Serious Rubber banding and Lag

Hey folks,

Hope all is well. I'm having serious rubber banding and lag issues. At 1280 x 1024, I get 85 FPS in COV. However, NPCs and cars rubber band, Market and Paper mission updates lag severely and so on...

Ever since installing to NCsoft's Launcher or around Japan's unimaginable disaster, COX has issues. As for the two events mentioned:

1. I reinstalled NCsoft Launcher and no fix.
2. Japan's recent disaster, I live in a neighboring country (literally), but I don't think my internet connection should be affected (not sure though...). I don't see any news regarding correlation of Japan and local internet issues.

I have no clue what the cause is.

Thanks in advance.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at March 27, 2011 00:44 (+09:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/31/10 09:38:42 Ver: 13.08
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T Processor (6 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 2900MB out of 4095MB available
Page File: 6457MB (1731MB currently in use)
C Drive: (SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device) 900621MB out of 953766MB (94%) free
D Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S243N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 460
Video Memory: 2785 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.6658
Driver Date: 1/8/2011 12:27:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6069
Driver Date: 3/17/2010 5:49:22 PM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6069
Driver Date: 3/17/2010 5:49:22 PM

Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6069
Driver Date: 3/17/2010 5:49:22 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
Motherboard Version: Rev X.0x
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 05/31/10 09:38:42 Ver: 13.08
BIOS Version: 053110 - 20100531
BIOS Release: 20100531000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x1024
3D Resolution: 1280x1024 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 85Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Shadow maps
Shadow Map Shader: Medium quality
Environmental Reflections: Medium quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 0.901
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.103
Music Sound Volume: 0.047

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.750
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: No
Transfer Rate: 279973 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1950.201102230015.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

With the high fps but rubberbanding and jumping around of citizens it's pretty much guaranteed to be connection problems. Do as Kitsune suggested and check your latency. What you are hoping to see is a short green lawn. What you will probably be seeing is a tall green lawn with lots of yellow and red patches. Yellow means the ping time is really high. Red means lost packets.

There is also the possibility that it isn't an in route connection problem but rather one with your router. If you can do so then try connecting your computer directly to your modem rather than through the router and see if that eliminates the problem.

And lastly since your problem started around the time you started using the launcher make sure you have the launcher settings (accessed through file>settings) set to exit the launcher when game loads.

Kitsune Knight and Mandu,

Thank you. I'll do as advised.

Thanks again,
HwaRang.

Kitsune Knight and Mandu,

Ran Netgraph and lots of Red, Yellow spikes sprinkled with green.