Fix The Lag Plz

[Lucifuge_ha]

Hello there gang I am a fairly recent addition to DDO as of 5 months now I think... the first 4 months ran beautifully but over the last month I am getting the impression that your service is running out of cash to pay for itself as the quality of the servers seems to have done a TOTAL nose dive. Every time I log in now I go through consistent lag, sometimes bare able but as of the last week it is now stopping me from playing all together. I would like to see this issue fixed, personally extra content mean squat to me or anyone if the game plays like the first days of WOW. Like I said the first 4 months loved the game now I keep thinking of canceling my sub for something else that plays decently. DDO has an extremely low player base and the loss of another just speeds up it's demise, so whatever you did in the last month to wreck the quality you might wanna consider fixing asap. Just thoughts from a concerned subscription holder.

[Ringos]

I understand, as it gets pretty old. I've seen some really odd stuff caused by the lag. The only saving grace for me is running with guildies and allies that seem to get it done in spite of the issues.

Try to hold on until the next update..I am. I'm hoping that it will be back to normal. I am really hoping.

[Aranticus]

how do you define lag? now if you define it as you getting odd incidents of the toon not responding, you may want to check these few things

1. are the rest in the party affected? if everyone stops moving, then its more towards the server problem. that turbine will to address that issue but here are some areas that they have no access too
(a) cabals infrastructure out of turbines AOI
(b) connection points to servers

2. if you are the only in the party, there can be a range of problems
(a) if wireless, check if someone is snooping
(b) check if other programs (esp anti virus) is running in background
(c) check if you have sufficient ram
(d) check your internet connection
(e) check your client (could be a degraded client, install a new one if needed)

there are lots of reason. maybe you like to check first before assigning blame

[Ringos]

Uh, yeah, everyone has the issues at the same time...at least when I notice it. I'll temp lock up, or start rubber-banding and someone will say 'lag spike' about the same time. If multiple people are complaining about it on the boards and in-game, there is a bigger issue.

The blame falls where it is deserved.

[ENGRAV0]

Here is another possibility, no one seems to deny that when they changed the mobs AI the lag monster hit, and hit HARD. So, is it possible that something they did when coding MIGHT have done things that affect hardware on individuals PCs? This is ONLY and EXAMPLE, not something to go by, byt is it POSSIBLE that somehow the coding that they did, that went to our PCs during the update proccess, has affect, as AN EXAMPLE all NVidia VGU's, or NVidia chipsets, or any particular chipsets, or sound cards, or whatever?

Once that patch went in, I have NEVER been the same, save ONE day. On that day, I was having so much fun with freinds and such, that perhaps I still had some of the stuff, just that I really wasnt paying that close attention, because I was enjoying running with a sort of different crowd than normal, so things were a little different. No, as I recall, there was no big lag hits, maybe one or two little ones, can't recall now, but still, I to this day encounter various degrees of alg and rubberbanding. I am NOT the only one. If it isn't EVERYONE, then maybe it isn't the actual server, perhaps, just PERHAPS it is something that their new AI coding and THEIR update did to peoples machines. I would say it would certainly be worth a look, perhaps if a Dev shot everyone that is complaining of these Lagtastic times a PM and asked them to provide system info, then they could set up a similar machine and check that route.

Now, that would require them actualy COMMUNICATING, but still, we all learned that from birth, I think they should be able to remember how to do that.

[stabbert]

Its an MMORPG people!

It going to lag sometimes.. I dont see any problems.

I have had lag a couple times as well, but I will tell you this.

I used to play World of Warcraft, if you want something to whine about, go play that game.
The lag happens alot worse on alot of the servers there mostly at night during primetime (Especially on weekends!)

EVERY FREAKING TUESDAY they take the servers down "for maintenance.." for 5-8 EVERY WEEK.
What are they fixing with the "maintenance"?? Because the lag never stops happening.

In contrast with the lag on WoW and on here, no thanks, ill stay here.

At least i dont have to wonder when they take the servers down for maint on here if its going to be 5, 8, 24 hours..

-Stabby

[KristovK]

To the OP...run a trace route, see if there are problems between you and the DDO servers, and do it when you are experiencing bad lag issues ingame, to see if the problem really IS the server or something else.

Here is another possibility, no one seems to deny that when they changed the mobs AI the lag monster hit, and hit HARD. So, is it possible that something they did when coding MIGHT have done things that affect hardware on individuals PCs? This is ONLY and EXAMPLE, not something to go by, byt is it POSSIBLE that somehow the coding that they did, that went to our PCs during the update proccess, has affect, as AN EXAMPLE all NVidia VGU's, or NVidia chipsets, or any particular chipsets, or sound cards, or whatever?

Once that patch went in, I have NEVER been the same, save ONE day. On that day, I was having so much fun with freinds and such, that perhaps I still had some of the stuff, just that I really wasnt paying that close attention, because I was enjoying running with a sort of different crowd than normal, so things were a little different. No, as I recall, there was no big lag hits, maybe one or two little ones, can't recall now, but still, I to this day encounter various degrees of alg and rubberbanding. I am NOT the only one. If it isn't EVERYONE, then maybe it isn't the actual server, perhaps, just PERHAPS it is something that their new AI coding and THEIR update did to peoples machines. I would say it would certainly be worth a look, perhaps if a Dev shot everyone that is complaining of these Lagtastic times a PM and asked them to provide system info, then they could set up a similar machine and check that route.

Now, that would require them actualy COMMUNICATING, but still, we all learned that from birth, I think they should be able to remember how to do that.

Have you run a single trace yet Engrav0? And please, get in contact with someone who knows about computers and software, especially in relation to online gaming and MMOs before you make any more of comments of this sort. MMOs don't install the AI on your system...matter of fact they don't install much beyond graphics and sounds on your system, keeps people from altering the game to suit their whims...you know..hack the game.

I personally hit a huge lag issue tonight, so bad I had to log out of the game totally, and I wasn't the only one in the party I was in who was having problems. Whole party did NOT have lag, just a couple of us, but it was so bad the 2 of us couldn't continue playing. Trace showed the issue real quick, 90% loss on the 5th hop between me and the server, with loss running 40-70% for the remaining 13 hops. Called my provider and found out that they were having some issues in SC, which just happened to be where hop 5 was located. 4 hours later now and my route to DDO is clear...but it's also no longer going through the SC hop, so I'm not sure if that issue was corrected or not, I do know that that SC route wasn't my typical route to the DDO servers, but it's not static after all. Oh..yeah...your actual route between your system and DDO's servers won't be the same route every time, it'll change from login to login, so just because you don't see any issues right now doesn't mean they won't show up next time you log in. So..if you start having lag issues, immediately alt-Enter(for those of us who run full screen) and run a trace, see if the route you are using AT THE MOMENT you are experiencing lag is the problem or not, while you are still connected to the server.