SICK OF THE LAG FEST

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Originally Posted by Quinnie

I'm having the same issues too. I was always a little laggy at certain times of the day, but since the recent patch it's made the game unplayable. Please fix.

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Same for me the game is unplayable at this point. :(

some days i do get lag as well and playing on PS4.
Sometimes a restart sames to help but not always.
And hunting fates..... sooo much lag, it's Odin and Behemoth all over again

I don't think I've gone a day since 2.2 where I haven't been randomly given a 90k.

It's not so bad out in the open world doing Hunts e.t.c but as soon as I enter 2nd Coil for example I get 90k'd nearly every 10 minutes and it's making me look REALLY bad to my fellow FC members who don't get the issue.... it's extremely obnoxious.

I get the usual "just restart your modem/router bla bla bla" but funny enough TS still works fine, never disconnects, I can open Firefox and do whatever just fine when I get 90k'd so it is NOT my PC...

I get some pretty horrible lag too, though I don't see it as a problem, I just alter the times I play to make sure availability on my very slow connection isn't killing the game. I have a 1Mb down and 512 Kb up connection, trust me, if I'm not having really unplayable lag, the problem is likely to be elsewhere. Try checking the troubleshooting forums, some of them list ports that need to be unblocked or forwarded that your ISP may wind up causing issues with. It's a big first step and not one that is commonly thought of.

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Originally Posted by Skyl1n3

I don't think I've gone a day since 2.2 where I haven't been randomly given a 90k.

It's not so bad out in the open world doing Hunts e.t.c but as soon as I enter 2nd Coil for example I get 90k'd nearly every 10 minutes and it's making me look REALLY bad to my fellow FC members who don't get the issue.... it's extremely obnoxious.

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No you're absolutely right, the same thing happens to me on a daily basis. I can do crafting and open world stuff just fine sometimes. But the moment i go into an instance i 90k about every 5-10 minuites and it makes me look terrible to those i play

This trace route I made to brynhildr is illuminating.

There's apparently a huge reddit thread about it as well since 2.35

Level3 is owning the packets like a raid boss:

Not only are the individual hops on L3 ludicrously long, L3 seems to send it on an odyssey which makes the relic questline look short and sweet.

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$ traceroute 199.91.189.46
traceroute to 199.91.189.46 (199.91.189.46), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  3.844 ms  0.837 ms  0.765 ms
 2  50.131.12.1 (50.131.12.1)  19.579 ms  8.915 ms  9.444 ms
 3  68.86.249.29 (68.86.249.29)  9.797 ms  9.367 ms  9.296 ms
 4  68.87.194.94 (68.87.194.94)  13.880 ms
    68.87.194.98 (68.87.194.98)  14.886 ms
    te-1-15-0-13-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.86.143.42)  14.266 ms
 5  he-1-6-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.157)  16.106 ms  17.901 ms  16.754 ms
 6  50.242.148.34 (50.242.148.34)  13.910 ms  17.215 ms  13.068 ms
 7  vlan90.csw4.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.152.254)  87.008 ms * *
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10  * * *
11  ae-3-3.ebr1.chicago2.level3.net (4.69.132.62)  92.767 ms  85.903 ms  86.031 ms
12  * * *
13  ae-10-10.car2.montreal2.level3.net (4.69.153.86)  343.514 ms  125.283 ms  126.450 ms
14  ormuco-comm.car2.montreal2.level3.net (4.59.178.74)  86.381 ms  88.004 ms  87.446 ms
15  * * *
16  192.34.76.2 (192.34.76.2)  87.496 ms  91.199 ms  87.770 ms
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Plasmacutter, you should not list your publicly accessible IP address (hoping it's just a proxy server). Granted you are behind a router, but it can still be exploited by malicious users.

Square Enix. Please stop sitting on your hands and fix the awful lag on the Leviathan server. We all pay good money to have fun but as it stands at the moment several of my friends and I are seriously looking for another game. PLEASE HELP.

Kkrakk

I'm getting these terrible consistent lags on Gilgamesh and it usually happens during peak times (19:00-23:00 EST). At these times, the game is unplayable for me. I can't run any dungeons and raiding is definitely a no go. Crafting is annoying, I miss crafting proccs during these stutters.

I've set up port forwarding for FFXIV but it didn't help at all. I'll probably let my current subscription run its course until this problem is fixed. No use supporting a game you can only play at certain times.

I can't stay connected for more than like 20-25 minutes. I can damn near set a clock by it. I get the 90k error. I have never had any connection problems until last night. Now the game is so frustrating. I get absolutely no lag at all while i am playing until that 20 minute mark. Then the game DCs. What is going on?

Yeah i have never ever had 90k issues till the last few days...even before the most recent patch.

I love this game trust me i do, however for the last two weeks I've been dealing with disconnection issues, most recently today, i can't start a single instance dungeon due to lag, not on my part either, so please fix this issue before it get out of hand any furthur.

Most recent patch has caused masssive lag.

My Coil 2 static group has three members that can barely play every night between 9pm EST and 10PM EST (our groups prime raiding time). The lag during that hour is very consistent and game crippling.

We basically can't raid anymore due to this lag. We are considering giving up since our schedules don't work for other times.

By the way the lag only exists for this game, our connections are great during that time for pretty much anything else...

Edit: 10:30pm tonight and the lag is still there. It is just getting worse every week.

I don't usually play at this time of day and i have a 75/75 fiber optic connection through Fios and i'm getting lag like crazy. I normally play in the mornings with no problem but this makes it unplayable.

Edit: Also, everything else is 100% fine and normal.

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Originally Posted by Attomsk

My Coil 2 static group has three members that can barely play every night between 9pm EST and 10PM EST (our groups prime raiding time). The lag during that hour is very consistent and game crippling.

We basically can't raid anymore due to this lag. We are considering giving up since our schedules don't work for other times.

By the way the lag only exists for this game, our connections are great during that time for pretty much anything else...

Edit: 10:30pm tonight and the lag is still there. It is just getting worse every week.

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Okay so I am not crazy. Same exact times for me except I am currently on MTN time so its 7:30 to 9:30PM for me. As I am disconnecting I am still able to talk to members of the raid team via TS without a hitch. They are able to tell me that I am standing in fire and they laugh as they watch me burn while I am looking at a 90K message. And it happens about every 5-7 minutes. Its you Squeenix and this issue needs to be addressed immediately.

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Originally Posted by Attomsk

My Coil 2 static group has three members that can barely play every night between 9pm EST and 10PM EST (our groups prime raiding time). The lag during that hour is very consistent and game crippling.

We basically can't raid anymore due to this lag. We are considering giving up since our schedules don't work for other times.

By the way the lag only exists for this game, our connections are great during that time for pretty much anything else...

Edit: 10:30pm tonight and the lag is still there. It is just getting worse every week.

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This is exactly what is happening to me, every night at the same time... same time frame...

Random DC and some huge freeze as well
been DCed 3 times this week for no reason

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Originally Posted by Eijii

This is exactly what is happening to me, every night at the same time... same time frame...

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I'm having similar problems as well. It seems to start after 8pm GMT 1+

I too have experienced this Lag/90k, during these specific time frames. I typically get it of all places in the Goblet, one of the least populated points in the game, but it's kind of frustrating that I can't do anything with my FC house and or room when I would like too be cause I simply can not stay in that area. The other frustrating thing is the disturbing lack of any acknowledgement from SE on the problem. You have already taken a huge hit in player base from ppl leaving to play other games, and there are a few on the horizon that I am looking forward to. As a paying customer, I expect to get something in the realm of acceptable customer service & play ability for a product that I'm shelling out money for, as it stands this is not acceptable in either category. When that is the case I take my business elsewhere.

I have been getting 20-30s lag spikes frequently during Tuesday prime time since patch 2.35 hit. I don't lag in any other games except this one.

These problems have started effecting me this week. Oddly enough, they started when another player in my raid group said his cleared up (we live in NYC, the both of us, and use Verizon Fios). Maybe Fios is using cheap fixes that shuffle the problem to different areas of their network?

The primetime lag has to end! My raid group has folks from NYC, Austin, & LA; all of us suffering massive 30s lag spikes between 8:30PM EST and 9:45PM EST, not all of us are on Verizon.

same here, between the lags and the 90k and the error 2002 i cant play; and i have a 3 month renewal that just started.
square enix.. any update on this? you r actually looking for a solution?
im comcast, in CT.. all my others online including diablo 3 and destiny have no problem; nor my streaming from netflix or hulu

SE answers?

I went away this weekend and returned to horrible lag, the likes of which I've never seen before. When I asked my FC, several of them also said they'd been having problems too.

It was so bad that a couple of times I was experiencing a delay of a second or two while trying to cycle through targets. I had two people drop out of a guildhest I was in because it took me so long just to load in. These are all new issues that only began within the past week for me, and my internet (including Netflix and Amazon Instant Video streaming) is just fine otherwise.

I am not even able to run a rotation right without lag happening. Get cussed out and told I suck when I don't.

Started happening today after hot fix patch

Any news on fixing the lag spike issue?? I'm playing on Ragnarok server and playing with the 350ms lag i can deal with but the flat out packet losses are a disgrace. On any random ping test I will get between 10-15% packet loss??? I'm seriously starting to question were my monthly subscription fee is going. Time to upgrade the servers? Or maybe .. and this is gonna sound crazy.. but.. why not .. put the "european servers".. in europe.. mind blown!

Today 14 oct I have people darting across my screen which I can only assume is due to lag I run speedtest and my connection is running as normal so maybe its a server issue?

A "speed test" (actually a bandwidth test) against someone else's benchmark server is not going to help diagnose latency/packet loss issues in route to your game server. That is what is causing the rubberbanding. This game can run on a 1.5m plan if latency is consistently good enough. Track your data use while in game....you may be surprised how little data is transferred per second. The key factor is whether you are getting timely, orderly delivery of packets...more a matter of latency and not your bandwidth.

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Originally Posted by Raist

A "speed test" (actually a bandwidth test) against someone else's benchmark server is not going to help diagnose latency/packet loss issues in route to your game server. That is what is causing the rubberbanding. This game can run on a 1.5m plan if latency is consistently good enough. Track your data use while in game....you may be surprised how little data is transferred per second. The key factor is whether you are getting timely, orderly delivery of packets...more a matter of latency and not your bandwidth.

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Amen. Wish more people would get this.

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Originally Posted by Alan-ere

Today 14 oct I have people darting across my screen which I can only assume is due to lag I run speedtest and my connection is running as normal so maybe its a server issue?

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I'm having the same problem. I made a post about it here seeking help.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nection-issues.

I'm from Canada

I seem to be having interesting lag issues where I do not lag but everyone around me lags. For instance, i run around at Mor Dhona and "people watch", and I noticed that people around me who were also running can freeze for 2 seconds, and then 'reappear' at a further location. I'm sorry if I do not describe well.
Can anyone help me on this? Its been happening since Patch 2.4 and its starting to frustrate me, especially if I go for raids.

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Originally Posted by askani1607

I seem to be having interesting lag issues where I do not lag but everyone around me lags. For instance, i run around at Mor Dhona and "people watch", and I noticed that people around me who were also running can freeze for 2 seconds, and then 'reappear' at a further location. I'm sorry if I do not describe well.
Can anyone help me on this? Its been happening since Patch 2.4 and its starting to frustrate me, especially if I go for raids.

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Same with me, being a WHM, the lag means my spells don't connect, which means people die, which means raise doesn't connect.

Very frustrating and do not know why this is not being looked at, I shouldn't have to log a ticket just for this.

Like many others, I am getting really sick of the lag. It's been exceptionally bad since the 2.4 patch.

I am having the same issue... Players and mobs freeze for 5-10 seconds then skip around. When I am in raids, I'll see the AOE telegraphs for a split second and then it pops off, I usually die. I've checked with my provider and all is fine on my end. The odd thing is that I have an Alt on Brynhildr and I have no lag issues there... Is there something going on with the Aether data center? This all started happening a few days after 2.4 release. I love the game, it's amazing, but for the past few weeks it feels like I've wasted money on a game I can't play =(

I was running fine last night on ps4 and now today I go to log on and its so laggy it took a minute and a half for Fire 3 to hit a target.

It's been doing this all day and my connection is normal, my girlfriend can play on the laptop with no problem, and I'm at a loss on why this is happening. It makes no damn sense.

The day before yesterday (11/14) many of my FC-mates were complaining about lag spikes. Yesterday and into today (11/15-16) others, including myself, are now affected. Mobs are rubberbanding and forget crafting or gathering like this.

My free month is about up and I can't say this is convincing me to sub, hope it gets fixed soon.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Jamez82

I'm at a loss on why this is happening. It makes no damn sense.

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Patch 2.4 was not debugged properly before it went live, so while new things were introduced or altered, other things specific to multiplayer content has worsened. Not intentional obviously, but this affects subscribers here in Australia. So, SE, if yu want to continue wanting a hardcore yet casual playing fan to stay with your non-sensical reasons to exclude other countries and time zones, then it seems to be more trouble than it is worth and of no enjoyment to me, a bit sad that a Final Fantasy fan can not continue to marvel his favourite characters all because a few senpai choose to not have an extra server or extra data allocation that which should virtually improve the game to actually attract subscribers, but from the feedback of SE, it all seems a bit much for them like they are holding out for something bigger and better yet this is what we are stuck with.

No point have a "free login weekend" if those people playing cannot do much!

Kinda off topic, but does this latency remind anyone of Final Fantasy IX? Man that game was sloooooooooow and it wasn't even online, yet feel I am getting the same speeds in this game at the moment.

having same issues with lag. my R is almost always 1.5k+ even when in a remote area.
Many abilities do not execute when using them in fight and it is of course worse inside instances.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3920202926.png

I just started this game a week ago and am slightly disappointed as I will not continue my subscription if this is what is going to continue...sadly as I am enjoying this game immensely.

Unless anyone knows a way to help me resolve this I would appreciate it ._.

Might as well report in.

I'm on Goblin server, and I sometimes receive debilitating lag. As someone else said, I'm a WHM, and this means that those pauses where everyone stops moving and then the game plays catch-up means someone likely got killed.

However, I've noticed that sometimes my attacks/spells will connect, but they may be late in doing so. I've also noticed that I will DC for a second (literally) every now and again, and during these few seconds, enemies can hit and kill me -- but I can't touch them at all.

I'm playing on PS3 in the United States.