Spiral Knights - Lag spikes and random disconnections

Lag spikes and random disconnections

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Sat, 03/12/2011 - 10:06

Berol

Yeah, something has been different since the recent patch.

I'm getting these horrible lag spikes, at worst, every 3 seconds, and at best every 10 seconds.

So far it's only happened in an arena (beastly brawl ice), and in the first level of the jelly king set. I would just join a game and then a series of screen freezing would occur, followed by teleporting everything, eventually leading to death, and as a bonus, I get randomly disconnected as well if I'm lucky.

I've been able to play fine for an entire t3(gold crown?) run that took place between the times it happened. So maybe it's just those levels? Or is it people I'm playing with, costumes, weapons?

I've also been getting randomly disconnected usually right after I enter the next depth (10CE horribly wasted) or upon walking into the arcade (4 times in a row). BTW the random d/c has been happening before the March 11th patch, but it's gotten worse.

Is anyone having similar problems?

Sat, 03/12/2011 - 11:26

Espeonage

Recent, sudden lag spikes

I believe a friend of mine experienced a similar lag spike issue. He was saying over a Skype call, while it was happening, how he was starting lag horribly and all over the place, and his Blackhawk bullets were traveling at like .2 miles per hour. His said his connection indicator thing would constantly flicker between full and 1 bar.
He was fine on my screen; no anomalies on my side.

He sent a screencap of the bullets.

Sat, 03/12/2011 - 12:52

Berol

Woah, that's pretty cool, it

Woah, that's pretty cool, it makes me wonder if there would ever be flamethrower weapons of some sort.
Or maybe a laser gun that shoots through everything.
Hmm, grenade launchers...

I should check out those bars, if the lag decides to come back again.

But so far, I think the cause of the lag spike is a problem with the graphics.
Might have been something updated in the new patch.

Sat, 03/12/2011 - 13:21

Ynahteb

I've had a similar lag

I've had a similar lag problem. I posted about it here. My connection bar went from 4 bars shortly after the lag started, right down to 1 tiny red dot.

Sat, 03/12/2011 - 15:45

Njthug

Lag Spikes

Im still getting random lag spikes and my internet connection is perfect idk whats going on it happened all the sudden and its just annoying please find a solution to fix this problem

Sun, 03/13/2011 - 16:59

moonsoon

Legacy Username

I've been having the same

I've been having the same disconnect/freeze issues on going down the ele
It'll lock up at where it should be displaying the loading screen. I can still open up the options screen but the return to haven and exit buttons do nothing.
If i let it sit there long enough it'll eventually return me to the login screen with a lost server connection error but the down ele button and the names of the previous and next level will still be there
I have to then exit fullscreen and x out as the exit/login buttons on the main screen also don't work.
This has happened to me at least twice every day i've played for the last week/week and a half
If i wait for the server to disconnect me then when i restart/login again most the time it'll take me back to the level i was going to but w/o waiting back to haven and -10ce we go

Sun, 03/13/2011 - 23:15

Njthug

This might help

Go to your internet explorer, safari, firefox, google chrome, or which ever browser you use, and empty out the cache cookies and well everything else history etc, and then restart your internet and Spiral Knights =).

Worked for me....may work for you

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