strange lag issues (they started after today maintenance )

Hello, as soon as today maintenance ended I logged in game and noticed something was not right, I see the players around me perform actions for a couple of seconds - than they stop- than they move - then they stop again -than they move again etc it's like there is some kind of intermittence in the comunication with the servers ....... now before my connection gets the blame I have to say that the game itself lists my connection as excellent and after performing several adsl speed-test I was able to confirm no trouble on my end, this is the first time since the game launched that I'm seeing this issue. :(

having the same issue as well.... restarted computer, restarted modem, and checked for any viruses/malware and nothing came up... it started since maintenance at 6 am pst... ran speedtest and pingtest and they're giving good results

I have the same issue ...

also my crafting macros arent working all too well even when i added half a second of delay to each action... just too laggy/spikey

Same here,
Speedtest gives me 15ms latency, ventrilo say the same but i have huge lag spikes in game. I never had lags before.

EDIT: i'm on Cerberus

same problem here. Nearly unplayable. :mad:

Never had a problem before today's maintenance.

Same here on Moogle ( EU ). Perfect pingtest / speedtest. After the emergency maintenance this afternoon I've had random freezes, characters and NPCs stop and teleport. Freezes occure at completely random times and last for 1 to 10 seconds.
Never had lags before. Freezes remain the same after computer / modem restart.

the same lag issues were reported on french technical support forum... I don't know what they did during this maintenance but look like it gave birth to new problems...

I forgot to had that I'm playing from europe too (ITALY) my ISP : tiscali
my server is Ragnarok EU (LEGACY)

Yeah unplayable compared to pre maint where I "only" had 2 secs constant delay and rubberbanding, now I have 6+ secs delay and worse rubberbanding than before.It was already horrible now I'm just clueless on what they screwed up this time.

Ragnarok eu - italy too here

Same to me...
Everything went smooth after the first maintenance, but after the 2nd emergency maintenance (1.30PM - 3.00PM GMT+1) I'm having major lag issues and istances are almost impossible with this lag.

I have the same problem , everything was fine util the last emergency maint.
Ragnarok EU - Provider: Fastweb - Italy.

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Originally Posted by Azrayne

Same to me...
Everything went smooth after the first maintenance, but after the 2nd emergency maintenance (1.30PM - 3.00PM GMT+1) I'm having major lag issues and istances are almost impossible with this lag.

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Yeah I tried to kite the tonberries in wanderer's palace but with 5 seconds delay group asked me to leave and I had to, to not hold them back and being an ass, also before someone random comes and cries about our connections: my highest ping in other mmos/games is 30 with 0 delay since last december...no throttling too since I confirmed plenty of times with my isp and ports are open besides 8080 and 443 since the isp is using those.I have direct contacts with my isp for long to explain reasons, so they aren't telling me lies.It's just square fault and my isp too is insisting they fix it up and that's not their issue this time...

Same as above... after the maintenance it started to lag really bad.
I'm from Italy too. Provider: Fastweb

same here impossible to do chimera :( ty whoever broke this

This actually started for me after the first maint. I log in this morning and everything seemed fine but now for the past 15 20 minutes its lagging so bad. Everyone is running then stopping every 10 seconds. Dungeons and chimera are impossible for me to do now. Had to leave my chimera group because it was so bad. Teamspeak, skype, and other games are not laggin at all so its not on my end. Speedtest show me with 27 ping. But, tracerts to ffxiv lobby are having multiple timeouts.

At&t Uverse dallas, texas.
diabolos server

I'm from Germany and suddenly lagging like crazy. To the point where I have 5 second skill delays while crafting. (My ISP is Kabeldeutschland) Never had any issue till after the second emergency maintenance today.

I've already sent a ticket to support (hoping that they will address this very soon).
Probably today no FFXIV for me =(

I am having the same issues since the emergency maintenance. The game was extremely fast and responsive before, now it is unplayable especially as healer.

FIX THIS ASAP!

:mad:

Same issues here, the game is pretty much unplayable. I am not throttled by my provider. Odin (EU)

Same issue. From America on Shiva server. Lag wasn't an issue until the day PRIOR to maint. I'm not sure why, but with the maint it seems to have gotten worse. This is, no doubt, due to the increase in traffic that is now allowed. Still, it makes the game literally unplayable. Here are some examples of things that have been going on due to this:

- Attempted to access the Market Board. Sat there with the indicator on it while continuing to select it would not yield an opening of the market board screen. Finally said "screw it" and canceled the action (wouldn't let me). I then tried to run passed a transition line to see if that would help. Well I literally ran past it. I was on the other side of the line with no possible way to go to the next area. A minute or so later it said "action canceled" and allowed me to run into the line in order to go into the next area (not like I had a choice anyway, there was nowhere to go but that line)

- I randomly die. Well, not so much random as it is an enemy spawns, goes ballistic on me, and I die. This would be normal except for the fact I never see this happen. I see a wide open area, then me dead with some brute standing around me suddenly after I hear a bunch of sound effects. (No doubt the battle that I missed)

- My attacks deal no damage, My cure spells cure no wounds. But the enemy can attack and damage me without worry. This, as you can probably tell, presents a problem.

- FATES are literally impossible. I need not explain why. Death is assured.

- It takes me probably about a good 40 seconds to mount my Chocobo. I see the timer go off to mount it, then I see the action of the whistle. 40 Seconds later I hear the whistle and mount the steed...

- Sprint doesn't go into effect until my "sprinting time" is already almost up (I get about 4 seconds of sprint max). But my hotbar shows the action used (since the timer for the next sprint is winding).

- Dungeons? Ha. Instances? Ha.

- Duty finder, free company info, and just about anything that needs to obtain data continues to do just that. All I see from these screens are "Obtaining Data". I'm not even sure if they will populate the list. I haven't sat there long enough to find out.

- NPC's Take FOREVER to talk to. Accepting/completing a quest literally means me standing there for about 20 seconds before they even talk with the occasional 3 minute standstill (because I can't move while talking to an NPC like that). Even when I am able to talk to them, and they have a new quest, the icon won't populate for a decent amount of time. I have to wait about 2 minutes usually before such an event occurs.

- Everyone else is laggy to me. What is "running" to them is them standing in one spot, teleporting to another, and so on in that fashion.

- Switching Classes will not take effect for several minutes.

- When casting magic spells, I can keep casting but sometimes since they do no damage occasionally for whatever reason, they will consume my MP and not even gain the enemies attention. Then someone else will come in, start attacking that enemy, and it's like I didn't even exist.


Seriously. I want to like this game. In fact, I do. But I will not be paying for something so glitchy. Especially when those "glitches" make the game unplayable. I can't very well do anything like this. I completed 3 quests in the past hour, all very short. It should not have taken this long. Please do something about this. Soon. Or at least say "We know lagginess is an issue and it is important we get it fixed... blah blah blah" because I don't even know your "priority list" for issues in-game are.

I'm having the same issues. Extremely bad lag spikes continuously, it's unplayable.
I restarted computer, router and everything. The worst part is that my wife, connected to the same router, have no issues at all in-game.

I had near perfect experience ever since launch until today, after the maintenance.

ISP: Tele2
Country: Sweden
Server: Balmung.

Same here. Restarted Computer, restarted Router and checked the Internet-Connection. All is fine, but still after that Emergancy Maintenance, i have Lag Spikes over and over.

Pls fix that quick.

I'm from Europe, Germany. Playing on Balmung.

Everything was just fine and dandy before this maintenance hit. Sure there were the minimal 0.3sec delays in AOEs and skills overall, but that's because of silly server placement.
Now I see people and mobs rubberbanding all over the place for like 5 seconds very often. Its borderline impossible to play the game, especially dungeons so I'm forced into crafting and gathering for the moment, but those are still painful as well do deal with due to 3 second delays on skills and such.

I had no issues at all before the maintenance so something must've gone wrong.

ISP: Tele2
Country:Sweden
Server: Adamantoise (NA)(Shouldn't matter really since both EU and NA servers are placed in Canada)

same issue, interruption in the connection with server every 2-3 seconds. basically stop-go-stop-go-stop-go-stop-go the entire time.

ISP: Tele2
Country: The Netherlands
Server: Moogle (EU)

Same as the others. Huge lag and the game is currently not playable because of it. Never had any lag issue prio to today's maintenance.

Playing from France, Shiva server. ISP Numéricable.

That and the game is crashing/freezing from time to time with a runtime error...

Same issue here on Ragnarok.

same issue here, had problems before and it stopped after like 5-6 days and now after maintenance it's back again...

provider : KPN
Country: Netherlands
Server: Diabolos

You people complaining about lag on the servers are hilarious... I cant even start my launcher.

I have had this since the beginning occaisionally usually in fates though. It seems random when it happens to me but some of my first experiences with instances and on a healing job were like that. Does not make me want to do it.

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Originally Posted by RyanZonder

You people complaining about lag on the servers are hilarious... I cant even start my launcher.

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You people complaining about launcher issues are hilarious... People in Africa can't even eat.


Just because you have it worse doesn't make anyone else's problem less valid.

same issue

provider : SFR
Country: France
Server: moogle

same here.

ISP: Kabel Deutschland
Country: Germany
Server: Shiva

same

provider : Numericable
Country: France
Server: Ragnarok

same here

provider:fastweb
server:lich
country:italy

Same issue. Had this problem ever since the LAST update you guys did last week, and now it's seemingly even worse with a whole batch of new people impacted.

Every week the game is becoming less playable. Went from no problems other than difficulty logging in during the first week due to overcrowding, and now logging in is not a problem but the game is so laggy at all hours on an otherwise totally stable connection/machine that is is unplayable.

Way to go SE.


ISP: Verizon
Location: Virginia, USA
Server: Ultros

Same here

Provider: Ziggo
Server Moogle
Country Netherlands

Running with a 160 Mb/s connection, I ping the server for 80.
When in game my latency is 110-160.
The latency from my side remains the same.

In game I get lag spikes where my character just freezes for 3 seconds.
It's both in duty finder and outside, spikes when crafting 5 seconds.
Titan lags like I don't see the bombs falling and people blink.

Lag/Network Update for people tracking the network issues
I just spent 30 minutes on the phone with a tinet.net NOC technician.

The short answer:

5-10% packet loss @ ormuco-gw.ip4.tinet.net [216.221.156.110]

This IP is being advertised to multiple circuits (3 maybe?). The tinet.net is running fine. The NOC tech has confidence one of the others was fine too, and pointed me to the NOC for Cogent Communications, cogentco.com.

I just sent them an email, hoping to get the same outstanding service Tinet.net provided.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...network-issues

Same issue, game is unplayable since the update.

Provider: Numéricable
Server: Moogle
Country: France

Hey guys, this is not a new issue the maintenance just highlighted it for you because you're the unlucky ones to get the servers that lag. Please see this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...serious-issues

Guys, I just did a Titan run and I had 0 lag spikes. Try it now and see if you guys are having it good as well.
I hope it was just temporary and it's better now.