Still massive lag since i17

I do not know if the last patch was supposed to "fix" the lag issue but still going strong.

Last night I had 8000 ping on Freedom, which I was playing because the rubberbanding and mapservering on Virtue was unplayable.

Switched back to Virtue and more rubberbanding but my ping was back to 260ish which is normal for me.

Played on Virtue this morning and rubberbanding and now a new thing power delays!

Before you ask:

I normally run at next to the lowest with 60-90fps on /showfpa 1
I connect with a Verizon UM190 aircard because I live in the country and run 4-5 bars in a 3g area.

nVidia 9800GT video card
Raptor hard drive
2mb Crucial ram
All new drivers to EVERYTHING!
Windows XP service pack 3
All processes except required disabled or on manual.

Yes, the system played absolutely fine until i17.
The day it went live was the day is started.
If I run a TF I will crash out of the game at least 4 times on average.

Last TF ALL eight of us crashed out at least once.


Are we going to see a Red name address this? I know Castle said a fix was on Test - did they apply the Fix? Are we supposed to guess?

Door to Cimerora still broken
All staff weapons have broken animations
Power Delays
Rubberbanding

After 6 years this is the worst I have seen since Issue 2.

I am NOT alone. Login to Freedom or Virtue and in Broadcast ask if people are getting rubberbanding, power lag or mapservers. Yes, they are.

Virtue has issues and they've acknowledged those. I'm not sure about Freedom. That aside make sure you have updated video drivers.

Since there's no COHHelper and HijackThis, it's all a bit of rampant speculation.

2mb of RAM is a bit low. You should have at least 2gb.

On Liberty things have been fantastic since the latest patch. The only rubberbanding and power delays are in the ITF but that has always been plagued.

Yes it could be server specific issues like the problems on Virtue but I think if it were an issue on Freedom more people would pipe up.

Animation issues on staves and Cim door bugged? Minor. I think the last patch was a big step in the right direction.

Hopefully things get better for you.

I will resist my inclination to retaliate to your obvious insults and snide remarks.

A system with a 9800 gt video card would obviously not support 2mb of ram. So that was a typo.

A system that ran i16 absolutely fine in fact due to my raptor I almost always am the first loading into a mission - suddenly runs terrible the VERY DAY i17 HITS and so its somehow MY fault?

I said ALL DRIVERS are UPDATED.

It is NOT just me. Go and ask in game and look at all the other posts here. An open blunt acknowledgment of a problem and current steps to undertake it would be a start.

A small blurb in one of Castles posts saying we have a build on test that may fix it - isn't enough.

Sorry, I am a system admin and maintain servers, workstations, printers, phones and all supporting equipment for over 700 people and if I provided that level of response I would be fired.

As an admin, you of all people should know that even a small update to the software you are using can cause huge problems in other areas. To say that the devs are not doing their job because problems with a huge update is just plain wrong. You say that your system is fine, but you don't give us any reason not to think that some of your problems are in fact in your system. I say this because not everyone is having problems with the game. Sometimes, the newest drivers are not the best to use.

There are known issues that they are working on now, but with how large the game code is, it takes time to find the problems.

Was playing with some friends last night and commented on how bad Virtue has been. Seemingly random server crashes. BIG ping spikes out of nowhere, stuttering...not sure exactly whats going on. Freedom isn't nearly as bad as Virtue has been but at times the same issues start to crop up.

Again, not exactly sure what is causing all this.

Saying your drivers are all updated is fine. Not providing enough technical information for people to begin to look for problems is not fine. Calling out the Devs is not fine, and is in fact against the forum rules.

So give us some information to work with. I've seen The Television, Tex and GPU repeatedly ask people for basic information, and we have a tool that provides most of that info in an easy to read format. Download and run CoH Helper and paste the output of that into a reply here. Same for HiJackThis. That will give anyone that looks the information they need to begin to try to troubleshoot your issues.

And this isn't an official Technical Support or QA forum, it's mostly players helping players. Fitz made an obviously joking comment and you classify it as an insult and snide remark? I hate to say it but that's not a way to get other people to be willing to try to help you. His second line of text tells you what programs we need the output from and that without it it's pretty much rampant speculation. He closed with "Hopefully things get better for you." and yet you opened your post referring to "obvious insults and snide remarks"? If you'd responded to me with that type of post when I'm spending my free time trying to help you'd have hit my Ignore list pretty quickly. I love helping people and don't mind having to re-explain things that they didn't understand, but I won't tolerate people responding to me in a rude manner the way you did Fitz. There are plenty of appreciative and polite people that are willing to provide the requested information and work through the problems.

Oh it's all good TJ, appreciate the response though. I knew this guy had his guard up from the word go -- it was pretty obvious.