Lag spikes in instances but no latency increase?

[Underworldhades]

Alright well atleast it's not on my end. Ofc that's also a negative which means I can't solve it lol.

But that is unfortunate that I'm having the issue. No one I know is having it so guess I'm just unlucky. Thank you for the info

[Gyson]

For about a week I've been getting frequent lag spikes in FFXIV (and only in FFXIV) as well. This happens out in the open world as well as when in duty instances. Obviously it's going to be more noticeable in instances as there is constant action happening there. When it does happen in duty instances it usually results in an 90002 error along with a disconnect.

[Underworldhades]

For about a week I've been getting frequent lag spikes in FFXIV (and only in FFXIV) as well. This happens out in the open world as well as when in duty instances. Obviously it's going to be more noticeable in instances as there is constant action happening there. When it does happen in duty instances it usually results in an 90002 error along with a disconnect.

A week ago is when It started for me. Haven't had many errors though, only a single disconnect. And yeh, it is true that it'll be more noticeable in instances lol

[Underworldhades]

For about a week I've been getting frequent lag spikes in FFXIV (and only in FFXIV) as well. This happens out in the open world as well as when in duty instances. Obviously it's going to be more noticeable in instances as there is constant action happening there. When it does happen in duty instances it usually results in an 90002 error along with a disconnect.

Well now im getting a lot of 90002 error disconnects, nice.

[Ayuhra]

If I remember what Yoshi said correctly, the instance servers are separate physical servers from the world servers and all worlds on a DC share the same instance servers. What you're describing is latency on the instance server due to high load and not lag from internet traffic. I think all NA DCs are going through similar growing pains so I wouldn't be confident in saying switching DCs will solve the issue but if you have any flexibility in your schedule, try to play off peak hours. That may help the issue you're seeing.

Ultimately, this isn't a problem you can solve, its purely in SE's hands. They are trying to get new hardware but the last update we had on that is it will be late in EW or into the next expansion before it happens. Its not that they're dragging their feet but properly upgrading the hardware is a time consuming process, made more so with the pandemic.

I have definitely noticed lag spikes in instances, worse at the beginning of a pull, more frequent on weekends.

Unfortunately for OP I am on the least populated Data Center. All DCs are standard world only right now, no preferred so we have lots of people everywhere.

Good for the game, not great for the instance servers.