Guild Wars 2

Hi All – Over the past few days at least, I’ve had very frequent and very bad lag spikes (Ping = ~2,000ms). The game is basically unplayable. I’m just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

I just upgraded the gpu, cpu, and mobo on my pc…I don’t see how that could be the cause but unless it’s a server-side problem I don’t know what else it could be. But, results are coming back fine on internetspeedtest and pingtest even to servers in WA (where Anet is). Also double-checked that GW2 is still set to be allowed through the firewall. And the problem didn’t necessarily start right after the upgrade – what w/ the holidays and such I hadn’t played for at least a week before I upgraded.

I basically did this upgrade to take better advantage of the amazing graphics in GW2, so this has been pretty disappointing lol. If anyone has any thoughts I would certainly appreciate it; thanks.

It has started a couple of days ago for me as well. I even tried droping the graphics to barelow min and it still has huge lag…. It almost sounds as if there is something wrong with the sound.

Just wondering if this ever cleared for you. I’m in the same boat – lags started about 7 days ago. Guess I’ll contact my ISP but game is unplayable.

After reading this https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/38813526-Common-Error-Codes , I added Inbound and Outbound firewall rules to my computer. "Guild Wars 2 requires TCP ports 80, 443, and 6112 to be fully unrestricted and accessible, both inbound and outbound. "

That seemed to have worked. About 7 days ago, my Win10 computer added Cortana? Whatever that is.. But I bet the upgrade messed up my firewall settings.

See if this helps you too.