Guild Wars 2

I’ve officially done everything I could from my side to make sure that I’m not responsible for this issue.
- I’ve checked my internet speed, and it is consistent
- I’ve monitored my ping, and it is consistent (and thanks to Battleping, acceptably low. Without it, this game would be much less fun to play)
- I’ve had my ISP check packet loss, there is none.
- I’ve contacted Anet support, used their support tools, and everything has come up clean.
- My computer is more than powerful enough to run the game (especially at the settings I’m running it at. Short version: SSD, 6990+6970 in crossfire, I7 overclocked stable to 4.8ghz, 16g ddr3 ram)

But various times today, I’ve been hit with random .2-.5s lag. I’ve watched myself die while absolutely spamming Withdraw or Roll for Initiative. I’ve watched skills fail to fire for half a second, completely randomly.

This has been an issue since July – I can’t be the only person experiencing this, the servers have to be at fault. For a game that places such a high value on positioning, timing, and free firing skills, this seems unacceptable to me.

When are these issues going to be addressed?

Update your graphic card, sometimes its the graphic card that cause the lag because it is not updated, Also check if it is FPS lag if it is than its definitely Graphic card problem that needs to be updated. if you only had lag today than its server lag because i had lag spikes for 2-3 minutes every 1 hour or so…

your title reminded me a little of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y&t=4m25s

Every update, people get lag spikes out of nowhere for a variety of different reasons. Best place to take this is the tech support forum, which can probably help a whole lot more than the sPVP forum.

you are not alone:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Lags

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Update your graphic card, sometimes its the graphic card that cause the lag because it is not updated, Also check if it is FPS lag if it is than its definitely Graphic card problem that needs to be updated. if you only had lag today than its server lag because i had lag spikes for 2-3 minutes every 1 hour or so…

it really doesn’t sound like he’s getting video lag

@Blood
- You might have noticed my initial post pointed out that I’ve gone through ANet’s support options. Though they genuinely tried to be helpful, it did not resolve my issue. In addition, this in the sPvP forum because I’m experienced the issue in Hot Join (All I do is PvP, so its possible I’d also be having an issue in PvE, but that’s beside the point). As i mentioned, this game is all about the combat style – timing and positioning are key, and when there is random lag, you can’t do either of those effectively. The lag is ruining my ability to play. I refuse to even try Solo arena until this is fixed – it’s annoying to lose a fight/game in hotjoin because of lag, but I’ll get over it. I’m not losing arena matches because ANet’s servers/patches are garbage.

@Super
- Thanks for the suggestion, but my drivers are up to date (I’ve even tried rolling back a version in case the newest drivers had issues, which is sometimes the case)

@Syndarin
- Thanks for sounding off. Hopefully some others will point out their having issues to and Anet will respond? I mean, I know we’re not their PAX tourney team, so we don’t technically rate, but it’d be nice to try and squeeze what enjoyment I can from the current meta before their new patch screws up everything even worse.