Shroud Lag

[Lighti]

Is there any news about when Shroud will be fixed? as currently it is pratically unplayable for me.

[macros123]

Silly Lighti. Didn't you hear that the lag issues were resolved when DDO went free-to-play?


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[blitzschlag]

im somewhat curious.
while the eu servers where still populated well in late mod 6 early mod 7 (nowhere that high population as its here now) there was never serious lag in the shroud. at least i can't remember it (and i played my cleric main back then).

anyway, as i understand it the raid/quest instances are on seperate server processes (virtual or non-virtual). can't be too hard to get an extra server for shrouding and spread the instances more. still shroud is bread and butter and everyone does it everyday...

[Kaervas]

Is there any news about when Shroud will be fixed? as currently it is pratically unplayable for me.

Sorry if you have already done this but have you tried going into the game options and turning off all the various combat feedback checkboxes (UI Settings, half way down) as well as stencil shadows in Advanced Graphics?
Aside from that also open the social panel and uncheck "Show groups I am not eligible for", check "Hide Offline Friends", and uncheck the Any box for Class Filters and hit search, then close the social panel.


These are things I read about doing on various other lag complaint threads on these forums, and they do seem to help a bit.

[Lighti]

Seeing as im a healer, Unchecking Combat feedback boxes will make very little difference as i dont melee :)

[Grimmsie]

Aside from that also open the social panel and uncheck "Show groups I am not eligible for", check "Hide Offline Friends", and uncheck the Any box for Class Filters and hit search, then close the social panel.



This one doesn't make any difference, at least for me, I'm DPS and I can barely contribute to the raid which makes me feel rather useless :/ .

I don't want to switch to low graphics either everytime I go shrouding, that's just not the case...

[Siro]

It isn't the shadows (at least not for everyone). I had no problem with the shadows prior to update 3.