Game Performance Improvements and Feedback

[Sexysysab]

Well, since Jerry ignores any tough questions on his silly twitch stream .... I will tell you ... they will give notice at midnight about being down tomorrow ... and the next day, and the next day ... and then smile and laugh and ignore how they have killed their game ... good work. I am surprise you all havent been banned for "complaining" about issues

[donweel]

Been playing normally on Cannith doing regular questing. Lately mostly Stormhorns. Did some Cannith Manufactury a few days ago with no problems. Small party groups with a couple of hirelings. No raiding.

[IronClan]

Definitely worth looking into randomly awarded guild renown those seem to cause spikes for whole party when things are getting laggy.

[MistaMagic]

Just completed 2 mins ago with NO LAG on Khyber with a 12 man group. Also picked this up in channel chat
"we did eh doj, lh hox, and lh shroud last evening without lag"

[Phoenix-daBard]

Definitely worth looking into randomly awarded guild renown those seem to cause spikes for whole party when things are getting laggy.

Anything that causes a gear recalc (UMD, guild level) gets lag. The reason guild level gets it is that the system has to check the gear of each person logged in in that guild when it levels because of those old guild augments. Because they still exist they can still cause stuttering.

[lugoman]

Ran 12 man LN shroud 3/30 midday US central time on Cannith. Overall much improved, still a few game stopping moments but very doable.

pt 1: 2 post move type of game stopping moments and the traditional lag when approaching the chests.
pt 2: 2 brief game stopping moments, 1 at the start and 1 when 4 bosses killed
pt 3: No lag as usual
pt 4: Game stopped a few seconds when harry killed
pt 5: Game stopped a few seconds when book killed

[Micki]

Orien 7 man EN Defiler at 10pm gtm+2 today, was a bit choppy with on off slow downs, but I didn't experience any freeze ups. Of course, I don't really feel this was a proper test as we didn't have a full party, nor did we run at a highly active time of the day.

[Krumm]

Why is this thread titled "Game Performance Improvements and Feedback"?

Shouldn't it be titled "Feedback to Turbine's Attempts to Fix Crippling Game Lag"?


All kidding aside... I gave up on raids and am back on the TR treadmill...

With all the bugs & issues in this game, now we add raid crippling lag (actually, I guess lag isn't "new").
I can't believe I'm still playing... but... perhaps this new lag problem will be what I need to give up my DDO addiction.


Love this game but it's testing my...

[hp1055cm]

Thelanis: Level 15 Sorc
Gianthold level 13 quests on HE: Feast, Trial, Maze, FOD (4-5 man party)
Stormreach II Level 13 HE: Summerfield, Blockade Buster (Solo with Hire)

Sporadic choppy lag, some brief rubber-banding. Nothing to cause death or wipes but still annoying.
Completed quest despite lag because frankly these quests are not all that challenging.
Slight delay when switching gear at times.


I adjusted my graphics setting to "Low" and turned off all combat feedback, and turned off mob HP bar, mob signals and some other stuff. Seemed to help a little at beginning of day but as I kept playing I decided it wasn't making any impact on the lag I was having, or a very minimal impact.

[Kza]

Did for an hour ago a legendary normal shroud run on Khyber.

Me on groljer cleric15fighter4wizard1epic6+11 more (full raid party)

No lag at all (except normal loot/chest lag in p1). No attacks missing no spells just not failing. Lovely! :-)

Did for 16 hours ago (before server change today) a 12 man doj on hard that failed due to lag on Khyber. (Me on 30 favored soul)

Ran inside with 7 ppl on normal and finished it 20 min later, but even on 7 was lag still.


Its really big improvements, keep up work!

[ThomasHunter]

Finished Heroic Elite Von4.

Upon finishing out into House K, got some serious lag trying to get to the quest giver and the bank and finally to our guild ship. I logged for the night as it was quite horrible.

Keeping my VIP, just bummed. I know you guys are frustrated. Hope it gets fixed soon!

[FestusHood]

Anything that causes a gear recalc (UMD, guild level) gets lag. The reason guild level gets it is that the system has to check the gear of each person logged in in that guild when it levels because of those old guild augments. Because they still exist they can still cause stuttering.

It's not the guild leveling. It's those little bits of renown that the whole party gets when killing mobs sometime. Next time you play, watch for this. The amount of renown you get doesn't matter. How many people are in the party does, probably because everybody gets that award at the same time, regardless of what guild they are in. This is a new problem since the data center move.

It's not the only thing causing lag, but it's easy to reproduce, far as i can tell it happens every time.

[Enoach]

Well, since Jerry ignores any tough questions on his silly twitch stream .... I will tell you ... they will give notice at midnight about being down tomorrow ... and the next day, and the next day ... and then smile and laugh and ignore how they have killed their game ... good work. I am surprise you all havent been banned for "complaining" about issues

You see when the postfor Tuesday's downtime stated they were making a change to two servers and a different change to two different servers I had already came to the conclusion that more reboots are coming. This is not a case of IF it is a case of WHEN.

I doubt Turbine staff are messing with the player base. But this is interesting as most people that jump to conclusions usually jump to conclusion based on how they would handle it... some food for thought

[Powerhungry]

attempted EN DoJ
Argo
8:30 pm CST
12 man party
players from across US
couldn't move past the starting area - totally lag frozen.
2 attempts both the same result

[Qhualor]

Khyber

about 5:30 to 9:30 pm east coast

level 18 rogue/fighter/wiz Deep Gnome banking 19

packet loss stayed around .01 to .02% running Lords of Stone and LOD chain until around halfway through Rift. packet loss jumped to 12%.

ran Wheloon 4 quest chain and it was typical old Wheloon lag. packet loss between 5 and 10%.

it was near perfect and lag free until Rift, except the brief boss freeze in each quest. don't know what it is for me, but the first couple hours last 2 days its awesome than it starts to get a little laggy. definitely playable though. my experience with lag seems to be getting better and better and have noticed improvements significantly. its like we are "this" close.

[Sam1313]

If you are continuing to see poor in-game performance, then any information you can provide is helpful.

1. Server - Cannith
2. Approximate Time 7:15 to 11:00 pm EST.
3. Approximate location of your computer (East Cost, London, Tokyo, on a boat in the Pacific, alternate reality x87, etc.) - Lafayette, Indiana (Midwest)
4. Quests/raids run - Let Sleeping Dust Lie, Rainbow in the Dark, Ritual Sacrifice.
5. Difficulties run - All Elite.
6. Your character class - Paladin/Rogue/Ranger
7. Number of players in the group - 6
8. Anything else you think we should know - I think you should look into the Blur & Displacement on the monsters, I have noticed when I encounter monsters that have these active Lag occurs.
Also would like to note that some of the monsters spells like acid rain, Ice Storm persist even if the caster is snuffed out, and the damaging effects persist even after player character's lagdeath.

[Hesiodthepoet]

Started an ee CITW at aprox 10pm central time on Ghallanda.
Noticeable lag throughout
Sever spikes that lasted 5 seconds or more that almost wiped the party.
Numerous shorter spikes that caused rubberbanding, wasted abilities/potions and other minor frustrations.
Seemed to clear up a bit as time went by, but was also closer to midnight central time by then

[LightBear]

Ghallanda:
Noticing increased lag (as in game freezes) when opening chests.

[skorpeon]

Just going to use your template Sam
1. Server G-land
2. Approximate Time 8-10 pm GMT
3. Approximate location of your computer : Germany
4. Quests/raids run - house K level 5-6, Delera's chain
5. Difficulties run - All Elite.
6. Your character class - Warlock
7. Number of players in the group - 3
8. Issues: very slow opening quests and interacting with NPC's, rubber banding / stuttering thru most quests. No lag deaths. Over all quests were playable, seem to notice a lot of delay after firing my bursts at barrels and barrels busting.

Over all just adding time to completion time but this is heroics and would probably been a cake walk with out the new "special" (Lag) effects.

[JOTMON]

1. Server - Argo
2. Approximate Time 10:00 pm EST. March 30 2016.
3. Approximate location of your computer (Ontario Canada)
4. Quests/raids run - Legendary Shroud.
5. Difficulties run - Hard, then Normal
6. Your character class - Drow Warlock Soouleater Destiny
7. Number of players in the group - 11
8. Anything else you think we should know - Lag was so bad on Hard we tried to DDoor exit... took 30 seconds to click the door.. door disappeared before everyone could get out.., reset went in on Normal sporadic lag followed through to completion of Normal run.
Ran a Tempest spine about an hour earlier on Hard with no issues.