For the last week I have had trouble staying in game I get apparent lag, mobs stop hitting me I stop hitting them, none ot the buttons work, and my modem will croak and reboot.
I reformated my comp. to origional and reinstalled my graphics card, soundblaster, etc. updated all drivers and I am still having the same problem. Thought maybe I got a virus, worm, etc.
I thought the game was just having its own serverside lag but when I ooc its just me and not even during peek times. Sometimes I don't lose the connection it will restabalize but it seems to be getting worse.
Is there a way to see if my cable modem is done for or to check if my cable may be getting a poor signal. I have never had any problems like this until recently the game ran great. I have an old 4100 Motorola Surfboard that I got when I had cable installed.
I would give you all my system specs but like I said I haven't had any lag trouble or other trouble, slight lag in south , north queynos but nothing like this.
Pretty sure its not the game but on my end I just don't want to go nuts buying a new modem, comp. , cable company etc. Any ideas or suggestions. Frustrated Dwarf here ready to jump up and down on the modem.
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Scholar
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Hey man, I've been having the same issue. With me though, my wife's computer is right next to mine, sharing the same cable modem. Hers is fine, but mine does exactly what you describe every so often. Eventually, I determined that it only happened when I was in thundering steppes. I think somethings just plain wrong with that zone. Maybe your issue is something different, but try to see if there is some commonality in-game.
TS was the only place I was having the trouble but last night I had to log as the tradeskill instance was flat out undoable. Not sure if its just us I may get a new cable modem and see.
I've had no trouble whatsoever with the memory leaks, lag running around town or any of the other commonly cited sources of slowdown. However, if I'm in a tradeskill instance with a ton of other people, it gets lagged to the point of being undoable. What's worse, it's usually fine until halfway through a combine before the lag kicks in. When you armorcraft and one missed counter-effect can kill you (and, in my case, has killed you) or you can lose a bar of durability at a time without spamming the right buffs, it's pretty much just a quick route to a lot of frustration and high blood pressure.
Turning off spell effects messages and turning the sounds down to zilch doesn't seem to help. My only recourse has been to stock up on all materials from the tradeskill dungeon that sells them (the newb society, of course) and go over to the advanced, less crowded tradeskill dungeon to do the crafting. It takes up a lot of bag space and a fat chunk of venture capital, but it's the only workaround I've found.
I'm no techie, but based on the fact that everything else runs smoothly in the game and every other application, I have a hard time blaming my modem or anything on my end. I think it's all serverside.
Turning off spell effects messages and turning the sounds down to zilch doesn't seem to help. My only recourse has been to stock up on all materials from the tradeskill dungeon that sells them (the newb society, of course) and go over to the advanced, less crowded tradeskill dungeon to do the crafting. It takes up a lot of bag space and a fat chunk of venture capital, but it's the only workaround I've found.
I'm no techie, but based on the fact that everything else runs smoothly in the game and every other application, I have a hard time blaming my modem or anything on my end. I think it's all serverside.
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For the last week I have had trouble staying in game I get apparent lag, mobs stop hitting me I stop hitting them, none ot the buttons work, and my modem will croak and reboot.
This is exactly what happened to me on the last few days. When I was fighting in TS I occasionally got lag and cable modem reboot, but i'm fine everywhere else.
Happened to me in TS yesterday , I was kicking butt with a partner when all of a sudden the world stopped moving. I crashed , in trying to get back into game I noticed my internet was acting like it was down ( no homepage or anything) but my modem showed an active connection. I power cycled my router (linksys ), then had no problems logging back in and the issue seemed solved, no more crashing all night.
Ok I checked my cable signal coming into the house, excellent. Checked the cable signal coming into my modem, crap. I followed the cable line which was split in 4 places with absolute crap radio shack 1972 splitters, one end had an a/b switch on it. Well I pulled on the cable and it broke apart in about 4 places.
Replaced all my cable haven't had any trouble since. Have to give my Motorola Surfboard 4100 mad props for getting me any signal at all for 2 years unbelievable considering I was losing 90% of the signal and still never had any internet slowdowns.
Replaced all my cable haven't had any trouble since. Have to give my Motorola Surfboard 4100 mad props for getting me any signal at all for 2 years unbelievable considering I was losing 90% of the signal and still never had any internet slowdowns.
Scholar
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I agree with all who posted so far. It is more then likely not your modem. If it goes out.. it just.. stops working. It doesn't just work 1/2 the time. While I was in a giant group yesterday in Thunderring steppes, we had MULTIPLE times where the whole group would stop fighting.. sit there... and then restart fighting. It has to be the zone. I think you're fine. Especially since you reformatted/updated all the drivers.
Edit: lol a bad cable broken in 4 places could do that.. guess that didn't occur to me =p
Edited, Wed Jan 19 19:33:23 2005 by SteelGuard
Edit: lol a bad cable broken in 4 places could do that.. guess that didn't occur to me =p
Edited, Wed Jan 19 19:33:23 2005 by SteelGuard
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