Close that lagfest once and for all i vote.

[nikos1313]

too much lag. every year the same... i even lag when im on my ship... bring the mabar down and burn it once and for all. come up with a new idea maybe. with less lag

[djl]

Whaa, it is always terrible in the beginning.

Each day it improves.

[Musouka]

I vote against the OP then...

[AestorTheKnight]

Currently on Cannith, cant move. Everyone in my party is completey lagged out, and has been for the last 15 minutes... Sigh...

[Dolphious]

Currently on Cannith, cant move. Everyone in my party is completey lagged out, and has been for the last 15 minutes... Sigh...

Hey, I'm also on Cannith in a group completely lagged out in a bugged quest and tabbed out reading the forums! Go figure....

[Merlin-ator]

I vote against.

[5chinoble]

too much lag. every year the same... i even lag when im on my ship... bring the mabar down and burn it once and for all. come up with a new idea maybe. with less lag

stop using a dial up modem ?

[ssternlight]

We were just frozen the entire time. Lag was a minute or more and nothing worked. What a shame...

[Pewf]

Whole group reported lag spike, I just got disconnected on Ghallanda due to red connect thing.

Could type/talk perfectly though.

[Dolphious]

stop using a dial up modem ?

While I don't doubt that lots of lag reports are due to something on the user's end, there is definitely whole-instance server side lag going on right now.

It's not every instance, but when it hits it's not pretty.

[GoRinNoSho]

Last year we avoided summons and too many persistent AoE spells like firewall and dance ball. That helped out a fair amount.

Additionally, when you hit all 4 altars you cut the number of players in that instance. So once you get 24-36 it may be a good idea to close an instance.

[Zorth]

zero lag here

it is all about making your computer a gaming computer or one that is not one.

I will not tell you how, if you dont know then dont play

[Battlehawke]

Don't forget that the Easy Coast of the US is recovering from a major Hurricane. I'm sure this is affecting the internet some. Also, don't forget there are people that have no power, not to mention people that have lost a lot more important things. There are people struggling to survive and just stay warm right now.


I would give it a few days before you get to extreme!

[nikos1313]

zero lag here

it is all about making your computer a gaming computer or one that is not one.

I will not tell you how, if you dont know then dont play


oh ok. didnt read that anywhere in the forums. sry then, i take it all back. seems DDO is a game for ppl who use gaming computers, and i have no work here, with my useless PC. i guess by gaming PC u mean UBER nasa PC, because 99/100 seems to have lag problems. next time i run that dragon, ill make sure ill get some screenshots of the General chat, about lag complains

[karsion]

Don't forget that the Easy Coast of the US is recovering from a major Hurricane. I'm sure this is affecting the internet some. Also, don't forget there are people that have no power, not to mention people that have lost a lot more important things. There are people struggling to survive and just stay warm right now.


I would give it a few days before you get to extreme!


Ok, seriously, this comment... ugh. No, really.

I understand and sympathise with people who suffered because of this or any other natural disaster. However saying that someone should not express his opinion because something that has nothing to do with him happened somewhere. Wow, just wow.

And to all that are commenting about modems and people ineptitude of assembling a gaming computer: just be careful when you use naked flame, geez.

[Dawnsfire]

/not signed

My lag (on a non gaming computer) is no better or worse than normal. If we get to vote to close parts of the game we do not like then nothing will be left open. Please throw your temper tantrum elsewhere.

[Dawnsfire]

Ok, seriously, this comment... ugh. No, really.

I understand and sympathise with people who suffered because of this or any other natural disaster. However saying that someone should not express his opinion because something that has nothing to do with him happened somewhere. Wow, just wow.

And to all that are commenting about modems and people ineptitude of assembling a gaming computer: just be careful when you use naked flame, geez.

I expect the posters point was that since Turbine's servers are in New England that the hurricane's destruction may be effecting things a bit. I did not read it as 'Don't gripe SANDY'S VICTIMS!!!!!!!'. Of course that was just my reading.

[Whesper]

It did not get any better, I logged to play on 2012-11-02, now I am back here. Just gonna wait till they close it down really.

[nikos1313]

i dont see why ppl even mention a hurricane... what about last year? and the year before that?

[Musouka]

i dont see why ppl even mention a hurricane... what about last year? and the year before that?

It seems like even at those times, you are part of a small minority.

[nikos1313]

It seems like even at those times, you are part of a small minority.

can u plz explain that, because im not clever enough?

[nikos1313]

It seems like even at those times, you are part of a small minority.

i dunno what u understood of my post. all i said is what a hurricane has to do with the lag in Mabar in all those years. not just THIS year. ALL the other years.

talkin about the victims of the hurricane, thats total different story, that i wont say anythin more here.

[Shmuel]

A hurricane is not a reason to excuse everything bad in the universe. Its a reason maybe to be a little more concerned about climate change, and to be concerned for those in its path, but lag in DDO? During Mabar, which has always lagged out the servers?

I would be more likely to take it seriously if you said there was a worldwide epidemic of the hamster flu.

[Isolani]

I don't notice any additional lag during Mabar or Cove, so I don't know what you're talking about. I was running And the Dead Shall Rise in Delara's graveyard and still didn't notice any out of the ordinary lag.

[Diroctive]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2074573463_cabbaf6b51.jpg

Guys, it's time to upgrade. :D

[Singular]

It did not get any better, I logged to play on 2012-11-02, now I am back here. Just gonna wait till they close it down really.

Wow! You time traveled to the future, found DDO laggy, and came back to the past to not play???

Which stocks are doing well 2 days from now that are down now? Quick!

[nikos1313]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2074573463_cabbaf6b51.jpg

Guys, it's time to upgrade. :D

dammit! i should have thought of that! Duct Tape! that fixes everything!!
maybe ill wrap my PC with that...!

[rayworks]

Whaa, it is always terrible in the beginning.

Each day it improves.

Yeah, because fewer people play each day.

[rayworks]

Currently on Cannith, cant move. Everyone in my party is completey lagged out, and has been for the last 15 minutes... Sigh...

Yep, I had a party wipe at the dragon from lag in Cannith too. Couldn't move or cast for minutes at a time, and then when you could cast it just lagged harder.

But the mobs weren't effected by lag at all. How convenient.

[GoRinNoSho]

Just ran a lag free instance of 20-25. We had about 4-6 per chamber and 2 per lever.

Additionally no summons etc.

Might try controlling the number of people and that may help.

[nikos1313]

Yep, I had a party wipe at the dragon from lag in Cannith too. Couldn't move or cast for minutes at a time, and then when you could cast it just lagged harder.

But the mobs weren't effected by lag at all. How convenient.


what are you talkin about.. there was no lag.. your PC must be crappy!! and ppl also say that Sarlona died through the dragon. LINK , OR DIDNT HAPPEN!!!

[Battlehawke]

Everyone screamed for Mabar over the last few days. The forums have been on fire with the rage! Turbine scrambled to get it working, and turned it on during a Hurricane and then evacuated the building. Hopefully they are all safe and with their families. If lag is your most important issue this week, then I think things will get better for you....maybe.

Ps. Almost 8 Million people on the East Coast with no power.

[Chaos000]

I only lag a bit when I switch destinies other than that, everything seems to be running just fine.

[nikos1313]

Everyone screamed for Mabar over the last few days. The forums have been on fire with the rage! Turbine scrambled to get it working, and turned it on during a Hurricane and the evacuated the building. Hopefully they are all safe and with their families. If lag is your most important issue this week, then I think things will get better for you....maybe.

Ps. Almost 8 Million people on the East Coast with no power.


dude...

1st u r missing the point.

2nd u make me look like i dont give a **** about what happened, which is pretty bad thing to do, because u dont know me and because its not the truth. but as i told above, im not gona say anythin about the hurricane in this forums.

3rd Turbine could just postpone Mabar.

4th Turbine is company. companies live by having #1 priority, something called PROFIT.

[XiaNYdE]

oh ok. didnt read that anywhere in the forums. sry then, i take it all back. seems DDO is a game for ppl who use gaming computers, and i have no work here, with my useless PC. i guess by gaming PC u mean UBER nasa PC, because 99/100 seems to have lag problems. next time i run that dragon, ill make sure ill get some screenshots of the General chat, about lag complains


It has nothing to do with 'Uber Nasa Computers' i build and design custom gaming rigs, starting from as little as AUD$800, it's simply understanding the capabilites of your rig vs the game and 9/10 times i see my customers demanding far more than their rig can handle, stupid things like graphics ramped right up on a $50 card. Having said that i am not saying it is always the rig, because i see lag, nowhere near the scale some claim but i do get it often and yes i do have the 'Uber Nasa Rig' lmao. It comes back to turbines servers and pipes not handling the traffic, AND COMBINE that with a poorly equipped rig on the players end and i can see the crazy lag people are saying happens.

[Sabishii-Kun]

While I don't doubt that lots of lag reports are due to something on the user's end, there is definitely whole-instance server side lag going on right now.

It's not every instance, but when it hits it's not pretty.

I don't have anything to say about the rest, but I wanted to say that I particularly agree with the bolded. Most of the time, when I hear people in the General chat complain about lag, I seem to be fine. The people complaining aloud are usually few and far between, so I would think it's something on their end, and no DDO.

[R0cksteady]

Some peopel love Mabar, some people hate it.

Instead of closing it, why not close the client? I did. I'll be back after mabar is over and there are groups again.

[slarden]

/not signed


We had some lag when mobbed with skeletons a few times. Once it was so bad we all ended up dead when it ended even though both healers were spamming mass heals and cures the whole time.

The dragon battle was laggy twice when blade barriers and dancing spheres were up and not laggy the other 2 times when there were none. I thought it might be due to the blade barriers and dancing spheres but others say that is mythology.

Still, even with a litlte lag i want my Mabar!!!

[nikos1313]

IF u were online by the time of 1st dragon today, u would witness (i talk about Khyber) a WHOLE freakin server lag.
and thats not JUST ME. i didnt see A SINGLE person tellin something like '' i have no lag here''. all u could read in general chat, through dragon, was about how laggy it was. there were massive DCs even after dragon and servers were laggin up to the airships. furthermore, ppl from other serves are already complaining IN THIS FORUM about lag issues. now, what i just said, is pretty much on EVERY Mabar event. every year. lagfest. if u dont see the lag, thats good for you. just spend 5 minutes in general chat and see what ppl say, or see ppl around u floating while u pass by them . thats what i am saying. why is that SO hard to understand?

[Qezuzu]

zero lag here

it is all about making your computer a gaming computer or one that is not one.

I will not tell you how, if you dont know then dont play

Here is DDO's system requirements (http://www.ddo.com/getting-started/380-system-requirements). Recommended is 2.0 GHz. That's not very high.

I haven't played in a party at all so I don't know about lag, I only just got on an hour ago.

This lag is server side if people WHO ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN MABAR are getting crushing amounts of lag. Don't just say "lol if you're having problems get a better PC" because no respectable game should require only the most high end of machines.

Gaming computers are primarily for improving the graphics anyway.

[Zenako]

No real problems noted tonight on 2 runs for Sarlona on Epic setting. Killed the dragon both times one almost before we knew what was happening. No signs of lag on those runs. So it could be server related perhaps.

[XiaNYdE]

Here is DDO's system requirements (http://www.ddo.com/getting-started/380-system-requirements). Recommended is 2.0 GHz. That's not very high.

What DDO or any game says are minimum requirements and what you settings you apply are 2 different things, as i stated in an earlier post i have seen customers running min. req. and setting everything to High Res, that is a lag trap right there.


This lag is server side if people WHO ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN MABAR are getting crushing amounts of lag. Don't just say "lol if you're having problems get a better PC" because no respectable game should require only the most high end of machines.

You should tell that to EA or Atari

[FestusHood]

I personally didn't notice any lag that was out of the ordinary. When people say they are lagged out for minutes at a time, unable to move, i've never had that happen. Unless you are talking about what i call latency spikes, which i do have happen occasionally. They almost never seem to be related to any particular thing for me though. I usually get some slowdown and choppiness when lots of spell graphics are going off, particularly if i am standing inside them and they fill my screen. I am almost certain this is from my mediocre graphics card though

[Uska]

Don't forget that the Easy Coast of the US is recovering from a major Hurricane. I'm sure this is affecting the internet some. Also, don't forget there are people that have no power, not to mention people that have lost a lot more important things. There are people struggling to survive and just stay warm right now.


I would give it a few days before you get to extreme!

+1 for thinking of people with more important things going on then a little lag

[samthedagger]

Wasn't seeing anything than the occasional blip in the hour and a half I played last night. Dragon fight was quick and practically lag free. There will be some lag this weekend no doubt. But it shouldn't interfere significantly with your game unless you have some client-side issues. As I said, ran it for about an hour and a half during peak PM play time in the US and wasn't seeing any lag worth mentioning.

[LightInDark]

same ran for a couple of hours of mabar and 6 hours total there where small lag spikes but nothing to write home about (am I am on the far side of the world)

[Tralus]

Lag. Pssh! A thing of the past. You don't need a gaming computer! You just need an nearly up to date graphics card and lots of RAM. My computer still has a graphics card from 5 years ago. I only had 1 gb RAM. Upgraded to a full 4 GB for $55 and haven't had a major lag spike sense. The only time I do lag is UMD usage (very common among players) and when mass AoEs go off! Also, if you can't afford the RAM upgrade, clean out the dust, get IObit Game Booster, defrag those game files, and take down the useless **** running that you don't need!

Mabar is one of the best times of year. Yes, it may cause instance lag, but not really any server lag. The only lag you should have in it is when you are in Mabar areas or somehow your dungeon instance gets tossed in with the same area in the game files.

Also, yes Sandy is now taking out power all over the east coast. Yes, the server and main hub for Turbine is located in that area. If by chance the power did go out, then the generators would be taking care of what power in the servers they can... assuming they have those. The devs worked very hard to make this community happy, even working from home with the threat of a hurricane on the doorstep just to bring up this event for the hundreds of players waiting for those handwraps, robes, cloak and other various items. I must say, that have surprised me with the demand and supplied us like no other game company I have heard off, working like that. Cheers to you!

Also... on the bright side... Mabar is just a couple weeks. If the lag gets you that bad Assassins Creed 3 just came out and Halo 4 is soon to release. :P

[darthhento]

Darthwolf: 3 - LagDragon: 2

Still in the lead!

[arkonas]

wow i swear some people in these forums are so greedy. you demanded turbine who had to be evacuated out of their building start their game and risk lives just so you could play your stupid game. 33 people if not more died. billions worth of damage caused 8 million out of power but oooooooooooooooooohhhhh noes my laaaaagggggg in mabar is WAYYY more important then any of that stuff. you tell them to suck it up and fix the lag, stop the event, fix the event, start the event.

Wanna know why most people think your selfish because the first words out of your mouth isn't about anyone's safety just the game. So yeah we think your greedy. whether or not you care or not. first words are you guys ok not FIX THE LAG. Seriously guys/gals chill out. Do we know if the servers were at full capacity/potential? no idea. i don't now that stuff, but since i know Sandy effected the area im not going to complain about a game.

I wanted to also add this. I have read some of the posts about sandy. Some of you act like it was nothing and they should get over it. glad you really feel that way while others were effected by it.

i just want to add if Sandy didn't happen then some of your posts would be fine. Then you can say hey last year we had this and that. So why the same this year. Just give them some breathing room.

[Gleep_Wurp]

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