I don't want to get hopes too high, just yet, but I would like to report that we found a few spots in the server configurations that might account for some of the perceived in-zone lag (non-network-related). I've also put together some changes for suspending the sending of some lower-importance network packets to the client while the player is engaged in combat. Hopefully the combination of these updates will improve the overall in-zone performance experience. Unfortunately, I do not have any information on when the interim updates will be pushed to the Live servers. Please stay tuned to the Game Update Notes (Live) section for more information on those updates as it becomes available. We greatly appreciate your continued patience while we investigate further into this matter.
Thanks for the response, Rykus. Appreciate the information, even if it's just a few tweaks. Please keep at it, it's pretty important to the overall enjoyment of this game.
I'm still having some incredible spell lag, in which you click the button and wait, and wait before the spell goes off. Also very low FPS in raid combats. Here are some more stats, in case they help. Code: System Information ------------------ Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.130308-1436) Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz Memory: 4094MB RAM Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Video Driver Version: 9.18.0013.1106 (English) Speed Tests ------------------- (http://www.speedtest.net/result/2869535454.png) Ping 54ms, DL Speed: 20.33 MBPS, UL Speed: 2.02 MBPS (http://speedtest.texas.rr.com/) Ping: 21ms, DL Speed: 23.60 MBPS, UL Speed: 1.95 MBPS Browser Information ------------------- Firefox v. 22.0 MSIE v. 7.0.6002.18005, Cipher Strength: 256-bit, Product ID: 89583-OEM-7318943-50471 Flash Player Information ------------------------ (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html): Windows Vista 64-bit 11.8.800.94 Code: |______________________________________WinMTR_statistics___________________________________| |_______________________Host______________-___%__|_Sent_|_Recv_|_Best_|_Avrg_|_Wrst_|_Last_| |------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------| |__________________________________DD-WRT_-____0_|__120_|__120_|____0_|____0_|____1_|____0_| |_________________________142.254.129.109_-____0_|__120_|__120_|____7_|____9_|___15_|___10_| |________tge7-1.austtxx-er01.texas.rr.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|____7_|___10_|___20_|___10_| |____________________________24.175.43.55_-____0_|__120_|__120_|____7_|___10_|___25_|___13_| |_____________________________24.27.13.26_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___11_|___17_|___23_|___19_| |________agg22.hstntxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___18_|___21_|___28_|___19_| |___________ae-4-0.cr0.hou30.tbone.rr.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___17_|___21_|___26_|___18_| |___________ae-0-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___21_|___24_|___72_|___23_| |___________________________107.14.16.186_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___52_|___55_|___99_|___53_| |__________vlan70.csw2.Dallas1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___55_|___58_|___68_|___58_| |________ae-72-72.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___56_|___58_|___63_|___58_| |__________ae-2-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___55_|___58_|___70_|___57_| |________ae-1-6.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___56_|___62_|___98_|___58_| |________ae-5-5.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___55_|___74_|__259_|___58_| |___SWITCH-COMM.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___60_|___66_|___60_| |_____te0-0-0-2.las-core7-2.switchnap.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___56_|___60_|___66_|___58_| |_________te2-6.las-core2-1.switchnap.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___66_|__393_|___67_| |_________po10.las-agg7s1-1.switchnap.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___63_|__238_|___61_| |_______________demarc1.soe.switchnap.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___60_|__102_|___58_| |___________vl3104.lvssw-2.sonyonline.net_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___60_|__102_|___60_| |_____________lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com_-____0_|__120_|__120_|___57_|___59_|___64_|___58_| |________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______| ___WinMTR_v0.92_GPL_V2_by_Appnor_MSP_-_Fully_Managed_Hosting_&_Cloud_Provider Code: ------------------------ Ping 30-July-2013 ------------------------ Pinging lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 69.174.200.70: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=44 Reply from 69.174.200.70: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=44 Reply from 69.174.200.70: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=44 Reply from 69.174.200.70: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=44 Ping statistics for 69.174.200.70: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 62ms, Average = 59ms Code: ------------------------ Pathping 30-July-2013 ------------------------ Tracing route to lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 Christie-PC [192.168.1.139] 1 DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] 2 142.254.129.109 3 tge7-1.austtxx-er01.texas.rr.com [66.68.3.85] 4 24.175.43.55 5 24.27.13.26 6 agg22.hstntxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.41.48] 7 ae-4-0.cr0.hou30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.54] 8 ae-0-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.181] 9 107.14.16.186 10 vlan70.csw2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.126] 11 ae-72-72.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.142] 12 ae-2-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.105] 13 ae-1-6.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.1] 14 ae-5-5.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.133] 15 SWITCH-COMM.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.71.178.42] 16 te0-0-0-2.las-core7-2.switchnap.com [66.209.64.65] 17 te2-6.las-core2-1.switchnap.com [66.209.72.10] 18 po10.las-agg7s1-1.switchnap.com [66.209.64.34] 19 demarc1.soe.switchnap.com [216.115.64.74] 20 vl3104.lvssw-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.168.26] 21 lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] Computing statistics for 525 seconds... Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 Christie-PC [192.168.1.139] 1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] 2 8ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 142.254.129.109 3 8ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% tge7-1.austtxx-er01.texas.rr.com [66.68.3.85] 4 9ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 24.175.43.55 5 18ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 24.27.13.26 6 20ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% agg22.hstntxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.41.48] 7 20ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-4-0.cr0.hou30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.54] 8 24ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-0-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.181] 9 55ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 107.14.16.186 10 54ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% vlan70.csw2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.126] 11 54ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-72-72.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.142] 12 63ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-2-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.105] 13 60ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-1-6.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.1] 14 68ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ae-5-5.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.133] 15 58ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% SWITCH-COMM.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.71.178.42] 16 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te0-0-0-2.las-core7-2.switchnap.com [66.209.64.65] 17 62ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te2-6.las-core2-1.switchnap.com [66.209.72.10] 18 60ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% po10.las-agg7s1-1.switchnap.com [66.209.64.34] 19 60ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% demarc1.soe.switchnap.com [216.115.64.74] 20 59ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% vl3104.lvssw-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.168.26] 21 58ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] Trace complete. Code: ------------------------ Tracert 30-July-2013 ------------------------ Tracing route to lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] 2 8 ms 13 ms 7 ms 142.254.129.109 3 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms tge7-1.austtxx-er01.texas.rr.com [66.68.3.85] 4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 24.175.43.55 5 18 ms 15 ms 15 ms 24.27.13.26 6 20 ms 19 ms 23 ms agg22.hstntxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com [24.175.41.48] 7 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms ae-4-0.cr0.hou30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.54] 8 22 ms 24 ms 22 ms ae-0-0.pr0.dfw10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.181] 9 55 ms 53 ms 53 ms 107.14.16.186 10 56 ms 57 ms 55 ms vlan70.csw2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.126] 11 56 ms 57 ms 62 ms ae-72-72.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.151.142] 12 56 ms 58 ms 56 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.105] 13 57 ms 57 ms 80 ms ae-1-6.bar2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.1] 14 61 ms 69 ms 57 ms ae-5-5.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.69.148.133] 15 60 ms 59 ms 59 ms SWITCH-COMM.car2.LasVegas1.Level3.net [4.71.178.42] 16 62 ms 59 ms 58 ms te0-0-0-2.las-core7-2.switchnap.com [66.209.64.65] 17 59 ms 78 ms 57 ms te2-6.las-core2-1.switchnap.com [66.209.72.10] 18 63 ms 57 ms 61 ms po10.las-agg7s1-1.switchnap.com [66.209.64.34] 19 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms demarc1.soe.switchnap.com [216.115.64.74] 20 58 ms 57 ms 57 ms vl3104.lvssw-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.168.26] 21 58 ms 57 ms 57 ms lvseq2-07-01.everquest2.com [69.174.200.70] Trace complete.
All I can say is, good luck selling copies of the new expansion with months worth of un-ejoyable, lagged-filled nights for your current customers.
