Lag in Instances + Endless "loading" screens when transitioning to a new area

[Steady]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...h-since-update

Summary - Signed in to play the new content, was teleporting around picking up quests... locked up in Swiftport in loading screens, relogging would just give me the Limsa Lominsa background loading screen. I logged on PC version and moved my character to a new place, logged back in PS3.. worked fine till going back to swiftport then it repeated itself.

Reloaded game, formated ps3 and reloaded game... but ultimately the update fails... and now I can't play, and lost all my macro settings trying to fix:P

[FritoBandito]

Just throwing in my "it's lagging here" post. I think SE is well aware of it by now. It's almost like they switched the servers over to dial up.

[Hyperia]

I have found, and verified by my FC, that the dungeon instances are almost unplayable. 8~ second lag, teleporting players, random freezes and disconnects. The world and the raid instances are not effected by this. This is also time sensitive, this happens during heavy use periods of the game and the off hours (3am central) things seem to calm down. One thing I did notice that during the lag bursts my receiving was 1200 to 2500 but my sending was 0. Chat was still working for all players during these problems, except when we got kicked offline. This seems to be due to heavy overuse of specific dungeons as before the patch AV was unplayable but other dungeons were fine. The dungeons I have tried are all of the high level dungeons where people are grinding their tombstones. Are the dungeon instance servers running out of network connectivity or CPU? If this is the case, a temporary work around would be to use a virtual server system similar to Amazon's E2C to get as much cpu and bandwidth as you need till a workable solution can be done on your systems.

You have a wonderful game, I came from Warcraft to play this game and I have been enjoying it fully. Not being able to participate in the new dungeon content due to issues such as this though significantly detracts from the game. Please jump on this as hard as you jumped on the 1.X problems!

[Kerynean]

Bumping for awareness - On Balmung server, been mostly ok with PvE content but dungeons are a hazardous mess full of lag spikes for all players in the party. Ran Stone Vigil this morning at about 10am (GMT+8) had a few but complete-able. Just ran Brayflox however, SEVERE lag spikes. (about 10pm, GMT+8) much worse than this morning. Team wiped multiple times, sometimes due to just trash, everyone was experienced in this dungeon, healer could barely keep tank alive and could not heal through lag. People jumping all over the place as opposed to walking. Never seen this so bad, had to abandon the dungeon.

Hoping this gets fixed soon. Welcoming more maintenance if it fixes this up - if Brayflox was this difficult through lag I'd hate to know how people are managing on things like titan.

[Riance]

Bumping the thread with my input as well. Its happening in most instances and it seems to follow me even to the open world. It comes on and off and it makes most instances unplayable. I shudder to think how bad it must be in EX primal fights.

[Sorenji]

Having the same issues since yesterday, no reply from the uppers yet?

[Snakebite6x6x6]

Bumping the thread with my input as well. Its happening in most instances and it seems to follow me even to the open world. It comes on and off and it makes most instances unplayable. I shudder to think how bad it must be in EX primal fights.

No kidding, we couldn't even get through normal mode Titan last night because of his lag-landslide ability that was near impossible to dodge every time...not to mention the healer couldn't get a spell off much of the time due to the lag causing his casts to interrupt.

[Kalo]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one with these problems. Just finished up a Brayflox that was horrible. Everyone complaining about abilities not going off and lots and lots of teleporting around. I would use Aetherflow and would have to wait a good 4-5 seconds to actually get the charges.

Worst is when I interact with door, keys, etc. I can get locked up for as long as 10 seconds, unable to move or do anything.

[Vanguard319]

I just noticed severe lag in Copperbell Mines (hard), and it wasn't just me, my whole party was getting hit by lag upwards of ten second delays in actions.

[Stuart444]

From all the reports I have seen, it's ONLY affecting 4-man instances, not 8-man ones.

I can confirm this is the case as well for me and my fiancee. We did T2 enrage several times and Ultima HM with no lag but Halatali and Brayflox HM versions had absolutely horrible lag.

But not one instance of lag in an 8-man instance.