Every day for the last three days now around 5 PM CST there is some sort of lag issues happening. I'll be crafting or gathering and there is a huge delay between me using an ability and me seeing it. Then I went yesterday it the miners guild to get some lenses and the guild supply npc would not even load. I tried rebooting when this happens and does not fix it so it must be server side.
Server lag is killing the game for me.
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10-08-2013, 10:47 PMWobbleServer lag is killing the game for me.
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10-08-2013, 11:02 PMBlazeChronicDid you really just say this? Yeah, there's only 2 variables in networking. The client and the server, nothing in between, nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
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10-08-2013, 11:07 PMWobbleInstead of trying to be an obnoxious jerk, try being helpful. I'm not some computer (actually I'm on PS3) genius but apparently you are. All I know is there is nothing on my end that is wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlazeChronic
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10-08-2013, 11:12 PMDelsusHere's the help, about 5PM is when a lot of people are finishing work, your ISP could be identifying the FFXIV traffic as lower priority than other traffic and throttling it during peak times (there have been reports of some ISPs identifying FFXIV traffic as file sharing traffic so have throttled it) contact your ISP to see what is going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
This is a common occurrence among ISPs. -
10-08-2013, 11:28 PMBlazeChronicI was helping you. Look through the trees to see the forest. It's not all black and white like you think it is. Just because you THINK it isn't on your end, doesn't mean you can accuse SE and blame it on server lag. Depending on where you are located, your request could potentially hop 20-25 times before they reach Montreal or Japan, depending what data center you are trying to hit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
Don't blindly blame SE for things you know absolutely nothing about, and I'll stop calling you out on it. Deal? -
10-08-2013, 11:45 PMWobble
Well I don't know why it would just start happening? I had no issues during beta or from raely release until now.
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10-08-2013, 11:50 PMBlazeChronicNot sure, could be ISP related like Delsus is saying, and they only started throttling recently. Could be something SE did related to load times on PS3 and the priority loading of character models.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
Are you wired? Wireless? I know I personally get pretty bad lag on PS3, Fate bosses don't even load, turn in NPCs take ages to load, but that's because a ps3 is a pretty old piece of hardware. I get pretty bad lag crafting in towns too, like you say. I use 'Great Strides', then try to use 'Advanced Touch', I sometimes think it worked, so move on to use Strides again, only to see it never registered my Touch command, so I end up wasting a bunch of CP..... But I never get ANY of these issues on my PC.
EDIT - Sorry if I came off as rude in my first replies, just the "it's all SE's fault" attitude that seems to be so prevalent in these forums has me in a very defensive mood while i browse the forums. I realize you are only looking for solutions. -
10-09-2013, 12:13 AMWobble
I'm wired. Who knows what the problem is? I guess problems due to internet and servers and clients are just not so easy to nail down. Like you also said PS3 is older in the market, I guess I'll just wait and hope PS4 fixes some of this.
Also sorry if I came off rude. -
10-09-2013, 12:20 AMBreladine
I play on Balmung and have no lag whatsoever. Definitely not 'server lag'.
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10-09-2013, 12:24 AMMillerna
Oh my god, civilised discussion! ;)
My lag seems to come and go at random. Right after release it was fine. A few days later it was so bad I couldn't dodge a single AoE, which lasted a few days, and then it was fine again for some days. It basically continues like that where I have days I can dodge just fine, and days where I can't dodge anything at all. The days are random, the times are random as well. Fairly certain it's not my ISP, or at least, not only my ISP considering I can play other MMOs without lag when I get the lag in ARR, and that includes FFXI.
The past days it has been fine again, but I'll probably lag again once I get to Titan for my relic ;) -
10-09-2013, 12:28 AMFuzIgnore that guy, he's one of the "I HAVE NO PROBLUMS SO NO ONE HAVE THEM HERP DERP!" kind of people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
You're not the only one experiencing severe server lag. And yes, it's on their side due to terrible netcode and all EU/US servers being in Canada.
Read this:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-fix-something. -
10-09-2013, 12:28 AMRivienneNot to bash PS3, but that is probably the culprit. Or rather, the PS3 client is. I play on the PS3 as well 90% of the time, and I have seen this too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
The PS3 drawing priority blocks animations until it finishes drawing all nearby playable characters. During peak time in certain areas I can do something and I will watch as suddenly 20 PC start popping up. Only once they are all there will it run the animation perform the action.
This is easiest to see at the retainer bell in the market place during peak time. This I believe is partly a PS3 problem, but it is clearly an issue with the way the game engine itself handles events and and priority and determine what to do. -
10-09-2013, 12:36 AMWHS
@ Wobble : I was going to say don't pay attention to the nay sayers because your issue is definitely a real one. It's true we all for the most part rarely had real lag issues except once in awhile. After the last maint to patch rmt activities which didn't stop them btw, we have had this weird server lag. I say weird because it is much diff and worse than normal lag we get. It happens in and out of instances where as before it was mostly confined to instances and the Odin/Beh pops. Now it seems to be world wide and no matter what zone your in. You lag this time because if you take your mouse and look at the network icon in your top right screen, you will see s and r with numbers.
Most of the time if you are lagging in crafting or gathering the s or the r is 0 or both. Why you don't just dc is beyond me but you don't and your numbers actually might go back to normal. However they will bounce to 0 once again. This is not a peak time of day thing as it will happen anytime during the day or night. This is also not necessarily an ISP issue though in defense of the trolls it can be ISP or your internet once in awhile. After doing a thorough check and system diagnostic on my end to include reloading one pc with fresh windows and min install on software.
I have also certified my connection using pingtest.net and dslreports for jitter, latency, packet loss. All have shown me to have A+ connection with less than 1ms jitter and 0 packet loss. It is not my ISP throttling me nor my internet route or connection. I also have done tracerts to the SE ip address on the forums where the servers are listed in Canada. NO issue. 32ms or less ping times using default packet size and all the way up to a 1500 packet size. Not my issue. SE def has problems. Not sure if they are fixing them or not. Too many ppl claim to be perfect when in fact they may not be and just cannot tell. It's hard to say. Also the lag spike or freeze up or w/e you want to call it is random. It will not hit 100% ppl 100% time.
I have also certified my connection using pingtest.net and dslreports for jitter, latency, packet loss. All have shown me to have A+ connection with less than 1ms jitter and 0 packet loss. It is not my ISP throttling me nor my internet route or connection. I also have done tracerts to the SE ip address on the forums where the servers are listed in Canada. NO issue. 32ms or less ping times using default packet size and all the way up to a 1500 packet size. Not my issue. SE def has problems. Not sure if they are fixing them or not. Too many ppl claim to be perfect when in fact they may not be and just cannot tell. It's hard to say. Also the lag spike or freeze up or w/e you want to call it is random. It will not hit 100% ppl 100% time. -
10-09-2013, 12:41 AMDorfentymeLook at his sig. That should tell you everything you need to know about that guy, lol. I'm not surprised he was an obnoxious jerk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wobble
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10-09-2013, 06:13 AMSariyahBlackmane
I have been having issues as well.Please be aware that ping (your connection to the server) is ENTIRELY different than you data transfer between you and said server.After utilizing wireshark tests,it has been proven that Time Warner Cable is setting data transfer for this game at the lowest possible setting during heavy traffic times.In atleast a portion of these cases,people's ISPs are indeed part of the issue.
As a healer,dungeons were a nightmare with the screen freezes of 1-5 seconds at a time.My fix?A VPN such as WtFast will most likely help you.My dungeons were seamless after I started using it.Setup time is only a few minutes and there is currently a free 30 day trial.This is only a temporary fix if you want to avoid the 9.99 a month fee,but hopefully the issues can be worked out within the next 30 days.Have fun!