Extreme levels of lag after 6.25 update

[ZoeS]

Hello

game has been unplayable since the patch dropped due to extremely high ping, 600ms+ now while the usual is 100ms.

this is only in Chaos/Light, connection to other data centers is normal, I tried everything save reinstalling the game -which I doubt would change anything-.

Anyone having a similar problem? any ideas?

[Naoki34]

I don't lag, 20 ms all time.
Change your Internet's provider...

[ArianeAlinarielle]

Terrible lags here too. Simple cannot play due to it. I'm currently frozen before an NPC I tried to talk to, cannot move, waiting for the game to launch the speech.

I'm on Alpha, Light, playing on PS5, with really good optical fiber connexion. And I'm having no issue anywhere else. ^^

[Mousami]

Same issue here. My ping is usually between 115-120 but suddenly today it's jumped to around constant 500 and 600 ms. I can barely do anything right now.

I play on pc (steam version) and a wired connection.

[Ciri-Fiona]

I was very angry and suffering after changing servers from Europe to Japan without informing > my ping go from 88 to 210ms
today it's 500ms !? It's unbearable

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Chances could be that the nodes your ISP routes you over to the game server coincidentically happen to be overloaded, which can cause massive packet loss and / or very high ping.

It is also important to note that consistent high ping IS NOT automatically your game doing weird stuttering, that is jitter - as in spikes of ping causing packet loss.

So unless you test your connection to the datacenter via Command Prompt using "tracert <IP of server>" or some program to scan your packet loss, you won't know where on your route you are being hit. It might not even be the FFXIV servers at all.

Source: I work in IT and this is how I win my bread.

Addendum:
https://is.xivup.com/adv
Here a list of FFXIV server IPs, including lobby servers.

[Ciri-Fiona]

Chances could be that the nodes your ISP routes you over to the game server coincidentically happen to be overloaded, which can cause massive packet loss and / or very high ping.

It is also important to note that consistent high ping IS NOT automatically your game doing weird stuttering, that is jitter - as in spikes of ping causing packet loss.

So unless you test your connection to the datacenter via Command Prompt using "tracert <IP of server>" or some program to scan your packet loss, you won't know where on your route you are being hit. It might not even be the FFXIV servers at all.

Source: I work in IT and this is how I win my bread.

Addendum:
https://is.xivup.com/adv
Here a list of FFXIV server IPs, including lobby servers.

I'm not IT, but why my ping on overwatch 2 EU > 60ms and FFXIV EU > 500ms ?!

[Kyuuu]

Having the same here for the last 12 hours, also Light servers.

Seems like an issue with one of the servers that are responsible for routing the connection to SE:



Using a german VPN uses a different twelve99.net routing where i get normal pings.
Seems like some servers that are used to route connections to SE are underperforming (twelve99/telia).

Spoke to my ISP as well which confirmed the same :/

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

I'm not IT, but why my ping on overwatch 2 EU > 60ms and FFXIV EU > 500ms ?!

Because of how your ISP routes you and how the route is likely affected.

Example from personal experience:

FFXIV routing (simplified):
1.) home (germany)
2.) isp location
3.) nodes germany
4.) nodes in sweden
5.) nodes germany
6.) Light Datacenter (germany)

Overwatch Routing:
1.) home (germany)
2.) isp location
3.) nodes germany (don't know how many)
4.) OW servers probably also in germany

Now, while routing between countries isn't an automatic problem, in my case with the swedish ports provided by Telia/Twelve99 I had massive hiccups to the point where I decided to get a VPN to stabelize my connection by rerouting my traffic to be within germany only. For such reason, I never had issues with OW(2) because the nodes chosen by the ISP to connect me to the game are stable and also within my country.

It is really a case-by-case process.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Having the same here for the last 12 hours, also Light servers.

Seems like an issue with one of the servers that are responsible for routing the connection to SE:



Using a german VPN uses a different twelve99.net routing where i get normal pings.
Seems like some servers that are used to route connections to SE are underperforming (twelve99/telia).

Spoke to my ISP as well which confirmed the same :/

Basically my past issues in a nutshell and a perfect example to my previous post.

Die Telekom grüßt.