Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to say that I’ve played this game with no problems since the beginning and suddenly the last 3 days, I’ve been lagging like crazy. Not just the dragons either, like most of you here, it takes 3-5 seconds for any skill to react. Sometimes I’m just standing there and the next thing I’m dead. Makes it impossible to play. Even crafting, gathering etc. is slow. I also got disconnected several times today. I don’t understand what is going on. My internet connection is fine.

I love this game. But, game is unplayable. I started to play 1 week before patch “Flame and Frost”. All was OK. I played whitout ANY lags, disconnects…
But then… BOOM! New patch! Welcome lags and disconnects! I play any other game whitout problems, so there isnt problem in MY connection.
Please, help me.

PS: sorry for my english

I don’t think we should be expecting this problem to be solved today. Not a single tweet on GW2’s account since Mar. 8, staff must be out for the weekend. I guess we can expect a fix for this issue on Monday ; . ;

This Lag issue started for me 10 days ago.
in crowded places/events the lag makes it impossible to accomplish any big group event,
in places such as crowded Champion with Chest. the Skill activation starts hanging for minutes, sometimes random skill passes. most of the time the events finish without me being credited for them. its like playing in ghost mode. just exactly in the video posted above.
soon after event ends and players leave the place, all the lagging skills activate and play returns to normal. it happens now on every map. not specific place.
since the buggy and Laggy Karka patch, after it was fixed, game and lag were normal.
this time the issue started right after the end of February Patch.

Since Flame and Frost my game has become unplayable! Skill got a delay of 10-15 sec due to lag, but my connection is more than perfect. After few minuts the client lose the connection. Error report: " 7:11:3:189:101 "

not sure what they’ve applied during the last WvW reset but after that i’ve been getting huge latency issues not only in WvW but also in PvE maps…this is the first time i’ve encountered this issue… already tried contacting my ISP and everything checked out. I’ve also checked other websites and only GW2 has this huge latency…

Game with huge lags and disconnects. I would like this fixed since we pay for a game we can’t even play and since i’m not the only person complaining about this, it would be nice to see some changes. Since flame and frost updade i’m getting this problems……

Simple solution, regress to the previous update. Not enough load testing done on F&F.

Since the previous patch my game is unplayable the whole day, every time laging and connection gets lost… pls do something about that -.-

about 1 minute Lag. Germany, Telekom.

I also have huge lags every evening. Server: Ruins of Surmia. No Problems before the update

Had to log out because the game has been unplayable today. Was fine yesterday, but been having huge lag issues in dungeons ever since the last patch.
Right now, up to two minutes lag even in the open world, disconnects every 20 minutes. Horrible.

Kira.9301:

Since Flame and Frost my game has become unplayable! Skill got a delay of 10-15 sec due to lag, but my connection is more than perfect. After few minuts the client lose the connection. Error report: " 7:11:3:189:101 "

I second this. Im logging in from germany.

what is it ANet that we can do more to have you give us a word of reply?

Same here. i’m on a EU serveur and it is unplayable. Never experience problem like this before.
I’m loggin from France
My ping test is 20ms so what’s the problem => your update

Anet do something, there’s clearly an issue with the new patch. I havn’t been able to play for 2 weeks now. Your technical support team sucks when it came to this issue, they don’t know their heads from their tails.

I’ve purchased your product/service and I’m not able to use it?

I’d like you to write an official post letting us, your customers know that you acknowledge there is an issue.

Tarnished Coast/multiple zones

Terrible lag issues this afternoon (EDT zone). Even in minor events with only 1-3 other players involved, so its not a matter of graphics lag or large events. As much as 5-10 sec lag in skill casts, etc.

I posted this in the bug forums before reading this threat, quoting:

Dear Arenanet,
first of all I’m filling this bug report because it’s not the first time it happens, it’s actually been happening quite a lot since the latest February patch.
So as you will be able to see on the video, I was streaming the whole time without any lag issues. I even checked my teamspeak ping and it was around the normal 100ms I got all the time.
This is what happens, as far as I can tell: while in Heart of the Mists I can cast my skills normally. When I enter a PvP map it’s usually fine in the beginning (warmup as you’ll be able to see in video and first 30s of the match) but after that you’ll notice no characters move or do anything, just me running around the map. I could even talk in party with a friend and he didn’t have any problems. After that, I restarted the game (couldn’t relog, I tried pressing esc and it didn’t pop) tried logging with my main character and even another and the issue kept on going. Right after the match and back to heart of the mists i could play normally again. This also happens sometimes when I go to PvE maps like Cursed Shore where I can run all over the map but can’t cast any skills. This never happened since this game came out and I’ve been playing since then. It’s not my internet problem because if it was the stream would go offline and it didn’t stop.
I would like some insight on this.
Video follows:
http://www.twitch.tv/yumpi_/c/2010156

Edit #1: Did a bit more testing today and it only happened in temple of the silent storm map. I created a second video where I play a 3 round tournament and both spirit watch and battle of khylo have no issues, when it comes to temple the story is completely different. Link: http://www.twitch.tv/yumpi_/c/2010598

Edit #2: Stuck on loading to Lion’s Arch, worked after I logged another characted and then changed back, stuck again when trying to use a waypoint. Link: http://www.twitch.tv/yumpi_/c/2010650

Extra info:
Location: Porto, Portugal
ISP: ZON TV Cabo
Organization: ZON TV Cabo
Connection: Broadband
Internet Download Speed: 30Mbps (Fiber Optics)

Regards,
Luxen

Just thought i would add to this post as the sheer weight of people posting this issue might spur on the Anet team.

I am not going to go in to details as other have already done this . Thank you !

Come on Anet, what are you doing to fix this ?? if it takes a few months then i think we are happy to wait but something official to state this is a problem and you are aware of it ?!

Regards

Paul

This really is spoiling a great game and need sorting.

Strangely, I didn’t face any lag yesterday..

Before even launching the client to see whether game is still lagging, I did the following: Go to GW2.exe, create shortcut. Now go to the shortcut’s properties, and in the target bar, after the quotes " add ‘-repair’

So basically, it should look something like this: “C:/Program Files/GW2.exe” -repair

Open that short-cut and let the client verify the file archive. Dunno if this had anything to do with fixing the lag-issue, but it wont hurt to try.

Its worth noting that my first log-in attempt, whenever I launch GW2, STILL brings up a black window within the client saying that a connection could not be made to the log-in server. Second log-in always works. This leads me to believe that the issue is not yet resolved. Played for 3 hours yesterday and everything was fine, will give it another shot tonight and see how it goes.

I’m unable to play every afternoon and evening because of insane lags. Skills take somewhere between 10 seconds and 2 mins to activate, no matter if i do world events, run a dungeon or just simply try to level another character with no one near. Before the patch everything worked fine, now i got lags that make it unplayable. It’s also only gw for me since every other game or program is working without any problems.

Don’t bother with the suggestion I posted earlier. GW2 lagging again

allegra.6123:

Just wanted to say that I’ve played this game with no problems since the beginning and suddenly the last 3 days, I’ve been lagging like crazy. Not just the dragons either, like most of you here, it takes 3-5 seconds for any skill to react. Sometimes I’m just standing there and the next thing I’m dead. Makes it impossible to play. Even crafting, gathering etc. is slow. I also got disconnected several times today. I don’t understand what is going on. My internet connection is fine.

This pretty much sums up my experience in the last 3-4 days. It’s unplayable now………

> Is there already a solution? <—-

Or is there just more complain and more?

My complain:
“kitten this kitten! Played first Weeks regular and it was Good now i hit 80 and all is kittened beyond all repairs!
It looks like my PC waits ages for packest returning from Server. And if they finaly do the came all at once.
My PC is fine Hardware + Software (including Drivers!)
Just some Maps the Lag appears and not always the same Map. and not ever Crowded ones.
weierd…. iam stuck logging in my charr at Diessa Plateau… normaly there should be by looong a error ala “couldnt connect to the server” or “disconected” BUT IT DONT!"

end of complain and bugreport

Aurora Glade
ISP: Slovak Telekom
Slovakia

Evenings and weekends not playable. Sometimes 2 min lag spikes.
What should i do? Should i change to a low population server?

Why do i have 2 min lag if my ping is 104ms to Frankfurt???

Ty anet for doing so much about this problem you make us all so happy right now. I am a min away with uninstaling the game. Coudn’t do GM becouse of the lag, can’t join fractals and god help me if i join spvp, woun’t even try wvw. Note everything else works fine only gw 2 is kittened up. Again ty for leting me enjoy this for 2 weeks i’m done

Aurora Glade
ISP: Deutsche Telekom
Germany

During the week days it’s frequent spikes of ~5s lag, evenings and weekends are completely unplayable with 10-120 seconds delay on everything and disconnects every 1-15 minutes. If I can even load, usually it gets stuck during the loading screen.

Desolation
ISP: Saunalahti(finnish service provider)
Finland

I’ve had huge lag problems during prime-time since last patch. I haven’t experienced this before. Atm there’s fight going on at garrison and I just tried activating few skills at spawn, took 40sec to get spectral walk activated. After that it was just 5sec delay so it was a moment probably with just not enough bandwith on routing/serverside/something? I sometimes get dc after that 40sec instead of skill activate.

I don’t have any latency issues in other games/browsing/cmd prompt ping/resource monitoring gw2.exe latency. Also this only happens during prime time when we usually raid and it makes this game unplayable for me. It’s not as bad for most of the people in my guild.

I believe this is related to their tweaking of culling. The server’s code that receives and delivers information about player/NPC location is dropping/lagging people.

I don’t even think it has to do with performance of the PC, since my laptop isn’t better than my GF’s PC and yet she lags and I do not while on the same connection.

Horrible Lag again tonight!
EU T1 Desolation server ,skill lag is over 10 secs.

Really getting sick of this now ,the game is broken and unplayable!

Nothing wrong with my connection ,its pretty fast and stable -> Proof

Yep, problem continues. On the bright side, lag doesn’t take very long, even if it happens at the worst of times, between, more or less 6 and 9 pm.

Severe latency issues.
Far Shiverpeaks in WvW.
ISP: Comhem
Sweden

Culling is worse than ever and there’s typical server choking behavior going on that increase with the number of new players coming on screen.

Problems include cant log in, Lag when in game, No guild chat, Crashing out of game.
Playing other games and everything is fine it is just GW2 problems which is making the game unplayable.
Even playing on US multiplayer servers i am getting a decent ping with no visible lag yet join a GW2 server and the game is unplayable.

Had my ISP support go through my connection and all is fine with written confirmation that there is no throttling on my line or any issues which I have verified on different tests.
EU Desolation
ISP Orange
From the UK

I remember in ye Olde days of Dark age of Camelot on the EU servers GOA had a similar problem that came down to a bad Switch somewhere in France that the traffic was routing through which gave somewhat similar problems we are facing now with game lag and disconnects due to packet loss at peak times.

I have lags in the mists and in pvp…(dont do other stuff so i dunno about it) its a delay that might go from like 0.5sec to 10sec… but its not my internet problem cuz everything else works fine… its like this since last update..

why is it that some people dont have lag?

Jazbec.2985:

I have lags in the mists and in pvp…(dont do other stuff so i dunno about it) its a delay that might go from like 0.5sec to 10sec… but its not my internet problem cuz everything else works fine… its like this since last update..

Same here :/

Unplayable.

Server: Ring of Fire
Time: After about 4pm (GMT +1)

So after searching what feels to be the entire internet for an answer but none to be found i’ll try to post about the problem. I get strange lateny issues like many other people in the community.
I have traced the server address and got a resonable result of 0% package loss and about 50 ms ping. No problem here.

BUT then in-game i get frequent latency issues of about 2 sec where the game dont updates and lots of small lags making mobs blink around the battlefield.
Every other game works brilliantly without any lags at all.

Edit: I am also kinda confused about what server actually handles the world (combat/mining/tailking etc). There are 4 active addresses in the resource manager and the 64.25.47.25 is the only one that can be pinged.

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Major lag since 4 days ago. Not sure what changed, but the game is nearly unplayable, even in low populated cities. This lag ranges from 1-2 minute loading screens, 4fps during events and 12-15fps in cities. The game was running fine (25fps+) before Feb patch, Feb patch killed events with lag, but whatever changed this week truly killed the game for me. Will be playing very very little until things clear up.

Sunday 3/10/13, game ran at 30+ FPS all day, Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday is now back to 9-13 FPS. I would love to play the game more than completing my dailies and logging out.

Can we not get network latency (lag) confused with low frame rates? they have nothing to do with one another.

For players who are having ms lag, or network latency, please try WTFast and report back.

i started getting bad lag, pausing and disconnects last week in cursed shore, seems to be ok in other zones though.

Posted this on another similar thread: Error:(code=7:11:3:189:101) – apologies for duplicate but it may be useful to someone.

Massive packet loss and packet order confusion against some servers is what’s happening methinks. From my investigation it does seem to be maps that have been updated recently for new content. I can play any toon I like quite happily in Cursed Shores or Bloodtide but as soon as I switch to Queensdale or Diessa I get the skills not firing and lag jumping like others have and then eventually kicked from the game.

When the packet loss begins I’ve noticed that the game client drops CPU and Network activity completely only coming back to life at random times.

Example of the loss with my Guardian in Diessa:

24 0.697144000 206.127.146.50 192.168.0.200 TCP 75 [TCP Previous segment not captured] dtspcd > 51471 [PSH, ACK] Seq=713 Ack=5 Win=512 Len=21
25 0.697205000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.50 TCP 66 [TCP Dup ACK 23#1] 51471 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=5 Ack=650 Win=251 Len=0 SLE=713 SRE=734
26 0.767133000 206.127.146.50 192.168.0.200 TCP 204 dtspcd > 51471 [PSH, ACK] Seq=734 Ack=5 Win=512 Len=150
27 0.767209000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.50 TCP 66 [TCP Dup ACK 23#2] 51471 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=5 Ack=650 Win=251 Len=0 SLE=713 SRE=884
28 0.951195000 206.127.146.50 192.168.0.200 TCP 99 [TCP Previous segment not captured] dtspcd > 51471 [PSH, ACK] Seq=941 Ack=5 Win=512 Len=45
29 0.951294000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.50 TCP 74 [TCP Dup ACK 23#3] 51471 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=5 Ack=650 Win=251 Len=0 SLE=941 SRE=986 SLE=713 SRE=884
30 0.988435000 206.127.146.50 192.168.0.200 TCP 390 [TCP Retransmission] dtspcd > 51471 [PSH, ACK] Seq=650 Ack=5 Win=512 Len=336
31 0.988560000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.50 TCP 66 51471 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=5 Ack=986 Win=256 Len=0 SLE=713 SRE=884
32 1.002468000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.50 TCP 58 51471 > dtspcd [PSH, ACK] Seq=5 Ack=986 Win=256 Len=4

Loss again with my Mesmer in Queensdale:

983 33.964557000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.58 TCP 90 [TCP Dup ACK 965#9] 51023 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=12099 Ack=56965 Win=256 Len=0 SLE=57606 SRE=58129 SLE=57451 SRE=57517 SLE=57037 SRE=57059 SLE=56987 SRE=56992
984 34.074597000 206.127.146.58 192.168.0.200 TCP 75 [TCP Previous segment not captured] dtspcd > 51023 [PSH, ACK] Seq=58150 Ack=12099 Win=511 Len=21
985 34.074658000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.58 TCP 90 [TCP Dup ACK 965#10] 51023 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=12099 Ack=56965 Win=256 Len=0 SLE=58150 SRE=58171 SLE=57606 SRE=58129 SLE=57451 SRE=57517 SLE=57037 SRE=57059
986 34.110836000 206.127.146.58 192.168.0.200 TCP 117 dtspcd > 51023 [PSH, ACK] Seq=58171 Ack=12099 Win=511 Len=63
987 34.110894000 192.168.0.200 206.127.146.58 TCP 90 [TCP Dup ACK 965#11] 51023 > dtspcd [ACK] Seq=12099 Ack=56965 Win=256 Len=0 SLE=58150 SRE=58234 SLE=57606 SRE=58129 SLE=57451 SRE=57517 SLE=57037 SRE=57059
988 34.200030000 206.127.146.58 192.168.0.200 TCP 76 dtspcd > 51023 [PSH, ACK] Seq=58234 Ack=12099 Win=511 Len=22

and then all OK in Cursed Shores on same Mesmer 3 mins later:

983 18.807845000 192.168.0.200 206.127.159.247 TCP 75 51025 > dtspcd [PSH, ACK] Seq=10442 Ack=57248 Win=251 Len=21
984 18.836969000 192.168.0.200 206.127.159.247 TCP 75 51025 > dtspcd [PSH, ACK] Seq=10463 Ack=57248 Win=251 Len=21
985 18.844670000 206.127.159.247 192.168.0.200 TCP 60 dtspcd > 51025 [ACK] Seq=57248 Ack=10463 Win=513 Len=0
986 18.851829000 206.127.159.247 192.168.0.200 TCP 93 dtspcd > 51025 [PSH, ACK] Seq=57248 Ack=10463 Win=513 Len=39
987 18.879057000 192.168.0.200 206.127.159.247 TCP 75 51025 > dtspcd [PSH, ACK] Seq=10484 Ack=57287 Win=251 Len=21
988 18.881156000 206.127.159.247 192.168.0.200 TCP 169 dtspcd > 51025 [PSH, ACK] Seq=57287 Ack=10484 Win=513 Len=115

Doesn’t seem to make a difference whether on home world or guesting at busy times.

I can play in Bloodtide and Cursed shores for hours on end without DC but as soon as I switch to a lower level map… BOOM, lag and DC within 5-10 mins.

UK based gamer on Ruins of Sum, Win8 64-bit etc. etc.

I’m getting huge amouts of lag tonight. Ran the diagnostic from the GW2 website and produced:

Tracing route to p4-23-c0-ncdc-pub.plaync.net []
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 AndyBoyce-PC.lan []
1 O2wirelessbox.lan []
2 78-86-208-1.zone2.bethere.co.uk []
3 * 10.1.3.50
4 * * *
Computing statistics for 18 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 AndyBoyce-PC.lan []
0/ 25 = 0% |
1 3ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% O2wirelessbox.lan []
2/ 25 = 8% |
2 38ms 2/ 25 = 8% 0/ 25 = 0% 78-86-208-1.zone2.bethere.co.uk []
23/ 25 = 92% |
3 —- 25/ 25 =100% 0/ 25 = 0% 10.1.3.50

Trace complete.

• pathping -w 500 -q 25 -4 64.25.39.1 <--*

Tracing route to 64.25.39.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 AndyBoyce-PC.lan []
1 O2wirelessbox.lan []
2 78-86-208-1.zone2.bethere.co.uk []
3 10.1.3.50
4 * * *
Computing statistics for 18 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 AndyBoyce-PC.lan []
0/ 25 = 0% |
1 3ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% O2wirelessbox.lan []
2/ 25 = 8% |
2 39ms 2/ 25 = 8% 0/ 25 = 0% 78-86-208-1.zone2.bethere.co.uk []
23/ 25 = 92% |
3 —- 25/ 25 =100% 0/ 25 = 0% 10.1.3.50

Is this a common issue and has anyone come up with any kind of solution

Getting serious lag issues from 6 pm GMT+0 to 9-10 pm GMT+0. Situation has been lasting for nearly a week now. Phoned my ISP for solutions, but they rightly replied after doing a pingtest that my connection is within normal parameters.. Tried out other online games during the stated time and I had no issue whatsoever. Thanks for the attention.

Edit Adding an attachment with both regular ISP ping and GW2 ping at the same time.

Just thought I would add my experience here because it has become bad enough that I have to say something.

I pretty much exclusively play wvw, usually around GMT 18:30 – 21:30 on week nights.

Since the last patch, on T1 EU BL maps, I am consistently getting skill lag, with a delay of 5-7 seconds.

On the weekend in EB, there was a three way battle in SM and my heal wouldn’t work. Not just delay, but the skill didn’t actually do anything at all. I’m just avoiding EB now altogether.

AT the moment, for me, I have a combination of both skill lag and culling. It makes the game unplayable. Please fix it, Anet, I love this game but at the moment it’s just not fun and there is little motivation to log on.

Thanks for your time!

Never had any lag issues in the beginning. But ~10 days ago it started and got worse every couple of days. Frequent disconnects, Dragon Events not really playable due to lag, very annoying. But today was really bad: Cursed Shores is lagging especially during events up to 20 sec and more. I’m dead even before I know that something hit me. On top of it every couple of minutes disconnected. For me Malchors Leap is almost unplayable and Cursed Shores is unplayable. Change character and tested other regions (e.g. Genderran Fields, Plains of Ashford) and they don’t have any lag issues. I hope this is fixed soon because it is really taking the fun out of the game.
Server: Dzagonur

my lag has gotten worse, I am not sure what’s happening! Everything was fine before the last patch!

My problem continues as well, daily lags during the evening. Dear ANet, it would be nice of you to officially acknowledge the problem and promise a quick solution to it (and to the one of invisible town clothes headwear, too).

I still have lag problem since the march patch, this is really frustrating i don’t feel like playing this game anymore because of it, and i’m limited in what i can do when i do.

Please fix this