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Post by hukimato on Jan 30, 2011 14:40:35 GMT -5
Hope this proves helpful to someone else. The story of how I found out about this is at the end, so to keep it short, choose this setting in your launcher and you should stop experiencing lag. At least it worked well for me: I was really excited for the f2p launch, and there I was on launch day... and it was lagged as hell which I assumed would be because there was a lot of traffic. But two days went by and I was experiencing a lot of rubber banding (think this is the right term) and no one on the official forum was complaining (quite the opposite). Then someone in-game suggested to set a proxy in the launcher, anyone who has a basic knowledge of proxies would think this is bonkers (that user actually got a huge WTF from another), but I was desperate and opened the options menu and there was the thing that fixed my problem. Now my game runs smoothly and I only get lag from time to time (normal traffic spikes).
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Post by stuffinator on Jan 31, 2011 5:04:52 GMT -5
Never experienced any lag so far.
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Post by Nuzgart on Feb 8, 2011 4:35:23 GMT -5
Same thing happened here... Server unavailable for +30 seconds every couple minutes, ruberbanding back to the beginning of a lair every few rooms, and the general stuff that makes you completely reconsider keep on playing the game.
I still get some lagspikes and rubberbanding here and there, but this deffinitely helps. It's like going from perma-lag with some normalcy spikes, to nromal play with some lagspikes.
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Post by stuffinator on Feb 8, 2011 7:47:02 GMT -5
Seems strange to me that using a proxy reduces lag instead of not using a proxy.
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Post by Nuzgart on Feb 8, 2011 7:57:57 GMT -5
It seems strange to me aswell...
Unless (theory here, no known facts) the proxy is designed to switch the ports used. Some countries' ISPs mess up with certain ports, that are most commonly used for P2P programs and torrents... CO seems to use ports within that range.
In other words, the proxy isn't to make there be less bandwith stress: you're actually putting more, but if you've a good enough bandwith do begin with... What's holding you down is a wrong filter in your ISP. That's one thing a proxy can actually help with.
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Post by stuffinator on Feb 8, 2011 9:21:17 GMT -5
I highly doubt that, but as you said it's just a theory
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Post by hukimato on Feb 13, 2011 16:07:07 GMT -5
I have a different theory. I would rather believe that they don't mean proxy in the traditional sense, that it might just be sending the connection to European servers that handle the most part of the information thus relieving the connection to the servers it usually connects to.
No matter what it does, what's important is that it helps (and has helped more than one person), and I haven't experienced serious lag ever since.
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Post by Zed Brightlander on Feb 22, 2011 11:31:28 GMT -5
I'll have to try this. My lag has been awful since the beginning when I first joined. I just thought it was my underpowered PC.
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Post by maxidanny on Feb 23, 2011 8:55:44 GMT -5
tryed it last night. WORKS ! thanks
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Post by Kieran on Feb 24, 2011 0:33:21 GMT -5
Good lord, I've been feeling like uninstalling the game because the lag is almost unbearable. I've seriously died so many times because I lag out and return to discover my character swarmed with angry numbers.
I'll definitely have to try this out and see if it works.
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Post by Paul on Feb 24, 2011 1:51:20 GMT -5
The reason why when you use a proxy and switch it to EU it gives you less lag is because it hits a server in.. Europe (I know i sat here trying to think exactly where I cant lol), then from there goes to the servers in the US. IE Proxy hehe.
So basically you're connected to the EU server and its getting all the information from the US server and sending it back to you.
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Post by stuffinator on Feb 24, 2011 3:46:09 GMT -5
The reason why when you use a proxy and switch it to EU it gives you less lag is because it hits a server in.. Europe (I know i sat here trying to think exactly where I cant lol), then from there goes to the servers in the US. IE Proxy hehe. So basically you're connected to the EU server and its getting all the information from the US server and sending it back to you. I guess hukimatos theory is more fitting. It wouldn't make any sense if you'd get a better connection when using a proxy instead of a direct connection.
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Post by Zed Brightlander on Mar 4, 2011 13:11:33 GMT -5
I'll have to try this. My lag has been awful since the beginning when I first joined. I just thought it was my underpowered PC. Seem to work once I made the change, but it's back to being sluggish and choppy again.
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