywhere -- just teleporting from place to place. Skills not activating, then a flurry of action. Almost all night I had a green ping dot, and haven't done a tracert to check. It could be graphics, it could be lag.
Still, I haven't had this problem much before. It happened occasionally, but tonight it was really horrid. It made me glad that I wasn't trying to play anywhere that needed decent reaction time (just running around the Crystal Desert with a new paragon).
Heroes and henchies not running anywhere -- just teleporting from place to place. Skills not activating, then a flurry of action. Almost all night I had a green ping dot, and haven't done a tracert to check. It could be graphics, it could be lag.
Still, I haven't had this problem much before. It happened occasionally, but tonight it was really horrid. It made me glad that I wasn't trying to play anywhere that needed decent reaction time (just running around the Crystal Desert with a new paragon).
QueenofDeath
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Originally Posted by Abedeus
For a person that knows what's inside of their rig...
You have absolutely no idea how irrelevant your PC is to lag, unless you are using a wireless connection, in which case only location matters. You can have even 1.0GHz single-cored Pentium III, you won't get lags if your Internet is good. But if your Internet connection between your PC and GW servers sucks, even i7's and triple-SLI 280GT x3 won't help. Lag =/= FPS problems. |
ll Jamie ll
This has been going on for 3-4 months now,
The support team were no help for me, neither was my ISP.. My ISP (Virgin ADSL) said my connection was absolutely fine, no problems what so ever, flawless.
I've tried EVERYTHING there is, send gw.diag. results, pingplotter results and just everything there is to do, (i have even tried the cooling systems, graphics updates, defrag and more) this must be a problem at ANet's end but they just can't see it. (that's my opnion anyway)
It's all fine for 5 minutes when i log on but then as more people start logging on later on in the night - BOOM lagg. I can NEVER see an orange ping at the least in towns such as LA, Kamadan, Keineng. If i can get to unpopular places such as Frontier Gate say, id be lucky to get a green ping.
My guess is because there are way too many people on the servers, that's the only option i can think of.
Im from England (maybe that's something to do with it.)
Any help thrown my way by ANet or something would be appreciated.
(Oh and another thing, i mostly get a good ping in explorables and it stays that way until i zone again, but if i get a bad ping when i first zone into the area, i just zone in and back out again until the ping is good, what's going on there?)
The support team were no help for me, neither was my ISP.. My ISP (Virgin ADSL) said my connection was absolutely fine, no problems what so ever, flawless.
I've tried EVERYTHING there is, send gw.diag. results, pingplotter results and just everything there is to do, (i have even tried the cooling systems, graphics updates, defrag and more) this must be a problem at ANet's end but they just can't see it. (that's my opnion anyway)
It's all fine for 5 minutes when i log on but then as more people start logging on later on in the night - BOOM lagg. I can NEVER see an orange ping at the least in towns such as LA, Kamadan, Keineng. If i can get to unpopular places such as Frontier Gate say, id be lucky to get a green ping.
My guess is because there are way too many people on the servers, that's the only option i can think of.
Im from England (maybe that's something to do with it.)
Any help thrown my way by ANet or something would be appreciated.
(Oh and another thing, i mostly get a good ping in explorables and it stays that way until i zone again, but if i get a bad ping when i first zone into the area, i just zone in and back out again until the ping is good, what's going on there?)
betterjonjon
I have been thinking it was just my computer that was giving me fits, but with all the other problems out there it seems like it may not be. Ever since that last update i have been getting lag every so often and after I shut GW off my computer runs slower then ever. IMHO I have no clue xD
coil
this is weird i was fine for about a month after sending in a support ticket, my lagspikes mysteriously disappeared....
tonight they're back, and for no apparent reason. when i get 10-15 sec lagouts ping plotter shows everything fine on my end. not sure what to make of this other than anets not telling us something OR my modem is dying (but its only ~6 mnth old...)
tonight they're back, and for no apparent reason. when i get 10-15 sec lagouts ping plotter shows everything fine on my end. not sure what to make of this other than anets not telling us something OR my modem is dying (but its only ~6 mnth old...)
Perkunas
I have been communicating with GW support and my provider. (An hour's worth of Pingplotter) Both are telling me, it is not their servers, it is in between my provider and ANet. Nothing either can do about it.
I don't understand why it takes 12 or 13 hops to reach plaync from here (outside KC,MO). My house to provider, then 2 stops in Kansas City, 2 stops in Kentucky, 2 in Tennessee, 2 in Dallas, 2 in LA, then a couple random locations. Packet losses in Tennessee(13%), Dallas(6%), LA(33%), and 1 of the randoms(15%).
I log in, takes 10 to 15 minutes and 2 or 3 DC's to cross outpost to exit. Once outside town, minimal lag. Do what I want as long as I don't re-enter outpost. This is using Asian districts. I freeze completely when using American districts. (Getting lonely here is Asia.)
I don't understand why it takes 12 or 13 hops to reach plaync from here (outside KC,MO). My house to provider, then 2 stops in Kansas City, 2 stops in Kentucky, 2 in Tennessee, 2 in Dallas, 2 in LA, then a couple random locations. Packet losses in Tennessee(13%), Dallas(6%), LA(33%), and 1 of the randoms(15%).
I log in, takes 10 to 15 minutes and 2 or 3 DC's to cross outpost to exit. Once outside town, minimal lag. Do what I want as long as I don't re-enter outpost. This is using Asian districts. I freeze completely when using American districts. (Getting lonely here is Asia.)
Karate Jesus
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I have been communicating with GW support and my provider. (An hour's worth of Pingplotter) Both are telling me, it is not their servers, it is in between my provider and ANet. Nothing either can do about it.
I don't understand why it takes 12 or 13 hops to reach plaync from here (outside KC,MO). My house to provider, then 2 stops in Kansas City, 2 stops in Kentucky, 2 in Tennessee, 2 in Dallas, 2 in LA, then a couple random locations. Packet losses in Tennessee(13%), Dallas(6%), LA(33%), and 1 of the randoms(15%). I log in, takes 10 to 15 minutes and 2 or 3 DC's to cross outpost to exit. Once outside town, minimal lag. Do what I want as long as I don't re-enter outpost. This is using Asian districts. I freeze completely when using American districts. (Getting lonely here is Asia.) |
Basically, if other online games run fine on your computer then it's GW's fault. I can play L4D, WoW, and several other online games perfectly and w/o major lag issues for many hours at a time. However, I can play GW for about 1-2 hours before I start lagging so badly that it's not worth playing.....oh, and some days it just plain unplayable.....
funkytoejams
my lag has cleared up for the most part, TYVM anet, i still get a spike now and then, but the game is playable, not nearly as bad as it was for a couple weeks (i even have a ss of "last ping 132k, average ping 132k"). nothing makes you want to rage quit a game like losing to terrible scrubs bcoz you couldnt move or activate skills for 4 mins and 2 ppl in ur guild never loaded, only to have said scrubs pm you non stop after about how hard they pwnd u. >.<, cant have skill based pvp when the game lags so bad, its lag based pvp, whoever had less lag wins.
anyways ty anet, i dont have to /uninstall now.
heres a tip you should try if ur having lag issues, anet doesnt tell you this but the gw.dat file has to be replaced every so ofter, ive been playing since beta and have had a few times that i had so much lag that i contacted support, after defragging the computer, running antivirus, anti malware,etc, removing startup program, cleaning up the registry, running line tests, downloading new bios, direct x and drivers for everything, contacting isp, ETC, i realized that uninstalling and reinstalling gw, usually fixed the problem, just make sure you use the -image command to d/l the full upto date gw.dat, if you want you can make a copy and save it in another folder as a backup, ive only had to do this 3 or 4 times since i started playing gw.
im not saying this fill fix ur lag probs, it prolly wont if ur having the same prob i was ( im convinced it was server side) but this has fixed most of my gw probs, so thought i would share.
anyways ty anet, i dont have to /uninstall now.
heres a tip you should try if ur having lag issues, anet doesnt tell you this but the gw.dat file has to be replaced every so ofter, ive been playing since beta and have had a few times that i had so much lag that i contacted support, after defragging the computer, running antivirus, anti malware,etc, removing startup program, cleaning up the registry, running line tests, downloading new bios, direct x and drivers for everything, contacting isp, ETC, i realized that uninstalling and reinstalling gw, usually fixed the problem, just make sure you use the -image command to d/l the full upto date gw.dat, if you want you can make a copy and save it in another folder as a backup, ive only had to do this 3 or 4 times since i started playing gw.
im not saying this fill fix ur lag probs, it prolly wont if ur having the same prob i was ( im convinced it was server side) but this has fixed most of my gw probs, so thought i would share.
AngelWJedi
lag was sobad today i didnt play with my survivor. i dc'd like 9 times and had a lot of error codes mostly 007. I also got a lot of lag and lag spikes. >_> hopefully it'll be okay when iget back on later. 
Jensy
The lagbeast has returned, right at noon.
Pretty much impossible to be in any explorable at the moment, without running face first into a wall.
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Pretty much impossible to be in any explorable at the moment, without running face first into a wall.
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garethporlest18
Anet seemed to have nerfed the raptor farming by making it impossible to even go into the cave. And if you do, you almost get 60DP trying to collect your items, because you lag enough to where you can't kill everything.
Travaail
great job on the lag there anet! i died for the first time in over a year at raptors today!
Dzjudz
I have experienced 'event lag' before, but the game was always playable for me, the bit of lag didn't bother me much.
But since today's event started, Riven Earth for me has an average ping of 8,000-10,000. Wow. I have never rubberbanded without actually getting stuck before. See you in a few hours I guess.
But since today's event started, Riven Earth for me has an average ping of 8,000-10,000. Wow. I have never rubberbanded without actually getting stuck before. See you in a few hours I guess.
Travaail
n ot only raptors i can't even do a fowsc, going to kamadan is just saying "disconnect me and give me E7". i think regina needs to atleast tell us whats going on. halloween and wintersday never gave me lag like this before.
Danax
Ridiculous, I was looking forward to this, now I cant even play raptor farming without 80% runs lagging 2k ping