Guild Wars 2

Every day since Tuesday this has occured. Each time I load up GW2 there is terrible, unplayable lag. I redownload my graphics driver update every time and it works SOMETIMES after that. Other times I just have to wait for a few hours..I’ll go play something else without any issues and come back and the lag will be gone. It’s definitely not an internet connection issue. Not sure why it’s doing this but it’s been consistent every single day.

Anyone having this issue?

I’ve yet to receive any word on this issue and I’ve posted two topics…

Seriously? Anyone else?

Having to wait sounds suspicously like a connectivity issue to me. You monitored the ping lag?

If it’s for sure not connectivity, seems like a system issue. System overheating and downclocking is one thought. There’s tools to monitor such things – I don’t know what your hardware is, so I can’t say if your hardware supports downclocking under load.

Could be a lot of things not related to the game, which would have to be dismissed.

Of course it could be the game logic or their own server issues, but I think you realize that your issue is pretty unique to you.

It could be unique to him if there werent about a dozen people a day posting about having strange lag issues in this thread (myself included) https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Network-Lag/page/10#post437670 It’s pretty clear Anet borked something with the last update. I’ve had the random lag bug since last friday, started mid-session no less. People have reported different random things fixing it, but with the common theme, temporarily.

I feel your frustration Klazmaunt, it feels like Anet is ignoring this issue at the moment.

Define “lag”. Do you mean latency (clicking an action button does nothing for 1+ seconds) or visual lag (frame rates of <30)?

These are very different things with very different solutions.

Griim.5142:

Define “lag”. Do you mean latency (clicking an action button does nothing for 1+ seconds) or visual lag (frame rates of <30)?

These are very different things with very different solutions.

It would also help to know if you mean low frame rates or visual hitching.

Also do you ever see your character move, but the rest of the world and chat stop.

For my part, the last few patches have degraded the visual frame rate and sound quality. I have also had minor command lag, but its the lesser of the 3 problems. In the last 2-3 patches, I also have started seeing visual hitching, where the frame rate doesn’t drop, it just stops entirely for a period ranging from fractions of a second to a small number of seconds, usually under a second.

During the poor performance, rarely is my system working very hard, and my communication is generally fine. After the last patch around October 12, I started seeing fairly large CPU spikes sometimes on more than 4 CPUs.

The last patch introduced quite a few disconnects, or long-term loss of chat server and the world appeared to hang (i.e. I could move but the mobs and the world stopped).

I am experiencing the same thing. It feels like server lag. Click gives you no response. No drop in frame rates. Its happening to me on capricorn but after the build just now it is happening to every single map. Maybe the auth server is getting flooded with new logins. Not sure. Anyone have an IP list of the worlds I can tracert to when this happens?

I’m getting random terrible lag as well.
Every 10-15 minutes I’ll suddenly be unable to use my abilities, so I’ll be sitting there clicking my buttons for 20 seconds before everything suddenly catches up and all the buttons I hit go off at the same time.
At least that’s what happens when I don’t just dc outright.

This never happened to me before the last patch.

It’s everything from skill delay, movement delay, choppy movement, objects not rendering. I’ve never experienced chat delay.

FPS Drops to 5-11 and I normally run at 40-50 FPS.

Just happened again when I logged in for the first time today.

I posted another thread earlier but I’m running on an Alienware M17X Laptop. I never have issues with ANY other games, from Borderlands 2 to Skyrim. I always log in and test them when this happens to be sure it isn’t on my end system-wise and…I can assure you..it isn’t. I also try and go online with some games to test Ping and latency—not the issue. It is on ArenNet’s and we haven’t received word for about 2 weeks now.

Also: Thank you for the responses.

Lag has only been an issue for me once and that was on a big dragon kill (claw of jornag) had never seen anything like it before and have fought these dragons on a regular basis with as many people on it at the same time.
My problem is that I keep getting disconnected from the game at random intervals in the middle of battle, crafting, running around just get a connection to server lost and client resets.

I am also experiencing the “visual hitching” and random disconnects. These usually occur after long stall periods of “world” inaction as I run around waiting for spells to cast after as long as 3 to 5 seconds later. This has been happening since two nights ago after a “New Build” was installed…

I’ve also been experiencing random, intermittent lag (latency)…though in my case it may have to do with my connection, since it’s being a real kitten lately. There will be points where my character will just refuse to budge after standing in place too long (usually after coming back from alt-tabbing, though my connection in general doesn’t seem to be having issues at the time, and I can usually get back in to the game just fine if it ends up DC’ing me…), and also the usual skills not going off thing.