Frequent R0 lag spikes and freezing

[Pia]

Well, I went almost all day with zero R0s, then at 11:30pm EST, had them again every 5-10 sec, which made Ifrit unplayable tonight.

Exact same thing for me too, was really happy and thought the issue might have been resolved, then 11:30pm EST hit and I knew it was too good to be true! I gave my Ifrit spot up ; ;

[Grrrr]

I have been experiencing this as well since the last patch, and am also a COX internet user. Last night wasn't as bad as previous nights, but I wanted to share a bit of information that may or may not be related. Today at my office there was a large issue with DNS throughout the COX network that effected all of our external sites that are connected through COX Cable.

This may or may not be related to the same type of FFXIV issues that have been going on, or the outage on our part may have been a result of them making repairs to their network.

Here's to hoping it is working better this evening.

[Pia]

Have we had any Dev respond on this?

[Pezant]

No I have yet to see a dev response. I don't even play the game at night now due to the terrible lag. This really needs to get sorted out soon. It's disturbing that we haven't heard any response about this issue. I know they were looking into people being disconnected suddenly but is this part of it? How about some sort of update?

[Drako]

Well last night again it seemed to be much later then usual for the r0 to start occurring. It was about 10pm CST before i experienced a single r0. Then about 11 the frequency increased. It still hasn't been no where near as bad as i reported before. But it is still occurring to a certain degree. So if this is somehow related to something the SE devs have been doing then they might be on to something. Anyone else still getting crippling lag? And when I say crippling lag i mean your crafting, and stuck unable to do anything for like 1-2 min straight, unable to select anything, or you talk to a npc and it takes a good 1-2 min for him to do anything, or for you to finish your business with him/her.

[Bluetaro]

My current hypothesis is that the R0 spikes are primarily caused by high server loads.

Think about this... When did the problems start for you? Was it around the release of 1.19? That would make sense with my theory because a lot of players came back with the release of all the 1.19 content.

Are you lagging on a high population server? Selbina is the server I currently spam R0's on, and it had a max population rating when I created my character here. I did a test where I simultaneously logged on Selbina (high pop) and Wutai (medium pop) using two computers and proceeded to witness multiple R0's on Selbina but a completely smooth gaming experience on Wutai.

What times are you lagging? Is it during prime hours like me? The heaviest lag for me starts at around 7pm PST and lasts until 10 or 11 pm PST. This correlates with the NA prime time hours.

Unfortunately, my theory doesn't explain why only some people are getting R0'd on my server during primetime and not everyone else... Also, it doesn't offer a route towards a solution because the issue is based on how many people are logging onto SE's servers =/

[Drako]

The problem I'm going to have with this theory is this. When the game first came out populations were probably double or triple what they are right now. While it was very hard to get into the game, I cant remember there being any R0 issues, and slow responses doing things within the game. So if your theory is somehow correct, then we would have to assume that SE removed some of the servers that helped with the load, and now that people are coming back its bottle-necking. I think Lindblum is a high pop area. It was one of the servers that they had to turn off registration for multiple times when the game first released. Selbina I would expect to be one of the high population ones as well.

I really don't know whats going on but I'm beginning to wonder why we haven't heard anything from SE about this issue. It feels like things are getting better, but I don't know. Id feel alot better if there was a official announcement about it.

[tteh3r]

Getting huge lag spikes recently, i play on gysahl server and keep getting R0 too, my sent is always around 50-60 and that seems fine, the problem is i'm getting this with another game too, league of legends. I thought maybe it's my internet but everything else works fine.

I've tried using a new modem, tried diffrent settings, port forwarding just recently and still getting mass lag spikes on both games.

The thing i don't get is all websites load fine for me besides ff14 site and LoL site, and yet both those games i'm having problems with. It's just annoying because it's hard to say if it's my internet or the game servers, both games just had a huge update recently which explains them both giving me lag problems, but at the same time my ISP is known to have some pretty bad connection problems too, i'm with talktalk a UK ISP.

To give you abit more information, ff14 my S (sent) is always 50-60, and that neve drops but maybe sometimes spikes up, and for league of legends its the same, i can tell my character during huge lag spikes to move, do diffrent things but i won't actually see it happen until the lag disappears, which is weird. i just find it odd that on 2 diffrent games im getting the same thing, my recieved seems blocked or something but me sending stuff is fine.

[Drako]

I will say I've been doing some experements on the side while XIV is running threw its R0 spikes. I try pinging google, and i pinged mooglebox. Its currently not 100% conclussive, but i noticed during R0 with SE my responses from the two sites would be around double the time. google was like 20ms and it went up to 40ms, and mooglebox was i think 40 ms and it went up to 80ms. I haven't been able to test this theory of mine the last couple nights really because it hasn't be as big of a issue. I'm waiting for a night its terrible like a few days ago to see what my results are. I can't really say what it is I'm trying to get at with this. But if there is something wrong on our ISPs somehow, and its doubling our ping request. Imagine what that would do to our connection to XIV. It already is a average of like 140-250 sense its across seas. Double that and your guaranteed to get lost packets imo..

[tteh3r]

Just gets me worried, 2 games and both lag, both there sites take ages to load too so i think it's my internet or ISP. But reading threads like this make me think its just the game servers but then nothing seems to be getting fixed if it is. also it doesn't help i have no idea how far gyahls server is from me so i could of picked a really bad server as i live in the uk.

One thing i did notice is if i stand still, in a pretty empty spot outside, with only few monsters and 2-3 or less players, my R is fine and i don't lag, its when i start to move around, sometimes its only a few monsters that need to be loaded and other times it can take awhile bfore the lag hits. but to stop it i just stand still or run to an empty area and wait for few minutes, but that means i'm basicly not playing lol, soon as i start to move or do anything the lag hits again, not sure how you reproduce your lag, maybe its the same?