The LAG.

[TheWayMan]

Just started playing, bought a month subscription for me and my wife, can't even enjoy the game. It LAGS BAD, so bad when we click on things it wont let you... this in dungeons we just randomly die lol.
Please, I will keep giving you money I just started playing this game is amazing just fix the servers so I can at least play.

[songswrath]

it's the snow event whe ni goes away it will get better not by much but will lol.

[Tyrande]

Just started playing, bought a month subscription for me and my wife, can't even enjoy the game. It LAGS BAD, so bad when we click on things it wont let you... this in dungeons we just randomly die lol.
Please, I will keep giving you money I just started playing this game is amazing just fix the servers so I can at least play.

Welcome and which server environment?

I played on Sarlona and Orien on US Eastern main time (4pm -> 10:30pm US EST) and its fine. Last time I played on HC and Wayfinder and they were fine.

I heard bad things about Ghallanda so I would avoid there. I also heard alot of Khyber hardware issues and I would avoid there too.

Argonessen occasional lags but I never played on there.

[Scrag]

Welcome and which server environment?

I played on Sarlona and Orien on US Eastern main time (4pm -> 10:30pm US EST) and its fine. Last time I played on HC and Wayfinder and they were fine.

I heard bad things about Ghallanda so I would avoid there. I also heard alot of Khyber hardware issues and I would avoid there too.

Argonessen occasional lags but I never played on there.

I am on sarlona, and i get lag pretty horribly in towns, and occasionally dungeons where i hope my cleric hireling keeps me alive. Cleric hirelings all the way?

[Tyrande]

I am on sarlona, and i get lag pretty horribly in towns, and occasionally dungeons where i hope my cleric hireling keeps me alive. Cleric hirelings all the way?

Are you using wireless? Try a direct wired connection to see if its better.

Also, after logging in, bring up the network status icon. Check if its green and check the network latency. If its greater than 60ms and there is a network packet% loss, you need to fix your connection.

Using [ESC] to bring up the menu. From the menu select [OPTIONS] and then go to [UI Settings]. Type "network" in the search bar and that will show your DDO in game connection status.

[TheWayMan]

Are you using wireless? Try a direct wired connection to see if its better.

Also, after logging in, bring up the network status icon. Check if its green and check the network latency. If its greater than 60ms and there is a network packet% loss, you need to fix your connection.

Using [ESC] to bring up the menu. From the menu select [OPTIONS] and then go to [UI Settings]. Type "network" in the search bar and that will show your DDO in game connection status.

The youtuber I watch talks about the lag a lot, he said it should be number 1 priority for them to fix. Take for granted a some people might have zero problems and expereince no lag, but the majority of the community from what I have been reading and looking at online expereince a lot of lag. Strimtom talked about it, when they did a roadmap.

[KoobTheProud]

The last couple of days the lag on Khyber has been pretty bad. This is on a 2nd life character at low level.

My presumption is that this has been due to the last couple of days of HCL and lots of people jumping on there to finish up.

However I feel obligated to point out that new players would never know what the cause of the excessive lag was and would just assume that DDO was an old laggy game. Those new players probably having a increased chance to jump ship as a result.

I get that HCL is important to the bottom line but when you allow it to have this type of impact on other servers you are essentially eating your children.

[Scrag]

Are you using wireless? Try a direct wired connection to see if its better.

Also, after logging in, bring up the network status icon. Check if its green and check the network latency. If its greater than 60ms and there is a network packet% loss, you need to fix your connection.

Using [ESC] to bring up the menu. From the menu select [OPTIONS] and then go to [UI Settings]. Type "network" in the search bar and that will show your DDO in game connection status.

So a day of playing on and off, and my latency never really got above 18ms. Load on my box is also low, with more than 25% unallocated memory (hard, not fake cache) at all times, and low process use.

Of all the processes on the box, ddo takes up the vast majority of resources. 35 chrome tabs takes 700M of ram. DDO takes up.... 2.4G. Lag is unpredictable, and can occur in quests sometimes (resulting in me hoping my hireling keeps me alive...), but very frequently when there are a lot of people in say, tanaroa. Getting close to a pack of 5 or 6 players in one concentrated area in a town is a guaranteed trigger for lag.

[TheWayMan]

So a day of playing on and off, and my latency never really got above 18ms. Load on my box is also low, with more than 25% unallocated memory (hard, not fake cache) at all times, and low process use.

Of all the processes on the box, ddo takes up the vast majority of resources. 35 chrome tabs takes 700M of ram. DDO takes up.... 2.4G. Lag is unpredictable, and can occur in quests sometimes (resulting in me hoping my hireling keeps me alive...), but very frequently when there are a lot of people in say, tanaroa. Getting close to a pack of 5 or 6 players in one concentrated area in a town is a guaranteed trigger for lag.

Good stats, I wish I was lucky enough to not have lag pretty much 90% of the time. What happens to me is in dungeons I run up to a mob and then all the sudden they freeze then its a 50/50 chance either I am dead and or everyone else is dead.

[KoobTheProud]

So a day of playing on and off, and my latency never really got above 18ms. Load on my box is also low, with more than 25% unallocated memory (hard, not fake cache) at all times, and low process use.

Of all the processes on the box, ddo takes up the vast majority of resources. 35 chrome tabs takes 700M of ram. DDO takes up.... 2.4G. Lag is unpredictable, and can occur in quests sometimes (resulting in me hoping my hireling keeps me alive...), but very frequently when there are a lot of people in say, tanaroa. Getting close to a pack of 5 or 6 players in one concentrated area in a town is a guaranteed trigger for lag.

Log out every couple of hours and back on. This will clear any memory leaks in the DDO app. Those leaks are nowhere near as bad as they used to be but you will still find your client taking up more memory than it should from time to time.

I have the CPU software that I use clear memory at every gaming app launch. With most games I get a few dozen to a few hundred MB back at launch and it so informs me. With DDO I get anywhere from a few dozen to a couple of GB back and this depends on what character I am running and where I am in the restart sequence. If I was playing an end-game toon and I log out and close the client and then launch it again I will see 1.8-2.2 GB in the notification as I launch DDO. If I am playing a first life character I will see a few dozen to maybe 300 MB tops.

What I am saying is that not all characters have the same overhead.