I Shouldn't be Lagging.

[jkldogg]

I've been told by several people that my laptop is "beast". I'm just wondering why I'm lagging on era. My lag is very strange, it's like everything is normal speed, but my character seems to walk slower than everyone else. So it's just like everyone is faster than me. The weirdest part is on era, when you press ".", (the period button on keyboard) it shows the lag of everyone in the level / area from highest to lowest and mine is always towards the bottom. My lag is always 40-80, and yet I lag? Then suddenly it spikes up to 200-222 lag and i'm suddenly fast! It's strange. If you need anymore information about my computer to help me with my lag problem please post or forum PM me!

Here's my system specs:

[cbk1994]

Go to speedtest.net and post your results (including ping/latency) here.

[Demisis_P2P]

Hi Darren,

Have you checked the weight of the items in your inventory on Era?
If you're carrying too many heavy items your character will walk slower.
You can see your current movement speed on the left panel of the inventory.
The default walk speed is 1.08.

Your laptop is beast bro.

[Trak]

I have a simular problem, everything is normal speed including myself but for some reason people see me "warping". My ping also seems to fluctuate from 100 MS to something crazy like 1149 MS.


I went on speedtest.net and here are my results. Any help would be great

[cbk1994]

Sounds more like a problem with the Graal client itself. See if you have problems running it from an XP computer on your network.

Originally Posted by Trak

I have a simular problem, everything is normal speed including myself but for some reason people see me "warping". My ping also seems to fluctuate from 100 MS to something crazy like 1149 MS.

You live in/near Manchester, Era's servers are in Texas.

[Trak]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Sounds more like a problem with the Graal client itself. See if you have problems running it from an XP computer on your network.



You live in/near Manchester, Era's servers are in Texas.

Why do people who live an hour away from me move fine without any lag what so ever?

Also it's not just on Era. It's on every server..

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Trak

Why do people who live an hour away from me move fine without any lag what so ever?

Also it's not just on Era. It's on every server..

All of Graal's servers are in Texas. Maybe your neighbors have a more direct connection than you. Try a traceroute.

[Trak]

What's a traceroute?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Trak

What's a traceroute?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=traceroute

[fowlplay4]

Your laptop is between low-mid tier definitely not beast.

The best way to reduce ping is to use a wired connection, since wireless has the possibility of interference.

Also restart your router, and modem. If that doesn't resolve anything it might be a problem that's outside of your control such as a technical ISP issue.

Other possibilities include trying UDP.

[Trak]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=traceroute

Thanks, but I still have no clue what to do? I looked it up and it says "traceroute is a computer network tool used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network."

I went on to a site and it did this.

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[jkldogg]

@ Chris

@ Demisis_P2P

Thanks, I got the laptop for my birthday October 2009.
Yes, I'm slow at the default speed, and when I use a cappuccino to get 1.13 speed, I'm still slow.

@ Fowl
I went downstairs plugged directly into my router, it's working slightly better, but still laggy.

[DustyPorViva]

I am confused. Is your connection laggy, or do you experience slowdown with Graal? They are two totally different things.

[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I am confused. Is your connection laggy, or do you experience slowdown with Graal? They are two totally different things.

My internet is superb, I use Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox/3.6.3. It's fast when i surf the web, but even when I close out things Graal speeds up a little but it's still laggy.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by jkldogg

My internet is superb, I use Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox/3.6.3. It's fast when i surf the web, but even when I close out things Graal speeds up a little but it's still laggy.

Ya, that's still inconclusive. Is your CONNECTION laggy on Graal, or does Graal not run at FULL SPEED(smoothly, 20fps). See, one means Graal is having problems establishing a stable connection, while the other means Graal is having a hard time running on your hardware for whatever reason. They are two completely different problems that need to be approached differently.

The first(actual connection latency) would be evident by slow loading times on Graal and high pings(takes a long time to download a large file from Graal, like a tileset, or taking a while for your connection to communicate with the Graal servers). Most servers have a way to check your ping with them(on Unholy Nation it's 'showlag'), and as for the former... well I'm not sure. I can usually tell what kind of speed I'm getting on a server by watching large files download in the F2, 'files' tab. Alternately, you can go to http://statistics.graal.us/ and look up your desired server, grab the IP and go to start > run > "cmd" and then type "ping <insert server IP here>" and it will tell you your ping for that server if they don't have a command for it.

As for the latter, actual game slowdown... well this is most apparent by just looking at Graal and seeing if things visually look sluggish. If worst comes to worst, log on to Unholy Nation and press alt+f, which will bring up my FPS display(f:xx). 20fps is the desired framerate for Graal, and if it's running lower than that during normal gameplay, than something else is going on and it's not your internet connection.