So I've got full connection bars almost constantly, and 90% of the time, the game runs perfect. No lag, no rubber banding, deaths come from my own mistakes. But every so often, definitely more often when I'm in arenas or crowded rooms with lots of mobs, I end up flying across the room, (usually ending on spikes) and it's not always even the direction I meant to be heading. I've tried doing searches for this, but most of what I've found are people talking about constant lag and stuttering. Just wondering if you, my dear internet, have any light to shine on this?
Full bars, lag spikes
Thu, 11/24/2011 - 23:14
Fri, 11/25/2011 - 12:05
#2
AMd Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
AMd Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
3 gigs of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT
1791 Mb total available graphics memory
I feel if it was my computer, it'd be pretty obvious. I can stand around town with little to no lag. The issue is that I have absolutely no lag for the bulk of the time, but occasionally I'll have a one or two second period where everything looks right, still smooth movement and everything, but enemies stop moving. And when that spike is over, my client catches up to the rest of internet. It basically feels like occasionally, I get cut off from the server for a second or two.
Sun, 11/27/2011 - 00:33
#3
If its during peak hours, its
If its during peak hours, its probably the networks getting overloaded. The systems have been getting a little flaky during peak hours since last month (suspect it to be at least partially an Amazon issue), and with Holiday shopping now in fulls swing, theres no telling what else is gonna happen to the cloud.
But just for the stake of checking, you'll want to do a speed test during the hours that you usually play and off hours for a comparison. If it detects significant jitter and/or packetloss, it means your ISP oversold themselves. If your speed results are funky, you may even have a minor line issue.
These are among the better sites to use since it can do service quality testing instead of an ambiguous speed rating.
http://www.internet2.edu/performance/ndt/ndt-server-list.html
http://myspeed.visualware.com/index.php
It's your computer's fault. Your processor, GPU, and stuff cant handle all the moving objects(especially in crowded rooms like arenas and FSC) so it drops the FPS and makes you lag.
What are the specs of the computer you're using?