I Shouldn't be Lagging.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Trak

useless information

A lot of How-To stuff has made it's way on Youtube.

[cyan3]

I have similar lag problems with Graal but unsure to what the overall problem could be. Initially If I ping the ip of the server hosting Graal Kingdoms from the terminal I get around 100 - 150 ms and also around that value in my profile statistics when I'm online, however I frequently get ping reading of 1000 - 5000 in my Graal Kingdoms profile but still have 150 - 150 ms if I ping though the terminal. Also when I get reading of 1000 or over I'm visually doing nothing but my character is still reacting to my commands such as equipping weapons ect as other players can see me doing it plus when my connection goes back to 100 ms I get a steam of mud messages and weapons switch. I do know for a fact that it has something to do with my ISP or how they externally handle my connection as I never had any of these problems with my old ISP.

It's kinda making it impossible for me to play Graal Kingdoms as I'm having these problems 90% of the time and it is very rare that I have no problems with Graal at all.

[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

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.

I did the cmd thing for Era and it said average 52 MS. I went on UN and the thing is f:20 but it drops sometimes. It doesn't go lower than 16 though.

[Trak]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

A lot of How-To stuff has made it's way on Youtube.

I did that...now what?

[SKJF91]

Originally Posted by 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.

Rate my laptop specs on your tier-rating:

OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 2.6.1.7600 ()
CPU TYPE:INTEL(R) CORE(TM)2 DUO CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHZ
CPU SPEED (GHZ):2.554
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):3.968
GRAPHICS CARD MODEL:ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 4650
GRAPHICS CARD DRIVER:ATIUMDAG.DLLDESKTOP RESOLUTION:1366X768
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):288.4
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):204.866

( and yeah i took them right from battle.net beta opt-in, starcraft 2 yay )

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by SKJF91

Rate my laptop specs on your tier-rating:

OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 2.6.1.7600 ()
CPU TYPE:INTEL(R) CORE(TM)2 DUO CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHZ
CPU SPEED (GHZ):2.554
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):3.968
GRAPHICS CARD MODEL:ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 4650
GRAPHICS CARD DRIVER:ATIUMDAG.DLLDESKTOP RESOLUTION:1366X768
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):288.4
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):204.866

( and yeah i took them right from battle.net beta opt-in, starcraft 2 yay )

Between mid and high.

[SKJF91]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Between mid and high.

hah, rad -- 800$ hp laptop, i thought it was a good deal at the time (january)

[Trak]

Any help? I did the youtube video posted by fowlplay but i'm stuck as what to do next.

[coreys]

Wow, you actually have fairly fast internet connection. However, like Jerret said, your computer is not exactly beast, so I'm guessing it's computer lag, not internet lag.

Also...I did not know Graal's servers were in Texas. Where in Texas? Would explain why I've never really lagged on Graal.

[jkldogg]

Originally Posted by coreys

Wow, you actually have fairly fast internet connection. However, like Jerret said, your computer is not exactly beast, so I'm guessing it's computer lag, not internet lag.

Also...I did not know Graal's servers were in Texas. Where in Texas? Would explain why I've never really lagged on Graal.

4 GB RAM WDF............

[Sky]

Ever since I switched back to Vista I get massive lag on GK.

[salesman]

try looking into the dual core lag issues

Helped me back when I had my old computer.

[Sky]

Originally Posted by salesman

try looking into the dual core lag issues

Helped me back when I had my old computer.

Nice, this actually helped some!! ++rep

[Crono]

happens on my laptop and it's by no means a low spec. i dunno if it's the same problem you're having but my character will be normal for a bit then suddenly an FPS drop kicks in then it clears up again. u_u

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crono

happens on my laptop and it's by no means a low spec. i dunno if it's the same problem you're having but my character will be normal for a bit then suddenly an FPS drop kicks in then it clears up again. u_u

I had this problem on UN for a while :o Apparently projectiles were piling up and eventually taking up lots of CPU or something. Either that or some script was functioning horribly. I think Tig resolved it.

However, changing levels fixed it so it might not be the same problem.