Bounce back

[fodder-cannon]

Im game, I am moving around and experience a quick bounce back to where I was about 3 seconds ago. This has proven quite annoying due to the fact that in happens in groups of several dozen and runs for about 2-3 min then repeats itself again another 5 min later.
It can be quite annoyning when running away from something or running to something. It now takes me an extra few min just to cross the marketplace and other such area. It also manifests itself in the slayer areas and the dungeons. It happens quite randomly to me and the only pattern is that it happens in groups of for an unspecified amount of time for a random period the above times I gave are what I have seen as an average in the several hours I have been playing it with.
I have tried relgogging and that doesn't work I even reset my computer and even changed characters. to no effect. It does seem to build in intensity for a short period then dorpp off then build up again.

Please help me.
Regards

[Flavilandile]

That's called rubberbanding... and it can be caused by a lot of things.

In technical terms you jump back because you received a location update from the server that tells the client you are where you just jumped back... As the location update is not sent/received every time you move around, your client moves your around, send a packet with the move to the server... and the server sent an update with an old location back.... so the client update your location on the screne to that location.

It can be produced by link latency, slow speed link, proxy usage, and many other net problems.
It can also be also produced by your computer and eventually by lag on the server side.

[morticianjohn]

That's called rubberbanding... and it can be caused by a lot of things.

In technical terms you jump back because you received a location update from the server that tells the client you are where you just jumped back... As the location update is not sent/received every time you move around, your client moves your around, send a packet with the move to the server... and the server sent an update with an old location back.... so the client update your location on the screne to that location.

It can be produced by link latency, slow speed link, proxy usage, and many other net problems.
It can also be also produced by your computer and eventually by lag on the server side.

If it happens more since the physics "upgrade" does that mean that the upgrade requires a faster speed to continue to play DDO? Or does that mean the "upgrade" came with more server side lag which causes more rubberbanding?

[sharachan]

If it happens more since the physics "upgrade" does that mean that the upgrade requires a faster speed to continue to play DDO? Or does that mean the "upgrade" came with more server side lag which causes more rubberbanding?

99% of rubberbanding and lag is a client side problem. I had real problems with this in public areas until i bought a new computer.

[My2Cents]

I'm using a legacy computer and limited graphics and although I may have noticed a smidge or two right when it first came out, seems to basically play the same as it always did. (slightly different when trying to grab ledges and ladders for awhile)

I'd bet you can clean it up or mitigate it with some setting on your end, before I'd run out and buy a new PC. I'm not expert enough to give you specific suggestions except to look at your graphics settings/drivers, check and make sure your disk is running smoothly (defrag, ebough virtual memory, etc..) and one other thing:

I'm not sure I understand what you were saying, but that you seemd to think the rubberbanding repeated itself in a manner you could predict. That makes me ask if you have any software that might share bandwidth or cpu resources such as file sharing, VOUP (skype, etc.), voice software? Or do you have any antivuris disk scanners that might take up disk resources in a predictable repetitive way (such as scans files on disk every 10 minutes)?