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Madcow
2003-07-30, 08:17 PM
I'm used to lag issues, I'm one of the pathetic 56kers that's just chugging along. Sometimes it's tolerable, sometimes it's not, but the last few nights it's been consistently intolerable. Even in situations where I don't feel like I should be lagging too much it bogs down something awful with ping rates in the 5000's at times. I expect this to happen when I meet up with the zerg, but not in the more minor battles. For some reason that last few nights have seemed a lot worse to me though.
Today I was talking with a friend at work who also plays, and he has high speed. Without my mentioning it he said that the last few nights he has been getting hit with horrific lag, often having commands go through 10 seconds or so after he hits a button. I was just wondering if anybody else has experienced the same issues, or if perhaps it's a regional thing that we're experiencing. I'm dreaming up conspiracy theories in my head of them lessening their pipeline to save some cash.

sniper4evr26
2003-07-30, 08:23 PM
possibly, SOE does do this kind of thing, but i havent seen any major lag (aside from huge battles, but they havent lagged more recently than they normally do) so maybe it is just a regional thing and if u live in europe thats probably the reason

00AgentDuck
2003-07-30, 09:27 PM
I haven't been experienceing any kind of major lag for a long time. Since I got 512 more mega bytes of RAM planetside hasn't been laging as much as it used to. I've only had it lag once so far, but that was where it seemed that all of the tr and vs where at the same base, and then it wasn't very much lag at all. The three things that make planetside stop laging: Fast connection, about a gig of RAM, and a good video card. If you experience video lag you should try turning down the graffics from reccommended to low, it helped my comp out alot because I don't think my vido card can handle anything above low.

I reccomend to everyone expericencing lag out there to follow these steps to reducing lag, if your checkbook allows for it. This also helps other games run much smoother.

HawkEye
2003-07-30, 11:55 PM
i have been intolerable lag for the last two days, and this ahd never happened to me before.