Lag spikes in dungeons since yesterday

[Thugwaffle]

I'm about to join your boat honestly. This random pausing and catching up in dungeons is crazy stupid. It does not seem to happen when i'm doing anything else in the game but once i get into a dungeon/raid i start to get this constant pausing/catching up. I have checked my network multiple times, i have even gone as far as getting a different Ethernet cord etc.

Yep, one should not have to pay for a VPN to enjoy a game w/ a monthly sub (imho). I know some will... and more power to them. I love XIV but I’m not going to continue to pay monthly for something I can’t fully enjoy!

[HiraQin]

Im curious since a lot of german players are having the same issues reported here and it started about two weeks before early access when they launched two new servers.
Did they open new servers in your Datacenter too prior to launch?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...erver-getrennt!

The thread in the german forums got 29 pages already and no solution in sight.

[DarkFreak]

Has anyone found a solution to this lag? i been playing 2 weeks before SB came and never had any problems now when i joined SB im lagging like crazy, contacted Support they gave me many steps to try fix it, but nothing worked so far, so if any of u guys found the problem or anything that can help please share it.

[Batmanswagins]

Good morning, I can confirm that the lag spikes are still ongoing, I play in Aether/Faerie, in the last 2 days I tried to clear ES2 fight but I noticed that specially when the boss do guillotine or slicer mechanics and the adds move to or away the boss there's a massive lag spike At that moment, also some minor ones during the fight making it almost impossible to keep your combos up. Please, SE fix this asap, so we can continue to enjoy this beautiful game.

[Vallhallix]

Balmung, and they're happening here too. Lag spikes in raids/dungeons and now even PvP wth is going on. I had to switch to my SMN just because I could barely do dungeons as my red mage without constant rotation screw ups because of the lag. Started every since the release of the last patch. No other game has this connection issue and my internet is not the problem. Needs to be fixed asap, making content unplayable.

[Shurrikhan]

Honestly the issue has never left since ShB release. It seems to be prevalent mostly for east coast US subscribers. I am constantly experiencing packet loss and rubber banding in duties. The game to some extent has become unplayable for me and I have had to disband multiple Ex Primal parties because of this. I have also canceled my subscription. Actions and animations seem like they go through, yet they don’t. Then you lose where you even are in rotation because you can’t tell for some amount of seconds til it catches up - if it even does at all rather than just black screening you. Also you will get hit by boss mechanics you are clearly nowhere near. For example: standing underneath Titania while Phantom Rune is not even halfway thru casting (wings down), and still getting hit by it, because you have Temp DCed halfway thru a fight is no fun for anyone involved. I’m not an IT person but I think some trace routing needs to be performed to determine where this network failure is occuring.

It hits West Coast players, too, though likely differently. For whatever reason, there seems to be conflicts between the SE servers and multiple ISPs, at least enough to force sudden route changes, which can lead to the player stalling out -- their game world seemingly not moving or responding -- for some few to dozen seconds at a time. I've thought I was d/cing some dozens of times since the latest patch alone, only to end up regaining connection some 10 seconds later, resuming combat with only the last few inputs reacting. It can make for some interesting ways of coincidentally chasing party members with my briefly mobile corpse. And those dozens don't even include the minor spikes of a few seconds, which nonetheless completely lose response from the game for their duration.

[hynaku]

Yesterday in all new dungeons and primal fights for main story had unreal amount of lag inside them. Today fishing and get 9002 errors. What's up with there servers. Every time it kicks me from server I have to wait 10 minutes to login again. This isn't right