I'm having a constant delay/lag

[bibbis]

Hi I started playing yesterday, and for the entire evening I experienced a constant delay/lag.
I hoped it would be something temporary but it's exactly the same today, and I don't know why it's like this.

I am on the european server and all shards here also say EU so I'm in the right place.

I play a ton of other MMO's and have obviously experienced LAG before, but this is different...
It's constant, it never let's up. It's SO ANNOYING...
Everything I do, from interacting with NPC's to using spells is DELAYED with AT LEAST 1-2 second... everything...

[sugarfree]

Go to this site, http://www.arrstatus.com/

Open cmd, type ping *paste ip*

Find a server that averages less than150 ms

[png_vng]

Hi I see nothing about Graphics card. Whats you computers specs and make sure that you comp can handle the game. I dont believe its the internet or server

[bibbis]

Eviil a écrit :

Too many speculations in the disccusion, I suggest you post in their forum instead of here and upload a file of your specs using directx tools.

If its a consistant lag and you play all the other games fine, you might consider upgrading some of your PC compenents if they're low end (if you havea laptop sorry). the only time assumed automaticlly that its your hardware because you say only when you do certain things you lag i.e. interactions. This is a sign of poor performance somewhere.

Here is an example, you could have an nvidia titan on a 880gu amd chipset on an 1100 AMD processor and you just held back the GPU by pairing it up with an outdated processor.

OR it could be that you just have outdated comopoenets and they can't keep up with the demand. I play with people ALL around the world in this game and not many has this issue at all.

I live in Sweden. The EU server is apparently located in Montreal.
Well, it's about FIVE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED kilometers between me, and the game server.
The CONSTANT lag I'm experiencing, has NOTHING to do with my hardware... Trust me.

[bibbis]

png_vng a écrit :

Hi I see nothing about Graphics card. Whats you computers specs and make sure that you comp can handle the game. I dont believe its the internet or server

Oh my GOD...
You people are so stubborn...
It is not HARDWARE LAG. I KNOW hardware lag...
It's DELAY. A constant DELAY.

I click my button, the attack goes off, the enemy gets hit, and then about 1-2 seconds later, it's health bar decreases/it dies. I see all the pretty animations (beautiful, flawlessly running, NON LAGGING/CHOPPING, attack animations) but it takes 1-2 seconds for the game world to respond to my actions.

I click to talk to an NPC, or I click a quest item on the ground, 1-2 seconds later, the chat is initiated, or my character starts to interact with the item.

THE GAME RUNS SMOOTHLY, it's just DELAYED.
Everything is DELAYED.

The EUROPEAN server, is located in CANADA.
IN, CA-NA-DA!
There is a LONG way for all the game data to travel back and forth between european countries, and CANADA.

Computer hardware, doesn't effect CONNECTION SPEED, unless there is something malfunctioning or broken, which there is NOT.


Give,
it,
up.
It is a rediculous decision to place E-U-R-O-P-E-A-N, online, game servers, OUTSIDE OF EUROPE, and it WILL, cause LAG/DELAY, whatever you want to call it, for many european players.
And if you are defending that decision, I question your competence in the matter enought to render your opinion --> invalid.

[RPGpro]

@bibbis the EU servers are "recommended" for players that play based on GMT, not specifically for players IN europe, the same applies with NA servers, try making a character on a japanese server, which should have a much better connection to most of Europe, if you still lag there it's probably an issue with your ISP (several European ISPs have been throttling FF14 recently, including the UK's biggest ISP "BT").

I'm in the UK, my connection to the EU servers (in canada) is flawless (and connects via several cities in central europe) at 30-35ms response time at peak times. If you're getting much more than this (a 1-second delay would be 500ms) consider changing ISP.

On a semi-related note, EA used to call their European servers "German" due to them being in Germany (quite a logical place to put them), this caused most European players to use the American servers, incorrectly believing the EU servers to be only for German players. Simmilar thing here, it needs to be clearer that the "EU" servers are for people playing at EU-like times rather than specifically for players in Europe.

Maybe they should put a "ping" counter on the world selection screen? So you can pick the server with the least latency.

[MancSoulja]

I have 120Mb internet, I can download 10+ GB games in minutes. and there is defo massive amounts of lag in this game at times. Sometimes it will run perfectly and others it's like a stuttery mess..

I ran a speed test earlier when i was in a particularly laggy area, it came back as:

Ping 4ms
D/L 125Mb/s
U/L 15Mb/s

So it's not related to connection speed.

[png_vng]

bibbis a écrit :

png_vng a écrit :

Hi I see nothing about Graphics card. Whats you computers specs and make sure that you comp can handle the game. I dont believe its the internet or server

Oh my GOD...
You people are so stubborn...
It is not HARDWARE LAG. I KNOW hardware lag...
It's DELAY. A constant DELAY.

I click my button, the attack goes off, the enemy gets hit, and then about 1-2 seconds later, it's health bar decreases/it dies. I see all the pretty animations (beautiful, flawlessly running, NON LAGGING/CHOPPING, attack animations) but it takes 1-2 seconds for the game world to respond to my actions.

I click to talk to an NPC, or I click a quest item on the ground, 1-2 seconds later, the chat is initiated, or my character starts to interact with the item.

THE GAME RUNS SMOOTHLY, it's just DELAYED.
Everything is DELAYED.

The EUROPEAN server, is located in CANADA.
IN, CA-NA-DA!
There is a LONG way for all the game data to travel back and forth between european countries, and CANADA.

Computer hardware, doesn't effect CONNECTION SPEED, unless there is something malfunctioning or broken, which there is NOT.


Give,
it,
up.
It is a rediculous decision to place E-U-R-O-P-E-A-N, online, game servers, OUTSIDE OF EUROPE, and it WILL, cause LAG/DELAY, whatever you want to call it, for many european players.
And if you are defending that decision, I question your competence in the matter enought to render your opinion --> invalid.

[png_vng]

We are just trying to help I dont know why you are getting mad from a few comments. Why post if your not gonna be thankful that others are trying to help you out JEEZ.

[RPGpro]

MancSoulja a écrit :

I have 120Mb internet, I can download 10+ GB games in minutes. and there is defo massive amounts of lag in this game at times. Sometimes it will run perfectly and others it's like a stuttery mess..

I ran a speed test earlier when i was in a particularly laggy area, it came back as:

Ping 4ms
D/L 125Mb/s
U/L 15Mb/s

So it's not related to connection speed.

Have you tried pinging a server in america rather than one on your doorstep?
Download speed is almost completely unrelated to response time when considering connections outside of your own country.
Connections from Manchester will NOT lag unless it's caused by some other factor, the city has one of the best international internet connections in the world.

Presuming that you're using a commercial ISP it could be throttling your connection to the game's servers, look for patterns in WHEN you lag/don't lag i.e. it would usually only be throttled between 7pm and 2am (as an example).

[MancSoulja]

RPGpro a écrit :

MancSoulja a écrit :

I have 120Mb internet, I can download 10+ GB games in minutes. and there is defo massive amounts of lag in this game at times. Sometimes it will run perfectly and others it's like a stuttery mess..

I ran a speed test earlier when i was in a particularly laggy area, it came back as:

Ping 4ms
D/L 125Mb/s
U/L 15Mb/s

So it's not related to connection speed.

Have you tried pinging a server in america rather than one on your doorstep?
Download speed is almost completely unrelated to response time when considering connections outside of your own country.
Connections from Manchester will NOT lag unless it's caused by some other factor, the city has one of the best international internet connections in the world.

Presuming that you're using a commercial ISP it could be throttling your connection to the game's servers, look for patterns in WHEN you lag/don't lag i.e. it would usually only be throttled between 7pm and 2am (as an example).

Hmm maybe your right.. I just tried a server on the west coast of America and my ping was almost 200ms.. I'm with Virgin but I've heard some UK ISP's (BT) throttle peer 2 peer connections. Maybe i'll just start playing in the middle of the night

[RPGpro]

MancSoulja a écrit :

.....
Hmm maybe your right.. I just tried a server on the west coast of America and my ping was almost 200ms.. I'm with Virgin but I've heard some UK ISP's (BT) throttle peer 2 peer connections. Maybe i'll just start playing in the middle of the night

Yeah Square Enix had a LOT of problems with people that were using BT (there's still an open forum topic about it on the official forums), one major problem is that all non-cable Broadband providers in the UK use BTs servers.
I'm also on virgin and not got any problems so I doubt they're throttling it.
On a related note, the game doesn't use peer-to-peer connections, but several ISPs somehow detect it as being a peer-to-peer application.

[SniperWolfMGS]

Tru3Magic a écrit :

I'm from Russia, no lag at all.(kinda far from Canada, huh?)
So it's something with your internet connection.

TECHNICALLY, we live on a planet that is shaped like a globe, not a map, so yeah your much closer to Canada that a europian is

[Eztam]

SniperWolfMGS a écrit :

Tru3Magic a écrit :

I'm from Russia, no lag at all.(kinda far from Canada, huh?)
So it's something with your internet connection.

TECHNICALLY, we live on a planet that is shaped like a globe, not a map, so yeah your much closer to Canada that a europian is :tgrin:

Canada yes, Montreal no. It is on east coast of canada so russia is further then europe