The latest on lag and game performance improvements

[Eryhn]

BUMP - cause *guess what*

very sluggish gameplay over the last 5 or so hours.

very laggy EE peaks

somewhat laggy EN TS

30 sec whole party frozen at end of EN defiler

lotsa little stutters and **** throughout quests before raids, both solo and in group



this was not the renown type lag but felt like the usual pre server move.

[Ebondevil]

this was not the renown type lag but felt like the usual pre server move.

If only things were that good, I miss those days, where I could play quests back to back for hours on end...

Now I'm lucky if I can get through more than one quest before the lag gets unbearable.

This afternoon I got most of Korthos complete on a new character, that wasn't that bad. no real isues.

I managed 3 later this evening: Misery's Peak, Where There's Smoke, and The Captives

By the end of the third quest (The Captives) trying to turn that in and get the end reward lists was horrendous, just gave a blank window for a few minutes, then slowly generated one piece of loot for the list every 5-10 seconds...

Maybe the New Random loot creation for End lists is generating lag?

[Duana]

Yesterday sucked for lag.

Required NPC's disappeared/reappeared in quest. Took us forever to gather them all up and get them where they were supposed to go. I had them adnw as running down the hallway, party member saw them running after me, at first two, then one, then none. They just disappeared. I would turn around and head back to get them and they would reappear again.

Missed hits.

Freeze ups, hitches, spikes, and snap backs.

Stuck loading screens.

Inop loading screens (finish quest, red bar does it's thing, no teleport).

Doorways, NPC's, chests, items, not clickable.

Definitely a step back this weekend in the lag department.

[DagazUlf]

Definitely a step back this weekend in the lag department.

I'd say since around Wednesday night.

[AzureDragonas]

Sarlona right now, lagging in necro4 last 5 minutes entire group not able to move even after death. fixed itlsef after and from other location ppl was not lagging <Inferno of the Damned>

[ValariusK]

ORIEN, 6/3, after about 8 pm pacific
Ran LHoX, LH , DOJ EH, and FoTP EH
No significant lag in any of the 3. Lag didn't really enter the raid conversations.
Had serious lag prior to that though, although it was on my side (reset of router and cable fixed it).

[Ebondevil]

I stopped looting chests or taking the end rewards on Orien today (usually play on Khyber but Orien for reasons)

Ran through the majority of Harbour quests and a few of the marketplace quests, a more lag free session I've not had in ages...

Only really suffered one bit of lag when I moved from harbour to market, but that was short.

Quite a change from yesterday.

[Tzenareth]

Running solo quests on Cannith and Wayfinder. Running group quests on Wayfinder. Since late Thursday night, 6-2-2016, i have had god-awful lag.
Logged onto Cannith this morning (6-4-2016) around 6 AM, ran one quest solo, was able to complete it, but did not enjoy the experience. I noticed that the sound channels were reversed, left to right, and vice versa. This experience reminded me heavily of the lag back in the middle of March. Totally unplayable for me.
I switched to Wayfinder, and was sorting through my toons, organizing storage while I was unable to play. Around 9 AM, I suddenly noticed that the lag was gone almost entirely, and that the sound had somehow gotten fixed. Went back to Cannith and did some explorers and two quests on Sorrowdusk with minimal lag until about 11 AM, when I started getting normal amounts of lag.
Wayfinder, 5:30 PM. Did some slayers in Gianthold, then went back to doing favor runs in House Kundarak. Again, extremely bad lag, sound channels were reversed again.
If it is still this bad when my regular group gets together at 9 PM, I will not be able to play. I am once again getting extremely frustrated with the game playing experience

[Ebondevil]

I stopped looting chests or taking the end rewards on Orien today (usually play on Khyber but Orien for reasons)

Ran through the majority of Harbour quests and a few of the marketplace quests, a more lag free session I've not had in ages...

Only really suffered one bit of lag when I moved from harbour to market, but that was short.

Quite a change from yesterday.

Following this line of thought I poked around on Argonessen & Sarlona last night and Cannith this afternoon, all were pretty laggy even ignoring chests/ end loot...

[Ebondevil]

1. Server: Khyber
2. Approximate time: 17:30 GMT
3. General class makeup and group composition: FVS/Epic 20/4 + Artificer/Epic 20/4
4. Size of party/raid group: 2
5. Quest or raid run: Epic Hard Devil Assault
6. General experience:

Ran the quest last night without any noticable lag issues, other than the usual mobs hitting when they are nowhere near me which I've come to expect. Ran it this afternoon with the Favoured Soul inside the room, everything was fine until the boss between wave 3 and 4, the arrival of the boss caused a bit of lag but it cleared up, then at the start of wave 4 it became almost constant during combat, it was highly stuttering lag and I was able to move about half an inch at a time, I was barely able to heal by spamming the buttons for heals but due to the nature of the quest and being unable to move reliably I died very quickly.

The Artificer was sitting outside the door, and mobs would teleport through the door to attack him, others were casting spells through the door to damage him as well.

[AnEvenNewerNoob]

1. Server: Cannith
2. Approximate time: 7pm EST
3. General class makeup and group composition: Level 30 barbarian
4. Size of party/raid group: 1
5. Quest or raid run: elite shadow crypt
6. General experience:

Doing favor cleanup and trinket upgrade was running this solo. When the boss (or one of the wraiths right before the boss) cast FLAMING SPHERE, I instantly had crippling stuttering/stopping etc. It was not a graphics issue, it persisted when the sphere was not on screen. Was getting a chain of "save save save" when I was near the sphere. When the sphere duration ended, the lag ended. This was the first problem I have had in several weeks on Cannith (other than the usual). But this was like the freeze ups right after the data center move.

[Natashaelle]

Extreme degree of lag this morning since what would be 1:55 AM local Massachussetts clock time, both G-Land and Wayfinder, making the game completely unplayable. Even PC/gate interactions or weapon set changes in the public area require several attempts to achieve.

I am frequently getting lag zones, and have been for 2 months and more, lasting 20 seconds or more, during which time my toon can do nothing except move and show attack animations with no effect at all. This behaviour goes away somewhat after sever restarts etc, then gradually returns over a period of days. This morning is the worst lag I've seen in literally years.

[Livmo]

Extreme degree of lag this morning since what would be 1:55 AM local Massachussetts clock time, both G-Land and Wayfinder, making the game completely unplayable. Even PC/gate interactions or weapon set changes in the public area require several attempts to achieve.

I am frequently getting lag zones, and have been for 2 months and more, lasting 20 seconds or more, during which time my toon can do nothing except move and show attack animations with no effect at all. This behaviour goes away somewhat after sever restarts etc, then gradually returns over a period of days. This morning is the worst lag I've seen in literally years.

We failed Legendary Shoud in part 1 due to lag and we only had 8 people in the party.

On Tuesday night I was in a 3 person party at 7:17pm PST in GH Trial by Fire and we started rubber banding like crazy and party wiped. Ranger, Monk, and Warlock L27-30. I was too tired on Tues to find thread and post.

We are now suffering a bunch of ghost LFMs on Sarlona as well.

Server restart?

[SilkofDrasnia]

Frankly guys it's not going to get any better. See the writing on the wall.


Was a good run though.

[dontmater]

Frankly guys it's not going to get any better. See the writing on the wall.


Was a good run though.

it WAS getting better until some brilliant people turned on cove........

[Tzenareth]

From about 12-26 June: The game was playable
27 June 2016: Noticeable lag
28 June 2016: Bad lag
29 June 2016: Unplayable lag. Movement in all areas, public and quest, is slow, choppy, and very slow to turn. The AI pathing got noticeably worse as time progressed. I can count on having sound problems as soon as I encounter something. Sound channels on my headphones immediately swap from left to right and vice versa. Targeting is very slow and non-responsive. With Precise Shot active and a target selected, after one shot I find myself firing at a different target almost every single time something crosses my line of sight, either an enemy, hireling, companion, or pet. The problems get worse the longer I play. After one quest, it has gotten so bad that I have to quit the game, and restart the game client in order to play at all. I have not even attempted to play in a party since 29 June. I have made attempts daily to play solo and gotten frustrated every single time since 29 June 2016.
14 July 2016, After Server Restart: No difference

Servers played on: Cannith, Thelanis, Wayfinder
Quests, Wilderness Areas
Solo

After being unable to play DDO, I started noticing problems that were totally unconnected with DDO on my computer. Finding the cause of those problems has led to a drastic improvement of gameplay in DDO.
Please note that I would be quite willing to vote for a repeal of the ban on nuclear weapons testing if the proposed site of said test were to be Redmond, Washington.

[carju1]

Bad lag (both latency and loss) Thursday after the update and today Sat 23rd tried twice for FOtP raid both times at least 4 of the group were completely laaged out during it and then even 3BC and the fire caves dungeon 2 of our party of 4 were at 3000 latency and upto 40% loss at times. Dont know what you did in the update but you have made it unplayable for some of us not better.