Guild Wars: Return of the Lag?

John Bloodstone

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Requiem Lords

R/Me

I don't know whether anyone else is suffering this, but i've noticed that after a nice few weeks of lag free play on the Euro servers, the lag seems to have returned with a vengeance. This weekend playing pvp, I had a couple of spikes that took me out of the game for over a minute and then I was warping everywhere for the rest of the match, it happened to some of my team mates as well. Then today I was playing the Ring of Fire mission and I lagged out for several minutes and was dumped back to the main screen with an err=7. Fun.

Of course I will submit the details to NCSoft as soon as I can, but I would like to know if any other Europeans have been having the same problems recently? Is it just the increased traffic due to the bank holiday weekend or the PvPX event maybe?

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Btw I apologise for posting this in the main forum, but since it was such a huge issue a few weeks back I thought it might warrant being in the general discussion. I'm sure the mods will be the judges of that though...

RotteN

RotteN

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/

GW just completely crashed on me, first a 5min lag spike, than 5min of regular play, than an err=7 and after that it didn't even load anymore :P

Aniewiel

Aniewiel

Smite Mistress

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Land of AZ, USA

Rt/E

If the lag you've experienced happened this past weekend, I would chalk it up to the PvPXtreme event. There were a LOT more people logged in to the servers. Is it still laggy today?

IndyCC

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Standing United (UNIT)

I am American and play on the American servers and the lag that I have at time is equally as bad. My roommate seems to catch more of the bad times than me from what I hear. But this isn't associated with just the PVPX event, for me this has been going on for longer than that (maybe a week or two). I know it is not my computer because no setting have changes since I first started playing months ago. I know it is not my ISP because I just moved about a month back and that forced me to switch from Adelphia cable to Time Warner cable. GW is having some lag issues that extend beyond Europe!

John Bloodstone

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Requiem Lords

R/Me

Anieweil, yes, the lag is worse than ever today. I lagged out of the Ring of Fire mission and dropped to the main screen, then I logged back in and was talking to a guild mate, and was promptly dropped again.

Btw i'm on a router, but I checked and nobody in the house is using it at the moment and I don't think my firewall is misbehaving either.

slasc

slasc

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

[MSSB] My Sister's Stinky Box

R/Mo

lag was bad all weekend and I'm speaking from the American side here...
I was shocked.
I hadn't had lag in guild wars since the E3 event...and that wasn't much.

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

I too had some lag issues this weekend on the American side. Game didnt crash, but I was treated to some rather unusual sudden teleportations to locations, skills going off in succession 30-odd seconds later and things like that. Didnt die, but, it was interesting.

zehly

zehly

Sunshine

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Wired

Daughters of Ananke

Mo/E

I contribute most of the lag to the PvP weekend thingy. Maybe its a sign for the Euro's though, that if they had a huge lag spike, maybe they had a lot of players on!

Even on the Ami servers, I still had lots of lag on Saturday... it sucked.

Gwahir

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Urban Heros

W/Mo

Euro here.

Lag was very good for a while then i kept getting spikes at the weekend. (nothing bad, totally playable still - i credited this to PVPX) But today has been hellish i've had 3 err=7s and a lot of really bad lag.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

I had two nice batches of lag saturday evening. One of which i've dubbed Nightmare lag as it was so far beyond normal or rubberband that it needed it's own name. Was runnign a guildie to Elona from Aug Rock. Got to the sand drakes and lagged for what I thought was a second or two. I kept moving, got to the teleporter without problem, only the little activators weren't there (wtf???). Next thing I know I'm bounced back about half way along the zone, can see my friend talking, issuing target calls for the henchmen, but I can't do anything, can't move, can't use skills, can't talk. Skills are now going wonky like they been clicked but haven't triggered. During this time a worm has appeared and attempted to eat the party. My friend has managed to get away from it and gotten to the teleporter which he was able to activate. Now the worm starts to eat me at range, I'm still not able to do anything so I die. Then I'm in Elona as my friend got there . Just like a nightmare, able to view your surroundings, but unable to act until you suddenly wake up screaming, hence the new type of lag

D Roc

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/Mo

Not to get joy out of your misfortune, but it is comforting to know that I am not the only one experiencing a lot of lag lately. Thought my pc might have been messing up.

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

so thats why the server was laggy this week.. hehe i thought that since i haven't defrag my computer for so long ,my hard-drive was having trouble loading the game file and it made me lag and crash multiple time on saturday!

The undead Mesmer

The undead Mesmer

Delphian Scribe

Join Date: May 2005

Holland

No guild ;_;

N/Me

yeah it happened to me to its because there are much ppl on the european servers i think check the tombs districts there are 7 english ones

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Even durring the PvP weekend I kept wondering what people were talking about with lag. I didn't feel a bit untill, oddly, it was over and I lagged out of Lion's Arch Dis 1 while Gaile was still in it O.o

I've never really had lag on the game. Maybe some of the people in the midwest area are just expierencing Hurricane affects? I've never really felt much lag in the game before. I haven't been on much today, so maybe it is just some feedback of a kind from reseting the servers?

salja Wachi

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

Chicago

the Bleeding Edge

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by dargon
I had two nice batches of lag saturday evening. One of which i've dubbed Nightmare lag as it was so far beyond normal or rubberband that it needed it's own name. Was runnign a guildie to Elona from Aug Rock. Got to the sand drakes and lagged for what I thought was a second or two. I kept moving, got to the teleporter without problem, only the little activators weren't there (wtf???). Next thing I know I'm bounced back about half way along the zone, can see my friend talking, issuing target calls for the henchmen, but I can't do anything, can't move, can't use skills, can't talk. Skills are now going wonky like they been clicked but haven't triggered. During this time a worm has appeared and attempted to eat the party. My friend has managed to get away from it and gotten to the teleporter which he was able to activate. Now the worm starts to eat me at range, I'm still not able to do anything so I die. Then I'm in Elona as my friend got there . Just like a nightmare, able to view your surroundings, but unable to act until you suddenly wake up screaming, hence the new type of lag


lol are you on a router? you can still fun and see chat etc. but you cannot use your skills or type etc.

it is funny actually afer it happens a couple time. your friends are screaming fory ou but you cannot answer back lol

anyway you get that right beofre you err 7

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

I got lag, and then my first ever Err #7 today.

I also saw weird messages from devs, like "census 14781".

Which makes me believe the reason might be that they're making a bigger adjustment to the servers. Like perhaps installing Sorrows Furnace.

Savio

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Those weird messages are addressed in another thread: here.

I had a few lag issues on Friday, but since PvP Extreme was coming up I wasn't too worried. I only lagged out once this weekend, and my lag-outs tend to be problems with my network rather than Anet's.

Divine Elemental

Divine Elemental

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Near Your House

I Used To Own [ IUTO ]

i got lag but not lag spikes and i only got err7 once and it was 2 months ago ^^

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by salja Wachi
lol are you on a router? you can still fun and see chat etc. but you cannot use your skills or type etc.

it is funny actually afer it happens a couple time. your friends are screaming fory ou but you cannot answer back lol

anyway you get that right beofre you err 7
Yup, I'm on a router, but the chat I was refering to was lagged to. Basically, I was about 5 minutes in the past from when everything was actually happening. I got a second hit of lag about 45 minutes later. This time though it didn't recover and after 10 min I just shut down and went to watch TV for a bit. Came back, haven't had a problem outside of a minor amount of rubberband lag since.

MaglorD

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Dunno, maybe I'm lucky but no lag at all, even while PVPing during the PVP X.
Sounds like a network connectivity issue.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

I put it down to Verizon being run by dumbasses