Increasing issues with lag (NA/EU servers)Follow

Just wondering if anyone else is having these issues? It's not severe, but my log and the animations on Primal fights is updating slowly and I'm dying and looking like a fool. I know full well how the Ifrit fight goes as well as the other dungeons where I'm having issues, but every now and then I get nailed by something that I avoid the second I get a log or visual notification and then I'm dead.

The biggest problem for me is when I raise it moves you to the casters position so I wait until a move happens before clicking ok, but when I do raise it's not always where the healer is and usually even if it's in the clear I die again anyway.

I've been doing a modem reset every time this happens and I'll get a round or two of trouble free DF instance and then it's back to the way it was. I have a pretty good 30mbps connection and my ping isn't terrible to the data center whenever I check it.

Any tips or people stating they have the same issues would be appreciated.

been having lag issues for the past 2 weeks. its getting really bad, and now i'm seeing more and more people in DF experiencing it too.

It could be that the DF servers are getting swamped again. Maybe they need to divide it down some more.

I'm under the impression that when it comes to lag, there's a difference between lag from your connection and lag caused by your computer.

Typically, if you are able to move around screen and turn the camera without problems, but it says you're out of range even when next to the mob, or you party looks like it's standing still, or you're still hit by a monster even when you moved out of the circle ages ago, these are generally indications of network lag.

If you video stutters when you're in crowded areas, or during large effects animations, or even eventually disconnect from being stalled out, these all indicate your machine is not processing the data fast enough and you're running into hardware limitations.

In my years of playing MMOs most people I hear complaining about lag are probably experiencing lag because they don't have a fast enough machine, or they're running too many other processes on their machines. The next biggest culprit in my experience seems to be having a crappy local ISP, or physical connection issues outside your home.

Once I lived in a house that had really awful internet service, and it wasn't until after years of repeated service calls, and eventually switching to a new ISP, that the new cable guy physically inspected the wiring and fixed it.

I've been getting lag in and out, I'm in NA but i'm on an EU server. I'll guess I'll need to switch once they have world transfer active.

That's the odd thing, I've never had issues with the larger Fates at all. The only one I haven't done is Odin or Behemoth but the other biggies I haven't had a single issue. Both my machines are running at 40+ FPS (desktop is running at 60, and that's where I have most of my issues and it's hard wired). I seem to have less lag on my laptop which is on wifi, but I also usually am on my desktop at peak times so I'm going to guess the DF being overloaded and my location (east coast) is the problem?

This issue didn't start until the last maint or roughly around that time frame.

I'm thinking this. Although to be quite honest, I'm adverse to splitting the DF groupings even more...it might become a little rough on queue times the smaller the potential pool of players is.

EDIT: Was helping fellow players with story mode Titan and the lag was definitely noticeable. Yeah, those DF servers must need new hamsters already...too bad we gotta wait until Thursday!


Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 9:59pm by Arcari

All the instances share servers... No lag tonight, it's mainly been Fri to Sun so the previous guess of DF server load seems most reasonable

WoW latency fix?
What that?

My friend and I are playing from EU (germany) and just got WAR and SCH to 34.
We have a really hard time with the endboss of Brayflox's.
We've done the dungeon many times and know what to do there but it doesn't matter how fast he's moving out of breath he will always get hit.
Only way to avoid it is to move nonstop which makes things incredible hard for the DDs.

We talked to some other tanks that are playing from EU and all said it is almost impossible to tank from here because of the lag/bad ping problem.

I don't know if it's the server location, the server or both but seeing that Brayflox's is just the beginning of the "real" dungeons I don't think it is enjoyable to play a tanks class for us right now.

I'm not really sure if the Brayflox Dragon is because of latency though. His skill simply fires off incredibly fast regardless.
There is the whole point of "I swear i was out of AoE by a mile when it went off and still got hit" thing though, but that's more because your location isnt updated by the server frequently enough.

I did notice it while stunning. If you stun something at 70~80% charge, it's simply going to go off most of the time regardless. But i wrote that off as a simple timing thing.

That all aside, surely SE can program something that checks a hit/miss client-side instead. That shouldnt be hard. It sounds like a simple check:

Server >> Hey this move is going off, are you out of the AoE? 
Client >> Not standing in it! 
Server >> Ok! Miss!

Easy...

Nope there's no EU datacentre - the servers designated EU are simply ones they picked to direct EU players to if they wanted a server where there was more population around during their prime time... all the EU and NA worlds are on the same datacentre in Canada.

We struggled with Brayflox as well - husband was tanking him and running into issues - in the end we beat it with a WAR PLD MNK SCH setup because it was the only way to get through with the jobs we had available!

My computer scored nearly 12000 on the benchmark and this still happens to me. It will happen to me and not my wife, or my wife and not me, during the same battle or dungeon. It happens much more often in instances than out in the world too.

It doesn't matter when the issue is server side. Doesn't matter if your PC benchmarked 20,000.

Edit: I always know when famfrit is full.. I will lag to oblivion then get 90k errors and then get tossed into a queue. When I'm finally in game, the lag is horrible to point where I have no choice but the log out.

Edited, Sep 24th 2013 2:20pm by TwilightSkye