Guild Wars 2

I have the same issues since yesterday – 502 error in forums and huge lag spikes in all pve/pvp zones and instances.

Exactly the same problem as everyone else. After Wintersday I am having terrible lag. The skills activate 2 seconds after I press them. Yesterday I was getting 502 error when trying to load the gw2 forums. Arenanet, please do something

Yesterday evening after 21.00 I had a sudden lag that continued until I stopped trying to play around 22.00. I played earlier and experienced no lag. Since launch I had never lag like this. Trying to go on the forum showed me 502 errors. Skills and npc’s would activate and move after about 5 seconds if I didnt get an disconnection to the server.

Same, after last pach Lagging everywhere – dungeon, wvw, story quests and just running in the world starts to lag..Had no problems before..
Its starting to become very hard to play as u freez every secound our two..

I am also experiencing way more lag than usual since one of the Christmas patches. 10-30 second freezes and 2-second skill delay every 2-3 minutes have become a normal occurrence. I never had serious lag issues in GW2 before.

Just started getting a massive delay in game out of nowhere. It started since I began a FotM run and even after I’m out it has been continuing. It’s driving me crazy and I see nothing wrong on my end.

I’m on Crystal Desert if that makes any difference.

Yea today has been terrible for lag. Yesterday was flawless but when i signed on this morning it was fine at first. Then after about 10 min of gameplay the lag cuts in and doesn’t go away until i close and reopen the game.

Reporting the exact same issue as Shadowclc.2083

Had 2 days of flawless gameplay. Today it’s the same issue as 2 days ago.

Far Shiverpeaks, lags since wintersday patch

Same problem here, constant disconnects for certain periods. Today I disconnected about 6-7 times. Never had ANY disconnects before, not until recently around the end of December. I get error code:

7:11:3:189:101

Frustrating!

Game is not playable for me since yesterday. Got disconnects, huge latency, cant even cast spells. Something similar like 200 people in front of jormag few months ago.

Have terrible lags since the day before yesterday, also several disconnects.

since yesterday its unplayable … if im in LA or some PvE areas its as usual but when i go to WvW i cant even use skills or see enemies – what did u change?

I had trouble with this during the winter event. It went away when the event was disabled.

Yesterday, however, the problem returned. I played solo, without problems, from morning until about 4:30 PM, when I finally convinced my friends to play again after 2 months. As soon as they join me, MEGA HEAVY SUPER SPECIAL ULTRA DEATH LAG OF THE APOCALYPSE!! (REALLY cool, right? Invite friends back to a game, then having to ditch them because of lag and disconnects.)

The lag is NOT on my end, and the game is essentially unplayable due to heavy lag and constant disconnects, regardless of what I’m doing in-game.

kenvo.6704:

since yesterday its unplayable … if im in LA or some PvE areas its as usual but when i go to WvW i cant even use skills or see enemies – what did u change?

I got exactly same issue. Game was working fine till today.

What happened ? A lot of people can play without a problem and some random amount suddenly got unplayable WvW lags and cat get into it… Any answer on that matter ?

So much fun I caused 5 total wipes just now in TA, hooray for A-net tech support.

This lag seems to be occurring through this “Level3” Anet support told me to contact my ISP regarding that. However, it seems I’m not the only one with this issue. I assume level3 is a routing service that certain ISPs use?

Also posting on behalf of Level3 issue, traceroutes don’t show anything bad(except traffic routed through Level3), latency measured with ping is fine.

When traffic is low (lonely wvw area for example) the game runs fine, can cast spells as normally.

Getting close to a zerg the game starts lagging badly, to the point where I hear people on TeamSpeak saying the keep has been captured while I still see rams deployed on gates(~3-5 MINUTES of latency).

PS. My issue also appeared to happen about 2 days ago

I have same problem since 2 or 3 days ago.
At nights (GMT +1) and especially in WvW there are very lag spikes. Sometimes i am moving to tower and suddenly i come back , sometimes skills have 1 or 2 secs delay.

In pve or playing in mornings have no issues

I also have been having the lag issue since last Sunday evening when my computer froze completely in fractals and I had to hard reboot. Since then, whenever I am near a small group of players or large structure with a few NPC’s in WvWvW, I start to lag. If I am near a large group of players, I lag horribly and can’t see them even though I can see the red circles of death on the ground. By the time I am down on the ground begging for mercy, I may or may not see the closest 2 or 3 player’s legs stomping on my downed body. I also experience cracking/popping noise in high activity areas where everyone is shooting things every which way.

I have contacted Support and I was told to do a bunch of stuff on my end like trace route but no definitive answer yet. I had no issues until this weekend. At least I am glad to know that I am not the only one in this.

I too cannot complete “Forging the Pact” as I lag out. Tried it three times on different days.

kripes.3024:

I too cannot complete “Forging the Pact” as I lag out. Tried it three times on different days.

Same here on 7 attempts today. Very frustrating!

Qearuzajon.3504:

Today when i logged on i got some bad lags, some of my friends also got it.. the load screen from character to ’’game’’ took longer then it used to do.. Never noticed anything like this before

Hello, I have same problem from today morning. I play on world Blacktide(EU). After first loggin i started have 5-10 sec game freezes. When i entered to dungeon Twilight Arbor, i had like 20-30 freezes and 4 DCs. Game is unplayable for me now. Never had lags or DCs before.

neofirecz.4579:

Qearuzajon.3504:

Today when i logged on i got some bad lags, some of my friends also got it.. the load screen from character to ’’game’’ took longer then it used to do.. Never noticed anything like this before

Hello, I have same problem from today morning. I play on world Blacktide(EU). After first loggin i started have 5-10 sec game freezes. When i entered to dungeon Twilight Arbor, i had like 20-30 freezes and 4 DCs. Game is unplayable for me now. Never had lags or DCs before.

same problem here and for many of my friends, never ever had any problems before today

Hawt.9425:

neofirecz.4579:

Qearuzajon.3504:

Today when i logged on i got some bad lags, some of my friends also got it.. the load screen from character to ’’game’’ took longer then it used to do.. Never noticed anything like this before

Hello, I have same problem from today morning. I play on world Blacktide(EU). After first loggin i started have 5-10 sec game freezes. When i entered to dungeon Twilight Arbor, i had like 20-30 freezes and 4 DCs. Game is unplayable for me now. Never had lags or DCs before.

This.

same problem here and for many of my friends, never ever had any problems before today

Dont know why, started lagging now as i tried to play, up to 5 second delay at WVW, deso (EU server). Ik its not my computer or network, i got the fastes network there is to have, and my pc gear is superb! I didnt lagg yesterday, an average of 50fps+ at wvw, but today i get these delays, apperently im not the only one

Piken Square (EU)

Been having lag and latency issues all day, mainly in the Ashford area. Every movement is “hacking” and things posted in chat takes a second or two to appear and skills do not go off until a few seconds after I pressed the key.
The network on my computer seems normal, since nothing else is going slow today and my FPS seems to be normal as well.

neofirecz.4579:

Qearuzajon.3504:

Today when i logged on i got some bad lags, some of my friends also got it.. the load screen from character to ’’game’’ took longer then it used to do.. Never noticed anything like this before

Hello, I have same problem from today morning. I play on world Blacktide(EU). After first loggin i started have 5-10 sec game freezes. When i entered to dungeon Twilight Arbor, i had like 20-30 freezes and 4 DCs. Game is unplayable for me now. Never had lags or DCs before.

Same here, I’m on Seafarer’s Rest, and today the game was unplayable when I logged on. 2-3 seconds delay on skills and longer game freezes with people warping around me. I also got disconnected twice during the hour I tried to play.

I’ve never experienced any problems before today.

Edit:
When I got online around 20:00gmt the lag and delays had stopped for me, and things worked as they should.

lots of lag here too, really frustrating and pretty much unplayable with 5-6 second freezes

Same here, I’m on Seafarer’s Rest, and today the game was unplayable when I logged on. 2-3 seconds delay on skills and longer game freezes with people warping around me. I also got disconnected twice during the hour I tried to play.

I’ve never experienced any problems before today.
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^this, my internett is top speed, so its not our fault this time^^ could anet please give us a respons????

Switched to RoF (Ring of fire), can’t even play, massive delay makes me wonder, and nothing wrong with my net, cause last day worked fine, and I switched from Piken square, to RoF, no delays whatsoever for me at PS, what is wrong?

Delay on messages can vary from 1-5 sec, but one of my las was ~20 sec… you can’t play with that amount of delay, so I request that I can switch server Asap, also this happen in fractals…

Edit: what happen to me in fractals.

Message delay
Screen freeze
Skill delay

this issues made me quit last level fractal, due to we could not complete it, you ended up downed and then sometimes, even dead cause of the time server delayed.
Died 6 times in fractals due to this… I die sometimes 1 time during the run, but 6 times just too much

Does it have something with the TP maintenance?

Never had an issue with network lag in this game, today its unplayable, 5-20 sec freezez and disconnects all the time…

I never had problems with lagg now the game is just completely unplayable screen freeze 3-10 seconds each time this started around 1hour ago I’m on seafarers rest.

And occasionally i get: The game client lost its connection the server please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and try again. (Code=7:11:3:189:101)

The lag I’m having in game at the moment is laughable, and it seems I’m not the only one either.

ISP: Cable (Canal Digital)
Speed: 70/10
Country: Norway
Server: Sefarer’s Rest

I also want to add that players and NPCs do not load in until I am standing ontop of them, and turns invisible if I move a few steps away.

Been getting DCs today. A quick look at the NetworkDiag log shows only two servers with trouble along their respective trace routes:

206-127-157-86.plaync.com [206.127.157.86]
&
64.25.32.26

Both have 100% packet loss. Maybe it’s time someone at NC Soft look into their network?

Yeah, packetloss is back with a vengeance, after a good couple of weeks. Business as usual again then.

Extreme lag and 5 second freezes on occasion just in the past 2 days.

Not on my end, confirmed by many of my friends, guildies and dungeon parties.

Extreme lag for almost a week now. While I can freely chat with friends/guildies/parties, I cannot use any kind of combat skills or interact with objects. Still, everything around me seems normal, not laggy, except for the fact that I can’t do anything at all. Also, keeps getting disconnected almost constantly. Definitely not an ISP problem, nor a router issue, a friend can play next to me, on my wireless network without any kinds of problems while I practically am doomed to shout and scream in terror.

I have the same issue.. The game used to run extremely smooth for me.. For a few days now i have had random DC´s , and today the game is basically unplayable. Extreme delays, 10-45 secs on abilities.. My surroundings seem to run as usual. My network is fine, other things have no problems..

If you ppl have the same issues that I experience, you’ll see that only some of the maps in the game lag (mostly highly populated ones), while others plays just fine.

This clearly points towards serverside lag/performance issues, and has nothing at all to do with my hardware or my isp, since I don’t even have to run the actual game to see that a map will be unplayable – I just use pingplotter to check up on things before starting to play:

• Start collecting the ip addresses of the different maps by typing /ip in chat – each map has a unique ip address
• Use pingplotter and check the status of the maps/dungeons you’re interested in playing
• Maps that shows high packetloss, just forget about them

CellFishy.3896:

Extreme lag for almost a week now. While I can freely chat with friends/guildies/parties, I cannot use any kind of combat skills or interact with objects. Still, everything around me seems normal, not laggy, except for the fact that I can’t do anything at all. Also, keeps getting disconnected almost constantly. Definitely not an ISP problem, nor a router issue, a friend can play next to me, on my wireless network without any kinds of problems while I practically am doomed to shout and scream in terror.

Are you on the same map when this happens? This would point to issues with some accounts – do they run some ugly form of performance throttling on specific accounts?

OGDeadHead.8326:

Are you on the same map when this happens? This would point to issues with some accounts – do they run some ugly form of performance throttling on specific accounts?

This has been happening across 3 maps, 1 dungeon and 2 cities for now and half that time my friend is always around here(we almost always play together). This is extremely strange, I had some tries (port forwarding, kill my http sever etc) to no avail. Oh another thing that I should point out, while I am lagging in the game, I have a ping towards google.com ( just to see whether its me ) and the ping response is usually around 30 ms.

Well, if this only happens to you and not your friend, when indeed you’re playing on the same map, connecting through the same router, and thereby, the same ISP, at least we can conclude that there’s nothing wrong with your internet connection.

Have you tried “switching seats” – changing computers with each other but logging in with your own accounts? That would be interesting to know as well, because if you would continue to lag on your friends computer, running your account, while (s)he would play on your computer, with his/her account and everything would run normal, you could exclude this being a hardware issue on your part as well.

It would then point to the fact that different accounts somehow gets different network priority.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Well, if this only happens to you and not your friend, when indeed you’re playing on the same map, connecting through the same router, and thereby, the same ISP, at least we can conclude that there’s nothing wrong with your internet connection.

Have you tried “switching seats” – changing computers with each other but logging in with your own accounts? That would be interesting to know as well, because if you would continue to lag on your friends computer, running your account, while (s)he would play on your computer, with his/her account and everything would run normal, you could exclude this being a hardware issue on your part as well.

It would then point to the fact that different accounts somehow gets different network priority.

I haven’t actually thought about that, great tip. Once he comes over I will do that immediately. Thanks for this idea

freezing every now and then (5-10mins) for about 10-15 secs – and now when i started thinking its been since wintersday patch. When the spike strikes i cant attack or interact with anything – i can move around though but enemies will freeze and you can see other players running on till they hit something (wall, rock, etc.) and everything warps back when its over and i usually found myself downed or dead. Recently i been constantly falling off cliffs while doing vistas or puzzles – even though my characther makes the jump it then takes falling damage and dies even i didnt fall (and my chr doesent even warp to ground)

Yep, absolutely unplayable after around 5-6PM – having 10 second delays and even some inexplicable things such as my speed suddenly doubling, and being able to roll indefinitely.

I am having the same lag, each 5-10min I get a few second lag-spike where I can’t do anything accept for moving anf jumping.

I had the same lag around the beginning (The first days) of Helloween and Wintersday … And now when I think about it, it was around this day of the month… around 15th-22th October and December … I don’t recall any lag “before” Lost shores though.

I usually don’t have any lag at all otherwhise.

CellFishy.3896:

I haven’t actually thought about that, great tip. Once he comes over I will do that immediately. Thanks for this idea

Interesting. Dont forget to post result here.

Looks like i have issues once i hit the 64.25.32.0/20 address space that is leased to NC INTERACTIVE, INC. which from what I gather is the owner/parent company for this game.

This has not always been the case. Please assist or correct me if I’m missing something.

Thanks

NetRange: 64.25.32.0 – 64.25.47.255
CIDR: 64.25.32.0/20
OriginAS: AS30588
NetName: NCINT

C:\Users\tracert 64.25.40.116

Tracing route to 64.25.40.116 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms [192.168.1.1]
2 23 ms 54 ms 12 ms 172.30.30.65
3 17 ms 20 ms 20 ms 172.30.30.65
4 60 ms 49 ms 98 ms 172.28.0.1
5 34 ms 33 ms 41 ms 172.30.30.54
6 35 ms 36 ms 36 ms 12.250.24.25
7 50 ms 40 ms 63 ms cr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.140.186]
8 33 ms 55 ms 38 ms 12.122.117.121
9 47 ms 48 ms 49 ms ae15.edge5.atlanta2.level3.net [4.68.62.225
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 45 ms 46 ms 53 ms ae-73-73.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148

12 69 ms 62 ms 69 ms ae-7-7.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.134.21
13 260 ms 255 ms 269 ms ae-73-73.csw2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.

14 60 ms 60 ms 60 ms ae-2-70.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.
15 72 ms 82 ms 67 ms 4.59.197.34
16 385 ms 392 ms 400 ms 64.25.32.9
17 408 ms 407 ms 392 ms 64.25.32.26
18 60 ms 60 ms 63 ms 64.25.32.82
19 154 ms 154 ms 152 ms 64.25.40.116

Trace complete.

C:\Users\

C:\Users\tracert 64.25.33.92

Tracing route to 64.25.33.92 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms [192.168.1.1]
2 17 ms 34 ms 14 ms 172.30.30.65
3 26 ms 36 ms 46 ms 172.30.30.65
4 36 ms 35 ms 44 ms 172.28.0.1
5 37 ms 35 ms 34 ms 172.30.30.54
6 33 ms 41 ms 36 ms 12.250.24.25
7 41 ms 37 ms 38 ms cr1.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.141.186]
8 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 12.122.141.233
9 49 ms 50 ms 100 ms ae15.edge5.atlanta2.level3.net [4.68.62.22
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 277 ms 264 ms 277 ms ae-63-63.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.14

12 69 ms 71 ms 64 ms ae-7-7.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.134.2
13 428 ms 431 ms 442 ms ae-83-83.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151

14 65 ms 71 ms * ae-3-80.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145

15 79 ms 71 ms 89 ms 4.59.197.34
16 434 ms 440 ms 439 ms 64.25.32.9
17 361 ms 375 ms 365 ms 64.25.32.26
18 60 ms 60 ms 63 ms 64.25.32.82
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Users\tracert 64.25.38.54

Tracing route to 64.25.38.54 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms [192.168.1.1]
2 19 ms 15 ms 17 ms 172.30.30.65
3 18 ms 19 ms 14 ms 172.30.30.65
4 39 ms 37 ms 37 ms 172.28.0.1
5 43 ms 34 ms 48 ms 172.30.30.54
6 34 ms 39 ms 40 ms 12.250.24.25
7 60 ms 40 ms 38 ms cr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.140.186]
8 54 ms 39 ms 47 ms 12.122.117.121
9 52 ms 79 ms 60 ms ae15.edge5.atlanta2.level3.net [4.68.62.225]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 253 ms 244 ms 244 ms ae-63-63.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148.241]

12 71 ms 73 ms 65 ms ae-7-7.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.134.21]
13 102 ms 75 ms 72 ms ae-93-93.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.169]

14 * 156 ms 157 ms ae-4-90.edge2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.203]

15 66 ms 71 ms 68 ms 4.59.197.34
16 407 ms 414 ms 410 ms 64.25.32.9
17 400 ms 404 ms 387 ms 64.25.32.26
18 80 ms 57 ms 58 ms 64.25.32.82
19 * * * Request timed out.
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24 * * * Request timed out.