Anyone else have weird lag in Shroud Part 1

[Thrudh]

ONLY Part 1 for me... Parts 2-5 are perfectly fine...

But Part 1, I can barely participate....

But here's the weird thing... It's not like any other lag I've ever experienced... Usually when I lag, MY character get stuck in place, or stutters in place (springing back sometimes) until suddenly I "catch up" and everything is fine again...

In Shroud Part 1, I can move around just fine... It just looks like EVERYONE ELSE is lagging.. I'll see them all run in place for a while then zoom off... I'll walk over to where a portal is, hear all the swords hitting it, although I may not see any of the people.. then suddenly I see the animation where the portal is destroyed, and all the blue dots are at some other part of the map...

I wander over to where everyone else is with no apparent lag at all... but by the time I get there, they're all off again... I never seem to get attacked, even though I do occasionally attack a critter standing in front of me (and I see the hit messages)...

It's like I'm the Flash or something... It's anti-lag! I'm 100x faster than everyone else... too bad there's no movie theatres to sneak into or banks to rob in the Shroud Part 1...

But seriously... anyone else see this? So far it hasn't really been an issue, but my cleric is almost flagged, and I can't take him in there... People will be counting on me to be able to heal...

And again, Parts 2-5 are perfectly fine.

Weird.

[Samadhi]

This is not just you.

I have one guildie that never had lag issues before this raid. They always have issues in part 1 of the shroud, however, and I have talked to a couple other random folks on Ghallanda with the same issue.

I wish I could say one of them had figured out a cure for it . For now we just assume that he will be useless in part 1 and then be okay again afterwards.

[alans240]

I have seen this happen to a couple people in runs with me. They can voice chat and party chat fine. Mobs can hit them, but they can't see them. To them it looks like everyone else is standing still.

Seen it happen to someone on multiple runs too. He tried to reboot his PC and router to see if it got any better and ended up in the Harbor. So, we recalled and reformed to give it another go. He had the same problem in the next run too. Once we got to part 2 it started clearing up. Eventually he was all normal again. He did not try another run.

[redoubt]

Lag for me is usually just the second or two of stop motion then back to normal.

Sometimes I'll start to get high loss % numbers. The worst I've had was Tuesday night in the shroud. I was at almost 30% loss and it looked a lot like what you are describing. The latency was fine, but the loss was causing massive lag. I checked my internet connection and things like yahoo worked great, but DDO.com was very slow and sometimes completely unresponsive.

Even stranger, another guy in the group had the exact same problem at the same time. It cleared up by the end of part one for about 4 others, but the 2 of us had the problem all the way to part 4, which was something we could not even "tag along" in.

Seems to me that the loss issue may be something on the turbine side, since I could access servers that were not turbine's, but then other people were okay, so not 100% sure there.

Anyway... next time it happens, see if its latency or loss related. Who knows, maybe if we get enough data for them...

[Aeneas]

randomly i get actual unexplainable bursts of lag in there, but generally just the normal beginning buff lag (from folks casting master's touch) and end of quest lag (from folks looting large stacks of shards)

[Yaga_Nub]

I get it right about 5 minutes into the quest like clockwork. It will last about 10 seconds and then I'm fine the rest of the quest.

[llevenbaxx]

I get it right about 5 minutes into the quest like clockwork. It will last about 10 seconds and then I'm fine the rest of the quest.

Same exact experience last night. Happened to many in the group but not all.

[Turial]

I would imagine its a combination of all the attacks registering in one spot, multiple mobs spawning at multiple locations on the map, Mobs being able to teleport randomly around, and a large number of persistant spell effects like disco balls, fogs, acid rains all happening at once.

[Glenalth]

I haven't had it happen to myself, but it seems there is always one person that is having issues with it.

[Griphon]

I have it hit me in 1 out of 3 shroud runs.
It doesn't matter what class I'm in.. Dwarf Fighter, Human Wiz, or Human Cleric. All three get hit in part 1. And it typically starts in the first area during the pull to draw in both Left and Right Sides.

Packet loss sky rockets into the 30% to 40%. My frame rate stays constant at 60-ish FPS. Let me state.. This is packet loss ONLY to Turbine. Other checks to various other sites during this situation brings up typical packet loss.

Things I would suggest:
1) Only pull one side at a time. Left or Right. But not both.
2) Don't go crazy on the fricken dancing balls two should be just as effective as 13.
3) Find the person you've annoyed at Turbine and make Atonement.
4) Sacrifice a virgin to the net gods.

I am honestly at a loss. I can't tell if it's a programming fubar.. A evil plot by an ISP to cause the end of the world as we know it.. Or the Angel of Lagony coming to visit us in its own personal way. Can't tell.

I started a thread about this about two weeks ago.. And I think there were 4 threads prior to that.

PUH-lease.. Can we get some sort of answer from Turbine? An acknowledgment? A nod? A grunt? I'm sure Q could give us grunt at the very least. Tolero could take a Demonic form of a ancient wizened demon shaking a fist and shouting : Curse you adventurers.. Stay out of my blood soaked Savarath battleground! I dunno.. Anything at this point would be an improvement.

I'd be more than willing to help in anyway I could.... Run a logging traceroute or something in the background while I played.. What ever it took....

End the Lagony.

[DagazUlf]

Yep, we have one guildie that has this issue every single time he runs the quest.

He's so embarrassed about it that he only runs in guild groups because he hates just sitting around useless. (We don't mind, we know it's the game's fault!)

I'm certain he's submitted a help request which has gone nowhere.

[alans240]

On our runs on normal, we no longer use Dancing Balls or Mind Fog and I've still seen people with this problem.

What's wierd is I have a guildy who can run his clerics in there fine, but as soon as he brings in his tank he has horrible lag issues.

It's strange to say the least.

I've also noticed lately when I'm in Shroud part 1 I have 0.1-0.5% packet loss. I never have packet loss anywhere else in the game. It's like the server hosting that instance is over loaded and people with less than perfect internet connections feel the brunt of the pain. Wonder if it has a bad NIC card or something.

[Beherit_Baphomar]

Only saw this once...and it didnt happen to me.

One fighter started yelling at people "What are you doing?!? Attack the portals, why you all standing around?!?!"

Errbody was like "Dude, we are"

Then the cleric died.....

Three other threw rez's at him, nothing. Then the leader was like "Can someone please rez the cleric ffs?"

Dude, we tried to rez him three times, I think he's AFK.

Then he came back, huge lag spike that musta lasted close to 4 minutes.

The lag in that raid lasted the whole of Part 1...it was very weird.

[xynxie]

4) Sacrifice a virgin to the net gods

....but I will start looking now.....they are really rare where I live. I want to play that quest.

[Griphon]

....but I will start looking now.....they are really rare where I live. I want to play that quest.

See.. now I'm just trying to stow away comments like.. The typical Deep South inbred comments and stuff...

Don't DO that to me!!!

[Lorien_the_First_One]

I was in a raid last night where one person had exactly the same complaint. He said he could move freely but everything/everyone else seemed out of sync and was jumping around.

[negative]

I have a guildie that has the exact same problem as the OP every single time he's in the shroud.

[DNDJESS]

I used to have lag so badly that the only thing I could do in part 1 was put on auto attack, stumble my way to the nearest portal, and hope I was close enough to hit it. Buying a new video card was a HUGE improvement. My old card wasn't terrible (256mb), but once I put a 512mb card in, it got a lot better, but still not great. When I do that quest, I still have to go into the game sound settings and turn sound effects, music, DM voice, etc. all to 0. This almost completely eliminates lag.