Help me pinpoint the source of a lag-fest...

[DiabeticDude1]

Hey folks, recently bought DAOC (and all its expansions) but i have a most annoying problem: The game seems to be a constant lag fest, the FPS is fine (as my system completely OWNS the required spec), my controls are responsive, its just that players seem to 'warp' as opposed to walk. They walk a metre, warp a metre, walk a metre, etc. It even happens with quite a few NPCs.

I cannot for the life of me pinpoint this problem, i have opened the required ports on my firewall and allowed complete access to DAOC. I'm running on NTL 2mb broadband and was wondering if that could be the problem (that the ISP sucks...)

Thing is though, Everquest 2 seems to run fine, the only warping players are those with 56k connections.

Any ideas as to what my problem could be caused by?

 

[mirieth!]

are you behind a router? try disabling the router's firewall, opening ports on it etc. if so.

 

[DiabeticDude1]

are you behind a router? try disabling the router's firewall, opening ports on it etc. if so.

Not behind a router.

 

[Tilda]

Can you do a ping plotter, that could help narrow down or expose any lag in your con.

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Can you do a ping plotter, that could help narrow down or expose any lag in your con.

Ermm, sorry, what?

 

[Skaven]

http://www.pingplotter.com

 

[DiabeticDude1]

http://www.pingplotter.com

I assume thats what ya want *shrugs*.

Any help you could give would be great, cheers.

 

[Fenderon]

target the daoc-server you play on..

I can't recall the IPs.. but www.camelot-europe.com should do the trick.

 

[Darzil]

Servers are :

Prydwen 193.252.123.177
Excalibur 193.252.123.33
Camlann 193.252.123.147

Also worth showing errors in the plot. I've not got my pingplotter in front of me, so can't say exactly how to do it. I find the errors are often key to the performance.

Darzil

 

[DiabeticDude1]

I'm seriously at a loss now folks, i just cannot see where the problem stems from

You have gotta be able to shed some light on the issue.

Ping statistics for 193.252.123.33:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 49ms, Average = 33ms

Thats when i pinged the server. This is pingplotter

 

[Belomar]

Those pingplots look perfectly fine; you should not be having this problem.

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Those pingplots look perfectly fine; you should not be having this problem.

God dammit! Damned lag

Hmmm, so anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing it?

 

[Ttillub]

If you have software firewall it maybe not working properly.

I once had Panda and it had lag problems. Not that often though, maybe once a minute or so. Test shortly without or with some other firewall if possible.

Then of course disk space could be a problem but I guess you have plenty free?

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Firewall is fine, as is disk-space.

I really can't see what could be the problem!

 

[Skaven]

Haven't got any anti-virus software runining in the background have you? Or anything else that could randomly cause lag.

Try leaving pingplotter on for a while as well and try and catch it when you get this lag. Hopefully it'll record it.

 

[Darzil]

Impressed by Telewest last night.

Was getting horrible lag. Ran pingplotter. Saw it was horrible. They fixed it 30 minutes later, before I even reported it.

Darzil

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Impressed by Telewest last night.

Was getting horrible lag. Ran pingplotter. Saw it was horrible. They fixed it 30 minutes later, before I even reported it.

Darzil

Ok, i'll disable my Anti Virus (allthough its almost definately network lag not PC lag) and will also run Pingplotter whilst playing.

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Ok, i'll disable my Anti Virus (allthough its almost definately network lag not PC lag) and will also run Pingplotter whilst playing.

Disabled all my Anti-virus software, ran PingPlotter to the Excaliber server and played, still players were warping around instead of moving normally.

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/2467/ping42ls.png

 

[DiabeticDude1]

Ok, i replaced my USB cable with an Ethernet one, and now lag is like 50% better, players still warp but they don't seem to warp as bad, when they turn though they completely disapear and re-appear 1 second later facing the direction they were turning...

Can anyone offer any other suggestions? Like some tweaks with my network connections, etc.

 

[DiabeticDude1]

C'mon now folks, someone must know whats going on?

I'm only seeing OTHER PLAYERS lagging, i move as smooth as anything.