The game is becoming unplayable for me.

Today I had to log off because the game was unplayable for me. I experienced lag spikes that made using my abilities futile. I died numerous times before the destro that killed me appeared on my screen, and was disconnected many times as well. I experience strange graphic glitches that whites my screen out momentarily every time there is an event like a zone flip, keep take, or even change in LotD ownership. I cannot use my mount without stopping every few trots to let the game catch up. I cannot type without skipping keystrokes.

Most of the time I just deal and try to play on despite these frustrations, but today it became just simply unplayable.

At this point, I am not sure what else to do. I assume this may very well be a server issue because it became markedly worse after the rerolls and the last patch. Though if its not, I have taken steps to try to improve my gameplay on my end. I upgraded my internet connection last month, and currently get speeds up to 25mb/s and upload about 2.5 mb/s. This didn't help at all. So now I am also in the process of adding more ram. Though, according to Mythic's website, I already meet and/or exceed all of the system requirements in order to play.
I have posted in the technical bug forums and also sent in a CSR appeal, though I'm not sure if any of that matters. Mythic has thus far been unresponsive from what I can tell to many of the same complaints posted there.

Any advice or information on this subject would be appreciated.

» Edited on: 2010-08-21 15:45:36

Update: just read a post they may confirm that the server is the problem. One guy writes: "I tried ORVR last night in T3. It was awful, I watched my FPS go from 60 to 1, then back up to 15, up to 30, back to 1, up to 30, hit 45 WOO HOO!, back to 1. Finally I gave up, went to another server and rolled a fresh toon, it stayed 60 no matter where I went or how many people were around me. Even in the t1 ORVR where there were about 2 Warbands on each side just duking it out. That tells me it's a population overload on the server and that it's server side more than client side." Though why not everyone is experiencing these issues, or in the same severity is a mystery to me. Again, any insight is appreciated.

Same happened to me earlier today. I experienced even chat lags of more than 10s. I tried logging to my Toons at Gorfang and my suspicions were confirmed -- the problem is with Badlands. I suspected overpopulation and the recent patch may have something to do with it. What will they do now? I think tonight I might be rolling some toons at Gorfang just for fun, if Badlands stays unplayable for the whole night long.

Agreed, Seabhran let me know if u do start a toon on gorfang, I got some destro there. Anytime I get near orvr with ppl in it, crash to desktop. Taking a break tonight I guess... I'll check back in case we anyone else does the gorfang destro thing. .

Least it is not just me. I have lagged a few times today only to go from not seeing anyone near me to beaten down. not fun

I have noticed increased lag. Takes longer for chat to respond but its fully playable for me. Maybe certain isp's or computer's cant handle it as well.

I had similar issues tonight in T4, and that was after the stability patch or whatever they did. I would be fine in game until Destro was on the screen and then BOOM desktop. We had an alliance only war band running so at least I had friends and compatriots to be sympathetic and let me keep coming back. Thanks to everyone who was there and sorry for all the accidental deaths. In the mean time, I am right annoyed. I mean what is the point of double renown, when you cannot see destro without immediately seeing your desktop next? And that on top of the 'unstable healer' i feel like, cause I am sure people died cause of it. Darn Mythic anyway! The frustrated one, Tearney

It is unfortunately Badlands that has the problem. I played on Volkmar with zero issues today. I think they messed something up in the patch to be honest, as we've had epic large scale oRvR in the past here with much less problems. In addition, today I was completely unable to play on Badlands due to ctd's when flying anywhere, yet Volkmar was perfectly fine yet again. Although, my husband is currently playing on Badlands with only minimal issue. I can't imagine that they can leave Badlands in this condition and expect this to be fixed as quickly as they can fix it. I think it does not help that this double renown thing has occurred on the weekend, when I believe the developers are not at work.

There are many theories as to whats going down on Badlands some of the ones I am leaning towards are as follows. Region sepcific counter meassures to prevent server crash is randomly disconecting people in highly populated zones. This was one of ths early "fixes" in Forts before they put population caps and then did away with them all together. ON 8/21 during the height of the CW fighting somone checked the warstats and there were over 1000 levle 40s logged into Badlands at the time. And even if 100 of those 40s were out PVEing in VL/LV the number of sub 40s would more than make up that number out in the lake at that time. ISP issues is the cause I feel may be leading to a large portion of our problems. Currently on Badlands we have a large European and Asian population and those ISPs might have server recognition issues. Personally I like to keep an eye for certain guild tags: Supreme, Taiwan, Asian Force, and a few other asian guilds. I notice that even in SCs if I am facing off against or am allaied with those guilds in large numbers I start to "lag" out. Mostly its warping target out of range ect ect. I am sure its more on their end than mine but it can even make SCs unplayable. And if it can amke SCs slow down I can only imagine what say 100 plus in one spot could do. One thing that was on my end was I run on a quad core machine based on Nervensages suggestion I made it so WAR only runs off of one core, and that did improve my preformance with concern to CTDs. Besides that yeah make an alt on another server when it just gets to be too much. Dawn Eternal has an alt guild on Iron Rock Destro side called Dark Genesis (I wanted to call it Infinite Dusk : P )