For 2 days now I'm having issues with my Ping. It's not a complete disaster, but it is somewhat at an annoying level for most MMORPG's. For SK though it already seems to completely destroy my ability to play the game. Nearing monsters ends up in me seeing flashes of what is actually going on and eventually me being dead all out of the sudden.

Why is Spiral Knights so easily affected by Ping?

Update: A list of things that bother me with Ping issues

• Switching between weapons is delayed or reverses + re-reverses randomly a few seconds after the switch

Alright so my brother tried to log on to his newly-created account and it gave him the error "You cannot create any more free accounts from this computer." Apparently the game (or server, I wouldn't know) logs which accounts have logged-on from a certain system and assumes that every account accessed from said system pertains to the same human being.

Drivers all updated, Java is current. ubuntu 10.10, GeForce 9500 GT.

Verbose output, on the off chance anyone is bored:

arya@sunspear:~$ ./spiral/spiral -verbose
[Opened /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loaded java.lang.Object from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loaded java.io.Serializable from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loaded java.lang.Comparable from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loaded java.lang.CharSequence from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar]

Followed all the isntrucions perfectly, but in the webpage the game stays on 100% and does nothing... the client game does nothing either.

i have windows 7.

When trying to log on to the Spiral Knights wiki I keep getting the message that there has been an error due to an incorrect password entered. I have double-checked my log-in and password via the mailing system and made sure everything is entered correctly. Still nothing.

Any ideas what could be the cause of this?

a note: I have only created my account several hours ago, could it be that it needs more time to overall validate my account info internally?

I'm not sure if it's just my computer or not, but everytime i try to download the installer for spiral knights, it will stop somewhere before 10%. it doesn;t really do anything though, it just says it's downloading when it isn't. I've had the download up for ages and it won't change. anyone know what's going on? i really want to play :(

Just to let you know:

- Graphics: 64mb Video Memory. GeForce 4 series, ATI Radeon 8500. Latest video driver.

The bottom-of-the-4 series, the MX 420, does not give good performance :-).

(Checking to see if NVidia has a newer driver than Microsoft...)

The past few days, the game's been running fine. I try to run it today, and it won't boot up. I get the "now loading" mouse cursor for about a fourth of a second, then nothing. If I try running the game from the site, it instantly shuts down my browser without so much as a trace of the game itself.

Java's fully updated, graphics drives are updated, tried restarting my computer twice, and there's no firewall issue. I easily meet the minimum requirements as I played fine the past several days and fought Vanaduke fine as well.

my head and weapons show up, but I have no body.

Attempting to install on a windows XP SP 3 machine, onto a network drive exported from a Mac 10.5.8 system. (Standard, samba/"windows compatible" file sharing). Drive was mounted as a drive letter on windows.

After running the installer, the "Play Spiral Knights.lnk" was started, with a warning about running unknown programs from the internet. Saying yes, it ran.

Downloading control files (normal)
Spiral knights image (normal)

Then an error message about a file being locked by another program.